Kilohearts’ Phase Plant is a wildly creative tool for sound design – and here are Senior Sound Designer Minh Ho’s 5 first videos in a brand new 8-part sound design workshop utilizing Phase Plant (among other tools) to create custom whooshes, risers, hits and drones.
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Part 1 – Intro
On the importance of movement in sound design, and the balance between noise and tonality:
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Part 2 – Sampling: risers
How to create risers in a sampler from static pads and drones, and ways to accentuate the building in energy with effects and modulations:
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Part 3 – Sampling: whooshes
How to create whooshes and pass-bys using a sampler, and how to leverage FM, RM and AM to create new tones and articulations:
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Part 4 – Sampling: impacts
How to create puncy hits and impacts, and how to fine-tune the transient using a combination of pitch and volume curves, filtering and distortion:
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Part 5 – Granulation
On the power of granular sampling to completely transform the tone and texture of a sound:
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