This is the heart of the X2 interface, and while it's logical, as you'll see there's quite a bit of page-flipping involved if you're deep into a heavy editing session. The Sampler browser is particularly important, as it controls what you'll be viewing in the main display. Indexing is the kind of thing you want to start happening before you take a break, and let it do its thing while you have lunch or whatever. This is also what allows you to mix presets from various banks, and create a new bank.Īs with other samplers, such as Kontakt, indexing your entire system to initialize the library can be time-consuming if you have a lot of big hard drives (and if you have a sampler, I'm pretty sure you have some big hard drives!). This is where you can "take an inventory" of your sample library, browse it, and decide what to load.
* Library keeps track of where all X2-related banks and presets reside. This is where you can look for files, and this is also where you must load E3 and E4 disks, as for some reason they won't load from external USB and FireWire drives. * System shows an Explorer-type tree of your computer, including hard drive, external drives, and the like. Here is where you browse presets, the samples that make up the preset, and multi setups. * Sampler shows a view of the bank that's loaded in the X2. Click on the attachment to see the browser tree.
PROTEUS X2 REVIEW WINDOWS
The left side of the X2 has a browser tree, very much like Windows Explorer. This keeps levels under control, which is particularly important in an instrument with this many filters, which can be made very resonant if you so desire. And before signing off from this screen, the area bordered in light blue contains a limiter. The yellow border shows where you assign the aux outputs to buses the orange border is where the output gets assigned to a bus. The area bordered in green has the buttons for bypassing the FXA, FXB, and Aux effects. The area bordered in red is where you select aux effects, and vary their parameters. It's also worth mentioning that there are several places where you can bypass the insert FX and aux effects so you can compare what something sounds like with and without various effects.Ĭlick on the attachment to see the "lay of the land" I've bordered various elements so you can see what I'm referring to. Ditto the main instrument output, so you could, for example, feed the instrument sound only through the aux buses. On the preset level, you can also determine what bus the aux outs feed, or whether they're turned off.
Where this really comes in handy is multi-sampled drum kits, as you can keep some drums dry, some reverbed, some delayed, and so on.
Each voice also has aux bus controls, so you could feed, for example, the bass split from a piano/bass split to an aux effect, but not the piano split. They also have the same kind of interface, with sliders for the various parameters.Īs mentioned, there are three aux bus effects and as expected, each preset (whether used alone or as part of a multi setup) can feed a variable amount of signal to each aux bus. The roster of effects for the aux buses are the same as for the inserts (see above). Well I hope you all had a great Labor Day vacation, let's get back into the X2.