Everyone was right about Phase Plant 

Great video! Thanks! You're gonna love the Granular Generator we're working on... 😉

So, as you said, “you can make a lot of the same patches on pigments as you can on phase plant,” but then you basically say that phase plant is not as user friendly….”it doesn’t hold your hand.” I’ve tried both. I really love Pigments. I like Phase Plant also. But for someone that is just starting to learn and get into creating their own patches, I highly recommend Pigments. It is much easier to understand, and it’s a lot more user friendly. That being said, phase plant is hella cool. And I do plan on getting it after I get done with my payment plan on pigments. I’ve already rented to own phase plant for 2 months, so it makes sense to go ahead and get it. I need to say that Serum is definitely not dead. And there are sooooo many more tutorials for Serum than either Pigments or Phase Plant. Just something to keep in mind for anyone shopping around.

Im a 90% hardware person but I do wish there was a single piece of gear with this much open-ended power. You're right in that the closest thing is eurorack, but damn you would need a massive system to get all of that functionality.

Phase Plant and Pigments are the two greatest VSTs of all time. Phase plant actually now has full on granular engines.

Phase Plant's modulation is certainly very powerful. I think the only thing missing from this was density, i.e. having each voice play multiple grains at once. Maybe that could be done with some sort of unison control?

Ahh I was actually the guy who commented that phase plant is way more advanced than these multiple K hardware synths! I love that you actually tried it out for yourself and later decided to make a video about it! That is so incredibly cool man. I'm glad that you like it!

The shit that made me love your vibe was calling out the “weird edit every 5 seconds” you just straight up called out the problem. I subbed and liked and will be watching for more

I am happy the RU-vid Algorithm finally deigned to show me your channel - I really enjoy both your content and dry sense of humor. Fantastic videos and lovely musical sensibilities!

Phase Plant and the Khs ecosystem in general is a sound design heaven, so much freedom and so many possibilities!

Thank you so much for this. I am going to get Phase Plant. I was only curious about it before this, but now I see how much depth can be reached simply by knowing how to use the features and then, well, using them.

I think your initial *point at a hardware synth* analysis pretty much summed it up for me. I look at giant modular racks and wires and it makes me want to barf lol. But I definitely appreciate the insight!

10:10 that legit was beautiful

Very cool sound! Thanks a lot.

Dude, I love your videos! Thanks for putting in the time to make these so enjoyable.

“I’m a doctor Jim, not a sound designer!” Great demo, BTW.

I remember a video where you mentioned people were more interested in hearing you talk about synths and gear than actually hearing your music. Phase Plant is the synth that embodies that more than any other.

Bravo ! 🙂 Nice video. Very informative. It convinces me NOT to start a modular setup, and buy PhasePlant instead🙂

Great guide!

As I see it, the processes you go through in Phase Plant constitute a hybrid composition. Perhaps the two plug-ins are equally deep but the comparison that you made with the modular is way more obvious inPhase Plant. Interestingly, as the experiment progressed you seemed to work towards a more homogeneous, more playable sound where the events abd the randomisations were less immediately disruptive. Great work altogether.

Let´s say you needed them all to test them against each other^^ So my grandpa always said something like owning something already is much better than being in need of it 🤣 -> Good episode again! As always...

It's not that there's anything wrong with phaseplant, its that Pigments does the same things and more, cost me $50 (regular $200 but it goes on sale multiple times a year) and for that $50 Arturia included the upgrade to both v3 and v4 for free, while phaseplant says its $199. It just seems like pigments is the better value for wider scope of abilities at a similar or lower price.

Also, I too love VT and Benn Jordan's cave IRs!

This is awesome! I don’t know if you are as anti-iPad as I was until recently, but a friend turned me onto Drambo and I would say I recommend it. It’s like modular but on the iPad and without all the wires. Pretty cool actually. Your comparison of Phase Plant made me make that association. Do with that what you will.

Fascinating.What do you think of the MSoundFactory bundle?It seems to have a lot of ''bits'' to plug together as well as the more straight forward instrument patches.

I swear I heard you call it Face Plant. Excellent as always. Thanks for pointing yet more software I need.

I think they should've just accepted their fate and called the plug-in Face Plant since that's what it sounds like everyone is saying when they pronounce it.

PhasePlant is goated. Try using Random LFO with independent voices instead of unison ones.

I use the effects bundle. Good chorus, phasers. they're perfect for synths

Would be cool to see a workflow/time-taken comparison amongst Phase Plant, Pigments and the Iridium for making similar sounds from scratch. Been thinking a lot recently about whether a hardware synth would be better for me as I've been realising that I am far less motivated to do sound design when I have to point and click versus twisting knobs (and menu diving a bit) on hardware.

Wouldn't that be easier to just get a marimba and some mallets and physically play it? Joking of course! Pretty cool sample manipulation via that GUI.

Your videos quality is really good

You make entertaining videos, nice job guy. And your sounds are cool.

This is a great informative video! Are the samples you loaded (marimba) from phase plant ? Can you load your own samples ?

fantastic sound, too, very inspiring!

If you try a true granular synth, with resynhesis, you'll see the difference. There you have much smaller grains and much more control over them, specially to smooth them, as you can work on each train form, like Rapid. I love phase Plant, and true granular synthesis / resynthesis is the only feature it misses to become the best virtual synth on the market. So at some point, it's better to ask for it than to make people believe it's there.

Awesome! I want this!

Laughing seems to extend human life. And I laugh more and more on your videos)

i use phaseplant for sound design, i use pigments for presets..

i also pulled the Trigger on Phaseplant a few Weeks ago, i would love to see an Soundset from you for PP because that's exactly my cup of Tea and i'm to Lazy to do it on my own...btw the Presets of Phaseplant do not repesent the possibilities of this Beast, mostly Psy and Neuro witch is not my Thing....

Love the vibe.. Subscribed..

Brilliant!

0:46 LMAO

With the power of ARM64 and precision of DACs, I wouldn't use anything different than that synth these days if I'm going digital. Save money, time and space.

😂 textbook delivery, kudos

Foreverevermore, I will think of this synth as Face Plant. Just as well they didn't call it Phase Synth ;)

synplant is the synth that blurs the lines between being a plugin and being a DAW in itself

Apologies in advance, I wrote a rant 😊 It goes like this: I wish people would stop making videos about how to do granular in Phase Plant. No, really, please bear with me. More than a year ago the kHs team said granular was the #1 request from Phase Plant users and that they were working on it. We didn’t get it in the 2.0 update, and there really have been a lot of those “granular” videos coming out. I’m half-worried that kHs will decide that that’s enough and that’s okay, no need to actually implement true granular synthesis since everyone already knows how to do it. It’s more or less happened already the pitch quantizer, since technically the remap works, except it’s really unintuitive and rather brittle and time-consuming to configure if you go beyond the presets. An actual quantizer would smooth things out enormously, but now that we have the remap, we’re unlikely to get it. And this approximation isn’t really granular in my opinion, it’s mostly choppy, often unpleasant to hear, and there’s no real nice envelope to smooth out the rough edges on the on the “grains”. It ends up being more like a superhuman-speed, messy tremolo. It’s one grain at a time, and the grains are much too long… Yes, that particular sample may not have been ideal, but with a more interesting choice you’d hear something quite heavenly from Pigments, a sparkling, wide, gentle sonic aura. And the most important control there, to me, is the one where you tweak the grain envelope, so you can have a sharp, choppy fork-on-glass if you want, but it’s just as easy to get perfect smoothness. I’m not hating on Phase Plant here. It and Pigments are my two favorite synths of all time. Phase Plant is amazing. But it does not really do true granular synthesis, and let’s not get the developers off the hook on this one.

💯🔥❤️

Random question - what kind of desk do you use? I like that it has space for rack mounted gear, an upper tier for your screens, and space for a keyboard on the main level.

good vid!

need to dedicate a pc just to run this right.

How much is Phase Plant? it could be free?

Impressive ,, your synthesis knowledge and creativity makes me feel so dumb ,, to advanced for me , but interesting 👍

Love it for sound design, but does it make usable "in a track" sounds... good jorb bro

Its so good, but they need to update the snapins to a more advanced level.. Like the phaser is pretty useless :/

haha funny thanks man!

Thanks so much! This is a great and hilarious and informative video. Though I'm confused about what you actually get if you buy it without a subscription. Sounds like it's severely limited unless you subscribe. Is that the case would you say?

Holy shit

I watched it.

I just bought phase plant myself. Being new to synth, it’s extremely easy for me to understand. That and Serum are my favorites. Pigments makes me want to throw up. The Iridium will be my pigments

Glad this doesn't support my OS, so I don't have to feel obligated to buy it.

Pigments leads you??? are u skitting me? Prolly most powerful vst that takes 5min to fig out

Very funny video thumbnail right?

Sounds like s..

Phase Plant + Ableton are way better than Bitwig + the Grid.