I'm starting to miss my EMU Proteus 2000. That had something like 50 different filter types..

So far plugin filters can do good LP,HP,BP,BR,Comb, Notch, and maybe one other type of filter that I can think of but my EMU did all sorts of crazy stuff that sounded awesome with bass sounds. The kind that made it sound scary.

There were 6 & 12 order filters with different variations and funny names.. But they certainly sound different to the ones that are available in every softsynth/plugin at the moment..

Oh yeah here is a quote from SOS magazine:

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The filters all have memorable names too, such as 'DJAlkaline', 'Razorblades', 'Ooh-to-Aah', and 'MegaSweepz', and they include phasing, flanging, vocal filters, strange, tearing resonant filters and deep, sweeping filters. If you want a synth that can go 'eeowwzweeee', the Proteus 2500 is happy to oblige.

Basically there is this one PHAT bass sound I wanna try and replicate and I need these special filters again hahaha.. So is anybody (besides EMU) gonna try and release something like this?[/quote]

The PlugIn of your dreams exists - click here.

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[...] You can run Emulator X as a VST instrument within your favorite sequencer application [...] over 50 patented Z-Plane morphing filters [...]

AudioWhore wrote:

So is anybody (besides EMU) gonna try and release something like this?

Why someone else, if you can have it from the original makers?

I heard someone made some EMU filters in Reaktor

Dunno if they are any good, cos I dont own reaktor

Im fairly sure you can get em off the NI site if you are registered Reaktor user

AudioWhore wrote:

I'm starting to miss my EMU Proteus 2000.

[/quote]I'm not positive,but I think one of the included sample set CD's for the EMU-X includes a Proteus sample bank(s).

[quote="AudioWhore]I'm starting to miss my EMU Proteus 2000. That had something like 50 different filter types.. [/quote]

Ah yes, I remember hearing a Morpheus a long time ago...
I think the main reasons why anhyone hasn't done those whacky filters are these: 1. they're patented (z-plane filters...) 2. they're difficult!

The idea is that they had filters that "morhped" from one type to another in a strange and unconventional way.

sleepingsword wrote:

I heard someone made some EMU filters in Reaktor

Quite impossible I'm afraid...

Reaktor doesn't give you the low-level functionality you'd need. Of course you could make approximations, but...

Emulator X seems the closest you'll get, afaic.


- bram

I'm not sure if it was a consequence of the sampling rate of the PCM data on the Morpheus or the filter algorithm, but they exhibit (or at least my Morpheus does) crazy aliasing noise from around 14kHz and up. Most of the time it isn't too noticeable, but fed into a saturating feedback loop it could get pretty nasty. Lovely synth just the same, though.

sleepingsword wrote:

I heard someone made some EMU filters in Reaktor Dunno if they are any good, cos I dont own reaktor Im fairly sure you can get em off the NI site if you are registered Reaktor user

it's here if you wanna try it: http://www.midiworld.org/AuReality/products/reaktor/reaktor.html

zPlane is very nice - I have no idea how close it is to the original filters as I haven't heard them but it does some mean moving filter/flange type effects all the same. If you want to use it on it's own as an effect you will need to make your own using the zPlaneX.ism - the ensemble comes pre-built with it's own sound source and various other effects.

Alan wrote:

AudioWhore wrote: I'm starting to miss my EMU Proteus 2000.

I'm not positive,but I think one of the included sample set CD's for the EMU-X includes a Proteus sample bank(s).[/quote]

It does.