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Creating Pads and Atmospheres with Kilohearts Phase Plant Creating Pads and Atmospheres using very simple waveforms with Kilohearts Phase Plant. One of my favourite ways of creating pads and atmospheres is to create a stack of very simple waveforms and play with the tuning and unison settings to create variations. Kilohearts Phase Plant is particularly […]
The basics of gates and expanders for mixing and sound design Gates and expanders work in the opposite way to compressors, instead of decreasing peaks they work below the threshold. In a previous tutorial, we discussed compressors and the theory behind how they work, now we’re looking into gates and expanders, which work with similar […]
Creating wavetables from scratch in Kilohearts Phase Plant Last week we created wavetables by importing samples into Kilohearts Phase Plant, today we’re looking at creating wavetables from scratch. In last week’s tutorial video, we looked at importing samples to use as wavetables in Kilohearts Phase Plant, the wavetable editor is also a fantastic platform for […]
Importing Samples into Kilohearts Phase Plant wavetable editor Importing samples and editing wavetables with the host of effects built into Kilohearts Phase Plant wavetable editor. I’ve mentioned various times that one of my favourite things about Kilohearts Phase Plant is the fact that all of the advanced editors and menus use popup windows, allowing you […]
The theory and practice behind using compressors in mixing In order to truly harness the power of compressors, one needs to understand the fundamentals of what’s happening under-the-hood. I generally like to break up the use of compressors into two distinct categories – corrective compression deals with fixing certain issues which you may have in […]
Creating kick drums from scratch with Kilohearts Phase Plant The open architecture and routing capabilities in Kilohearts Phase Plant make creating kick drums a breeze. Today we are looking at creating a kick drum from scratch with Kilohearts Phase Plant. This plugin is particularly awesome for creating kick drums because of the fact that you […]
Creating more advanced Filters with Kilohearts Phase Plant Looking to create some advanced filters for your sonic manipulation? The Filter module in Kilohearts Phase Plant is relatively simple, however you can achieve some wild results by thinking out-of-the-box. Newcomers to Kilohearts Phase Plant often note the rather simple approach to the filter module that the […]
Glitchy Percussion Loops in Kilohearts Phase Plant Kilohearts Phase Plant is not just an awesome synthesizer, it boasts some pretty in-depth sampling capabilities too. One of my favourite features within the Sampler module in Kilohearts Phase Plant is the ability to modulate the length of the Sampler’s loop-points, and the spectrum is pretty wide – […]
Creating a simple arpeggiator in Kilohearts Phase Plant Kilohearts Phase Plant doesn’t have a dedicated arpeggiator, yet, however you don’t need one to create compelling arps – here’s why… A question that has been coming up quite often is regarding a dedicated arpeggiator module within Kilohearts Phase Plant. While there is talk of the developers […]
Creating multi-layer grid synth sounds in Kilohearts Phase Plant One of the greatest aspects of Kilohearts Phase Plant is its routing capabilities, especially for creating multi-layer synth sounds. The advanced grouping and routing capabilities inside Kilohearts Phase Plant certainly make it a great option for quickly and easily creating compelling multi-layered synth arrangements, all within […]
