Kilohearts Blog

Clip That Shit! New free content bank featuring presets for Kilohearts Clipper by DJ KlazaPlaza.

DJ KlazaPlaza Producer / Artist / Philanthropist

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Introducing Kilohearts Clipper We have just launched our newest free effects plugin, a simple but powerful tool for sample-accurate peak trimming.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

303 Day Contest 2025 Winners Find out who the winning entrants to our 303-themed Phase Plant sound design contest are this year.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

303 Day Sound Design Contest 2025 March 3rd is all about the TB-303, and we’re celebrating with a 303-themed sound design contest. Time to bring the acid!

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Black Marvin Explores Carta Discover the Sound Design Secrets Behind Black Marvin’s "Carta" Content Bank for Phase Plant in this series of videos.

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Thursday, December 19, 2024

Black Friday - Free Snap Heap Presets As a Black Friday surprise for all you Snap Heap users out there, we’re giving away a neat collection of super-useful Snap Heap presets in the BF24 Content Bank.

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Friday, November 29, 2024

Introducing Kilohearts Filter Table Say hello to your new special spectral sweetener and next-level sound design companion.

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

NOCLIP - A Halloween Treat Grab your FREE Halloween 2024 Content Bank today and get creepy with it!

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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Phase Plant Fifth Anniversary Giveaway Winners Find out who the winners are in our Phase Plant Fifth Anniversary Giveaway!

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Thursday, June 13, 2024

Interview with Hazelight As part of our Game Audio Week we took the opportunity to ask Swedish game devs, Hazelight, a few questions about their studio and sound design processes.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Game Audio Week 2024 This week (June 10th to 16th) is our first-ever Kilohearts Game Audio Week!

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Monday, June 10, 2024

Phase Plant's Fifth Anniversary! Join us as we celebrate another year of Phase Plant awesomeness with a short retrospective, a sale, and a special giveaway...

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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Black Noise - The Sound Of Mátra For its 15th anniversary, Fekete Zaj Festival has turned its location, the Matra hills, and its topographical forms into wavetables, which have been used to create these Phase Plant presets.

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Monday, May 6, 2024

Kilohearts v2.2.0 Update Adds Enhanced Curve Editing We have just released another free software update that takes all our plugins up to version 2.2.0 and adds some nifty curve editing enhancements. Read this blog post to find out more!

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Introducing Shaper and Shaper Table We are very excited to announce TWO new additions to the Kilohearts Ecosystem of plugins in the form of Shaper and Shaper Table. It's time to shape waves like you've never shaped waves before!

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Announcing 303 Day Contest Winners And the winners are...

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

Enter our 303 Day Sound Design Contest The TB-303 from Roland has its own day on the calendar (March 3rd, or 3-03!). This year we decided to join the celebrations by running a 303-themed sound design contest.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Looking for the best free plugins in 2024? Check out Kilohearts Essentials! Upgrade your music production and sound design with the Kilohearts Essentials bundle of free plugins. Essential studio quality tools. Zero cost. Read this article to find out more...

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Phase Plant Questions Answered If you’ve just picked up Phase Plant or are considering getting into it but are still unsure of what it’s really all about, we’ve put together a few answers to your deepest questions.

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Eight Amazing Third-Party Content Banks Sure, we’ve got a few of our own Content Banks to sell you… but we also love to see third-party banks appearing in the wild. We decided to highlight a few of our favourites for you.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

October Multipass Preset Design Contest Check out the results of the Multipass Preset Design contest we ran recently and be inspired...

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Power Up your Game Audio Sound Design with Kilohearts Kilohearts software has become a secret weapon in the game audio sound design world with numerous leading game studios and indie devs making smart use of the Kilohearts Ecosystem of hosts and effects... find out why.

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

The Power of Triggers in Kilohearts Host Plugins Did you know that, since the v2 update, there are a few ways to trigger modulators in the Host plugins that have exponentially increased the sound design capabilities of these award-winning machines?

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

An Interview with Joel Blanco Berg You may know Joel as the "Phase Plant Motorbike Guy" from Twitter. We caught up with him and asked a few questions to find out some more about what gets this sound design wizard's engines revving.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Unlock the power of Granular Synthesis: 8 Techniques to try in Phase Plant Are you ready to push the boundaries of sound design and granular synthesis? In this post, we'll show you some neat tricks to help you create truly unique sounds with the Granular Generator in Phase Plant.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Introducing Phase Plant's new Granular Generator One of the most requested feature updates to Phase Plant is now here. Say hello to your new Granular Generator and prepare to have your mind blown into tiny little pieces!

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Build a Custom Filter Machine in Snap Heap With Snap Heap's modular structure and limitless possibilities, you can create endless variations of custom filter machines to fit any sound design or creative mixing task. In this blog, we’ll outline a few simple steps to create a unique filter.

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Monday, March 27, 2023

Useful Vocal Effects you can make in Snap Heap In the first of our blog guides to creating useful Snap Heap patches for specific uses we’re going to look at vocal effects.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Eight ways to use the Kilohearts Remap Modulator When released the free Kilohearts v2 update we added a handful of fancy new modulator types. One of those was the Remap module. Here are eight cool ways to use it.

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Sunday, January 29, 2023

Kilohearts v2 is Here We are extremely excited to finally announce that the Kilohearts v2 Update is now available for all users for FREE!

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Sick gainz, bro! New free content bank featuring presets by DJ Klazaplaza.

DJ KlazaPlaza Producer / Artist / Philanthropist

Friday, April 1, 2022

NewLoops on philosophy, kinky modulations, and usefulness NewLoops, author of three awesome Kilohearts Content Banks, is here to discuss work, play, and Phase Plant

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Friday, March 4, 2022

Oddiction talks Content Banks and more Oddiction is here to talk about his two Content Banks, and much more.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

An Interview with Camellia A conversation with the creator of our latest high-octane Content Bank, Microwave Proof.

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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Hungry? Have a Snack. Nourishing sound-design goodness in under a minute.

George Reece Product Specialist

Monday, May 31, 2021

Celebrating Two Years of Phase Plant Would you believe it... Phase Plant is TWO YEARS OLD? Find out how we are celebrating the anniversary this year.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Introducing Nonlinear Filter We are very excited to let you know about Nonlinear Filter, the latest in our range of effects plugins.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Cybergrime (Get Away) Original Kilohearts Song Inspired by our 'Cybergrime' sales campaign, we got together with some friends and made an actual track, using tons of Kilohearts plugins.

George Reece Product Specialist

Friday, February 5, 2021

3 Things To Try with Faturator Everyone knows you can dirty up a rocking synth lead or guitar riff with a distortion plugin like Faturator. But what else can you try?

George Reece Product Specialist

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Tremolo is old news. Try this instead! Try this twist on a classic to knock 30 years off the grandparent of guitar effects.

George Reece Product Specialist

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Grab a Free Winter-themed Content Bank Grab a free new Content Bank with glad tidings of the season from us all here at Kilohearts.

George Reece Product Specialist

Friday, December 18, 2020

Introducing Kilohearts Content Banks We've heard there aren't enough presets out there to show off the power of the Kilohearts Ecosystem. So we decided to do something about that.

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Thursday, November 12, 2020

20 FREE Halloween Presets As much as we intend our software to be used for good, we cannot deny that these plugins can also be very handy in the service of evil.

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Friday, October 30, 2020

WTF is a Snap Heap If you're new to Kilohearts' stuff it's possible you've not discovered the power of Snap Heap

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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Breathe New Life Into Dull Drums With Multipass Multipass is a phenomenally versatile mixing tool, but it's not just about subtly balancing and cleaning up your sounds!

George Reece Product Specialist

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Ten Ways Multipass Could Save Your Mix You may not be able to call in a veteran mastering engineer on every song. But you can take advantage of expertly-crafted presets in Multipass!

George Reece Product Specialist

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Five Things You Might Not Know About Multipass There is a lot going on with this plugin and it’s possible you’ve missed some of the less obvious features…

George Reece Product Specialist

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

All Kilohearts Products Updated to Version 1.8.5 This update brings a few improvements and bug fixes as well as some significant new features.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Phase Plant Sound Design with Protostar - Part 4 In the final part of this series, Protostar shows us how to use automation as an often overlooked, but very important, method for breathing more life into a track.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Phase Plant Sound Design with Protostar - Part 3 In part three of this series, Protostar takes us through the process of creating a drop using some of the elements from the previous two sound design tutorials.

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

Phase Plant Sound Design with Protostar - Part 2 In part two of this series, Protostar shows us how to create drums from scratch using Phase Plant’s powerful synthesis, modulation, and layering capabilities.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Phase Plant Sound Design with Protostar - Part 1 We’ve teamed up with producer Protostar and manufacturers of exceptional bass monitoring technology, SubPac, to bring you this series of sound design tutorials using Phase Plant.

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Saturday, May 2, 2020