Anyone experienced with success or otherwise, running E-mu Proteus X2 and E-mu hardware in Windows XP 64-bit? Would love to know.

Are you asking about the Proteus VX or Emulator X2? There was no "Proteus X2".

Both the Proteus VX and Emulator X2 will run as standalone audio apps in Windows XP (64-bit)—assuming your system is generally stable and has legitimate (and tested) 64-bit Windows XP drivers. If you're trying to use either one within a 64-bit DAW, Emulator X2 (and X3) will work, and Emulator X3 has a 64-bit version. Proteus VX will work with jBridge (https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/).

E-MU provided 64-bit drivers and a 64-bit version of PatchMix for 64-bit systems. They should work with 64-bit Windows XP, but that was the first 64-bit "consumer" operating system Microsoft made, so it may not adhere to "rules for 64-bit apps" as much as it should, or it may not be fully 64-bit in places where E-MU expected it to be. Their 64-bit drivers and apps were actually developed for the 64-bit version of Vista; they were somewhat "updated" for the 64-bit version of Windows 7.

Steve

Hi it’s the EMU Proteus X2 that I have. It came in a box with software and XMIDI 2x2 interface to act as dongle. See screenshot.

You need an E-MU audio interface or MIDI interface to install Proteus X2 and Emulator X2. I recommend Emulator X3, which can be installed without E-MU hardware.

Ah well said. I have all four - EMU 1616M, EMU XMIDI, EMU Emulator X3 and the EMI Proteus X2 and I have windows XP. I need help in deciding which one - 32 bit or 64 bit. For that I need to know whether Proteus.X2 will run on win XP 64 bit.

Interesting. I haven't seen a "Proteus 2" before.

But nothing else I said changes: The standalone 32-bit and 64-bit apps will run on a 64-bit OS; they run on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, Win7, Win10 and Win11. (They may also run on 64-bit versions of Win8, but that really wasn't out long enough to hear from enough people trying to get it to run there.)

If you have both the 32- and 64-bit versions, go with the 64-bit. It could potentially load larger libraries, and it's more compatible in general.

As far as deciding to use the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the plug-in, I'd still say 64-bit. But since I see you have Emulator X3, I'd definitely say just go with that. It reads and writes Proteus libraries, but it goes deeper into editing the samples, if you want. The standalone version can even sample from your desktop, which is pretty cool. And the 64-bit version of Emulator X3 works within DAWs, with no "bridging" required.

Depending upon which release of Emulator X3 you have, you might have to make a minor change to the Registry to get the effects to work properly. I haven't seen that affect too many people however, so you may be fine.

Steve

So the basic question still remains. Can someone tell me whether or not the Proteus will work in Windows XP 64 bit, or is it only limited to Windows XP 32-bit? The manual is silent, because at the time the product was released, Win x64 wasn't released perhaps.

Another question I have in mind is, will Emulator X3 work with Windows 7 64 bit?

I already answered your question. And to make sure it was easy to understand, I separated the Proteus standalone application from the plug-in.

I also told you that Emulator X3 would work with Windows 64-bit.

And not that you asked, but the 64-bit version of Windows XP was released the same day as the 32-bit version, in October, 2001. But it lacked some features and did not support 16-bit code. The first version of "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" was released in April, 2005. This version was still far from ideal.

The first version of the Proteus X2 manual was in 2006 (no month given), so the 64-bit version of Windows was already out. And the Proteus X2 was also designed to run on Windows 2000 systems, which had 64-bit versions going back to February, 2000, with the RTM version released the previous century—in December, 1999.

So, no, you're incorrect: The manual was released after the 64-bit version of Windows XP was released. But as I alluded to previously, Microsoft didn't have all the issues ironed out in this version, and if there are problems with the Proteus X2 app, that may be why.

There aren't a lot of people using the Emulator hardware or software any longer. You might want to be a little less condescending to those who are answering your questions.

And not that this wasn't a lot of fun, but you could have installed the Proteus X2 and Emulator X3 apps and every library available for them by now, even though, as I said, the Emulator X3 app and plug-in will read all the Proteus libraries. They're the same software under the skin, with some features disabled in Proteus.

I hope that helps, but I honestly no longer care if it doesn't.

Steve

Just in case it isn't common knowledge to anyone coming across this thread:

https://archive.org/details/setup-em...mulatorX3%20A1

Well worth modestly donating to the Internet Archive for this alone. I have no idea whether this works under Windows XP/64 as I no longer use XP, but it does work great here via Windows 10.

Well understood Steve about Win XP 64 and Emulator X3.

Not yet clear about workability of Proteus X2 in Win XP 64 bit.

BTW, no intent to hurt any feelings, apologies if felt otherwise.

That’s Emulator X3. Nice link though.

What I’m seeing is info on Proteus X2.

It was not a reply to *you*. That should have been clear where on the first line he said, "Just in case it isn't common knowledge to anyone coming across this thread:"

Noted. Does it create w problem for you though?

You can easily create and test with a virtual Win XP 64 environment with Oracle VM VirtualBox.

Proteus x2 was bundled with an E-MU usb sound card, which appears to be used to validate the software's license, acting as an authorization dongle.

The last time I looked (I actually tested this under a 32 bit XP guest, using similar software) VBox allowed direct connection of guests to specific usb ports, so I would expect this to work correctly when properly set up, using a XP/64 guest including whatever XP/64 E-MU drivers are required, obviously installing those in the guest.

I'm not going to test it as I have zero interest and no E-MU usb interface, but OP why don't you do so and report back?

Has anyone gotten these to work with Windows 11? I tried it once from another site and I never could get it to authorize the install properly.

I've always thought it was a shame that Creative let the Proteus libraries die. Yeah, they're old, but they were still very high quality.

Even Wikipedia does not not clearly say that Proteus X2 will run on XP-64.

Thanks Barry. But it’s not confirmed that Proteus X2 will run as a VSTi in c64. That’s what’s in after.

Hi thanks for your post.

I will be doing so soon. Currently the studio is under renovation so am finding it difficult to test. Am trying to use the time to plan the entire thing so that I do not waste time later.

As such the PC I have is a Win XP 32-bit machine.

Thanks anyway.