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I rarely do reviews when I believe something has been covered thoroughly, and I think Phase Plant has been. Hopefully I can provide some level of thoroughness and maybe a bit of insight beyond what else is out there.

This review is of the Professional version.

  • Themes
  • Sound Quality
  • What’s in it?
    • Generators
      • Analog
      • Wavetable
    • Modulators

Phase Plant is a modular synth with a carefully designed interface and a link to the Snapins ecosystem.

Visualization

Phase Plant is technically competent. The oscillators are clean. Sampler puts out clean content. Audio-rate modulation is (mostly) aliasing free.

The effects all sound decent. The modulators output clean signals.

What more could you want?

Modulation

It’s pretty cool that the visualization is accurate though. That’s something that’s missing in a lot of synths.

Wavetable

Wavetable

Wavetables are the hot thing right now. Audio file that’s split into periods called “Frames” in Phase Plant, then those are used to generate the sound based on your position in the current table. Take the current audio in the current frame, and repeat that until another frame is selected.

Vlc player for mac 10 6. On the surface, Wavetable is even less complex than Analog, though it comes with a number of preset wavetables for use.

The hot stuff happens when you modulate the Frame parameter and…

Wavetable Editor

Create your own Wavetables!

Phase Plant has quite the wavetable editor.

Along the top you have a view of the frames that you can use for navigation. At the bottom is the waveform of the current frame. Then you can use the following modes/tools:

  • Selection Mode - Select a sequence of frames, harmonics, or the waveform. Frame selection allows for application of effects and fixes.
  • Morph Tool - This allows you to set a range of frames and morph between them. “Keyframes” can be set which are points that delineate the automatic transitions.
  • Pen Tool - Allows you to draw waveforms using lines/curves for a single frame, or a selection of frames.
  • Pencil (Brush) Tool - Click and drag drawing of waveforms.
  • Wave Tool - Sine, Saw, Triangle, Square. Each has controls for Repeats, Starting Phase, Origin (which appears to be the same as phase?), Pulse Width (where applicable) and mix.
    • The wave tool generates a shape in the middle of the current frame selection. You can change the range of where the generated signal lies in the frame, and you can transition it to/from the existing signal in the current frame.
  • Direct Harmonic Tool - A pencil tool, but for editing harmonics of the current frame selection.
  • Analog Harmonic Tool - A filter applied to the signal’s harmonic structure. Low/High pass, Low/High Shelf, Notch, Bandpass and bell filters are available with adjustable Q and slope.

You can import your own samples, but this is understandably a more involved process than just click and go. The wavetable system needs a selection of periodic signals to work, and not all samples provide that.

You’re given a few tools to deal with the issues presented by trying to make an arbitrary sequence of bytes to a wavetable: Crack para corel draw 2019.

  • Keyframe mapping - Parts of the sample can be mapped to a specific range of wavetable frames. One of the more interesting things is that this does not need to be sequential. Keyframes can take signal from anywhere in the source, thereby overlapping other keyframes. The arbitrary mapping allows you to use the signal as a “source of frames” rather than just as a sample that’s been wavetablized.
  • Root Pitch - Given that pitch is generally defined by the frequency of a periodic signal, this is a great place to start for a wavetable mapper. Phase Plant has an automatic pitch detection that works quite well in my experience. Getting this parameter set correctly makes life much easier as you can then use the ‘lock to fundamental’ phase correction going nicely.
  • Phase correction - Phase Correlation, lock to fundamental (specified by root pitch), lock all. I don’t actually understand how correlate works, since it always yielded poor results in my testing, and it’s not described in the manual.
  • Pitch - You can pitch shift a the range between the current keyframe and the adjacent keyframes. You can get some really cool sounds with this! Judicious use of the pitch shift across the table makes for some expressive ‘nature-like’ sounds, and often some vocal-like sounds.
  • Mix - The current keyframe mapping can be mixed with the existing wavetable.

The net result is that making wavetables is a positive experience.

Sample

SO FUN.

Up to 16 voices twirling and twirling in the sonic space. 3 motions, per-voice detune (appears to be delay time, like in a chorus?) and controllable spread.

Incredible simplicity for how big of a sound it can create for you.

Ensemble on every patch.

It’s really fun to look at too.

Faturator

Faturator

Dpc latency checker mac os x. Faturator seems to be similar to the distortion effect with the i/o sidechained dynamics, except I personally just never could make it sound good.

The “stereo turbo” knob appears to be a simple haas effect, and the colour knob a pre-emphasis filter.

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I’m just not a fan of this one when Distortion offers more colours and more parameters for modulation.

Filter

Here lies one of the most disappointing corners of Phase Plant. It’s a simple filter/single-band-EQ without any fun filter emulations, drive, oscillation or… anything cool.

There are two other types of filters available, but compared to other synths on the market the selection is quite disappointing.

Then again, this isn’t a subtractive synth that depends heavily on filters to sound good. It could be argued that such a selection of filters isn’t necessary, but filters are fun and especially so when there’s an easily accessible modulation system available.

You can, of course, abuse other effects and modulation to get a filter sound close to some analog emulation if you wanted. It’s just a bit more work.

Flanger

Pitch and time changing over time. Hit play/pause to enable the effect.

There’s only a single control for the start/stop curve, which I thought would bother me, but it didn’t. The effect is used so rarely in something like Phase Plan that the fact that it works makes it sufficient enough.

Trance Gate

It’s a transient shaper with an ultra neato animation.

The “Pump” parameter is an interesting addition that creates a bit of a lull in the signal that further emphasizes the attack and release.

Phase

The sidechain parameter is even cooler still. You can craft your own sound to adjust the envelope of another. Extremely useful for creating a drum sound, creating an extreme envelope and then applying that through the transient shaper. Much easier than messing with envelopes and offers you some extra control.

  • Navigating the interface means interacting with small scroll bars. After 4+ devices anywhere, you’ll be interacting with those awful little scrollbars constantly.
  • Selection of effects and generators and modulators is rather small compared to competing products. See the conclusion however!
  • Adding generators before existing generators is a pain. You have to add it at the bottom, then drag it up. Very annoying.
  • Lots of scrolling to deal with even a modest number of modules.
  • I dislike the generators automatically routing. I can appreciate that this makes things quicker to use, but removing a module from the signal path is 2 extra steps, and I find myself doing that more often than being happy with the implicit routing.
  • In the convert sample editor, it does not appear to be possible to change the ‘source position’ of a keyframe. From what I can tell, you need to delete the current keyframe and make a new one, which creates a mess of ghost keyframes. The UI gets cluttered really quick.EDIT: There is a “source” parameter that can be changed. I was expecting the bar to be draggable with the mouse, but it is not. Oops.
    • There’s no easy way to transition/fade the edges of frames so that you can remove discontinuities without greatly affecting the current signal. Essentially I’d like a windowing function for the frames.
    • You can preview the resulting wavetable via MIDI input, however most converted samples will yield low amplitude wavetables. There really needs to be an ‘auto-normalize’ function in the wavetable editor so that you can preview the current sound.
      • Likewise a simple gain control would be nice if you wish to keep the inter-frame dynamics intact.
    • You can’t move an existing keyframe while keeping your view on an existing frame. If I have two keyframes at position 1 and 50, and I want to watch what happens to frame 25 as I move the last keyframe around… too bad. Since the frame selection is automatic between keyframes, I found that I frequently wanted to see what happened to a given frame while I moved around a keyframe.

I’ve mentioned competition a few times here. Any sort of modular system with audio-rate modulation or ultra-modular system fits the bill. I know of plenty of things that surpass Phase Plant in functionality. Melda Sound Factory is a superlative example of surpassing Phase Plant’s functionality in a large number of facets. Softube Modular is also an incredible system that forces you into the analog workflows.

So why even use Phase Plant? What’s the point? Surely you can get better, right?

There’s a difficult concept to encapsulate in writing. I think maybe “homogeneity” is a good word for it? I’m talking about the ease of movement through a UI because simple paradigms are used and reused throughout. Building complexity from a small set of uniform building blocks.

Phase Plant offers that. You get one style of modulation assignment that’s attached to the source and destination. You get one style of adding things. The GUI widgets are all very similar. There’s a single 3 pane interface and no menu-diving or layer diving.

I’m no designer, but I can’t come up with a less complicated way of creating software that allows such complexity results.

There’s a great deal of value in a product that allows you to reach your goals with the least friction possible, and even better so if there’s a bit of opinion thrown in. That’s what Phase Plant is.

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You get a bunch of stuff in Phase Plant, but more importantly you get someone’s idea of how to build complexity from a uniform set of building blocks. It’s like buying a LEGO kit where you build something really cool from the core block set, rather than having someone throw every weird type of curvy LEGO brick at you and expecting you to make it yourself.

If you’re the type of person that likes to get things done without friction, then Phase Plant is absolutely for you. If you enjoy piecing things together from bare bits and don’t mind a variety of interfaces, menus, windows and other context switches… Then Phase Plant may change your mind.

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I reviewed the KiloHearts Toolbox Professional version here, which is $349 or $9/month usually. I was given this copy for review and did not pay for it.

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