Little Phatty Suprises...

carbon111 · Post by **carbon111** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:17 am

I discovered some nice suprises in the LP's manual...including a number of things I didn't expect...

- selectable filter slopes: 1, 2, 3 or 4
- keyboard is velocity sensitive
- velocity can be routed to filter cutoff
- easy external tweaking of parameters via MIDI CCs
- selectable note priority for keyboard: low, high, last
- LP's overload circuit implements asymmetrical clipping

and more...

goldphinga · Post by **goldphinga** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:55 am

how did you get hold of the manual ?

rachel · Post by **rachel** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:50 am

It's right online......

Looks like the Little Phatty can be a controller! It supports local on/off,
plus the dials can send CC's on preset ID numbers and so on. The Velocity
sensitivity is sent as well, so I guess it is must be a polyphonic keyboard.

I can soon get rid of my poor old DX7FD (with E!) and have a real analogue synth as my main controller now.....

I wonder if you'll be able to assign the CC's how you like, in a future
firmware update?

I've just put more money down on my deposit, too

rachel

rachel · Post by **rachel** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:54 am

Hey,

I couldn't find master volume as a Controller..... (usually CC7).

rachel

godzilla · Post by **godzilla** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:13 am

i liked the bit about the lfo range being:

0.2 Hz to 500 Hz

yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stevied · Post by **stevied** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:25 am

i cant seem to find it on line? could ya post a link???

thanks!!

MarkM · Post by **MarkM** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:44 am

http://www.moogmusic.com/manuals/LP%20User%20Manual.pdf

stevied · Post by **stevied** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:59 am

Thank You!!!

so, we will hear velocity sensitive? and polyphone just goes out midi to other instruments right?

stevied · Post by **stevied** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:10 am

I think we will not hear velocity sensitive.

but it transmits velocity sensitive as well and polyphony, right?

carbon111 · Post by **carbon111** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:21 am

stevied wrote:I think we will not hear velocity sensitive.

Look in the manual - velocity routed to filter cutoff is one of the global controls.

stevied · Post by **stevied** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:30 am

That is sweet!
what other moogs are velocity sensitive??

godzilla · Post by **godzilla** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:01 pm

the voyager

on another note, do you think the keyboard transmits the pitch/mod wheel information via midi?

Amos · Post by **Amos** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:37 pm

godzilla wrote: on another note, do you think the keyboard transmits the pitch/mod wheel information via midi?

Yes, it sends pitch and mod on their appropriate CC's, and receives them as well. This means that in addition to controlling your other synths (and software) with polyphonic MIDI w/velocity and pitch/mod control, you can also record sequences played on the Phatty with pitch, mod, and knob motion recorded, and play back the sequence through the phatty with all the tweaks included, in realtime.

I am extremely excited about the controller abilities of the Phatty; I think this is another area where it will really shine and make itself useful in the studio. As you noticed the controller numbers are not freely-assignable, but most of the programs I use allow their functions to be auto-mapped to incoming CCs so I can still freely assign what is being controlled.

Also, the Little Phatty CCs are mapped 1:1 to the Voyager CC numbers, so you can control all of the common parameters of a Voyager or RME from the Phatty control panel or vice versa! If you used a Voyager as the master controller, it would give you handy access to all the LP's parameters with dedicated knobs for each function. I think that some duophonic playing would not be out of the question, either, although I have yet to try this...

possibilities abound!

-Amos

carbon111 · Post by **carbon111** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:11 pm

Thanks Amos!!!!

So, when do you think these will actually start shipping?

godzilla · Post by **godzilla** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:30 am

ok so if you were using the RMEs knobs to control the LPs parameters would you still be able to select between:
- pass-thru
- snap
- track
or do they only apply to the four analog edit controls?

if you could then having an RME and an LP would be insanely cool
you could use each one to control the other, or fuse them together to create the ultimate 5 VCO, 3 VCF, 4 ADSR moog monster!