User manual IZOTOPE PHATMATIK PRO 1.1 INSTALLATION

[. . . ] pHATmatik PRO iZotope, Inc. pHATmatik PRO -1- 1. Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Welcome to pHATmatik PRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 About the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] For example, if the loop actually has 8 beats (2 bars), you can place slice markers on every 64th note by temporarily changing the number of beats to 4 and clicking on the `32nd Note Slice' button. Beats entry/display ­ This field displays the beats in the current loop. If you've loaded a pHAT file or ACIDized wav file, this will be set to the actual number of beats in the file. If not, pHATmatik PRO makes an educated guess (which is always four) and calculates the tempo of the loop based on the number of beats and the length of the file. To change the number of beats, simply click in the blue area and type in the new number of beats. Save as pHATfile Button ­ Clicking on this button will open a standard `Save As. . . ' dialog for saving the current loop as a new pHATfile. A pHATfile is simply a standard 24- If your loop isn't four beats long, you MUST enter the correct number of beats into this field before exporting midi or pHATmatik PRO - 15 - engaging play preview. Otherwise, pHATmatik PRO will calculate the tempo of your loop incorrectly and will not be able to match it to the host's tempo in a sensible fashion. Tempo display ­ This field displays the currently calculated tempo. Note that you can't change this manually. . . you must change the number of beats in order to change the tempo. Channel select control ­ this display tells you which of pHATmatik PRO's 16 channels you're currently working on. Each of pHATmatik's 16 slots corresponds to the same midi channel. So if you're working on channel 3 in pHATmatik PRO, you want to make sure that the corresponding track in your host application is also set to send midi to pHATmatik PRO on channel 3. To change the current channel simply click in the blue area of the channel select control and select the channel from the drop down. REMEMBER: All of pHATmatik PRO's controls correspond to the current channel. If you `re making tweaks and you don't hear what you expect to, check to make sure you're making the tweaks in the right channel. pHATmatik PRO - 16 - Working with slices Although pHATmatik PRO's automatic transient detection is the best available, you may still want to edit the slice markers manually. pHATmatik PRO makes this painless. 5. Selecting a slice ­ to select a slice for editing in the slice editor, simply click on it. The selected slice gets a white overlay to indicate that it's selected. Selecting multiple slices ­ to add additional slices to the current selection, hold down the [CTRL] key and click on the slice you'd like to add. Holding down the [CTRL] key and clicking on an already selected slice will remove it from the selection. 6. The marker lane 1. Moving a slice - to move a slice, simply click on its marker and drag it where you would like it. Deleting a slice ­ to delete a slice, simply hold down [ALT/OPTION] and click on the slices marker. Creating a new slice - to create a new slice, simply hold down [ALT/OPTION] and click in the marker lane where you'd like the new slice marker to appear. A dark grey vertical line appears to let you know where the slice will be when you release the mouse button. Previewing a slice - to hear a slice along with all of its settings, press the [SHIFT] key and click on the slice in the waveform display. [. . . ] To adjust the envelope, simply click on one of the envelope's handles and drag. Note that the filter envelope has an `amount' bipolar slider on the right side of the screen. This determines to what degree and in which direction the envelope's modulation will affect the filter's cutoff frequency. To change the amount, simply click and drag in the amount slider. [. . . ]