Effects Management VST Plugins

Four on the Floor

Xpand!2 is a multitimbral workstation offering four active sound slots, or parts, per patch. Each part is provided with its own MIDI channel, Note Range (Zone), Mix, Arpeggiation, Modulation, and Effects settings—an excellent method for creating individual parts.

Harnessing the four parts together to build one amazing Patch is where Xpand!2 reveals its true power. The Voice Mode for each part can be set to polyphonic or monophonic.

Polyphonic parts can have up to 64 voices; monophonic parts offer First, Last, Highest, or Lowest priority making it easy to designate a bass, lead, or solo instrument.

• • This is an Audio Plugin – It REQUIRES a HOST Software

MAIN FEATURES:

• Four-channel multitimbral operation
• Up to four stereo instrument parts per patch
• Up to 64 voices per part; Mono or Poly voice modes
• Smart Knobs provide intuitive sound editing
• Easy Edit Knobs control the entire patch at once
• Two digital effects processors; 50 editable effect types
• Individual arpeggiation control for each part
• Multiple sound generation engines:
• Subtractive Synthesis
• FM Synthesis
• Tonewheels
• Sample Playback
• 2500+ total presets

Sounds Galore

Using everything from wavetables and FM synthesis to sample playback, the expert sound design team at Air Music Tech has carefully created thousands of ready-to-play Xpand!2 patches.

Creating your own is easy, too. Parts can be quickly browsed and are conveniently sorted into 29 categories, offering a simple path to find just what you’re looking for.

Smart Knobs and Easy Edits

Six smart knobs are provided for custom-tweaking your Xpand!2 sounds. Each knob changes function depending on the part selected, offering hands-on control of the most critical sound elements.

Select the Easy mode, and all six knobs now control all four of the common parts in a patch simultaneously for quickly performing those crucial edits.

And of course, all of your edits can be saved for instant recall.

Major Modulation

Express yourself with powerful performance features! Pitch Bend wheel and Aftertouch (pressure) modulation assignments can be made independently for each part.

Modulation rates can be tempo sync’d or free-wheeling. Numerous modulation destinations are provided, and the WAVE destination parameters are different from part to part, providing unique Xpand!2 sound-shaping capabilities.

Advanced Arpeggiation

Keep things moving with advanced arpeggiation. Simply set the Rate—including dotted and triplet values—and then select the Mode.

Using the Latch switch allows the arpeggiator to continue to play, even when your hands leave the keyboard. Each Xpand!2 part is provided with its own arpeggiator.

Many parts such as Action Pads and Loops will automatically activate the Arpeggiator, as it forms an integral part of the sound.

Dynamic Effects Duo

Xpand!2 includes two independent effect processors with fifty studio-grade effects, ranging from rich reverbs to the mind-bending Chaos Delay.

When selecting a new effect type, Xpand!2 will instantly change the edit knob functions to provide accurate control of every effect. The output of FX1 can be fed into the input of FX2 to create advanced “cascade-style” effects.

Weaponiser gets you started with an introductory library of professionally recorded weapons, carefully designed presets with high-end, real-time synthesis and unparalleled sound quality – making it the ultimate ‘go to’ tool-kit for creating dynamic assets.

Weaponiser Basic Offers:

• Total of 952 assets
• 515 Edited Weapon recordings
• 4 Weapons
• 398 Sweeteners
• 39 IRs
• 70 Presets

Load Up Your Audio Ammunition

Choose from our comprehensive library of professionally recorded, real-world Shotguns, Rifles, Machine Guns, Assault rifles, Pistols and weapon Foley. Combine with Sweeteners and IRs, easily accessible via our tag-driven browser via simple drag-and-drop and available in a variety of different mic positioning’s.

Import these into our customized engines to design constituent elements and layers of shots with ease – Onset, Body, Thump and Tail. Weaponiser also includes a huge range of designed presets, straight out of the box to get you started immediately.

Bullet Proof Your Sound Design Add in-depth variation to your weapons quickly and easily. Edit and randomize Envelope or Knob Speed and Level for each bank, activate the Synth button to synthesize and process with Pitch, FM or AM synthesis, choose from a selection of Carriers and Modulators, Pitch, Duration, Gain and edit Amplitude and Amount Envelopes. Use MIDI to trigger your engines and velocity sensitivity to program or perform precise variations.

Fire-arm Your FX Utilise our FX panel and use EQ, Compression, Limiting, Saturation, Ring Modulation, Flanging, Transient Shaping and Noise Gating to amp-up your weapons for that hyper-real sound, subtly tweak or totally destroy! Further chain your FX to effortlessly build up complex signal flows.

Sequence or offset your sounds to a built-in timeline, allowing for more precise micro-timings between engines. Hit the Fire button to audition, activate Burst mode to create automatic weapons from single shot assets, adjust the Fire Rate for creating different loop speeds or press the Drunk button to randomize your timeline sequences, making each shot sound subtly different.

Export To The Battlefield

Easily combine Weaponiser with your existing workflow, or process individual engine outputs and your favourite plugins with ease. Break out your weapon elements onto a mixer for intuitive tweaking and dynamic mixing, and quickly render layers for easy export to in-game engines or your DAW.

Want the FULL Version? Check out Weaponiser Fully Loaded Today!

Modular effects playground

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 modular modulation system.

Build your own Modular Serial and Parallel Effects

The open modular architecture of the Kilohearts Ecosystem gives you the freedom to design any effect you can imagine.

Essential Effects Included

Snap Heap comes with Kilohearts Essentials, a large range of useful effects plugins. These are all available as Snapins to be combined and modulated as you desire in any of up to five frequency ranges. Premium Effects are available to buy separately to further bolster your sound design capabilities. Once a preset is saved anyone you share it with will be able to use it regardless of which Snapins they own.

Mind-Blowing Modulation

A unique modular modulation section allows you to connect modulators and utilities in an infinite number of combinations for ultimate control, or ultimate chaos. Whether it’s ultra-precise envelopes and LFOs you need or wild randomisation for unpredictable chaotic mangling… you can build it with the Kilohearts Ecosystem.

Created by Experienced Developers

At every point in the signal chain, all Kilohearts software is optimised for the highest quality audio generation and processing with the lowest possible CPU load. For professional music production and sound design, you won’t ever have to worry about shortcomings in sound quality again.

Lifetime Free Updates

Once you buy a license for any Kilohearts plugins you will get all future updates for free. Kilohearts won’t charge you a penny for new versions. And they will continue to improve all Kilohearts software with new features and OS compatibility (yes, it’s all M1 Native already!), which means that investing in Kilohearts software is a very sensible move for the serious sound designer.

Groove in a Box

Use samples or full songs as a sound source. Instant Groove. The onboard bassline, a drum machine and the multi-effect sequencer make Egoist the perfect track sketching tool in the studio and on the road. You’ll soon fall in love with its distinct features and concept.

It’s All Simple But Effective Stuff

The Slice Arranger Couldn’t Be More Straight forward

Egoist easily does what would take considerable effort in a traditional sampler: In record time, it can rearrange even the most predictable of samples to some great-sounding chops.

Each slice has separate controls of pitch, direction, attack, decay and volume. So, let’s assume you play the same snippet over and over again – each step would sound completely different than the one before.

The factory library packs 760MB sonic material, from acoustic beats, piano- & percussion loops, synths, vocals to FX, so you can go for hours before using external audio. Via „Load Sample“, you can import the formats .wav, .aiff and mp3.

Drum ‘n’ Bass

What All Good Music Is About

Having made a slice sequence, you might wanna grab inspiration by its tail and move on with the structure of your idea. Therefore, we added the Bassline and the Beat. And this trinity of Sample, Beat and Bass really provides the most minimal setup to craft an idea in one go.

The Bass Tab lets you create classic bass lines (á la 303 or SH101). Run the oscillator in saw or pulse and tune essential parameters like resonance, decay & cutoff modulation.

The drum module is straight and to the point, just like its neighbour. More than 1,000 sampled kick, snare and hi-hats (open and closed) neatly organised in 15 kits. You can control pitch, loudness and velocity options. 96 samples per drum kit and a “Mix and Match” option leave you with endless combinations.

Cheerful Rebel

Arpiculation Is Arpeggiator and Intonation

Rather than being a static add-on, the effects can be varied on a per-step basis. Of course, being able to treat effects as one-shot moments is much more dynamic than using overall global effects. A familiar concept to anyone who knows Effectrix.

There are 7 processors in total, a small but well-formed array: Reverb, Chorus, Delay, Filter, Lo-Fi, Tape Stop and Looper – to be applied to Slicer, Beat and Bass.

These con artists of sound are all quite beautifully depicted in their respective icons. Each offers a couple of parameters that can be edited via sliders, while the Filter section begins by offering 7 types and an equal amount of cutoff modulation sources from across the instrument.

Neat Integration with your DAW

Slice Key Mode: Triggers Patterns or Slices per MIDI

Much like a traditional hardware sequencer, Egoist uses a pattern-based method for chaining patterns into a song. Each pattern can contain a different sample, slicing setup, individual bass, beat and effects setups…

If you’d rather use your DAW’s sequencer instead, the small piano keys button at the bottom left lets you trigger the patterns or the individual slices. On the setup page, you can select whether the sequencer’s clock source is internal or via your host, and choose if DAW/host will start the sequencer on playback.

The patterns themselves are triggered by pressing C1 through D#2, and the individual sequencer slices by pressing C3 through D#4.

Sounds & Presets

Some catchy tunes coming out of this thing:

• The sample library contains over 400 sounds in 16 folders filed according to their origin (drums, guitar, modular, SFX, etc.). The drum machine comes with more than 1,000 sampled drum sounds
• There are more than 200 excellent pre-produced presets, including a number from Detroit legend Mike Huckaby

Features

• Slicer, Bass, Beat and an Effect Sequencer
• Easy Arranging of Sample Slices
• Perfect Track Sketching Tool
• Arrange up to 16 slices with detailed control
• Round and fat basses or blatant 303 lines
• Beatbox with HiHat, Kick and Snare
• Effect Engine for bright colours in the right spots
• Song Arranger

New Features and Content:

• The new version adds features to all four engines: all sequencers are polyrhythmic now with independent clock dividers, the slicer got a monophonic mode, we added scales to the bass, powerful mod sources to the filter and Pan control for the Hi-Hats!
• There’s also new content: more presets, new slicing samples and a fresh drumkit: “Cwejman S1”.

Sounds & Presets

• Some catchy tunes coming out of this thing.
• The sample library contains over 400 sounds in 16 folders filed according to their origin (drums, guitar, modular, SFX, etc.). The drummachine comes with more than 1,000 sampled drum sounds.

There are more than 200 excellent pre-produced presets, including a number from Detroit legend Mike Huckaby.

The ultimate weapon sound design solution, Weaponiser Fully Loaded extends the power of Weaponiser Basic by offering our most comprehensive library of professionally recorded weapon sounds.

Weaponiser Fully Loaded Offers:

• Total of 2288 Assets
• 1596 Edited Weapon recordings
• 13 Weapons
• 692 Sweeteners
• 39 ITs
• 135 Presets

Beat makers and music producers can also access our collection of drum presets to layer up and customise their own loops and kits.

Load Up Your Audio Ammunition

Choose from our comprehensive library of professionally recorded, real-world Shotguns, Rifles, Machine Guns, Assault rifles, Pistols and weapon Foley. Combine with Sweeteners and IRs, easily accessible via our tag-driven browser via simple drag-and-drop and available in a variety of different mic positioning’s.

Import these into our customized engines to design constituent elements and layers of shots with ease – Onset, Body, Thump and Tail. Weaponiser also includes a huge range of designed presets, straight out of the box to get you started immediately.

Bullet Proof Your Sound Design Add in-depth variation to your weapons quickly and easily. Edit and randomize Envelope or Knob Speed and Level for each bank, activate the Synth button to synthesize and process with Pitch, FM or AM synthesis, choose from a selection of Carriers and Modulators, Pitch, Duration, Gain and edit Amplitude and Amount Envelopes. Use MIDI to trigger your engines and velocity sensitivity to program or perform precise variations.

Fire-arm Your FX Utilise our FX panel and use EQ, Compression, Limiting, Saturation, Ring Modulation, Flanging, Transient Shaping and Noise Gating to amp-up your weapons for that hyper-real sound, subtly tweak or totally destroy! Further chain your FX to effortlessly build up complex signal flows.

Sequence or offset your sounds to a built-in timeline, allowing for more precise micro-timings between engines. Hit the Fire button to audition, activate Burst mode to create automatic weapons from single shot assets, adjust the Fire Rate for creating different loop speeds or press the Drunk button to randomize your timeline sequences, making each shot sound subtly different.

Export To The Battlefield

Easily combine Weaponiser with your existing workflow, or process individual engine outputs and your favourite plugins with ease. Break out your weapon elements onto a mixer for intuitive tweaking and dynamic mixing, and quickly render layers for easy export to in-game engines or your DAW.

Interested in a lighter version? Check out Weaponiser Basic!