Izotope PHATMATIK PRO 1.1 User Manual
pHATmatik PRO
iZotope, Inc.
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1. Installation.............................................................................. 3
Welcome to pHATmatik PRO ...................................................... 4
About the manual ....................................................................... 4
Requirements ............................................................................. 4
New in 1.1................................................................................... 5
Installing pHATmatik PRO........................................................... 6
Authorization............................................................................... 6
Uninstalling ................................................................................. 6
Support ....................................................................................... 7
2. Getting Started ....................................................................... 8
What is pHATmatik PRO? ........................................................... 9
Tutorial...................................................................................... 11
3. Loop Edit............................................................................... 13
About Loop Edit ........................................................................ 14
Working with slices...................................................................17
Exporting slices......................................................................... 18
Zoom......................................................................................... 19
4. Slice Edit............................................................................... 20
About Slice Edit......................................................................... 21
Multipurpose edit screen.......................................................... 22
5. Channel Master .................................................................... 24
About the Channel Master........................................................ 25
About the LFOs ......................................................................... 26
About the Comb Filter............................................................... 26
Master multipurpose edit......................................................... 27
About the Mod Matrix ............................................................... 28
About Midi Learn and Automation............................................ 29
Manual revision 1.5 April 10, 2005
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1. Installation
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Welcome to pHATmatik PRO
Thanks for purchasing pHATmatik PRO.
pHATmatik PRO is the result of nearly a year and a half of research and
development. There were three goals while developing it:
• Make it easy for professional musicians, producers and
engineers to work with loop-based content within their
existing digital audio workstation.
• Free musicians, producers, and engineers from the creative
limitations traditionally imposed by using loop-based content
by eliminating the constraints of tempo, key, and even
timbre.
• Above all else, create a truly musical instrument… a way to
interact with and ‘perform’ loop based content that is a
means of creative expression, not simply another ‘toy’ for the
studio.
Have fun and enjoy making music with pHATmatik PRO!
About the manual
This manual covers the concepts and operation of pHATmatik
PRO v 1.1. Always be sure to check for updates
www.izotope.com.
All the screenshots in this manual are from the Windows
version of pHATmatik PRO. The Mac and Windows versions
of pHATmatik PRO are nearly identical in terms of Musician
User Interface, but we’ll be sure to point out wherever things
are different for Mac musicians.
Translations of this manual may be downloaded from our web
site at http://www.izotope.com/phatmatik/
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Requirements
• Mac OS X – Audio Unit or VST compatible host
application, G3 333, 128 MB RAM
• Windows XP/2000 – VST 2.0 compatible host
application, PIII 450, 128 MB RAM
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New in 1.1
• Support for Mac OS X Audio Units and VST
• Support for saving and loading pHATfiles. Now you
can store and retrieve all your slice and tempo
settings right along with your loop in an industrystandard .WAV file!
• New ‘trim loop’ features allow you to remove leading
and trailing audio data in your loops. You no longer
have to switch to an external editor to get rid of those
extra downbeats!
• Improved loop browser with preview and favorites
(natively on OS X) makes navigating even the largest
loop library a breeze.
• In addition to automatic transient detection for slicing,
you can now also tell pHATmatik PRO™ to slice on 16
nd
or 32
notes.
• Per-slice switchable one-shot mode.
• Midi trigger export files can now optionally have midi
velocity interpolated from each slice’s RMS value.
Perfect for creating groove templates!
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Installing pHATmatik PRO
Installing pHATmatik PRO is simple:
FOR MAC OS X Audio Unit:
1. Mount the pHATmatik PRO AU.dmg file by double-
clicking on it.
2. Drag the pHATmatik PRO.component file from the
mounted volume to either /Library/Audio/PlugIns/Components/ or <your home
directory>/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/.
FOR MAC OS X VST:
1. Mount the pHATmatik PRO VST.dmg file by double-
clicking on it.
2. Drag the pHATmatik PRO.vst file from the mounted
volume to either /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/ or
<your home directory>/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/.
FOR PC:
1. Run the installer
2. The installer will choose a default installation location
for the documentation and the pHATmatik PRO dll and
ask you if you’d like to install to a different directory.
Note that the installer checks to see if you have a VST
Plugins directory entry in the Windows registry and
copies the dll there if it’s found. If the installer
doesn’t automatically detect your host’s VST Plugins
directory, you can simply manually copy the
PhatmatikPROVST.dll file from the installation location
to your host’s plugin folder.
Authorization
The first time you run pHATmatik PRO, you’ll be asked to enter
your serial number. Simply enter the serial number included in
the pHATmatik PRO box (or in your registration e-mail if you
purchased pHATmatik PRO directly via download). Save your
serial number in a safe place! You need it each time you
install the software.
Uninstalling
FOR MAC:
1. Simply delete the component/vst/plug in file
you copied during installation.
2. Optionally, delete ‘pHATmatik PRO
Preferences’ from your preferences folder.
FOR PC:
To uninstall pHATmatik PRO, simply go to the Windows
Control Panel, select ‘Add/Remove Programs’ and select
pHATmatik PRO from the list of installed programs. The
uninstaller will remove all files copied during installation.
Note: The installer won’t uninstall the pHATmatik
PRO dll from your host’s folder if you manually
copied it there after installation.
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Support
You can always get support at www.izotope.com/support/.
There, you will find our searchable knowledge base and
frequently asked questions.
If you your question is not already answered in our
knowledgebase, you can submit questions through the online
form for additional support.
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2. Getting Started
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What is pHATmatik PRO?
pHATmatik PRO is a completely new type of virtual
instrument… it’s not a synth and it’s not a sampler,
but it’s a little bit of both, too. If you’ve never
worked with loop slicing tools before, expect to
spend a little time wrapping your head around
pHATmatik PRO. This manual and our support site
at
http://www.izotope.com/support are your
friends.
In order to explain pHATmatik PRO, we have to spend a little
time explaining its core feature: beat slicing.
Every audio file contains essentially two types of data:
Sound information, the individual sounds that make up a
sound file, or the what of the audio, and timing information,
the when of the audio.
To illustrate, let’s look at the waveform of a single snare
drum hit
And then at a simple drum pattern:
Notice the snare is set to be triggered on the two and four,
with an accent on the three’s ‘and’. Now if we use that
pattern to trigger a drum kit with the snare sound depicted
in the first figure, we might have a loop that looks something
like this:
Note that the sound information (the individual sounds of
the drum instruments) and the timing information (from our
midi pattern above) are now encoded into a single audio
stream.
Now, this is fundamentally how music works: the encoding
of various timbres with rhythmic and harmonic data. The
problem with audio is, once it’s ‘encoded’ it’s difficult to
work with either the sounds or the timing/harmonic data
separately.
If, for instance, we recorded our scenario above at a tempo
of 120 bpm, and then later wanted to use the loop in a
project at 140 bpm, the only solution is to play the loop back
faster… which has the annoying side effect of making the
pitch higher as well. Likewise, if our example were harmonic
data, say a bass guitar loop, recorded in the key of ‘C’ and
we later wanted to use this loop in a project that is in the
key of ‘F’, the only way we could do it would be to speed up
the audio the corresponding amount to get the desired
change in pitch. Of course, now the loop will be shorter, and
won’t play back in time.
It’s clear then, that we need a way to decode the original
timing and sound information from an audio loop. That’s
what beat slicing accomplishes.
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