Proteus 2000 Instruments

0022 EP Fog Looped organ with turntable crackle
0187 Muted string Looped
0189 Jangle Looped -U2 Edge sounding
0216 Analog 3 sampled random loops
0217 Matrix Synth variation on 0216
0218 Digital Looped glitch Bari
0219 Sham Wave- Koto Buzz Loop
0220 Koto Faster version of 0219
0221 Sitar Loop
0222 Soft Trumpet 3 glitchy loops sax strings
0223 Hard Trumpet simailar to 0222
0224 Mute Trumpet 1
0225 Mute Trumpet 2 -OK
0226 Trombone
0236 Ensebmle
0237 Section
0238 Brass Hits
0239 Brass Hits
0241 Moog
0242 Prophet
0243 5th Wave
0244 Ocarina
0245 Pan Flute
0246 Flute
0248 Clarinet
0261 Bottle Blow
0264 Pop Ohhs
0265 Pop Aahs
0267 Breathy 1
0296 VS Vox
0301 Glass Perc
0303 Fretless
0304 Magic
0305 ES Rag
0306 Chime
0331 M12 Lead
0343 Juno Pulse
0369 Saw stack
0370 Moog 55
0371 Buzz Synth
0378 Juno Pulse
0249 Oboe
0250 English Horn
0251 Soprano
0253 Alto Sax
0253 Tenor Sax

Proteus 2000 Instruments

0022 EP Fog Looped organ with turntable crackle
0187 Muted string Looped
0189 Jangle Looped -U2 Edge sounding
0216 Analog 3 sampled random loops
0217 Matrix Synth variation on 0216
0218 Digital Looped glitch Bari
0219 Sham Wave- Koto Buzz Loop
0220 Koto Faster version of 0219
0221 Sitar Loop
0222 Soft Trumpet 3 glitchy loops sax strings
0223 Hard Trumpet simailar to 0222
0224 Mute Trumpet 1
0225 Mute Trumpet 2 -OK
0226 Trombone
0236 Ensebmle
0237 Section
0238 Brass Hits
0239 Brass Hits
0241 Moog
0242 Prophet
0243 5th Wave
0244 Ocarina
0245 Pan Flute
0246 Flute
0248 Clarinet
0261 Bottle Blow
0264 Pop Ohhs
0265 Pop Aahs
0267 Breathy 1
0296 VS Vox
0301 Glass Perc
0303 Fretless
0304 Magic
0305 ES Rag
0306 Chime
0331 M12 Lead
0343 Juno Pulse
0369 Saw stack
0370 Moog 55
0371 Buzz Synth
0378 Juno Pulse
0249 Oboe
0250 English Horn
0251 Soprano
0253 Alto Sax
0253 Tenor Sax

Proteus 2000 Instruments

0022 EP Fog Looped organ with turntable crackle
0187 Muted string Looped
0189 Jangle Looped -U2 Edge sounding
0216 Analog 3 sampled random loops
0217 Matrix Synth variation on 0216
0218 Digital Looped glitch Bari
0219 Sham Wave- Koto Buzz Loop
0220 Koto Faster version of 0219
0221 Sitar Loop
0222 Soft Trumpet 3 glitchy loops sax strings
0223 Hard Trumpet simailar to 0222
0224 Mute Trumpet 1
0225 Mute Trumpet 2 -OK
0226 Trombone
0236 Ensebmle
0237 Section
0238 Brass Hits
0239 Brass Hits
0241 Moog
0242 Prophet
0243 5th Wave
0244 Ocarina
0245 Pan Flute
0246 Flute
0248 Clarinet
0261 Bottle Blow
0264 Pop Ohhs
0265 Pop Aahs
0267 Breathy 1
0296 VS Vox
0301 Glass Perc
0303 Fretless
0304 Magic
0305 ES Rag
0306 Chime
0331 M12 Lead
0343 Juno Pulse
0369 Saw stack
0370 Moog 55
0371 Buzz Synth
0378 Juno Pulse
0249 Oboe
0250 English Horn
0251 Soprano
0253 Alto Sax
0253 Tenor Sax

Yamaha Mu100r

Well all messing about with the Roland PMA-5, stirred up my interest in the whole GS/XG synth era. When computers had'nt reached the point where they could even play back midi files properly let alone with any quality.
To get any musical results, hardware was necessary, and to fill this demand, Roland and Yamaha entered into an arms race with two fairly compatible tightly defined specs for midi playback- XG and GS.
Apart from the PMA-5 Ive never had access to an advanced GS or XG machine. While I on a computer I have dabbled with various peices of software with good results, felt the urge to check out a XG box.
Enter the Yamaha MU100r, a monster XG module with capacity for two of Yamahas PLG synth daughter boards.
Currently I have VL and AN boards installed. The VH harmoniser board I swapped out for the AN.

Editors for the Roland PMA-5

There were quite a few applications created for the Sound Canvas range of products over the years. Many of these are getting hard to find, but so far I've found a couple that are useful.

GS ADVANCED EDITOR 4.0.

I believe this was Rolands offical editor for the SC55 and SC88 series. Its quite hard to find online, fom memory I found an old dead lnk and retrived it using www.archive.org. Had a look last night, but still can't find where I found it.
Anyway GSAE is the most complete editor for the PMA-5 I have found. Other than it not having all of the correct patch name listed, because its was intended for the SC55, it gives access to the entire sound engine.
Its biggest limitation is that the interface uses numerical settings for everything. Its a very precise way of working, but it feels like using Excel.

Getting the PMA5 Conversion Software to run on Windows XP

I've had sucess in getting Rolands PMA-5 Conversion software to run on Windows XP. This is very useful, as this software is the only way to cleanly transfer files in and out of the PMA-5. Ive seen a couple of reports that recording track by track into a DAW creates a fair bit of unwanted data.

The software consisted of two floppy disks. These are availible from a couple of the Yahoo PMA-5 groups. One disk has the conversion software, while the other has a windows 95 serial driver and aditional style patterns for trafwering to the PMA-5.

The conversion software must be loaded from the "A" drive. Which is fine on a machine with a floppy drive, but will require creating a virtual "A" drive on most current floppyless windows machines.

Running the installer and program under the windows 95 compatibility layer is also neccesary to get it running under XP. This is accessed in the properties box of the .exe files.

Roland PMA-5 Drum Editing

Now that all the availible voice editing pamaters have been assigned to the Keystation, its time to move to the drum voices.

The parameters availible for drum editing are quite limited in comparison to the voice settings. Drum editing is different from voice editing in that each drum sound can be edited individually, basically key by key over the 61 keys that make up a drumkit. There are no filter or envelope settings, although this is typical for many Roland drum modules.
As well as being able to edit each drum instrument individually, the general midi controllers that apply to normal voice programming are still availible, but they apply to the entire drumkit as a whole.
CC1 Modulation- Not effective?
CC5 Portomento Time- ?
CC7 Volume- Sets volume limit of entire kit
CC10 Pan- Useful for extreme panning effects?
CC11 Expression- Useful
CC64 Hold- Drum instrumenst do not sustain
CC65 Porto On/Off
CC66 Sostenuto
CC67 Soft
CC84 Porto Control
CC91 Reverb Send
CC93 Chorus Send
NRPN
These are the commands that allow individual drum instruments to be edited
Coarse Pitch
Volume
Pan Random
Reverb Send
Chorus Send