I’ve been playing this synth since 2003. The owner of the store where I bought it said, “Aivaras, you’ll keep it for a few years and sell it because it will be outdated by then.” He’d be happy to learn he was wrong! 20 years have passed, and I’m still fascinated by this instrument. The E-MU Proteus 2500 generates sound by using audio samples, which are small segments of actual recordings, say, of a real drum, an analog synth, or some acoustic event. It then constructs, out of those tiny recordings, timbres suitable for music-making […]

I acquired this synth around the same time as the E-MU Proteus 2500 and have been enjoying it immensely for over two decades now. Technologically, the Roland XV-5080 is similar to the Proteus in that it, too, uses audio samples, called PCM waveforms, for sound generation and synthesis. However, it does so in its own unique way […]

I’ve been playing this synth since 2003. The E-MU Proteus 2500 generates sound by using audio samples, which are small segments of actual recordings, say, of a real drum, an analog synth, or some acoustic event. It then constructs, out of those tiny recordings, timbres suitable for music-making […]