[ddots-l] Re: Question about expantion packs for dimention

Yes, the only place where the proteus pack falls short is with the actual synth 
sounds.  They really sound a lot fatter on the actual proteus 2000, which has 
really wonderful filters and a great mono mode.  But a lot of the sounds, 
especially the naturl and special fx sounds, are faithful to the original.
Gord
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bryan Smart 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:58 AM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Question about expantion packs for dimention


  Greg,

  I have several of the Proteus Packs for Dimension Pro. I've also owned a few 
of the E-Mu Proteus sound font collections (like for the MoPhat, Planet Phat, 
Orbit, the module madness proteus 1/2/3, etc). The Dimension Pro versions sound 
a bit more like a real Proteus. You get reverb, autopanner, and other effects 
that were part of the original sound. It isn't quite what was originally there, 
of course, but it is way better than the sound fonts. Also, the sampling and 
voice programming seems much better to me, also.

  Comparing the MoPhat sound font to the Dimension version is a good specific 
example. The sound font version sounded like they sampled individual notes from 
the MoPhat's voices. With the sound font, the voices sound very strange near 
the ends of the keyboard. It sounds as if the designers plugged a MoPhat into 
their computer, and just sampled every voice at each octave or so. The pitch 
shifting/stretching is very bad in many voices. Of course, I never used those 
sound fonts for the instrument voices, but instead went to them for the drums, 
sound effects, hits/stabs/etc. Those were the classic E-Mu sounds that I 
wanted. The Dimension version of MoPhat uses the original PCM data/samples from 
the MoPhat. The result isn't as perfect like a proteus as some of the 
advertisements might have you believe, but, since the voices are programmed 
instead of just sampled, they're a lot more expressive than what you'd find in 
a sound font.

  BTW: As a Cakewalk dealer, I believe that Dancing Dots could supply you with 
the Proteus Packs for Dimension Pro, if you decide to buy them. If you decide 
to get all 6 of them at once, you can get the complete set for just under $300. 
There are over 2000 presets in that set, which will certainly beaf up your 
Dimension Pro sample library.

  Bryan



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  From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Greg Brayton
  Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:09 AM
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [ddots-l] Question about expantion packs for dimention


  Where do I go to get the expansion packs I forgot. also I have many of the 
proteus sounds from digital sound factory. Do they make these sound any better 
with dimension, adding echo, stereo or reverb to them, or are they the same? 
Can anyone comment?
  http://www.gbrayton.com

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