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PHOBOS - USER MANUAL

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). If this 

happens, the best way forward is to re-download the library in 
question. It will ensure you will get all of the content you are 
missing. For more information on how to re-download a prod-
uct, please see the question above.

Q: HOW DO I DL PRODUCTS ON MAC OSX 10.9?

The version of the Library Manager needed to install Phobos 
only supports Mac OSX 10.10 and upwards.

Q: I HAVE FOUND A BUG

In some cases we can’t squash them all and bugs shamefully 
make their way through. If you think you have found a bug, 
please contact us with all the relevant information;
• A description of the bug you have found
• A screencast (video) of the bug happening, or an audio example
• The exact patch name (or patches) in question and also the 
library giving us as much detail as possible will help us get to the 
bottom of the issue.

Q: WHAT IS YOUR REFUNDS / RETURNS POLICY?

If you have NOT completed the download / installation process, 
then we CAN refund / return your product, please contact sup-
portwith your account email address and order number so we 
can handle this quickly. If you HAVE completed the installation 
process (even if you’ve not yet registered your serial number), 
please see our EULA in regards to why we do not accept re-
funds and returns. We can refund hard drive orders up until 

the point when the drive is dispatched from our office. This is 

usually 2-4 days after you order.

Q: I’VE FORGOTTEN MY PASSWORD?

If you have forgotten your password, please see this link spitfire

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audio.com/my-account/login/, and click ‘Forgotten Password’. If 
at some point in the past you asked us to merge two or more 

accounts but have since forgotten, you MAY find that the forgot

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ten password isn’t working for the email address you asked us 
to merge FROM. In this case, please contact support with your 
name, and any email addresses you think we might know about, 
and we’ll work out what has happened.

Summary of Contents for BT PHOBOS

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 U S E R M A N U A L ...

Page 2: ... music and hold your audience at the edge of their seats 2422 Samples Disk space required 22 85GB Disk space required during install 46 00GB Totally new dedicated plugin Self optimisation Unique Access to BT s enormous archive of sounds Presets designed by BT himself Presets designed by industry leaders Number of presets 716 Number of Source Sounds 2381 4 Slots for Source Sounds 3 independent Colv...

Page 3: ...ent with new sounds new techniques and new technologies These progenitors Cage Stockhausen Xenakis are the people who set the foundation Let s not forget that the piano was a radical new technology in its time I had a music theory teacher as a boy who once said to me Nothing new will ever happen in the arts again It s all about studying what s already been done and how you combine things I don t t...

Page 4: ...then unzipped This process takes a while so don t panic if it looks like it s frozen TOP TIP 2 If you get in a total mess you can reset the download of either the whole library or just the latest update from the Li brary menu of the app This is limited to a couple of downloads as bandwidth is expensive Please only do this if you actually need to You ll also see an option to Change Install Location...

Page 5: ...sound When a loop is loaded into a Source unit the same sound plays regardless of which key is pressed The pitch of Loop sounds is not directly affected by the key used to trigger the sound When a Tonal sound is loaded into a Source unit its maximum polyphony is determined by the number of keys in its key range and any overall polyphony limits that have been configured in the Settings page The pit...

Page 6: ...oftware instrument and have scrolled to the stereo version of Phobos via the new dedicated Spitfire Audio Folder Unlike many Spitfire libraries you don t need Kontakt Player or the full Kontakt to run this library Phobos is its own all new self contained plugin built forVST AU and AAX so once you ve downloaded and installed you re ready to go ...

Page 7: ... 716 presets designed by BT himself and luminaries including Richard Devine Scroll through names and themes or return Phobos to its Default State SHE S A BEAUT This is where your understanding of synthesis sampling convo lution and the pre understood ideas of what a loop a tone or an atmosphere are will be challenged Each Phobos preset is constructed from up to four sound sources 1 2 3 4 put throu...

Page 8: ...orld of Phobos it starts at the Sources which are triggered depending on their individual Key board Range get processed through the Convolvers with the mix of this controlled by the ConvolutionTriangle and then fed direct to the output The Source section is where the signal starts with four separate sources 1 to 4 that can be mixed and fed into the three Con volvers W X andY ...

Page 9: ...ou want to search for similar types of sounds then click List Similar and the browser will show you the tags corresponding to that sound To remove a sound from any of the sources or convolvers you can ALT SHIFT click on the name section as you roll over the name while holding ALT SHIFT it will display REMOVEWAVE To reset the parameter values for only one of the sources or convolvers at a time you ...

Page 10: ...Assign Controls and Automate chapter 5 HPF Or high pass filter this is a filter that allows the higher frequen cies depending on where you set it to come through whilst filtering out the low With BT s super fat sounds this is a handy jump on knob to control the bottom end Double click on the value to enter a specific frequency 6 WET Whilst the convolution triangle controls which source sound goes ...

Page 11: ...on trol the amount they re affected by the controller the convolv er still has its own dedicated mix stage to control the overall volume of the convolver against the others and the dry source sound signals 5 PITCH Controls the pitch of the convolver waveform Hold shift for fine tuning or double click to enter a specific value 6 A D S R Works just the same as with source sounds 7 RANDOM WAVE PARAMS...

Page 12: ...s and Convolvers With the range spread across the whole keyboard all Sources and Convolvers are triggered by the whole keyboard but with interesting placements you can use the Sources as triggers for the Convolvers or even separate different sounds onto different octaves 1 SOURCE SOUNDS These four lines represent the ranges of each of the four source sounds 1 2 3 4 2 CONVOLVERS These three lines r...

Page 13: ... agreement as well as a link to our webpage containing this very manual 4 LFOS Contains all the settings for the LFOs that can be assigned in the modulation mappings All the LFO frequencies are locked to your host tempo for ease of use with various adjustments that can be made to also help throw them off the grid See the Global LFO Controls chapter to delve deeper 5 MPE MODE This is a toggle butto...

Page 14: ...in this manual CLICK HERE MODULATION MAPPING RIGHT CLICK 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 In order to control each parameter directly with a MIDI controller use the ControllerAssignments functionality within the Logic Pro X Control Surfaces menu MID...

Page 15: ...arget for the modulation in this example this is set to the Main Level of the Sound Source This means the veloc ity the source will control the main level the target 5 CURVE This sets the curve of this modulation this is displayed graphical ly on the right hand side along with the min max values Using a curve at 7 0 for level or frequency changes helps to create a more even transition Double click...

Page 16: ... Release Controls the time taken after note off for the signal to reduce to dB 0 000 5 000s Curve Adjusts the contour of the release curve 0 0 is linear 10 is convex 10 is concave 3 START OFFSET Using the Start Offset you can adjust the starting point of the source material which is great for jumping into a certain part of a loop or an evolving pad Using the knob you can jump in at any point 0 to ...

Page 17: ...mple high pass and low pass filters which can be applied to the source HPF controls the cutoff frequency of the high pass filter HPF 0 0 to 24kHz with the resonance of this being controlled by the Q control above Q 0 5 10 0 Sim ilarly LPF controls the low pass filter cutoff frequency LPF 0 0 to 24kHz with the Q control above controlling the resonance NB All parameters can be set by double clicking...

Page 18: ...k Controls the time from note on to when the Con volver impulse response gets to full level 0 000 5 000s Hold 1 Controls the length of time the Convolver impulse response is held at full level before decay 0 000 2 000s Decay Controls the speed the Convolver impulse response level reduces from full to the Sustain 0 000 5 000s Sustain Controls the level the Convolver impulse response plays after the...

Page 19: ...er parameters above with the exception of the envelope V RELEASE pa rameter are applied to the generation of the impulse response at the moment a key triggers the convolver The parameters below plus the envelope V RELEASE parameter are applied to the result of the input to the convolver and the result of this convolved with the impulse response 5 FILTERS These are two simple high pass and low pass...

Page 20: ...Closer to 1 0 will result in a shorter period of the low value and a longer period of the high value RANDOM The value controls the interpolation between random values Closer to 1 the change to the random value will be more immediate and closer to 0 0 the values will be smoothed out into a kind of randomised undulating wave This section also contains a control for the initial phase of the LFO INIT ...

Page 21: ...a separate location then the original is deleted So briefly during install there are two copies of the li brary on disk To solve this problem use a drive with more space the size you ll need during install is listed on the website page of the product you bought Other possible issues Library Manager freezes in the Extracting stage for hours This may be because our libraries are often very large fil...

Page 22: ...nsolidate all your purchases in one place The more information we have the quicker we can get you back up and running Q HOW DO I UPDATE MY PRODUCTS The main premise of downloading our products is that our li brary manager downloads into the folder you choose so it is always good to choose the folder above where you want the download to go The best file path for our products is something very simpl...

Page 23: ...reencast video of the bug happening or an audio example The exact patch name or patches in question and also the library giving us as much detail as possible will help us get to the bottom of the issue Q WHAT IS YOUR REFUNDS RETURNS POLICY If you have NOT completed the download installation process then we CAN refund return your product please contact sup portwith your account email address and or...

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