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- Page 1 S P I T F I R E A U D I O BT PHOBOS P O LY C O N V O L U T I O N S Y N T H E S I Z E R...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S Thank you for purchasing BT - PHOBOS. Phobos is a must-have synthesizer for composers writing epic, cinematic electronic and hybrid compositions. Conceived by renowned composer and electronic music pioneer BT (The Fast and The Furious, Monster, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), we’ve together developed a powerful new device to add a unique timbral expansion to your compositions by unlocking the liquid, morphing and transforming capabilities of convolution. -
Page 3: Welcome
W E L C O M E Together with Spitfire, BT has combined over 20GB of his own to me, ‘Nothing new will ever happen in the arts again. It’s all personal bespoke new libraries (following on from Breaks from about studying what’s already been done and how you combine the Nu Skool and Twisted Textures) into a convolution synthesis things.’... -
Page 4: Downloading & Installing
D O W N L O A D I N G & I N S T A L L I N G Thank you for buying this Spitfire product. If you are a total newbie to this kind of thing you can get up to speed here: spitfireaudio.com/info/basics/ If you have ordered the product on a hard drive, the first step is to copy the content onto your computer or the drive that you wish to play your samples from. - Page 5 Convolver units are polyphonic. This means that for each key that triggers one of the Convolver units a separate and new impulse response is created. This impulse response will be generated on the fly. This is what we mean by the ‘polyconvolution’ engine in BT Phobos. PH O BO S - U S ER MANUAL...
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Page 6: An All New Plugin
VST, AU and AAX, so once you’ve downloaded and installed you’re ready to go. The image above shows how you would open Phobos in Apple’s Logic Pro X. We’ve clicked on software instrument and have scrolled to the stereo version of Phobos via the new dedicated ‘Spitfire Audio’ Folder. PAG E 6... -
Page 7: A Quick Look
A Q U I C K L O O K S H E ’S A B E AU T ’! This is where your understanding of synthesis, sampling, convo- Each Phobos preset is constructed from up to four sound lution and the pre-understood ideas of what a loop, a tone or sources (1,2,3,4) put through up to three convolvers (W,X,Y) an atmosphere are will be challenged. -
Page 8: Your First 'Tour
Y O U R F I R S T ‘ T O U R ’ S O UN D S O U RC E S 1 ,2 ,3 , 4 CO NVO LV E RS W,X,Y CO NVO LU TI O N TRIAN GLE M A ST E R CO NT ROLS &... -
Page 9: Browsing
B R O W S I N G S E LE C T I N G S OUN D S OURCES 1, 2, 3 ,4 & CO N VOLVE RS W, X ,Y Phobos challenges the convention of loops, tonal patches and how they are used in convolution which is why when clicking on the name of any of the sound sources OR any of the convolvers, you will be greeted with exactly the same browser... -
Page 10: Sound Sources
S O U N D S O U R C E S 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 1. SOURCE NUMBER 5. HPF The source number corresponds to the sound source number Or ‘high pass filter’, this is a filter that allows the higher frequen- in the convolution triangle. -
Page 11: Convolvers W,X,Y
C O N V O L V E R S W , X ,Y 1. WAVE FORM DISPLAY 5. PITCH 2. CONVOLVER Controls the pitch of the convolver waveform. Hold shift for fine tuning or double click to enter a specific value. This signifies which of the three convolvers you’re editing. -
Page 12: The Convolution Triangle
T H E C O N V O L U T I O N T R I A N G L E At the centre of Phobos is the Convolution Triangle. Each Source The top left of the triangle controls levels to controller W, the is represented on the Triangle by a ‘puck’... -
Page 13: Master Controls
M A S T E R C O N T R O L S 2. 3. 4. 5. The master controls section is split on the left and right hand side of the interface. These controls affect the entire instance of the plugin and / or preset. -
Page 14: How To Assign Controls & Automate
M A T E H O W T O A S S I G N C O N T R O L S & A U T O CONTROLLING PARAMETERS DIRECTLY AND AUTOMATING Within Logic, standard automation is possible: just choose the automation lane corresponding to the control you want to automate in Phobos. - Page 15 1. PRESET 5. CURVE The mapping preset menu contains a selection of predefined This sets the curve of this modulation, this is displayed graphical- mapping parameters for ease of use, selecting one of these will ly on the right hand side, along with the min/max values. Using alter the settings of the currently set mapping parameters.
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Page 16: Advanced Source Sound Controls
A D V A N C E D S O U R C E S O U N D C O N T R O L S CLICK HERE In addition to the options on the Overview screen of Phobos, there is a set of controls to further adapt each Source. - Page 17 4. PITCH & SPEED 6. GATES The Pitch controls the overall pitch of the source (PITCH: -64 st There are two different types of gates within Phobos, with both to +64st) in addition to any pitch shifts introduced depending on sharing the same Attack and Release knobs.
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Page 18: Advanced Convolver Controls
A D V A N C E D C O N V O L V E R C O N T R O L S CLICK HERE In addition to the options on the Overview screen of Phobos, there are a set of controls to further adapt each Convolver and its impulse response. - Page 19 3. IR OFFSET 6. GATES Using the Offset you can adjust the starting point of the Impulse, There are two different types of gates within Phobos, with both which is great for jumping into a certain part of a loop, or an sharing the same Attack and Release knobs.
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Page 20: Global Lfo Controls
G L O B A L L F O C O N T R O L S 1. LFOs 3. RATE There are four separate LFOs available and you can use any number of them in the modulation mappings. Here you can Rate adjusts the frequency of the LFO based on your host tem- change the settings for the LFOs. -
Page 21: Appendix A - Faqs & Troubleshooting
(or one of its sub-folders). not connected to the internet. Authorisation is done with the Spitfire Audio Library Manager and an internet connection is • If you see a “Download interrupted” message may be caused required. We are working on an offline process. - Page 22 The section on How To Assign Controls and Automate covers Samples Drive > Spitfire Audio - always point the downloader this, there are also tutorial videos at spitfireaudio.com/manu- to the folder ‘Spitfire Audio’ (or the folder above) for all down- als-archive/bt-phobos/ loads and updates.
- Page 23 Q: ‘NO PATCH, SAMPLE OR PRESET’ ERROR MES- SAGE In some cases, files may get lost when transferring libraries from the delivery hard drive or if an update has gone wrong. You may also get this error in some cases if you installed your library on a drive with just under the minimum necessary amount of space to install the library (remembering that you need DOUBLE the size of the final library to install successfully - see above).
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