Create Your Own Custom Bank - E-Mu ProteusX Operation Manual

3 - Getting Started

Create Your Own Custom Bank

Create Your Own Custom Bank
It's easy to create your own custom sound banks by simply "dragging and dropping" the
presets or samples you want onto the Proteus X icon in the tree.
To Create a New Custom Bank
Locate the Presets on your Computer
Select New from the File menu. This creates a new empty bank. (You can also merge
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presets or samples into an existing bank if you wish.)
Select the System Tab. The Desktop icon will appear in the tree.
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Locate the presets you wish to include in your new bank. These will be located in
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the "E-MU Systems" folder located in "Program Files".
Click to
Open
System Tab
Audition the Presets
After you have located the Presets folder, click on the Proteus X icon in the Tree to
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view the Multisetup page.
Find a preset in the Tree and Right-click over it. A pop-up menu appears with two
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options, Audition and Merge.
Select Audition (or press "A" on your computer keyboard). Notice that the preset
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name is now flashing in the Multisetup screen.
Play your MIDI keyboard to audition the preset from the hard disk.
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Right-click again and select Stop Audition (or press "S" on your computer
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keyboard). The preset name stops flashing in the Multisetup screen.
Continue auditioning until you find a preset you like.
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Merge the Preset
When you have found a preset you want to include, Right-click over it in the Tree
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and select Merge from the menu (or press "M" on your computer keyboard). The
preset is added to the current bank.
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Click to
Open
f The included CD-
ROMs contain several
other great banks of
sounds. Run the installer
application on the library
CDs to install these banks
on your hard disk.
f Tip: You can also
audition samples or
presets from the library.
Proteus X Operation Manual