It is personalized for you, so no need to copy-paste any licenses. It will quickly help you with the setup and installation of the plugins you purchased, and any others you might like (like the other free ones). With your confirmation email you will get a download link to the Kilohearts Installer (1.69 MB download, EXE/DMG installer). There are several different hosts that allow you to apply any number of snapins in various contexts, like to each individual band in the band-splitter Multipass, or add your full effects chain right inside the preset of the synth Phase Plant. Kilohearts plugins work great together, and all the snapins can work double duty as modular components inside our snapin hosts. (This is not available when the snapin is used inside a snapin host.) Distortion is a snapin when using Distortion as a real-time effect on a touchscreen monitor during a live set. This allows you to get a good view of the controls whatever the screen resolution, and also comes in handy if you need big controls, e.g. Resize handle The bottom right corner of all Kilohearts plugins is a resize handle for scaling the UI to any size. Enabled checkbox The small checkbox to the left of the plugin name is a checkbox that bypasses the effect when disabled. It also has a 'randomize' button that can be useful. It opens a settings panel where you handle presets. Settings panel Whenever you have your mouse cursor over a snapin there is a small arrow at the top right corner (not visible in screenshot). A lower value will let some of the unmodified signal through. Turn up this knob to preserve the dynamics of the input. Dynamics A common problem with distortion is that it can remove the dynamic content of the input signal, forcing the output to maximum volume. Select between overdrive, saturate, foldback, sine and hard clip. This can give some nice and subtle stereo widening. Spread knob The spread will add different amount of bias to the left and right channels. Adding some bias can prevent the distorted audio from sounding hollow and uninteresting. Bias knob The bias will add a DC offset to the signal before distorting. In stereo, if that's what you're into.ĭrive knob The drive setting will boost the input signal, causing a heavier distortion. Distortion can take your sound from zero to sword wielding hero in seconds.ĥ different distortion shapes are available to add a tinge of edge or rip things apart. It's so fucking good.' GramatikĮver since mankind invented music, there has been a desire to make it heavier. 'I'm really addicted to Distortion right now.

How to distort audio