Spitfire Audio BT Phobos

Synthesizer Virtual Instrument

Spitfire Audio BT Phobos
Spitfire Audio BT Phobos
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The Polyconvolution Synthesizer

Phobos is a must-have synthesiser for composers writing epic, cinematic electronic and hybrid compositions.

It was conceived by renowned composer and electronic music pioneer BT.

Together with Spitfire, they developed a powerful new device to add a unique timbral expansion to your compositions by unlocking the liquid, morphing and transforming capabilities of convolution.

With an asset base featuring over 20GB of unique hand built BT rhythms, pulses, textures and atmospheres, and a revolutionary polyconvolver engine, you can quickly and easily create molecular loops, patterns and textures to energise your music and hold your audience at the edge of their seats.

Producer, composer, and artist, BT has done it all - from pioneering dance tracks and scoring The Fast and the Furious, to writing & producing for Sting, Peter Gabriel and David Bowie.

Together with Spitfire Audio, BT has combined over 20GB of his own personal bespoke libraries into a convolution synthesis engine that allows you to sculpt, filter, rhythmically cut and pulse impulse responses that are tonal, melodic and harmonic.

Most importantly, you can play them polyphonically.

This synthesizer, sound engine and bespoke library package represents years of diligent searching for new awe-inspiring sounds and sound design techniques.

If you, like BT, are looking for a new wave of inspiration for evocative, emotional, expressive and original compositions, this is the well of endless inspiration you need.

One of the greatest solutions Phobos provides is for composers wanting to engage their audiences in extended sequences and cues without things sounding repetitive or 'loopy'.

Phobos allows for an all new real-time interface interaction that allows the user to evolve, warp and transform their molecular patterns according to nuanced changes within a scene.

Background

Phobos is a synthesizer, a tool for creating massive cinematic and electronic rhythms, and an engine for endless spectral combinations of wide, lush pads and ambiences with propulsive rhythmic figures.

It's a sound library of bespoke percussion, beats, micro rhythms, field recordings, live acoustic and orchestral treatments, textures and a massive vintage synthesizer collection? That is just scratching the surface.

At its core, Phobos is a synthesizer based on the unexplored precept of polyconvolution as a synthesis engine.

BT came up with this idea many years ago doing sound design. What does that mean exactly? Polyconvolution as a synthesizer?

Well, it means instead of using convolution for reverb or modeling an amplifier's distortion circuit, why not make a "reverb" impulse response tonal?

Combining something rhythmic with something tonal (as an impulse response) yielded some of the most modern, liquid and percolating ambiences and textures BT had ever heard.

These are the kinds of sounds he has been searching for whilst scoring; those elusive sounds where the director asks for movement and drive, both subtle and massive.

Features

  • Revolutionary polyconvolution synthesizer, across 3 separate convolvers
  • Contains more than 2000 unique sounds, created by BT, that can be used both as a source or as an impulse response
  • Over 650 presets showcasing the possibilities of Phobos
  • IRs in Convolvers are polyphonic, track pitch played and render in realtime
  • Loops as sound source / or as IR track host tempo
  • MPE Compatible (for use with multidimensional controllers such as ROLI Rise or Roger Linn Linnstrument)
  • Dedicated Gate Stages and Filters on each sounds source / convolver unit
  • All controllers mappable to controller and / or multiple LFOs

System Requirements

  • MacOS 10.15 Catalina and above
  • Officially supported up to MacOS 13 Ventura
  • Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
  • Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
  • 8GB RAM or more (16GB or more recommended)
  • 23GB free storage space
  • Includes 2 activations per license

Plugin Formats

AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3

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