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Just wanted to share some joy -

If any of you are familer with Recycle, this prog. Is similar with quite a few nice additions. It's from the Glaresoft guys that made iDrum, (which I also love)

http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/phatmatik/

It's Basically a beat slicer / sampler / midi loop creator. Just got it yesterday. It is a breeze to work with and speeds up my work flow dramatically.

1) Take a loop

2) It auto-slices at the transients, (16th, 32nds etc.)

3) spreads each hit across your keyboard

4) let's you drag the midi file right into your DAW so you can tweak there.

5) you can record just the hits you want out of the loop via MIDI.

6) plays at any speed without warping or changing pitch

7) Reverse, pitch, distort, filter, loop individual slices

I know most of this can be done in LIVE, but this program does it with ease and without warping which means you can play any loop at any speed without warp artifacts. It runs as a plug with 16 channels per instance.

Tod

Nice! I was going to get Lucifier until Steve took it off the shelf. Thanks for your opinion. I'll try out the demo.

phatmatik is dope.
its a shame they dont put out an SDK, propellorheads provide an SDK for recycle and thats why you get lots of other software that works with REX files and not phat-files.

its a shame...

Tod, are you using a mAc or PC?
If Mac, is it a older or newer Intel one?

If intel, are you able to drag and drop the Midi into Live?
What a round about way of saying I am having trouble dragging and dropping.

I was thinking about getting Guru because it has a slicer, as well as other things I want. Does anybody on here use Guru or know how the slicer compares? Phatmatik seems great but compared to Guru seems like one a trick pony. I'm aware of the $100 price difference. Thoughts?

phatmatik does rule but I have found some bugs with it in live.

If you map certain knobs on a controller to certain controls in phatmatik when using lives mapping stuff some of them are switched up.

Also there is no way to get access it seems to individual slice controls via midi controller, just the master knobs.

Phatmatik Pro is by far my favourite vsti plugin... it's super-grossly quick to work with - drag and drop, hit slice, play midi.

Yes, Guru does more stuff. But hell, a lot of high-end sampling vstis have slicing too, that doesn't make them *good* slicers. Phatmatik is.

These days I load it into maxMSP and trigger the slices from a custom sequencer. Load-time is fast, overhead low.

I downloaded the demo a couple months ago during a demo downloading frenzy and at the time had no idea what slicing was and I couldn't figure out what the Hell it did. Once I figured out the concept the demo expired. Damnit.

So next question. Anybody know of a US retailer or US web based retailer that sells this? It seems like it is only available from their site (last I checked) and that means you pay a lot more.

In the last few months I've been dropping softsynths and have gone back to primarily real and virtual analog hardware synths. However, there are a few bits of software I won't do without, one of the is definately Phatmatik Pro. The others are:

Sculpture
Vanguard
QuadraSID
Crystal

I have a MonoMachine that has a SID synth replicated inside but it doesn't do that lofi splat like QuadraSID does.

Machinate wrote:Phatmatik Pro is by far my favourite vsti plugin... it's super-grossly quick to work with - drag and drop, hit slice, play midi.

Yes, Guru does more stuff. But hell, a lot of high-end sampling vstis have slicing too, that doesn't make them *good* slicers. Phatmatik is.

These days I load it into maxMSP and trigger the slices from a custom sequencer. Load-time is fast, overhead low.

I NEVER GOT DRAG AND DROP TO WORK!!!! maybe thats why I sold it to you... son of a b****

Wow. Since when did Izotope own Phatmatik Pro??? News to me.

I think it's been a bit over a year now. maybe more.

Machinate, can you tell me what Phatmatik does or does better that guru doesn't? I'm just curious cause I don't have either at this point.

LiveSlice is pretty dope, minus the rex stuff i like it over phatmatik, of course i've got phat too though

I'm a huge fan of GURU, but I must say, in the version I have the slicing sux!!!!!!! And I'm afraid to upgrade because I have so many songs written with it.

Fuck it I'm uprgading.