It's similar to the effects section of the synth on it's own as a plugin. It can easily get heavy, but I do like it's sound! Also, if you have and love Phase Plant, then you will immediately "get" the Snap Heap thingy. I think of it more as an outboard effects rack for an instrument. Maybe more attractive to the DIY musician vs. Yep, that's fine for a recording and mixing engineer trying to get a clean mix.īut in addition to the basics, these other options offer a lot of readily accessible creative flexibility to sound designers with a plethora of modulation and time based effects, and other sound mangling options during the song writing phase. It is a good concept, but haven't fallen in love with the interface yet. I've got the Snap Heap thing also, but have only attempted minimal use with it. I've had to do it hundreds of times over the years but realistically mixing shoud be done in the context of the mix, not an individual track and freezing one track to move on to the next effectivly makes it an individual track type of adjustment not in the context of the whole. I haven't been able to truly figure out the freeze method in a way that works well with my workflow. Yep or just the the Plugin Alliance Amek 9099. The load increase is all relative to my machine which is a humble 3-year old i5.Įasy fix for those with older machines that want to run the latest software plugins: use the effects on one track at a time, then freeze. This MixBox preset used on one track added about 15% to the real-time CPU demand of the test project (total 20% RT CPU), while the Snap Heap preset shown here was only adding about 3% (Total 8% RT CPU).
Used the Reaper Performance Meter to gauge the RT CPU increase when each plugin was online. Baseline was that Reaper with one EZD3 track took about 5% RT CPU (4% for Reaper and 1% for EZD3). Here are two FX screen shots showing a Mixbox chain and a Snap Heap chain being used on a simple Reaper project with a single EZD3 (EZdrummer 3) drum track. Their GUIs are minimalist and seem to run well with lower resource demand. That is a modular Snapin Host which allows you to build up to seven serial or parallel effects chains.
They will work individually as standard plugins, or you can use them in one of Kilohearts plugin hosts such as Snap Heap ($29). For a lighter experience, recommend the 30 free Kilohearts Essentials Snapin plugins. I'll give credit to Kilohearts for striking a decent balance. Not for older machines + high track counts, in my experience.Įasy fix for those with older machines that want to run the latest software plugins: use the effects on one track at a time, then freeze or bounce.
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