Trend price : 150€
An updated version of the famous EMU Morpheus, a module synthesizer engine able to morph sounds together creating motion textures and evolving pads.
Company: E-MU
Model: Ultraproteus
Class: module
Rackmount: 1 unit
Dates: 1994
Display: 16 x 2 lines
Country: USA
Weight: 3 kg
Dimensions: 222,3 (w) x 130,2 (h) x 79,4 (d) mm
Price: 200€
Synthesis: PCM rompler
Resolution: 16 bits
Sampling Rate: 39 kHz
Oscillator: 2
Polyphony: 32 voices
Multitimbric: 16 parts
Filter: 288 Z-planes
LFO: 2 modulators
Effect: 28 models
Midi: IN / OUT / THRU
CPU: MC68020
DAC: AD1860
Demo: 1
Video: 1
Review: 1
DOWNLOAD: user manual - factory patch
Overview
The main panel features a 16 x 2 lines display, 8 buttons and 1 data encoder.
Back panel terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
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main output
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2 assignable analog our AUX
Sound
Main core Motorola MC 68020 manages 32 digital voices.
A basic sound patch is a combination of 2 samples "primary" and "secondary" with individual parameters:
- volume gain
- stereo
panning
- pitchtranspose
- keyboard zone
- velocity offset
- effect amount
Wavetable
16 MB ROM contains 484 PCM waves at 39 kHz / 16 bits.
Performance
the hypermode manages 16 parts with individual settings:
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transpose
- keyboard zone
- stereo panning
- velocity offset
Envelope
- primary amp : 4 segments + 2 level times
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secondary amp: same as primary
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AUX assignable: same as primary
LFO
2 digital modulators (shapes: triangle, sinusoidal, square, saw and random) and 4 destinations:
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LFO to filter cutoff
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LFO top anning image
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LFO to volume
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LFO to pitch tuning.
Effect
28 effects including reverb, delay, fuzz, ringmodulation,ecc..
Review
OK: filters motion / textures
NOT : edit / some recycled proteus samples
"Time has now passed, but Ultraproteus has still a lot of interesting functions and one of a kind digital morphing filter. For creative people."
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci
