The Kilohearts Toolbox Starter arms you with 12 bread-and-butter Snapin plug-ins. Great for mixing and sound design alike, this collection of must-have processors and creative effects makes a great introduction to the company's plug-in offerings. The plug-ins in Toolbox Starter feature easy-to-use — and resizable — user interfaces, and they work with Kilohearts' revolutionary Snapin hosts. This version of Kilohearts Toolbox Starter also includes their powerful Phase Plant software synth for a hefty injection of semi-modular bliss.
Phase Plant not only serves as a powerful tool when crafting soft synth sounds, but it also offers unlimited creative potential for you and your creations! Its core is based around a quartet of signal generators, with ear-pleasing effects and modulators to shape your sounds to perfection. Its uncluttered interface is ripe 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. This impressive plug-in is also a Snapin plug-in, which means you can use it just like your standard plug-in or with Kilohearts' Multipass and Snap Heap host 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.