Kilohearts Phase Plant Modular Synthesis Engine

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Seriously Powerful Soft Synth Plug-in from Kilohearts!

The Kilohearts Phase Plant Modular Synthesis Engine not only serves as a powerful tool when crafting soft synth sounds, it also offers unlimited creative potential for you and your creations! The core of its sound comes from a quartet of signal generators, with ear-pleasing effects and modulators to shape your sounds to perfection. Its uncluttered interface is great for experimentation with different types of oscillators to nail whatever sound you're looking for, while letting you mix and match all of Phase Plant's offerings to your heart's content. Bourgeoning producers can benefit immensely from Phase Plant's onboard presets — there's enough tweakability and customization options to make even Sweetwater's most veteran synthesists more than happy. Phase Plant also acts as a "Snapin" host plug-in, allowing for compatibility with all of Kilohearts' Snapin plug-ins across its three effects lanes. Add the Kilohearts Phase Plant Modular Synthesis Engine to your plug-in arsenal for a hefty injection of semi-modular synth bliss.

Generators, modulators, and effects offer unencumbered freedom

Phase Plant sports four signal generators to use when designing your sound. You can mix and match any combination of analog, noise, sampler, and wavetable oscillators to paint your sonic landscapes, with several effects that can be inserted at any point in the generator. Options like distortion, filter, and a bevy of utility effects are at your disposal, made even better with modulators such as envelope, LFO, randomized modulations, and more. With limitless customization options in one high-powered plug-in, Phase Plant exemplifies freedom when creating semi-modular synth sounds.

Uncluttered interface lets you construct your perfect rig

When you open up Phase Plant, Kilohearts decided to start with a completely empty patch, rather than bog you down with an overwhelming number of generators. This allows your creativity to blossom in ways never before achieved, letting you mix and match signal generators, effects, and modulators to your liking when building your soft synth sounds. Load in a few generators, and the fun really begins. Practically every knob and toggle can be tweaked to achieve whatever sound you hear in your head. Don't know where to begin? Phase Plant comes stock with over 400 pro-quality presets for achieving that coveted studio shine right out of the box.

Build a massive modular sound design system with Snapin plug-ins

On their own, Kilohearts plug-ins are formidable production and mixing tools. But when integrated using Kilohearts Snapin hosts — Snap Heap, Multipass, and Phase Plant — they evolve into a powerhouse modular sound design system. As the name implies, Kilohearts Snapin plug-ins literally "snap" into the Snapin hosts, allowing you to build massive processing chains and offering numerous ways to modulate parameters, stack effects in series or parallel, and creatively manipulate chains via automation and MIDI — all in a streamlined environment. Snap Heap arms you with four independent effects lanes, assignable envelope generators and LFOs, and the ability to control numerous parameters simultaneously with user-defined macros. Multipass ups the ante on the Snap Heap formula by including a frequency band splitter, which enables you to apply dedicated effects to individual frequency bands. For instance, you can completely transform a stock synth pad by saturating the low end and collapsing it to mono for more focus and heft, while adding a subtle chorus to the midrange frequencies and bathing the high frequencies in a pitch-shifting delay. Finally, Phase Plant combines Snapin plug-in functionality with an award-winning semi-modular soft synth to create a virtual instrument with unparalleled flexibility. With more than 30 Snapin plug-ins available, you're free to assemble limitless combinations of effects that will color your productions with totally unique sounds!

Note: Kilohearts’ Snap Heap is available for free. Multipass and Phase Plant are sold separately.