Hey guys! So I was having a slight trouble with the Phatty earlier that I would appreciate some help on. When I turn the filter knob rapidly on certain patches, even the calibration patch, I can heard a sort of crunchy noise sound being produced. Now I initially thought maybe it was a faulty pot, as I wasn’t having this problem when the filter cutoff is automated. I sent my Phatty back for a replacement and, low and behold, the new one does the exact same thing. Granted, it’s nothing too annoying, but it’s confusing me, as I can’t think of what’s making the noise or why others don’t have this problem.
If someone could provide me any guidance it would be much appreciated. Again, when I move the filter cutoff knob rather quickly at about the 10 o’clock position, a crunchy noise is produced from the output.
Is it only the filter knob? I noticed that, when plugged into my computer, the midi loop (Sub => Computer (Ableton Live) => Sub), create a “crunchy noise” when any knob is turned rapidly.
That completely fixed my problem! Thanks a ton! So how do you personally use the Phatty with ableton to prevent the midi loop. I wrote a simple Max For Live patch that blocks the CC values but then I can’t have recorded parameter changes.
Until now, I’ve just been tweaking knobs and making patches, so I didn’t really play much with Ableton. One thing you can do is set local control to off on the Sub. This option will prevent the knobs from modifying the sound directly, but they will still send CC data. So the sound will only be modified indirectly by midi CC through Ableton. However, this prevents you from tweaking the sounds when the midi track is not armed.
The other thing you can try is set the midi output of your midi track to another channel than channel 1 while recording, and set it back to channel 1 when playing back.
I actually wrote a pretty simple max for live patch which blocks the non-essential midi cc values to the slim phatty. Then, I just turn it off if I want the recorded parameter tweeks to take over. Let me know if you have max for live and you want it.