Phase Plant 3 Teased

[coroknight]

From Kilohearts most recent newsletter:

Alongside these releases, we shipped a range of mini updates across the Kilohearts Ecosystem, including bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. And while those refinements matter, the big v3 update is now firmly on the horizon. As you might expect, it’s going to be very special and, as always, it will be a free update for the products you already own.

Exciting! What do you want to see in v3?

I’m hoping for one or more of these: expanded sample-accurate automation, a linear phase mode for frequency splits in multipass, additive engine like Zebra 3, spectral fx, and analog modeled modules.

Perhaps even the ability to add CLAP plugins to your fx chains?

Edit: also would be nice to have phase effects for oscillators like bend +/-

[zvenx]

I just need a new browser, which they have hinted is coming.
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[Benjamin923]

Sweet, curious what it adds

[Held]

I really hope the made a completely non-destructive wave table editor so you can easily tweak your wave-forms without having to commit to anything.

[coroknight]

I really hope the made a completely non-destructive wave table editor so you can easily tweak your wave-forms without having to commit to anything.

Yep that’s partly what I meant by additive engine. It would be sweet if the editor was non-destructive. It’d be even sweeter if you could modulate some of those parameters on the fly.

That’s essentially what makes zebra 3’s additive engine so powerful is they have realtime fx that modify the additive spectrum that you can modulate.

[Gam456]

Honestly I even forget I own Phase Plant

[MattLeschuck]

Things that come to mind:

- Ability to save groups
- Linear phase, multiple filter size crossovers for Multipass
- Ability to use Snap Heap or Multipass in the collapsed state (how it looks when nested within another Snap Heap Or Multipass).
- Metering Snap-in (think Insight 2, Youlean)
- Macro buttons (similar to Reasons combinator)
- More FX in the OSC section of Phaseplant

Im definitely excited for V3 as Kilohearts is one of my favorite developers. Especially in Game Sound Design.

[swilow11]

I really hope the made a completely non-destructive wave table editor so you can easily tweak your wave-forms without having to commit to anything.

Yes. Given how deeply integrated the wavetable editor is (wavetable, LFO, shaper, filter tables) its insanely annoying to use. I am constantly just resetting the table just by changing the editor type. It's prevented me from even really using it much.

[SLiC]

Im definitely excited for V3 as Kilohearts is one of my favorite developers.

This, underrated synth and developer in mu opinion, one of the greats, lovely modulation system and modern workflow, intuitive GUI, great fx...I use this a lot with my Osmose (MPE) and its fun to work with.

Looking forward to V3....

[morphex]

Granted, we have some great options for additive synths already, especially with Zebra 3. But I'd really like to have that available in Phase Plant as well. I think it would fit in with the other synthesis types very nicely.

I'd also like to have a more fully-featured browser to create more organized patches, and sound banks that I could share and sell. Phase Plant sounds amazing already, and I'm genuinely intrigued by a v3 release. I think 2026 is going to be another incredible year for next-level plug-ins!!

[joradn]

A few things have been confirmed here and there such as audio in for phase plant, a vocoder snap-in, visualiser/metering, and a fancy new browser. Not going to speculate on what else there might be, but it looks like a big focus on user experience which I'm excited for.

[dysjoint]

Linear phase crossovers in multipass.

[coroknight]

I love phase plant but I hope the update doesn’t just focus on UX and has some serious dsp.

Compared to serum, phase plant has more features but each module sounds better in serum IMO. Serum has better quality filters for example, and phase plant doesn’t have an equivalent to hyper/dimension-expander.

[billinder33]

- More Osc/Wavetable FX. Maybe add Filter Table and Shaper Table to the osc effects
- Better FX modules (the existing ones cover a lot of bases, but are mostly uninspiring)
- Maybe a real OTT module vs needing to rely on MultiPass

[HiEnergy]

Let's hope the new features aren't locked behind a paywall like "DLC" content in a computer game.