Kilohearts Phase Plant Softsnyth + Toolbox STARTER Snapins Bundle
Whether you are new to synthesis or a seasoned professional, you will be creating amazing patches in no time. With limitless combinations of generators, modulators and effects available you will be able to discover and refine your own original sound.
Features include:
A Blank Canvas
When you first open Phase Plant you will be presented with an empty patch. Don't be afraid! This is an invitation to dive in and start creating with all the signal generators, effects, and modulators that you need to make almost any sound you can imagine. We understand that not everyone will know where to begin so we've included plenty of presets to get you started too...
Ready-to-Use Presets
Professional sound designers have been eager to create factory content for you to begin using right away. Browse over 400 expertly crafted sounds each with customized macro controls for fine-tuning and automation. Search and sort using our keyword hash-tagging system. We have even included a collection of technical demos showing you how to create certain sounds and effects. Get up to speed with what's possible by going through and learning the essential synthesis techniques.
Take Control
Within Phase Plant, almost every parameter of any element can be tweaked and modulated. Bind any of the macro dials to multiple parameters so you can control and automate significant changes to the overall sound, control modulation ranges and speeds, or adjust effects levels to taste. Once you discover the power of macros you'll realise the possible uses are endless!
Signal Generation
There are currently four signal generators and a few utility modules available in the Generators column. Analog, Wavetable, Samples, and Noise. Each one is carefully designed to offer the absolute best in quality, performance, and usability. Add as many as you like, route them freely. Group them. Hide them. Use some of them only to modulate others. Create layered sounds in an instant. Use generator unison, or global unison, or both!
Snapin Host
If you are familiar with the Kilohearts Ecosystem then you'll already know about Snapins, our expanding range of simple and functional effects units which can be used by themselves as plugins in your DAW or combined as modules in any of our host plugins.Phase Plant includes three lanes to load up your Snapins with different routing options and even a 'Poly' option for per-note effects.Presets using Snapins you don't already own will still be fully functional but you won't be able to tweak those Snapins.
Modular Modulation
When it comes to modulation, Phase Plant offers unrivalled variety and flexibility with an advanced, yet easy to use, modular modulation system. Use advanced LFO, envelope, random, midi note, pressure, velocity, as well as min, max and multiply modules in any combination you can imagine to control the myriad variables available in this synth, as well as each other!
Try it Out
Did you not see the small piano icon in the bottom right? Well, it was hiding the piano bar so you can try out your sounds easily while designing, even if you don't have your MIDI controller connected right now. Like on the train? And then you hide it when you don't need it to get more space for generators, right? Neat.
All Together Now
See those numbers and knobs colored in green? Those are "audio-rate modulations", in the same vein as famous FM synths. Except in Phase Plant you can modulate almost any generator value with the output of another one. Try phase modulating a Sine using a Sample as the source. There are even filters and distortions you can modulate at audio rate available in the generators section.
Kilohearts Toolbox STARTER Snapins Bundle
Kilohearts snapins cover a huge range of audio effects and they go great together. The unified form language makes learning a new effect easy as a breeze. The low CPU usages means you can stack them high! And to do that we offer the snapin host plugins that give you a workspace to create your own custom signal chains.
The Kilohearts Toolbox STARTER gives you access to 6 of the most versatile snapins on top of everything in the Kilohearts Toolbox FREE. These essentials will get you very far and the bundle is a good choice if you need to customize your channel strip and be able to reuse it at any time, in any DAW.
Included Snapins:
3-Band EQ
3-band EQ will get you surprisingly far when it comes to shaping your sound, or your entire song. By dragging the split frequencies around it feels like much more than a standard 3-band equalizer.
Chorus
The Chorus enhances the stereo effect and presence of a sound by mixing it with delayed versions of itself. It's like your own personal choir!
Compressor
A compressor will even out the audio volume by lowering the volume when the signal is loud. This helps shape the dynamics of the sound both at the initial attack and the sustain tail. Each compressor has their own flavor, and the kHs Compressor tastes sweet.
Delay
The kHs Delay can be run both free running and tempo synced with various stereo and feedback options. Most notable however is the duck feature, which optionally only lets the echoed sound through when there is no dry input signal. This allows for long and heavy delay while still avoiding clutter over the original sound. Clever!
Distortion
Ever since mankind invented music, there has been a desire to make it heavier. Distortion can take your sound from zero to sword wielding hero in seconds. 5 different distortion shapes are available to add a tinge of edge or rip things apart. In stereo, if that's what you're into.
Dynamics
Dynamics processing featuring upward and downward compression as well as expansion. Thresholds and ratio are controlled by clicking and dragging on the visualization in the upper part of the plugin interface. The visualization shows how input levels are mapped to output levels by the dynamics processing. The current input and output levels are marked in the visualizer by a moving disc.
Filter
Sometimes in life, sound comes with frequencies you don't like. So why not cut them out? kHs Filter is a resonant filter with 7 modes, swiftly getting rid of frequencies you don't like or enhancing frequencies you do. And it's doing it and doing it and doing it good.
Gain
Sound loud? Make softer. Sound quiet? Make louder.
Limiter
Whether you want to crank the last drops of gain out of your track or just want to control a few loud peaks, a Limiter can be the weapon of choice.
Phaser
Beam me up, Scotty! No matter if you set the knob to stun or kill, Phaser can spice up your life with twirly frequency sweeps. The Phaser will filter the input signal, creating a series of moving peaks and troughs in the audio spectrum. Pretty much all the bad things with signal phase issues, but turned into an effect and labeled "cool".
Reverb
Reverbs, simulating the millions of tiny echoes that naturally bounce off the walls in a room, play a central part in glueing together sounds in a song. There are likely few tracks today that don't contain reverb in any form.
Stereo
The Stereo snapin can adjust the stereo width and panning. It also displays the current balance and channel correlation visually.
