Anyone using a PhatBoy still?

[audiomidiman]

Purchased this thing around Rebirth 1.0 I believe. Remember everyone wanting one. It’s been sitting in a box and plan on hooking it up back into the MIDI chain.

[motuscott]

Phat beat alert!

What is?

[audiomidiman]

Phat beat alert!

What is?

Just a simple midi controller. It came out about version 1.5 rebirth (if I said reason i was wrong). Everyone running rebirth wanted one. It was a good way to automate your knobs and sliders in rebirth. I was using Cubase VST w/ rewire running rebirth and retro as1.

[groggy1]

I used to have a PhatBoy years ago, but one of the knobs got stuck. I miss it dearly.

[rcbuse]

I remember wanting one of these so bad in 98-99 for rebirth 338, but at the time they were crazy expensive for my budget.

[joeyluck]

Purchased this thing around Rebirth 1.0 I believe. Remember everyone wanting one. It’s been sitting in a box and plan on hooking it up back into the MIDI chain.

Awesome! Yes, it's a great piece of hardware. You own a part of MIDI hardware history!
Would be cool to have one

In our interview with Dave of GForce Software, he talked about his involvement in making the Phat.Boy.
https://www.reasontalk.com/2017/11/inte ... -software/

[Resonator]

I bought a phatboy back then too. Wish I would have kept it.

[ejanuska]

I guess the closet thing to something like that now is a MIDI Fighter Twister

[audiomidiman]

So, it's worth it to start using it again?

[16BitBear]

I bought one then and still use it today. It has a preset mapping for Roland's JV 2010 which is fantastic. So it sits on top of it in my rack and makes it so much easier to get great sounds still out of the unit. I haven't used it with software in years though.

[Faastwalker]

One of the original & best MIDI controllers. Just a solid box, bank of knobs for synth control. Spot on really. I had a cheap Evolution equivalent that was basically the same thing in a less fancy box and some control buttons that I hardly ever used;



The UC-33 was it's bigger brother & a very nice bit of kit. A golden age of affordable & capable MIDI controllers that were excellent for controlling soft synths? There are not so many of these sorts of controllers around these days for such purposes. On the other hand we're literally swimming in Ableton Live controllers and 8 knobs / sliders / buttons type configurations. We need a new Phat Boy with twice as many endless encoders & some sort of display feedback to show parameter position. The Behringer BCR2000 is one of the only widely available options out there.

[audiomidiman]

One of the original & best MIDI controllers. Just a solid box, bank of knobs for synth control. Spot on really. I had a cheap Evolution equivalent that was basically the same thing in a less fancy box and some control buttons that I hardly ever used;



The UC-33 was it's bigger brother & a very nice bit of kit. A golden age of affordable & capable MIDI controllers that were excellent for controlling soft synths? There are not so many of these sorts of controllers around these days for such purposes. On the other hand we're literally swimming in Ableton Live controllers and 8 knobs / sliders / buttons type configurations. We need a new Phat Boy with twice as many endless encoders & some sort of display feedback to show parameter position. The Behringer BCR2000 is one of the only widely available options out there.

Wow, that Evolution is pretty damn cool... I have an Evolution keyboard controller which has low miles on it... but, is acting funny.