I'm surprised that nobody has the idea to develop the Morpheus as a plugin.
The Z-Plane filters were so awesome.

http://www.vintagesynth.com/emu/morpheus.php

Have you tried MorphoX ?

Yes, I know MorphoX. Unfortunately, he has no Z-Plane filters and even the brilliant filters make the great sound of Morpheus.

The closest you can get to Morpheus, seems to be the Emulator X2 or X3 sampler.
Has nearly the same sound structure, but blown up immensely. Has the same and more filters etc.

Version X2 uses the E-mu 2x2 MIDI interface as dongle, X3 uses C/R, as far as I remember, and is also natively 64 bit.

Check it out, but if you use Mac OSX, you're kind of screwed, as this plugin is Windows only. Also there is the rumour of being discontinued.

Hope this helps.

Roger

Hi Roger,
Thanks for the information.

For all practical purposes it is DEAD. Sure E-MU still offer it for sale on their website - but just try and buy it

I contacted them about a year ago trying to purchase it (since I owned PX2 and wanted to migrate to Win7). The guy who responded said it was "temporarily out of stock" when further questioned he said there was "no forseeable availability date". ???

How does software go out of stock? Ran out of cardboard boxes?
Shame really - makes you wonder "WTF is EMU doing?"

Emulator X3 is the only version that works with Win7 BTW
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Halion (and Halion Sonic) has morphing filters that I believe are pretty close to Z-Plane type filters

I have an UltraProteus (Morpheus' Big Daddy) for sale with all 6 factory soundsets +3 soundcards, manual - $350

Emu died when Creative Labs bought them. Sure, the name continues, but what made Emu "EMU" is long gone. And Creative Labs did the same to Ensoniq, but it's gone in name too. A shame.

Quite a shame really. Their sound modules were really popular back in the day and their Command Stations were the most advanced hardware sequencers.

The Morpheus looked like the most interesting unit available. Rare to find.

I used to have a Morpheus and, compared with todays's softsynths, neither the z-plane filters (for which the position along the z axis is fixed at note on) nor the overall sound of the synth (dull, mid-rangey, digital in a bad way) were awesome.

Digital Sound Factory got some stuff, and Proteus VX is still free to download from Creative.

anyone wanting samples from them should get on their mailing list as they run lots of specials. good stuff.

Not really - www.ebay.com - Morpheus

Ultraproteus = 288 Filter types
Morpheus = 197 Filter types
Proteus 2000 = 50 Filter types

Ultraproteus = Morpheus++
Proteus 2000 = Neither

As for the Digital Sound Factory E-mu stuff, it is all samples - forget about filters or any kind of modulations

Ya, I was going to say to the OT, if you want the Z-plane filters, get the UltraProteus. It has 288 Z Plane filters, FAR more than any other EMu unit that ever came out by a long shot. Second in line was Morpheus with 197 Z plane filters.

Honestly, the Morpheus had the potential, but its presets were not that great. Funny enough, out of the 4 preset cards that were available for it, it was the Dance card that I thought was the best... but it's not 'boom-tiss' Euro dance techno "Dance" card. In fact, I'm not even sure why they called it Dance, to be honest? The rest were rather bland. Now, if you plan to program it yourself through the terrible menuing system (some like to describe it as programming a synth through a keyhole, and I agree) that all of the Proteus line suffered from, then yes, go for it.

Devon