The Ultra Proteus contains the same 32 Z-plane 14-pole digital filters found in the Morpheus and contains 288 different filters in ROM. Its sound set is based on the Proteus/1, /2 and /3 plus the Pro/Formance piano module. It can store patches on a 256kbyte Type I PCMCIA SRAM card and uses a standard CR2032 3V lithium battery for its memory backup. It is powered by a 25 MIPS Motorola 68020 processor.
Six ROM cards were released containing new presets but no additional waveform data. These cards were produced:
Year Released: 1994
Polyphony: 32 notes
Multitimbral: 16 parts
Preset Patches: 640
User Patches: 128
ROM: 16MB (470 waveforms) at 16-bit, 39 kHz
Screen: 16 x 2 character LCD
Power Consumption: 25 watts
Dimensions: 19 in. x 8.5 in. x 1.75 in.
Weight: 3.1 kg
This is a 1-space rack unit.
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