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I've been using the Emu XL-7 and MP-7 for the past 10 years or so. They are the upgraded Proteus 2000 modules, exactly the same as the Proteus 2500, just a different box. I'd recommend getting one of these puppies if you want to go the Emu Rompler route. They give you a lot more knobs for tweaking, which of course makes editing closer to enjoyable. Likewise, tweaking live can be more reliable and adjustable than the 2000 series. My XL-7 is stuffed to the gils with 4 ROM cards (and being used all the time), while the MP-7 is currently sitting unused with its MoPhatt card. I'd let it go for cheap if anyone was interested... Stephen On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Sjaak Overgaauw <tcplugin@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Rainer Straschill > <moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Some synths tend to sound dated after a while. Good ones don't. Of >> course, to keep the things from sounding dated may require you to >> actually invest the time and brains to get into programming some >> sounds yourself. E-mu's Proteus series modules (especially the later >> ones) offer great possibilities for that. > > The early Emu models like the Procussion and the Proteus 1 sound a > little flat IMO, but with fx, Eq and compression, they came to live in > a mix. Also, the avg quality of rom samples is better now than in the > late 80's and 90's so that another reason...if you are looking for > real instruments sounds like piano, trumpets. Especially piano's are a > good example of how technology has improved. > > Anyway, that's what I mean with "dated", not saying that every synth > has to sound like the real deal which was clearly THE trend in the > 80's and 90's. Once the VA's and analog synths were becoming popular > in the mid 90's, the "best rompler synth" race was more or less > over...but that's another story :) > -- > Sjaak Overgaauw > http://premonitionfactory.com/ > http://livelooping.be/ > http://euroloopfest.com/ > >