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I am using a older Guitar studio program. What is the best,least expensive sound module I can buy. I am using it for live preformance. I have a protius 1XR and a old Roland U110. I can't seem to get them to play the sound assigned. Any help is appreciated
 
I'm sorry, but I don't get your question. Can you describe in detail? eg. How you connect them, etc... :)


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JumpStreet7 said:
I am using a older Guitar studio program. What is the best,least expensive sound module I can buy. I am using it for live preformance. I have a protius 1XR and a old Roland U110. I can't seem to get them to play the sound assigned. Any help is appreciated
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What you have is perfectly fine, the Proteus is a nice synth :confused:

What you seem to need is instrument definitions. Are you saying you can get the synths to work but the wrong sound is coming out?
 
That is presisly my problem. All the hookup are right, I can't seem to get pre programed files to pley correctly.
 
If you can't get a Proteus to work, getting another synth module will not solve your problem -- they all work the same way. You need to read the manual and understand what's happening.

Why don't you describe the cabling you are using -- you say you've got it hooked up right but how do you know for sure?

In a nutshell, you need to wire the MIDI Out of the computer's MIDI Interface to the MIDI In, and you need to assign each of the various MIDI tracks in your pre-programmed files to one of the MIDI interface's 16 MIDI channels (typically you use channel 10 for the drum track) and set the Proteus to respond in multi-mode or whatever they call it, where messages assigned to individual channels address different instruments. The instrument definitions DavidK alluded to will assure that you pick the right instument sound for each channel, but I'm pretty sure it's a General MIDI synth so the generic GM assignments should work too. If all of this sounds like gibberish, you need to read somehting that will explain what MIDI is and how it works.
 
From my laptop I have a Edirol UM 1S with midi out to either a Protius 1XR or a older Roland U 110. For some reason the sounds assigned by the Cake Walk program are not reproduced by the sound modules. It might say i.e. organ,but it plays an Oboe.
 
JumpStreet7 said:
From my laptop I have a Edirol UM 1S with midi out to either a Protius 1XR or a older Roland U 110. For some reason the sounds assigned by the Cake Walk program are not reproduced by the sound modules. It might say i.e. organ,but it plays an Oboe.
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This is instrument definitions. I just looked, SONAR3 has proteus definitions

1. Double click on the top of a midi track. THis brings up track properties

2. Click on Instruments

3. Click on Define

4. Click on Import

They should be somewhere in your Sonar folder somewhere, I am not sure where. If you cant find them, google "proteus instrument definitions" or find some emu site.
 
JumpStreet7 said:
From my laptop I have a Edirol UM 1S with midi out to either a Protius 1XR or a older Roland U 110. For some reason the sounds assigned by the Cake Walk program are not reproduced by the sound modules. It might say i.e. organ,but it plays an Oboe.
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Another thing:

Proteus has some kind of multi-timbral mode, I think it is called layered mode :confused: I use to have one years ago. You might need it in that mode for it to work.
 
I think you actually need sysex files to load at the beginning of your midi file. Sysex is what tells the sequencer how the Proteus behaves. Sysex is the binary roadmap of the Proteus midi protocol....or something like that.

If you can't find a Proteus sysex file, you can always record a dump of it from your Proteus into your sequencer program. Then have the sysex file load every time you open a midi file.
 
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