Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer Blue Ribbon Soundworks, USA | Date 1992 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 2161 / 2 |
- MIDI interface and wavetable
- based on E-Mu System's Proteus 1 MIDI Sound Engine
- it's an independent computer with a 68000 @ 10MHz
- 128 kB Operating System ROM
- 64 kB static RAM
- 4 MB of 16 bit General MIDI samples in ROM, over 210 sampled sounds and waveforms
- a large number of configurable parameters allow a lot of flexibility in the sound: velocity control, pitch bend, adjustable tuning, and a choice of scale temperament
- no built in effects (they are produced by software)
- 16 bit sampled stereo synth which is both polyphonic and polytimbral, so multiple instruments can be played simultaneously, up to its limit of 32 internal channels
- some instruments need multiple internal channels
- the Proteus is mounted as a daughterboard and interfaced to the Amiga via one port of a DUART
- the other DUART port provides a built in MIDI interface
- 1x MIDI In
- 1x MIDI Out
- expandable to three separate MIDI outs with the optional Triple Play Plus upgrade
- stereo output (two RCA plugs)
- bundled with Bars & Pipes Pro, supported by SoundJam
- when the editor is first started, it has to read the entire configuration from the hardware, which takes about 20 seconds
- works together with the Sunrize series: using Blue Ribbon's SyncPro (SMPTE Generator), both the AD1012 or AD516 and B&P Pro will lock to SMPTE, independently
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