Here is a set of Peavey PC1600x patches which act as a front panel for the EMu Proteus range of modules. They will also access the equivalent parameters in an EMu Morpheus, although not the parameters unique to that device (my Morpheus presets are available from the same place you got this). You can use it to access every "preset" parameter except the name, plus some of the "Master" parameters. As far as I am aware these should work on a PC1600. Although mine has the PC1600x software installed in it, I have not intentionally used any of the later features. The patches assume your Proteus is set to an ID number of 00. You will have to set your Proteus to match this. If you own more than one proteus on the same MIDI output, and you have a PC1600x you may wish to edit the patches to take advantage of the global channel option. You will have to set the 4th byte of every sysex string to "gc". Then set your different proteii to different "ID" numbers. To edit an individual proteus you press "utility" on the PC1600x, and change the "ChOut" value to be 1 more than the proteus ID number. (proteus ID1 = ChOut 2). My Proteii are on different MIDI outputs and I select devices using my MIDI patch bay as this is quicker than fiddling with the PC1600 - for this reason and to make the patches available to all PC1600 users I haven't already done the above. Unfortunately because of the way EMu index the proteus instrument samples you will need to edit the primary and secondary instrument faders to make the patch work for different Proteus modules. It's not too painful, just a question of editing the fader 01 min and max values as follows: Proteus 1 min: 0 max: 125 (I don't have a P1 so I can't test this). Proteus 2 min: 256 max: 318 (This works for me) Proteus 3 min: 1024 max: 1235 (This works for me) The patches come set up for a Proteus 3. All the other parameters work on all Proteii as given. The Proteus is one of many devices that do not always update their screen to reflect the sysex parameter message received (eg if the Proteus is displaying the instrument page and you adjust some other parameter from the PC1600x) you won't see the display change. The effect of the parameter change will occur - you just won't see it. For this reason all the faders and buttons are named. However non numerical parameters (eg key ranges which are displayed using note- names) are displayed numerically on the PC1600x (so C-2 through to G8 is displayed as 0 - 127 on the PC1600x). I have enabled the data wheel to "last fader" for all these patches so that it can be used for fine stepping in parameters with a large range. The other weird thing (it must be weird it's not in the manual - or I'm too stupid to find it - and it took me a couple of hours trial and error to work it out) is that the "instrument" parameter starts not at 0, but at 1024. It seems to me that the PC1600 could be improved by having a numeric display range remapper facility, so that even though the MIDI data run 1024 to 1235 the display would show 0 to 211 when you moved the fader. For these few parameters it is definitely worth having a keyboard connected to the MIDI in of the PC1600x so that you can play the module and verify these settings. In every other case what you see is what you get. I normally have a habit of using buttons for parameters where the range doesn't exceed about 8, and so use four buttons, thus saving a fader for more useful work. This means that some of the buttons work in multiples. For example three buttons are used to select the the LFO waveform setting. The first button selects "Tri" or "Saw", the second selects "Sin" or "Sqr" etc. Unfortunately to squeeze in all the parameters I have had to take this practice to extremes for example the "Pan" parameter which takes up 8 buttons. I have thought long and hard about the best way to lay out these patches. I decided on a layout that is somewhat at odds with the Proteus norm. Basically I have all the "primary" layer parameters in one PC1600 preset and all the "secondary" parameters in another. This makes sense to me as I tend to program a layer at a time. Primary and secondary also both include the crossfade parameters, so that you can adjust these whichever layer you are working on. All the other common parameters are grouped in other presets. The only thing that didn't quite work out was the primary and secondary chorus parameters. These appear in the layer presets as a button which only covers the on/off part of this parameter's range. There are a couple of reasons for this: a) I hardly ever use the chorus effect in my sounds and b) the Proteus 1 only supports chorus to this extent - the additional range is used by the Proteus 2 & 3. However for those of you who can and do use this parameter you'll find it rather messily deployed in the "controllers and links" preset, with the full range of 0 - 15 on a fader for the primary, and eight buttons for the secondary. Sorry about this but it was the only way I could think to shoe horn all these parameters in. Each fader/button is appropriately named. For buttons with toggle action the name hints at which function is accessed by string 1 and which by string 2. For example a button has the name "Chors On/Off", with string 1 setting chorus on and string 2 setting chorus off. If the PC1600 display appends "=string2" to this button name you have just set the chorus off. If you are short of memory with Proteus patches, you may want to edit all the faders/buttons and remove the names which will save a bunch (in my experience a British Standard Bunch is approximately 250 units in the "memory free" display), but then you'll probably need to make up a card template to remind you where everything is. I will get round to putting some templates for printing out on my web site in due course (Aug 99?), so check that out (it'll be in the "synth" area of the site): http://www.gozen.demon.co.uk/godric/godric.html or http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~mu_s454/godric/godric.html You'll need a sysex downloading utility to squirt the patches from your computer to your Peavey PC1600x. On MacOs I would recommend the Alesis "Freeloader" available from www.alesis.com, and Steve Grace's "SysEx", which can be found in info-mac collections. For more information on this latter e-mail him at sgrace@ioc.net. There are 7 patches: primary This has all 18 parameters of the primary layer. secondary This has all 18 parameters of the secondary layer. Primary and secondary also both include the crossfade parameters, so that you can adjust these whichever layer you are working on. lfosauxenv This has the parameters for the two LFOs, the auxiliary envelope, and velocity curve. rtmods This has the parameters for the eight Real Time modulation patches. kvmods This has the parameters for the six Key/Velocity modulation patches, Keyboard Center and the three footswitch destinations. cntrlslnks This has the parameters for the Controllers A - D amounts, Pressure amount, Pitch Bend range, Primary chorus (on a fader), Secondary chorus (on 8 buttons) and the three Link assignments. master This has the parameters for the Master Tune, Transpose, Global Pitch Bend, Global Velocity Curve, Controllers A - D numbers, Footswitch 1 - 3 numbers and Preset key range. If you find these patches useful, or have suggestions for improvements e-mail me at g.wilkie@kingston.ac.uk. Godric Wilkie