Headphase V2 (Kontakt 5.8.1+)

In keeping with our philosophy of creating innovative new sound design concepts we created Headphase.

Headphase is packed with 1323 custom made samples inspired by our love of nostalgic sounds. Each sound can be controlled in many ways and blended to create sonically deep and lush textures.

Each sound has been specifically made for Headphase and we have drawn our inspiration heavily from the Boards of Canada palette - hence the name.

On the surface you can start loading presets and playing Headphase instantly and you can get creative by turning a few controls to see what they do but Headphase goes much deeper than this. It uses a new concept ‘Audio Design partials’ to give you access to various parameters while just moving one of 4 knobs. These will open up a world of new sounds. Move a ‘Partial’ knob and listen as the sound morphs and changes in various unexpected ways.

We wanted to make an instrument that could be used for rapid inspiration and for generating unique sounds very quickly.

Audio Design Partials

Headphase uses a new and innovative approach to sound design called Audio Design Partials, or 'Partials' for short.

Headphase uses an extensive and comprehensive set of audio design controls to offer you an enormous range of sound possibilities, for each voice these include : Fliters (three different types), LFO's to manage the filter frequency, Vibrato, Tremelo, 4 different send effects, and send amounts (using 5 different effect options) and 4 different insert effects (using 20 different effect options) as well as over 80 different voices, that can have volume, pan and tuning set independently.

Clearly this is a lot of control, and can be used to generate a really wide range of new and unique sounds, but the management of these can be just as comprehensive and complex.

Headphase removes this complexity by using Partials

Partials make it quick and easy to alter several core characteristics of the sound at the same time thus helping you to ‘explore’ sound and effortlessly find
new combinations of settings. We give you all the control you need to allocate a number of different controls to each partial.
 
DRIFT CONTROL

The Drift control emulates the tuning inconsistencies/niceties of old(er) hardware instruments.
Drift will slowly move the tuning of each of the instrument voices over time - the further you turn the dial the more "out of tune" the instrument will drift.
Once Drift has reached a target tuning it will identify a new tuning and slowly move to that - so it never stays static for long.

GATE SEQUENCER

The Gate Sequencer can be used to add further movement to your sounds.
It can be used to subtly modulate over time or to create choppy sequences and tempo-synced rhythms.
The Gate Sequencer also has the ability to load and save presets directly from disk.
 
SNAPSHOTS

157 handcrafted snapshots are included to get you started. Please ensure you place the snapshots in the correct location to use them. Please refer to the user guide for more information.

VERSION 2 NOTES:

100 new snapshots

We decided to treat V2 as a new instrument so, when you purchase Headphase, you can download both versions and install them seperately.

Changes and editions:

1. Dual Gates (each voice has its own gate)
2. Gate syncopation - Adds in an envelope as part of each step so even if you set all the gate step values to the same you will still hear each gate step individually.
3. Voice routing - each voice now has its own routing - which means its own Send Levels and its own FX generated by the smooth partials.
4. Mod Wheel positioning - Move the mod wheel and you will begin to influence where in the wave file Headphase is sampling from.
5. 100 new snapshots

The snapshots are incompatible between versions. Due to this, both versions are included in the download!

Requires the full version of Kontakt 5.8.1+ (Not compatible with the free Kontakt Player version)