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Free Online Kick Drum Synthesizer

You can tweak the parameters for the tuning, pitch decay, attack, release, distortion and bit crushing, gain and compression until you get the sound you want.… Read More Free Online Kick Drum Synthesizer

March 12, 2023March 13, 20233 Comments

Bleass Sidekick Now Available For iOS, Mac & Windows

BLEASS Sidekick is a combination of a kick drum synth, a step sequencer, and a ducker that’s specifically designed to make sidechain compression effects – a core effect for electronic dance music – easy. … Read More Bleass Sidekick Now Available For iOS, Mac & Windows

September 13, 2022September 14, 20224 Comments

Get Your Kicks (Free Download)

Ableton has shared a new sound library of electronic kicks, along with a history of the electronic kick by musician and author David Abravanel.… Read More Get Your Kicks (Free Download)

December 12, 20196 Comments

Creating x0x Kick Drums In Reaktor

This tutorial looks at building x0x style kick drums in Reaktor, based on the sounds of the classic Roland TR-808 and TR-909. The tutorial goes over how to calculate Freq and Q (Quality Factor) from reading schematics. The video also shows how to modify the Core static BP filter to use Q values instead of… Read More Creating x0x Kick Drums In Reaktor

February 19, 20134 Comments

What’s The Best Distortion Pedal For TR-909 Kicks?


TR-909 Bass Drum Recorded Through 13 Distortion Units was uploaded by: mitchwells
Duration: 180
Rating: … Read More What’s The Best Distortion Pedal For TR-909 Kicks?

October 6, 201113 Comments

New Kick Drum Synth For Mac, Windows

Synapse Audio has introduced EKS Pro, a VST/Audio Unit plugin for Mac & Windows, designed for creating electronic kickdrum sounds. The plugin offers six high-quality sound models, a mix of vintage hardware emulations, and new, modern kick drum sound models. Despite their fundamentally different nature, all models respond to the sound parameters in largely the… Read More New Kick Drum Synth For Mac, Windows

July 19, 2011Leave a comment

Free Club Kicks Sample Library

Wave Alchemy has released Club Kicks 2, a free sample library of 65 free processed kick drums from Jomox’s AIRBase 99 drum machine. The drum samples included in Club Kicks 2 have been treated with outboard processing and compression, and further harmonically enhanced with a Thermionic Culture Vulture valve distortion box. Note: Club Kicks 2… Read More Free Club Kicks Sample Library

March 3, 20107 Comments

Synthesize A Deep Kick Drum In Ableton Live

Lovecapacitor shows his secrets for synthesizing a deep kick drum in Ableton Live.  He uses two oscillators in Operator, tuned to 49 HZ & 73.4 HZ, snappy envelopes, a little compression and lo-pass filtering and gets a great kick.  via Oliver Chesler

December 19, 2008December 19, 20081 Comment

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