Re:Has anyone purchased the proteus emu packs
2012/08/29 12:51:12
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I'm going to suggest a slightly different perspective...
I purchased the DSP EPS/ASR package for both Dimension Pro and Kontakt. And I downloaded the Proteus demo packs.
I think the sounds themselves are spot on - I still have an EPS. ASR-10, and a Proteus 1 and Proteus 2 in my studio, so it was pretty simple to compare<G>!
I had hoped that these sound packs would allow me to sell both devices to (a) make some space, and (b) pay for more goodies.
I ended up not using them much.
Oddly enough, I think DSF has done too good a job porting these libraries to computer based sample players. Or, sampling technology and techniques have improved so much in the intervening years, and our expectations are higher.
Or both.
Make no mistake, the sounds you get from DSF are VERY accurate. In both cases (Ensoniq and Emu) I started to notice things about the sounds that I never noticed 20 years ago when using the hardware. In chatting with other folks it seems many are running into this.
If you really like these sounds you have a couple of choices:
1) For the Ensoniq sounds you can purchase the entire library from Syntaur and import the ones you want to use. I already had the CDs, so I do that sometimes.
2) Or you could buy a used EPS or ASR or Proteus<G>!
It really comes down to expectations, and applications.
If you expect your favorite sounds from either to sound better, well, that's not really going to happen. If you expect them to sound like they used to, well, it isn't quite that either, but it is darned close.
If you want to use these older libraries to create super-realistic mock-ups that's probably not going to happen either. Newer libraries (Cinesamples, LASS, etc) are just orders of magnitude better.
If I did not have the hardware I'd own all the DSF 'archives'. At the moment I am going to stick with the hardware.
-- Bill
Audio Enterprise
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