I realise that what I'm describing here is neither new nor revolutionary, but I can't emphasise enough just how much quicker and easier the whole process feels with pHATmatik Pro. The technique and the technology may not be new, but the speed and ease of handling very definitely are.
It's the little touches that make all the difference. This makes stepping through the sliced loop from your MIDI keyboard a breeze — a big help when you need to work out exactly where in the phrase a slice marker needs to be added or removed.
If you want to preview a particular slice in the loop, you can shift-click on it to hear it played. Moreover, any or all of the slices in a loop can be exported as individual samples for use in another application or plug-in by simply dragging them to the appropriate window suitable candidates include HALion, Battery, the Audio Pool in Cubase, or even the desktop. While pHATmatik Pro would arguably be worth the asking price for its sample-editing features alone, that's really only one half of what it does.
It also functions as a very capable multitimbral playback sampler. The channel select control allows you to switch between loops, and make independent settings for each one. In practice, it's like having 16 pHATmatik Pros stacked one on top of the other. Any or all of the slices in a pHATmatik Pro loop can be exported to suitable destinations, such as the Audio Pool in Cubase shown here, by simply dragging and dropping them.
Each loop-playing 'voice' has its own Slice and Master sections, with a variety of parameters affecting sample playback. Parameters in the Slice section affect the playback of selected slices only, and include simple level and pan controls, coarse and fine pitch knobs, and Mode, Freq and Q controls for resonant low or high-pass filters. Each slice can also have its own independent amp, pitch and filter envelopes, its own start and end points for looping, and its own loop mode the options are forward, reverse, forward loop, reverse loop, forward and reverse loop, and reverse and foward loop.
Additionally, selected slices can be independently routed to one of four stereo mixer channels in your sequencer. The Master section is no less comprehensive, providing a tempo-sync'ed digital delay, a pleasingly nasty distortion effect, two tempo-sync'able LFOs, a weird-but-compelling comb filter and a more conventional resonant filter, switchable between low, band and high-pass modes.
All effects in the Master section are applied to the first of pHATmatik Pro's mixer outputs only; the remaining three outputs act as dry auxiliary outputs to the host. A simple but effective modulation matrix allows you to modulate the pitch, amp, filter cutoff and filter envelope parameters with either of the two LFOs, or with MIDI modulation and velocity data. The Transpose function allows you to globally retune all slices in a loop from your MIDI keyboard, with notes below C2 controlling the amount of transposition.
This an absolute Godsend when working with pitched material, as it allows you to have your sliced loop phrases follow your chord changes perfectly, with a minimum of effort.
As the above description suggests, pHATmatik Pro is a well-designed, extremely user-friendly tool, which could be invaluable to remixers, dance producers, or anyone working with sampled loops and phrases.
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