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Emu Planet Phatt

 

 

 

Emu Planet Phatt

infoCountry: USA
Weight: 3,1 Kg
Dimensions: 4,5 x 48,26 x 21,59 cm
audio demo trend price : 100€
manual demo video comments

Emu Planet Phatt
The Swing System (1997)

 

Rackmount module based on a samples wavetable: sounds are oriented to Hop, Rap, Acid Jazz and Trip-Hop.

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info RACKMOUNT 1 unit. Main panel features 5 buttons, a 2 X 16 lines backlit display, 1 single knob for volume and a data wheel encoder.

Back panel terminal connectors:
- Midi interface
- main outs
- 4 aux outs
- LED for Midi signal.


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POWER SUPPLY internal switch 110V/220V (check it ANYWAY!)

 

 



edit VOICE a Motorola MC 68000 CPU (mc68hc00fn10) system handles up to 32 voices of polyphony, with 6 X 16 bits DACS AD1861 (analog devices).
A basic voice is composed by 1 or 2 samples "oscillators" Primary and Secondary Instruments. Each instruments have individual wave parameters:
- volume / paning
- delay start
- pitch tuning coarse and fine
- zone assign
- chorus mode (thicker sound)
- reverse playback flag
- monophonic mode with variable portamento rate
- crossade fade volume Primary--> Secondary or vice versa


wavetable

dac ad1861


 


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WAVETABLE the non-expandable 8 MB ROM contains 480 samples coded at 16 bits at 39 kHz frequency rate. Some names stands out like Roland TB303, Moog Minimoog bass, Wurlitzer piano, Yamaha DX7 tines, Prophet 5 and boom-kit Roland TR808.



wavetable





edit PERFORMANCE
up to 16 parts each with individual parameters:
- footswitch assign (assignable to any Midi CC#)
- master tune with semitones transpose
- realtime modulation matrix (check out table below "matrix")
- scale: equal, C, Vallotti, Gamelan and user.



wavetable

 

 

edit FILTER a single resonant digital filter for both primary and secondary.
There are 2 kinds of filters A-B out of 17 models:
- standard: 3 lowpasses, 2 highpasses and 2 bandpasses
- Z-planes: 10 models partially derived from Emu Morpheus including sweep, vocal formant and phaser.


filter

 

 

edit ENVELOPE 3 EGs:
- primary EG: ADSR with 2 times
- secondary EG: same as primary
- AUX EG: same as primary
In addition the Planet Phatt features 8 preset velocity curves.


adsr

 

 

edit LFO there are 2 interchangeable delayed digital modulators (5 shapes: triangle, square, random, sine and saw) with variable amount and "variance" factor - a modulation desync.


lfo

 

 

edit MATRIX the LFO are assignable to the real-time modulation control matrix:


SOURCES: DESTINATIONS:
pitch wheel pitch (pri /sec / both)
MIDI CC# (4 X called A B C D) filter cutoff (pri / sec / both)
Mono pressure volume (pri / sec / both)
Poly pressure ADSR (pri / sec / both)
LFO 1 / LFO 2 Crossfade
AUX EG LFO1 amount / rate
  LFO2 amount / rate
  portament rate (pri / sec / both)
  EG AUX ADSR (pri / sec / both)
  Panning (pri / sec / both)



 

editBEAT SEQUENCER is a groove arranger based on 100 beat presets with real-time transpose. The SONG composer makes beat sequences with the X-factor function which streches samples to a BPM. Both LFO and BEAT sequencer can be synched to master clock (range from 5 to 500 BPM) or sync to external Midi clock

recorder

 

 

edit MEMORY:
- 384ROM patches
- 256 RAM slots
Memory sytem works with a CR-2032 lithium battery in a holder, replacement is quite easy.


battery replacement



 

edit EDITORS there are some free and commercial computer-based softwares:
- PPC (free - LINK)
- Soundquest (commercial)


orbit editor


 

edit MODIFICATION just a devastating CIRCUIT BENDING processo for glitched stuff!
Check out some demos below.



edit RELATED FAMILY:

orbit 3

EMU MOPHAT phatt updated to steroids but different and bigger wavetable. Final EMU edition

ROM Phatt Session ROM Phatt Sessions: same soundset could be installed in EMU samplers series like E-IV, Ultra, Esynth and more.
EMU PLANET PHATT

EMU ORBIT same planet phatt hardware but PCM wavetable oriented to techo house. Later updated to V2 and then finally to ORBIT 3

EMU CARNAVAL

EMU CARNAVAL same hardware but oriented to latino instruments and percussions VIDEO

 

 

effet VST PLUGIN / SAMPLED VERSION there are some free and commercial samples set:

  name price link demo
emu proteus x Digital sound factory sample pack $$$$ effet n/a
arturia spark rhythm-lab
61 E-mu Plantet Phatt / Mo' Phatt / MP7 hit and stab sounds.
wav+kontakt format, 24 bit, 44100 hz, stereo, 7 mb
effet n/a

 

 

demo AUDIO DEMO EXAMPLES

demo Factory demo 1
demo Factory demo 2
demo Factory demo 3
demo Factory demo 4
demo Some internal beats
demo Rhodes
demo Jazzy organ
demo lead
demo analog bass
demo Synth prodigy
demo Synth organ
demo Pad panning
demo Pad zero
demo Pad relax
demo Pad filtered
demo TEST: all filter
demo FX
demo Circuit bending




video VIDEO CLIP SELECTION

demo1 video2 demo3
demo demo2 demo3

 

 

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Emu Planet Phatt PRESET FACTORY

Switch ON while holding both Cursor buttons down. Then search for INITIALIZE in the DIAGNOSTIC page. Confirm with ENTER

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Emu Planet Phatt MANUAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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SERVICE MANUAL / SCHEMATICS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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manual

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-matrix modulation


manual

-edit
-obsolete sample set


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REVIEW "At the time, the Planet Phatt was a good rompler, but now it is quite old. Instead consider a more modern MOPHAT /MP7 with more features. Now at bargain price, the PHATT romplers seem to be quite dead , especially for poor edit interface"

 

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Emu Planet Phatt 2.5 out of 5 based on 4 ratings. price €100