I've been meaning to pick this site back up for a while, and I guess in light of the fears over Twitter, I guess now's an even better time.

While I regret to say I don't have a lot of music to share, let alone that I can share, at this time (a problem I will try to address soon), I can follow up immediately with the next best thing: a ramble about more technical matters I've been busy with lately, though thankfully still somewhat musically related.

For several months I've had a rare Proteus 1XR rackmount synthesizer in my possession. What's rare about it is that it has additional sounds on it created not by E-mu Systems, but by a third party developer long out of business now known as InVision Interactive:

https://www.emumania.net/invision-protologic-proteus-expansion-board/

Long story short: this is such a rarity that I felt inspired to try to find a way to archive all of the sounds and data on it, and as of this past weekend, I finally succeeded to the best of my ability: I have created ROM dumps of all of the exclusive sample data, as well as the firmware (which all non-editable presets were stored in). In addition, I've had a Python script for a while, coded completely from scratch, that can convert SysEx patch data from the Proteus modules into ARIA-compatible SFZ files that I'm proud to say generally sound much more faithful than the current offerings by Digital Sound Factory.

Note: however, for obvious legal reasons, I will not share any of the original sample data that isn't still available legally, so don't expect me to provide you with any standard Proteus 1, Proteus 2, or Proteus 3 samples: this is the only warning to the community. If there is enough interest, however, I may provide the script, as well as the template SFZ files also needed for full functionaity of the script.

Thank you all for reading, and rest assured, I will find the time to upload one WIP piece of music I'm working on that, to tie it all together, uses sounds from my ROM rip.