Kilohearts

Kilohearts’ latest lean, mean plugin may seem like just another convolved reverb processor, but reverbs are just the start…

> Over the last decade, Swedish developers Kilohearts have built an impressively voluminous catalogue of effects and synths, combining top-notch processing quality with focussed, easy-to-use interfaces. Not only that, as well as operating as standard DAW plugins, Kilohearts’ processors are also designed to work with the company’s bespoke ‘Snapin’ framework, allowing them to be combined with other Kilohearts plugins in interesting and creative ways (see boxout). The newest addition to this collection, then, is Convolver, a slick and compact convolving processor that packs a punch way above its size and cost.

Convolving (inaccurately known in common parlance as convolution) is a way of combining two audio signals by, in essence, multiplying them together, although there’s a bit more to it than that. You’ve probably come across it before in reverb processors, where a short ‘impulse response’ recording, taken in an interesting acoustic space, can be combined with an audio part, thereby making it sound like the part was recorded in that same acoustic space.