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https://roboticbean.com/products/portatron/
* Update: this is an old post and it is no longer on sale
Yes - it's a sample-based "tape player" synth that comes with content, plus you can load your own samples!
Actually, I absolutely won't be after seeing the AUD price!!!Faastwalker wrote: ↑19 Dec 2022Cool. Think I'll grab Portatron at that price now that we can finally use it in Reason![]()
Woah, that is really weird!Faastwalker wrote: ↑22 Dec 2022Actually, I absolutely won't be after seeing the AUD price!!!Faastwalker wrote: ↑19 Dec 2022Cool. Think I'll grab Portatron at that price now that we can finally use it in Reason![]()
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I think it's great if you want to bounce part of your song, like a drum loop or something like that, and "resample" it in Portatron. Or create quirky monophonic leads by loading a single note from an instrument and raising the lag to get the characteristic varispeed portamento. Or create drones in up to four different chords and use the mixer to fade between them to add a more organic-sounding texture to your song.
Through the end of December!@buddard when does the sale end? Probably won't get another chance to fiddle around until after Christmas.
My biggest requests:
We have some pretty cool stuff in the pipeline regarding content.EnochLight wrote: ↑22 Dec 2022My biggest requests:
1. More presets + curated samples (your team did a FANTASTIC job on included content)!
Could you please provide a full screenshot? I’m not seeing this on any of my computers.2. Resizable GUI/UX. It’s too small even on my 1080p panel.![]()
I’m not so sure about this, we allow for some pretty extreme speed changes, so we would probably get a lot of digital artifacts….3. Integrated/automatic (optional) audio warp (so it stays in 100% sync with your DAW transport)
This is an amazing device. I absolutely love it!
But going back up an octave (to where it started out) doesn't return the instrument to the previous behavior. The only way for it to go back to previous behavior (that I can see) is to stop and restart the transport.Steedus wrote: ↑22 Dec 2022Might have something to do with the ramp up speed of the cassette and out the start of the sample. Going down an octave would significantly alter the timing and speed of the playback. So a short staccato note might not be long enough to start the sample playing properly .. ?
EDIT: Nevermind, I hadn't seen that you found the answer yourself.
Nice! Very much looking forward to that!
Wait.. what? I mean - on a 1080p panel I guess it's tolerable, but it's very small (less than a Reason rack width) even compared to stock Reason synths like Europa. Here's a couple of comparisons to larger instrument GUI with Reason set to 140% zoom:
Well, the reason that I'm asking is not because I don't believe you, it's because that it's not looking like that at all on any of my Macs. Portatron is bigger than uTonic and wider than the Reason rack, both on my 13" and 16" MBPs. Here's what it looks like on my 16", with Reason at 100%:EnochLight wrote: ↑23 Dec 2022Wait.. what? I mean - on a 1080p panel I guess it's tolerable, but it's very small (less than a Reason rack width) even compared to stock Reason synths like Europa. Here's a couple of comparisons to larger instrument GUI with Reason set to 140% zoom:
This is weird, I'm on a 5K screen and i think it's rather big, definitely not microscopicEnochLight wrote: ↑23 Dec 2022On a 4K display it's microscopic. Portatron has such a beautiful GUI/UX - we need to see this larger!![]()
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Yes, that must be it. It would be more fair to compare in 100% thou - and then it's rather big, at least not microscopic.
That’s because you’re (presumably?) running Reason at 100% on your 5K display. In your screenshot, Reason devices look comically small.
Correct - I’m at 140% (Reason) on a 1080p display. Windows is set to 100%, as Windows scaling is pretty horrible (hence the whole desire to have GUI/UX scaling in apps instead). If I run this on my 4K 65” panel, Reason (and Portatron) are comically microscopic with Reason at 100%, so I find it much more preferable to set Reason zoom to 140% or higher which just compounds the issue with Portatron.
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