EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I'm tired of waiting for an OS X version of Recycle.
Anybody have any experience creating EXS24 instruments from Phatmatic 
"slices"?
Is their any kind of interaction between EXS 24 and Phatmatic files 
like there is between EXS 24 and rx2 files?
Thanks
--
Charles

Charles Shriner wrote:

> I'm tired of waiting for an OS X version of Recycle.
> Anybody have any experience creating EXS24 instruments from Phatmatic 
> "slices"?
> Is their any kind of interaction between EXS 24 and Phatmatic files 
> like there is between EXS 24 and rx2 files?

I think you will find a lot of very happy pHATmatik Pro users here 
(myself included). It is a stand alone VST instrument. There is no 
reason/need to import the slices into EXS. I suppose if you wanted to 
grab a couple of single hits for future mapping/uses, you could. But 
pHATmatik works fine on it's own for slicing and playing back loops. It 
has it's own filters and LFO mappings and matrix modulation settings, etc.


-- 
Eli Krantzberg
Nightshift Orchestra / Almat Productions
http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com

On 10/13/03 11:00 PM, "Eli Krantzberg" <elik@...> wrote:

> Charles Shriner wrote:
> 
>> > I'm tired of waiting for an OS X version of Recycle.
>> > Anybody have any experience creating EXS24 instruments from Phatmatic
>> > "slices"?
>> > Is their any kind of interaction between EXS 24 and Phatmatic files
>> > like there is between EXS 24 and rx2 files?
> 
> I think you will find a lot of very happy pHATmatik Pro users here
> (myself included). It is a stand alone VST instrument. There is no
> reason/need to import the slices into EXS. I suppose if you wanted to
> grab a couple of single hits for future mapping/uses, you could. But
> pHATmatik works fine on it's own for slicing and playing back loops. It
> has it's own filters and LFO mappings and matrix modulation settings, etc.
> 
> 
> Will it save to an .rx2 file?  I know you can take an RX2 file, open it in EXS
> and extract the midi sequence that plays the slices.  Does pHATmatik work the
> same way?
> 
> Did I understand correctly from previous posts that pHat does not work well if
> you¹re slowing down the tempo of the sequence and this is where Recycle is a
> better product (at least in that regard)?
> 
> James
> 




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James Ryan wrote:

>>Will it save to an .rx2 file? 

No.

>> I know you can take an RX2 file, open it in EXS
>>and extract the midi sequence that plays the slices.  Does pHATmatik work the
>>same way?

Sort of. You load the loop right into pHATmatik. And then generate the 
midi file right from within pHATmatik and drag it into the arrange 
window on the pHATmatik track. It then plays back from the pHATmatik 
instrument track. And you can also trigger the individual slices from 
your midi keyboard controller.

>>Did I understand correctly from previous posts that pHat does not work well if
>>you\ufffdre slowing down the tempo of the sequence and this is where Recycle is a
>>better product (at least in that regard)?

I haven't used Recycle, but yes; pHATmatik doesn't always yield great 
results at slowing tempos down. It doesn't seem to do the individual 
slice stretching/crossfading thing that Recycle does. It's a tradeoff I 
guess between functionality and convenience.


-- 
Eli Krantzberg
Nightshift Orchestra / Almat Productions
http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com