Kilohearts
Kilohearts manufacture audio plugins for all major formats with a strong focus of minimalism and ease-of-use.
9 Products by Kilohearts :
Carve EQ
Carve EQ is a 31-band graphic equalizer, that runs laps around the competition. Innovative new tools, and loads of EQ profiles from famous songs makes sure you'll get...
Convolver
The most common, and very cool, use for convolution is for reverb. If you go to a place with a nice ambience, like your local church or your grandmother's bathroom,...
Disperser
Have you ever wanted to rotate the phases of your signal to create frequency sweeps? Funny, neither had Kilohearts, but then Kilohearts tried it and were blown away!...
Faturator
Grit, oomph, fatness, raw, color, or just that certain something. Sometimes your sounds need a shovel of dirt. Faturator is standing ready to tear whatever you throw...
Kilohearts Ultimate Bundle
The Kilohearts Ultimate Bundle contains nothing less than 38 amazing sound design tool. Build your own Modular Synths and Effects: The open modular architecture of...
Multipass
Multipass is a multiband modular Snapin Host which splits the incoming signal into up to five frequency ranges which can have effects chains added to them separately....
Phase Plant
Now with Granular! NEW! Kilohearts are extremely excited to bring you one of the most requested feature updates to Phase Plant. Say “hello” to your new Granular...
Slice EQ
A truly modern parametric equalizer, Slice EQ cuts, or enhances, frequencies with surgical precision using razor sharp digital filters up to 96 dB/oct. Slice EQ is an...
Snap Heap
Snap Heap is a modular Snapin Host which allows you to build up to seven serial or parallel effects chains and modulate every parameter using Kilohearts' powerful...Latest 50 Videos from Kilohearts :
Presets: Good or Evil? – Sound Design Snacks 79 Sep 25, 2023
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Some feel like using presets is cheating. Others think making your own sounds from scratch is a chump's game....
Sound Design Snacks 33 - Telephone Voice Sep 24, 2023
A useful bread-and-butter sound mixing tip, whether you're editing movie dialogue, designing an immersive installation, or just trying to keep your BVs out of the way and give them a character of their own. Use aggressive filtering to create the classic telephone voice.
#sounddesign...
Sound Design Snacks 31 – FM Is Easy Sep 22, 2023
Some folks (me) seem to think FM – frequency modulation synthesis – is complicated. And if you want to go all zany and in-between-the-integers and create inharmonic mayhem... yes that can get a bit messy for sure. But if you stick to whole number ratios between the frequency of your carrier and...
Cirrus by Arovane – presets demonstration Sep 21, 2023
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Cirrus is an ethereal collection of ambient granular soundscapes from renowned artist and sound designer Arovane. Building on Phase Plant's granular synthesis engine, and using purpose-recorded samples Arovane contributed to our...
Cirrus – a Kilohearts Content Bank by Arovane Sep 20, 2023
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Cirrus is an ethereal collection of ambient granular soundscapes from renowned artist and sound designer Arovane. Building on Phase Plant's granular synthesis engine, and using purpose-recorded samples Arovane contributed to our...
Sound Design Snacks 30 – Classic Acid Bass #sounddesign #musicproduction #phaseplant Sep 17, 2023
The Roland TB-303 was supposed to be a bass guitar simulator. But it was terrible at simulating bass guitar. Imagine being terrible even compared to an actual bass guitar player. That's how terrible it was. Within a few short years Roland discontinued the wretched thing, and the remaining units...
Sound Design Snacks 29 – Accidental Xylophone #sounddesign #musicproduction #phaseplant Sep 14, 2023
So, I mean... obviously this is basic traditional "FM". But why does something so simple sound like a wooden tuned percussion instrument? What's happening? Can you explain it? Here's your chance to break it down and make me happy by fuelling me with understanding. Thank you in advance. Best...
Colour Bass Bubbles – Sound Design Snacks 78 Sep 11, 2023
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Trying to add a splash of colour/color to your melodic riddim or brostep masterpiece? Watery, bubbly magic...
Sound Design Snacks 28 – The funny thing about noise Sep 10, 2023
The funny thing about noise is, well, it's a lot of stuff. All the stuff in fact, where audio's concerned. If you start with noise and take a subtractive approach to music making, it might flip your habits on their head and give you a fresh perspective. Or it might just hurt your ears. Mrs....
Kilohearts Filter – Common Filter Effects Sep 7, 2023
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Sometimes in life, sound comes with frequencies you don't like. So why not cut them out?
kHs Filter is a...
Sound Design Snacks 27 – MIDI-triggered gate effect Sep 7, 2023
We digitally eavesdropped on an interesting question the other week – can you trigger a gate with MIDI in Snap Heap? The answer is yes, and here's how to do it.
Kilohearts Livestream – DSP Q&A Sep 7, 2023
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Wondering how your favourite plugins are made? This is your chance to find out more. Come along and ask the...
Sound Design Snacks 26 – 3D audio movement Sep 3, 2023
If you want to go beyond the simple pan-for-movement plan, try messing with phase and frequency too, to swirl your sound around the listener's earholes in three dimensions.
Sound Design Snacks 25 – Can pitch modulation make you a better composer? Sep 1, 2023
Fast enough pitch modulations can sound like timbral adjustments, which is cool... but the right shape of modulation can even spur compositional ideas. Like what if every note in your piece was not just one note, but an ascending diminished arpeggio? It could make a simple melody into a spooky...
Sample on Note Off – Sound Design Snacks 77 Aug 28, 2023
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Databroth's excellent video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxyohB7-WA
To create a sonic journey within...
Multiband Drums Hack - Sound Design Snacks 24 Aug 27, 2023
Stuck with only a stereo drum bus? Never fear – Multipass is here. Separate your elements by frequency and mix like an absolute maniac anyway.
What is the best sound? - Sound Design Snacks 23 Aug 24, 2023
There is probably an objectively correct answer to this question. Whether that answer is accessible to human consciousness is another issue entirely. But whatever one may believe, there are some undeniably strong contenders in this video. Especially the goat. We love the goat.
What is a Neuro Bass? – Sound Design Snacks 22 Aug 20, 2023
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You've heard of neurofunk, a rougher, darker subgenre to drum and bass. But have you tried making the...
Throwing Punches – Sound Design Snacks 21 Aug 17, 2023
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From footsteps to creaking doors, starships to station wagons, there's almost no sound in film, tv, or video...
Super-freq – Sound Design Snacks 76 Aug 14, 2023
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You know what's really freaky? Other than Fridays, that is...? Shifting the frequency spectrum of a...
Easy Cinematic Drone Sounds — Sound Design Snacks 20 Aug 13, 2023
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A drone can be the foundation of more or less any mood when you're scoring a scene for film, TV, games,...
Womp 101 — Sound Design Snacks 19 Aug 10, 2023
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When you wanna womp but your wimpy wubs sound like wet willies, try this wonderful way to wock and woll. I...
Rainbow Sparkle — Sound Design Snacks 18 Aug 6, 2023
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There's a way to harness and deploy the full beauty of the harmonic spectrum in Phase Plant. And that's only...
Rubbish Bass Needs Phase Distortion — Sound Design Snacks 17 Aug 3, 2023
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Here's something for ya. A Multipass effect using Phase Distortion which will make any bass instantly more...
10,000 YouTube Subscribers Celebration Stream Aug 3, 2023
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Hi all. George here for a solo livestream. It's been a ton of fun over the last few years building this...
Repurposing Dynamics – Sound Design Snacks 75 Jul 31, 2023
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There's a bunch of different ways to use one sound to affect another. In this video we're mapping the dynamics...
One Note Wonder — Sound Design Snacks 16 Jul 30, 2023
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Sometimes one note is all you need. Here's some generative manipulation using a few delays and a bit of...
The Worst Weather? — Sound Design Snacks 15 Jul 27, 2023
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Some basic starting points for badass weather sounds in Phase Plant. Wind, rain, thunderbolt, and lightning,...
10 More Ways to Move a Pad – Sound Design Snacks 14 Jul 23, 2023
Here's ten more ways to start turning a deeply dull pad into something totally tubular.
Unison Modes – Sound Design Snacks 13 Jul 20, 2023
Check out all the cool unison modes now available in Phase Plant! You can duplicate your voices in all sorts of different ways, for a thicker, richer, jazzier sound. You can even auto-stack chords. Don't bee afraid to experiment.
Quieter Drums Are Louder – Sound Design Snacks 74 Jul 17, 2023
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By selective management of energy in the moment of the transient, you can make your drums quieter, creating...
10 Ways to Move a Pad – Sound Design Snacks 12 Jul 16, 2023
There are about 17 million different ways to get a synth pad moving. Here are ten of them.
Spicy Noiseloop Lead – Sound Design Snacks 11 Jul 13, 2023
Nothing flashy. Just spicing up a lead sound with some noise, but in a more integrated way. Y'know, like a cortado is coffee but more, like, tied together.
Bitcrush Fireworks – Sound Design Snacks 10 Jul 9, 2023
There are many ways to misuse your plugins. One of my favourite secondary functions is using Bitcrush as a component of ambience. The aliasing artefacts generated by reducing the sample rate can be sculpted into interesting depth/texture elements of a sound. Here we get something interestingly...
Retro Plasma Gun – Sound Design Snacks 9 Jul 6, 2023
Today just felt like a "making a video game sound effect for a big old plasma gun" kind of a day. So in Phase Plant I made three separate generator groups, one for the "charge", one for the "spark", and one for the "bang". The charging sound is a saw wave with a slowly rising amp envelope, sent...
Do You Know What This Button Does? – Sound Design Snacks 73 Jul 3, 2023
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This little button opens up a world of sound design power.
Instead of layering effects across your whole...
Vocal Chops For Days – Sound Design Snacks 8 Jul 2, 2023
Wanna sound like a top class world-beating DJ superstar without doing all that pesky work? Here's a quick and easy way to get that summer vibe formant-shifted vocal chop effect without actually having to edit any vocals. Using Reverser and a couple of Pitch Shifters, you can just get Snap Heap to...
Square Wave Throat Singing – Sound Design Snacks 7 Jun 30, 2023
It is the work of an instant to turn the already super fine square wave into a warbling, gargling throat singer. And now it sounds even more better than it already did.
Dumb Ways To Make Kicks – Sound Design Snacks 6 Jun 25, 2023
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Check out Databroth's video – https://youtu.be/DwZUm8vcKPE
There is no right or wrong way to make a kick drum...
DIY Kit-Synth – Sound Design Snacks 5 Jun 22, 2023
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I built this little synth from a kit I got at the giftshop of the Science Museum in London. It was a fun...
Talking About Feature Requests – Kilohearts Livestream Jun 22, 2023
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We love our community letting us know what features they'd like to see added to the Kilohearts ecosystem, to...
One Tip For Beginner Sound Designers – Sound Design Snacks 72 Jun 19, 2023
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If you could only give one tip, not lots of tips, but just one, to a person starting out as a sound...
Character Design – Sound Design Snacks 4 Jun 18, 2023
If you absent-mindedly doodled a cute little balloon chicken in your lunch break, and you just can't get anything else done until you have heard its chirrupy voice, Phase Plant is at hand to help you. Within seconds you can have layers of flangey, breathy, resonator-ey voice-sounds as if the...
Sample to Wavetable to Clap Bass - Sound Design Snacks 3 Jun 15, 2023
Combining a clap and a bass... can't be that hard, right? You want the fat room-shaking tone of a bass and the in-your-face attack of a clap. So you go into Phase Plant and convert a sample to a wavetable, then use that wavetable as a modulation source for the attack of the bass. Simple. But will...
Warp Snap – Sound Design Snacks 2 Jun 11, 2023
If you're down on your luck and all you have in the world is two humble sine waves... you can still make epic whizzy warpy sci-fi laser snaps. Don't believe me? Check it out.
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Collaborating with artists – Kilohearts Livestream Jun 9, 2023
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The Kilohearts team is here to chat about collaborating with artists, producers and sound designers on Content...
Pentatonic Gliss from Noise – Sound Design Snacks 1 Jun 8, 2023
In this video, a humble little chiff of noise becomes a magnificent pentatonic glissando in a matter of moments, using delay, resonant filter peaks in an EQ, a couple of LFOs masquerading as an envelope and a sequencer, and a few basic effects in Snap Heap. It's a magical tale.
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Is This EQ Overpowered? – Sound Design Snacks 71 Jun 6, 2023
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Carve EQ can do a bunch of amazing things you probably didn't know about. Like here, we're using the reference...
Impulse Control presets walkthrough with bank author Navi Retlav May 25, 2023
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Impulse Control includes 100 impulse responses for Convolver, as well as 100 Convolver presets, 5 presets for Multipass, 5 presets for Snap Heap, and 12 Phase Plant presets.
It's not easy to control the impulse to...
Impulse Control – A Kilohearts Content Bank by Navi Retlav May 25, 2023
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Impulse Control includes 100 impulse responses for Convolver, as well as 100 Convolver presets, 5 presets for Multipass, 5 presets for Snap Heap, and 12 Phase Plant presets.
It's not easy to control the impulse to...
About Kilohearts :
Kilohearts manufacture audio plugins for all major formats with a strong focus of minimalism and ease-of-use.
We are a Swedish company of three people, and we love sound design. Pun intended. We love puns too.
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