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4.2 Noise – Beginners Guide to Phase Plant
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Note from George: pressure wasn't behaving, so a couple of these sounds are even better than they sounded in the video. Wow!
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This demo track was created by @Naskoedm using Phase Plant for all sounds, with the exception of cymbals and a few FX. Originally commissioned for us to showcase Phase Plant at events, it turned to be out so amazing that we had to ask Nasko to make a full video to go with it.
Let us know in the comments if there’s any part you’d like a deeper dive into. We’ll be breaking down elements of the sound design process with Nasko over the coming weeks.
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Clipper, available for free now in the Kilohearts Essentials Collection, is a neat little utility dynamics management tool. Kilohearts Clipper brings the power of razor-sharp per-sample clipping to the Kilohearts Ecosystem, and lets you trim the peaks of your audio in order to leave some headroom or maybe to get that distorted sound that you are looking for.
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Clipper is a new free utility addition to the Kilohearts ecosystem.
A clipper clips peaks, reducing dynamic range, and introducing distortion.
Unlike a limiter though, there's no attack or decay time, just a hard / soft knee, so a clipper is great for high-energy transients, like in drum sounds.
There's no pumping, no side effects outside clipping the transients themselves. And the distortion can add harmonics and sizzle right where the sound needs it most.
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Multipass is a multiband modular effects host, which splits the incoming signal into up to five frequency ranges. These frequency bands can then each have different effects chains added to them, which can be modulated extensively, using Kilohearts’ powerful modular modulation system.
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There are interesting sounds everywhere, and if you collect a hundred of them, you too could make a collage, like this one.
Thanks for enjoying these snacks with us, and watch out for new things soon on the Kilohearts channel!
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After several years of lateral experimentation in sound design, South African producer CHEE erupted into the international bass scene following a handful of successful self-releases and releases through the Dutch label, UNDERSLUG.
Once the music began circulating, his sonic innovation and advanced production skills quickly gained the attention of many prime figures in the industry, gaining him support from Noisia, Amon Tobin, DJ Craze, Mat Zo, Culprate, G Jones, and more. His assured arc of fresh ideas led to the release of his first full-length album Fear Monger on SATURATE RECORDS in 2017, demonstrating 12 tracks of raw low-end-heavy material that set the precedent for CHEE tracks to come.
In 2020, CHEE made his debut on Zeds Dead's imprint label, DEADBEATS, releasing a 5-track EP featuring his popular song Vultures, gaining loads of DSP playlisting support and support from DJs across the festival circuit.
Over the last few years, he has continued to evolve his sound and push the boundaries of possibility within developing soundscapes. After coming off of 2 large bus tours as support, CHEE's reach has hit all corners of North America and beyond, including the likes of EDC Las Vegas, Shambhala Music Festival, leading all the way to Red Rocks Amphitheater.
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Synth-driven vocals can be a lot of fun. Take some chops, phrases, or individual syllables and trigger them as grains in Phase Plant's granular generator. See if it sounds awesome. It might. Seriously.
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It's pretty simple to hook up a basic live breath-controller for Phase Plant. Great for pads and wind / brass sounds.
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After several years of lateral experimentation in sound design, South African producer CHEE erupted into the international bass scene following a handful of successful self-releases and releases through the Dutch label, UNDERSLUG.
Once the music began circulating, his sonic innovation and advanced production skills quickly gained the attention of many prime figures in the industry, gaining him support from Noisia, Amon Tobin, DJ Craze, Mat Zo, Culprate, G Jones, and more. His assured arc of fresh ideas led to the release of his first full-length album Fear Monger on SATURATE RECORDS in 2017, demonstrating 12 tracks of raw low-end-heavy material that set the precedent for CHEE tracks to come.
In 2020, CHEE made his debut on Zeds Dead's imprint label, DEADBEATS, releasing a 5-track EP featuring his popular song Vultures, gaining loads of DSP playlisting support and support from DJs across the festival circuit.
Over the last few years, he has continued to evolve his sound and push the boundaries of possibility within developing soundscapes. After coming off of 2 large bus tours as support, CHEE's reach has hit all corners of North America and beyond, including the likes of EDC Las Vegas, Shambhala Music Festival, leading all the way to Red Rocks Amphitheater.
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After several years of lateral experimentation in sound design, South African producer CHEE erupted into the international bass scene following a handful of successful self-releases and releases through the Dutch label, UNDERSLUG.
Once the music began circulating, his sonic innovation and advanced production skills quickly gained the attention of many prime figures in the industry, gaining him support from Noisia, Amon Tobin, DJ Craze, Mat Zo, Culprate, G Jones, and more. His assured arc of fresh ideas led to the release of his first full-length album Fear Monger on SATURATE RECORDS in 2017, demonstrating 12 tracks of raw low-end-heavy material that set the precedent for CHEE tracks to come.
In 2020, CHEE made his debut on Zeds Dead's imprint label, DEADBEATS, releasing a 5-track EP featuring his popular song Vultures, gaining loads of DSP playlisting support and support from DJs across the festival circuit.
Over the last few years, he has continued to evolve his sound and push the boundaries of possibility within developing soundscapes. After coming off of 2 large bus tours as support, CHEE's reach has hit all corners of North America and beyond, including the likes of EDC Las Vegas, Shambhala Music Festival, leading all the way to Red Rocks Amphitheater.
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Redefine the Language of Sound Design.
Vernacular, the new Content Bank from the masterful music producer and audio educator, Chee, offers a rich vocabulary of Phase Plant presets, ranging from guttural growls and lyrical leads to customizable FX, percussion, and sequences. Perfect for modern, sophisticated electronic music, this bank is also well-suited to a variety of other styles and genres.
Additionally, you’ll find a handful of Snap Heap and Multipass presets included, ready to integrate into your own patches.
Vernacular contains 42 presets for Phase Plant.
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Building a soundscape from samples can be tricky when you have a limited number of sources, and a bunch of repeating actions on screen. Whether it's gunshots or footsteps or whooshy / clicky noises like these, you want to add some subtle variation to keep the viewer's brain from sounding the uncanny valley alarm.
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A few simple processes which can turn the cutest of creatures into a shrieking beast from the depths.
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Wanna be a superstar remix-master, but only have less-than-a-minute to spare? Chuck this idea in your audio microwave, you shortcutting superhero!
But seriously though, folks... grab slices of a whole song in granular. It can be an awesome way to start searching for inspiration for new soundbeds, chops and articulations, and sprinkles of earcandy for new projects.
#musicproduction #remix
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Convolution reverbs are just some maths that maps one sound to the shape of another, so if you go out to an interesting-sounding space, record the response of the space to a loud clap (an audio "impulse") and bring it into Convolver, you'll have a custom reverb. And the fun is that you can tweak and fool with it to your heart's content. Add a bitcrusher to the tail. Why not?! Whose opinion are you afraid of? Be brave!
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Working with samples in video games is all well and good, but there's nothing like some procedural sound design for quickly generating endless slight variations.
Make some bow-and-arrow effects using noise, filters, and a couple of envelopes, and you'll be riding through the glen in no time.
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Ever sit there thinking, "How can I go further with my delay effect?! It's just not doing enough different things in my life! I want more!!!" to yourself? Worry no more. Here are some ideas for things to do with your best echoey pal.
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There are easier ways to turn your drums phat and wicked than to actually spend time editing and chopping them. Use LFOs, parallel processing, and some oddly-timed delays. Also lots of distortion, although that's not relevant at all. It's just well good.
#musicproduction #drumnbass #breakbeat
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This any-pad-you-want machine takes a spectral processing approach, isolating and boosting very narrow bands of the frequency spectrum of an incoming signal to turn it into a tuneful, physical-sounding instrument.
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Synthesising drums is a breeze in Phase Plant. Just get the envelope right, and the balance of noise to tonal content, and the pitch profile over time, and the filtering, and don't forget ambience and space, and never neglect to gaze into your disheartened little soul, searching for the evasive inspiration to go on. And distortion, of course. And transient shaper (which I didn't get to in this video). Also hook up the velocity. And lo and behold! etc.
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I'd argue that the key to a great keys sound is a great keys feel. You gotta get your groove on after all. So dig into velocity sensitivity, sustain pedals, and gain-responsive effects.
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Depending on who you ask, and when, dubstep is either a very popular American patchworking style, with abrasive, energetic, bright juxtapositions of bass sounds, and a lot of melodic and harmonic colour (see Skrillex among many others, and consider also the edges and boundaries of brostep, riddim, and colour bass in particular), or it's a pretty dark, thinky British garage offshoot from ten years prior, with roots in 2-step and the Jamaican soundsystem movement.
A pretty important document from UK radio in 2006:
Mary Ann Hobbs - Dubstep Warz – youtube.com/watch?v=-RyOlkDgy2g
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I've been listening to a lot of nasty industrial bass music, and these cutting metallic sounds are a ton of fun to search for. I've been experimenting with short delays with high feedback, but maybe you have other ideas as to how to achieve physical-sounding, aggressive results...? Leave a comment!
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Often you're no more than five steps away from turning a very ordinary sound into a party. Think about addressing the timbre of a bass, then its shape over time (envelopes and secondary envelopes), as well as its pitch and frequency content. Add an effect or two. Before you know it you're leaving the launchpad with a rumble in your rear.
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Francis Bousquet (Black Marvin) is a psychedelic Trance/Progressive Trance DJ/producer based in Montreal, Canada.
In this series, he's revealing some of the secrets of his sound design process, as heard in his content bank, Carta.
This third and final episode sees Black Marvin harvesting a source sound to be manipulated in his spicy and creative playground.
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The idea of letting the synth make compositional choices within a range of possibilities is kind of fascinating. I firmly believe the human input will always have something the algorithm doesn't, but it's interesting to see how far you can go without having any real creative input into the melody yourself. Next time I might go further on this theme...
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Francis Bousquet (Black Marvin) is a psychedelic Trance/Progressive Trance DJ/producer based in Montreal, Canada.
In this series, he's revealing some of the secrets of his sound design process, as heard in his content bank, Carta.
In Episode 2 multiple layers of generators become the basis for intense atmospheric pads.
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Francis Bousquet (Black Marvin) is a psychedelic Trance/Progressive Trance DJ/producer based in Montreal, Canada.
In this series, he's revealing some of the secrets of his sound design process, as heard in his content bank, Carta.
Episode 1 is all about stacking effects one after another and modulating or otherwise affecting parameters to create weird esoteric textures.
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There are interesting sounds everywhere, and if you collect a hundred of them, you too could make a collage, like this one.
Thanks for enjoying these snacks with us, and watch out for new things soon on the Kilohearts channel!
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Filter Table is included in the Kilohearts Subscription at no extra cost. A perpetual license with free lifetime updates is available for just $39. If you already own any Kilohearts plugins make sure you log in to check your upgrade offer to Kilohearts Ultimate.
Filter Table lets you create sweeping filter effects by scanning through wavetables. The characteristic of the table's sound will be turned into a filter and applied to your sound.
Make creative filters from wavetables. Screech, howl, distort, and wail with all your existing wavetables, the new Filter Table collection, or custom wavetables you design yourself, or covert from samples. Almost anything you can imagine can become a rich, detailed, spectral warping filter.
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Watch the walkthrough video here – youtu.be/dRpJi7pqKlk
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You've heard of wavetables. You may have tried our LFO Table modulator, and our Shaper Table distortion effect. But now it's time to flip the turntables on this timetable, and table a motion to get filtering on the table. Filter Table is here!
Imagine a filter with a near-impossibly-complex shape derived from the harmonic content of a wavetable frame. Then imagine morphing smoothly through infinite variations on that shape as you spool through the frames of the source wavetable. And after that, imagine progressively modulating the cutoff value of these spectrally spectacular complex convolution-built filters. That kind of excitement is usually saved for feast days.
But today, and every day henceforth, you can bring these deeply-customisable, novel, and intense filtering effects to your sounds, whether in Phase Plant as part of a synth sound design session, or in the studio on vocals, drums, guitars, and more.
Filter Table is available as a VST, AAX, and AU plugin, and can also be used in the Kilohearts Ecosystem alongside our other effects in Snap Heap, Multipass, and Phase Plant. Subscribers get everything, including all Content Banks, for $9.99/month, with $100 coming back in the form of subscriber reward vouchers at the end of every 12 months of subscription. Pause any time, at no loss of rewards – kilohearts.com/products/kilohearts_subscription
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Synth-driven vocals can be a lot of fun. Take some chops, phrases, or individual syllables and trigger them as grains in Phase Plant's granular generator. See if it sounds awesome. It might. Seriously.
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After the fall of the technocracy, but before the new game screen, the SFX Pro 9000 prototype was locked away by the monopolist politi-thugs of Megacorps. This was a shame, because it contained some of the most awesome sound design presets and resources ever created in the industrialist before-times.
SFX Pro 9000 is for video game audio design, and includes 20 samples, 7 wavetables, a variety of LFOs, Curves, and Remap shapes, a Multipass preset, 3 Slice EQ presets, 7 presets for Snap Heap, and 52 Phase Plant presets.
Learn more about Rebound Sound Company – https://www.reboundsound.la/
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After the fall of the technocracy, but before the new game screen, the SFX Pro 9000 prototype was locked away by the monopolist politi-thugs of Megacorps. This was a shame, because it contained some of the most awesome sound design presets and resources ever created in the industrialist before-times.
SFX Pro 9000 is for video game audio design, and includes 20 samples, 7 wavetables, a variety of LFOs, Curves, and Remap shapes, a Multipass preset, 3 Slice EQ presets, 7 presets for Snap Heap, and 52 Phase Plant presets.
Learn more about Rebound Sound Company – https://www.reboundsound.la/
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Meltdown includes 60 presets for Phase Plant by Zardonic.
From the melted mind of Zardonic comes a cinematic, atmospheric, and hard-burning bank full of post-apocalyptic attitude.
Though the world outside may be a smouldering ruin, smothered in the ashy rain of mankind's final destruction, you'll still have something rad to listen to.
For film and game scores, dark, otherworldly soundscapes, and mangled, mutating moods in any genre, Meltdown brings everything the prepared survivor needs.
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It's pretty simple to hook up a basic live breath-controller for Phase Plant. Great for pads and wind / brass sounds.
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Building a soundscape from samples can be tricky when you have a limited number of sources, and a bunch of repeating actions on screen. Whether it's gunshots or footsteps or whooshy / clicky noises like these, you want to add some subtle variation to keep the viewer's brain from sounding the uncanny valley alarm.
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We've all got our habits, our go-to sound design ruts and grooves. But sometimes a truly interesting or creative sound is just over the next hill. So here's an example of the journey from "what does this sound need next?" to "hey, that's fun and new!"
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A single recorded backing vocal can be made to sound like a group or choir in a number of different ways. Creating delayed copies of the sound, and varying their position in time, is basically the name of the game, but you can do it with simple parallel delays, or with grains using Pitch Shifter, or with phase inversion in Comb Filter... or... maybe you have even more ideas. Leave them in the comments.
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A few simple processes which can turn the cutest of creatures into a shrieking beast from the depths.
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The best thing about Snap Heap, if you ask me, isn't any of the amazing things it can do to your sound, but the fact that it lets you do them pretty much anywhere. It's hard to overstate the power of a consistent, effective workflow across platforms, and Snap Heap can give you that as an audio professional. Use it in DAWs, sure... but use it in video editors as well, for example, to preserve your workflows (and your presets) wherever you need to work, and save you hours in learning new layouts, new systems.
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There's a very particular type of sound featuring in more and more video games these days. If you crush a load of action into the low-mids and modulate it with phase-mangling tools like Disperser, you can get a rich, vibrant sound that plays beautifully in small speakers or in bad listening environments, as well as being super-versatile for impacts, weapons, magic spells, vehicle layers, and a bunch else.
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Some feel like using presets is cheating. Others think making your own sounds from scratch is a chump's game. We say come one come all and enjoy being creative! Whether you're a sonic supernerd or a design dilletante, presets are a great way to explore audio and music making. Especially when they're free!
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Trying to add a splash of colour/color to your melodic riddim or brostep masterpiece? Watery, bubbly magic awaits in Phase Plant. This is the kind of sound that Chime might call "scrombdombulatious". At least, that's what's happening in my imagination.
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Wanna be a superstar remix-master, but only have less-than-a-minute to spare? Chuck this idea in your audio microwave, you shortcutting superhero!
But seriously though, folks... grab slices of a whole song in granular. It can be an awesome way to start searching for inspiration for new soundbeds, chops and articulations, and sprinkles of earcandy for new projects.
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To create a sonic journey within your Phase Plant synth patch, you need to take advantage of all the different moments, all the different events along the way. Lifting off from the key doesn't have to be the end. Use this as a trigger for a final flurry of awesome sound!
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