Knife Party

When asked about sample packs with live drums, Knife Party's Rob Swire recommends the Double Platinum Drums (Akai) sample collection.

In the song "LRAD", at 2:13, there is a sample that plays that says "Everybody in the Club!" This sample comes from Vengeance Vocal Essentials Vol. 1 and the official sample name is "VVE 1 Vocal Phrases 036." This sample can be found in the following directory:

VVE1 Vocals\VVE1 Vocal Phrases

Rob Swire of Knife Party is a big fan of Nuendo 6. He says "it's amazing. get it. the interface will take some getting used to, but the new mixer / linking system / etc is incredible"

Knife Party produce their tracks using the Cubase 7 DAW. Rob Swire Tweets about it, saying:

@niknoisia you guys on Cubase 7 / N6 yet? I'm blown away, esp by the linking system

He also Tweets in 2014 making references to Cubase 5:

Shout out to everyone who feels terror when they see this

And also in this Tweet:

A 13 year old @Pendulum project in Cubase SX 2.0, playing on a 10 year old virtual machine in 2015 #justnerdthings

Rob Swire posted in Twitter a list of all the plugins that he has installed when he moved to his new studio in 2014

Rob Swire of Knife Party lists Sylenth as one of his favorite software synths.

Knife Party's Rob Swire tweets about the SynthMaster synth "quite liking synthmaster atm"

In an interview w/ Sound on Sound, Rob Swire of Knife Party (formerly Pendulum) mentions how he used IK Multimedia's Amplitube 2 for processing guitars.

In this Twitter response to Nosia, Rob Swire talks about what phase correction plugins he uses

Rob Swire shows some Mainstage patches he made for Pendulum tracks on his twitter

Knife Party tweets about receiving a copy of Native Instrument's KOMPLETE 9 ULTIMATE software bundle.

Along with Massive and Sylenth, Knife Party's Rob Swire lists the Z3TA+ as one of his favorite software synthesizers. He calls it "such a sick little synth"

When asked if he uses a drum sampler or drags audio straight into his DAW, Rob Swire (of Knife Party) says that it depends. He mostly goes the audio route, but occasionally uses Kontakt if he needs to heavily manipulate samples.

"PS- Audio people: if you don't know about 'The Glue' yet, you are missing one badass G-series emulation buss comp ;) www.cytomic.com"

Rob tweeted a "List of every plugin installed, for curious nerds" and posted a link to a Google Doc (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Apl6GaN2mzzXdFZidHNJbEMzNDhWb2JuSnNDNEZjZWc&output=html ). Towards the bottom of this list, we can see Tone2 Gladiator 2.

Rob Swire uses "The Drop" for leads in his productions. "Well well well >:) now with OSCar, Jupiter-8, SH-101, Moog Prodigy filters <3 @cytomic"

Rob Swire posted a list of all the plugins that he installed when he moved to his new studio.

Rob Swire posted on his Twitter a list of all the installed plugins that he has when he moved to his new studio. (Twitter link: https://twitter.com/rob_swire/status/449583626901278721)

When Rob Swire moved to his new studio in 2014, he posted all the plugins that he has installed.

https://twitter.com/rob_swire/status/449583626901278721

Rob Swire spotted using Reaktor Swire "Lead sounds generally comes from Reaktor, Massive, Sylenth1"

Swire "Leads generally comes from Reaktor, Massive, Sylenth1"

Rob shows an old tablet runnuing FM8 and energy XT can be seen in the taskbar.

Rob Swire tweets "@SteinbergMedia Cubasis on iPad is fucking awesome. Been playing with it all week <3"

Rob Swire was looking for a spectrum analyzer and settled down with MAnalyzer

At 23:38, Rob Swire explains how he made the talking synth for the track "Girl in the Fire" using ReFX Slayer.

Totally forgot to mention - I made a whole bunch of presets for @kiloHearts Phase Plant. All sorts of basses / pads / FX n stuff...there's a few recreations of older Pend / KP patches too https://kilohearts.com/products/phase

Rob Swire (Knife Party) tweets about using the MB-5 plugin by Blue Cat Audio. He uses it for its capabilities as a multiband compressor, limiter, gate, expander, and/or waveshaper.

One of Rob Swire's (Knife Party) favorite reverb plugins is the 2CAudio Aether.

Knife Party's Rob Swire tweets "Valhalla Room sounds awesome", when talking about some of his favorite plugins for reverb.

When asked about their favorite reverb plugins, Knife Party tweet "Arts Acoustic + Lexicon PCM reverbs won me over."