Anybody else here have a dedicated kick synth?

[nomadjames]

I have a volca kick, Since you have to use a headphone out, sometimes I run the second output to a Big Muff Pi I have laying around. I run it through a Korg TP2 preamp right now. Don't really have much else to run it through at them moment. Even un-processed, it cuts through pretty good. Biggest complaint about it is that it seems to trigger to high in pitch by default. I use MIDI to trigger the not lower. Don't really use the on board sequencing at all.

Wondering what anyone else processes their analog kicks through.

[Constructs]

I mostly use the stock ableton 909, saturate with nearly 100% drive, eq, compress and add some side chained sine waves.

Just ordered a RYTM, hoping I like it enough to use as my dedicated kick synth I use a trick Into the Void posted a while back, stretching kick samples to make rolling basslines, good stuff.

[Lost to the Void]

I make some nice kicks with my Blofeld sometimes, but I wouldn't call it a dedicated kick synth. I prefer variety in my kicks and a dedicated synth would limit my textures.

[suppressor]

I brought the Punchbox VST and it was one of the best decisions i have made.

I have only got into the factory stuff so far but it is all I have needed to up the quality of the kick drums in my tracks.

http://d16.pl/punchbox

[collide]

I use a trick Into the Void posted a while back, stretching kick samples to make rolling basslines, good stuff.

Could you please repost that trick?

I use PunchBox from D16, too.

[jordanneke]

Yes.

I have a jomox mbase 11.

I'm very cautious when it comes to buying gear. I needed something that I would use and is cheap and hardy.

I like it a lot.

[s7ntax]

I've been using Sonicacademy Kick2 a lot recently when trying to make softer low end kicks for Dub Techno, taking out the click layer almost completely, softening the transient further with the envelope and filtering right down, I also use it for fills/bass transposing the same kick down a few semitones to get that low end melody in the bass that you hear in Deepchord / Echospace tracks. I'm still very much on a learning curve with this and experimenting with subtle distortion/filter using ohmicide and running through u-he satin in order to give it some warmth after processing and filtering it right down to almost non existence. I may be doing it all wrong haha but I'm just experimenting at present, trying to master creating that soft kick / bass.

Example of my low end kicks, not mixed properly, not been ran through Tape Sat yet, still in the early stages with this one but you will get the idea.

[Prophän]

I mostly use synsonic free vsts for making 909 and 808 kicks at the moment which are pretty decent IMO

[nomadjames]

The thing's actually pretty versatile as a module, been using it to make pitched percussion, basses, and kicks.

[0dd]

I use a trick Into the Void posted a while back, stretching kick samples to make rolling basslines, good stuff.

Could you please repost that trick?

I use PunchBox from D16, too.

Here you go

Take any kick, load it as an audio clip. Go in to the clip editor, switch to warp, beats mode.
Create a warp marker at the beginning of the kick, then one well after the initial transient, then another about half way in to the meat of the kick, just as the decay begins, or well in to the decay. Pull this warp marker out (whilst looping the kick in session view) and ass you pull it out you will start to generate sub after the kick transient.
It takes a lot of fiddling but it`s a really nice way to turn a kick drum in to a kick and sub bassline, without losing the punch of the kick. Stretch it out enough and the sub will start rythmically pulsing.

[Lost to the Void]

I brought the Punchbox VST and it was one of the best decisions i have made.

I have only got into the factory stuff so far but it is all I have needed to up the quality of the kick drums in my tracks.

http://d16.pl/punchbox

I was thinking of getting that.
Versatile?

[0dd]

What Void said

[s7ntax]

I've use Punchbox, it's very nice indeed. Excellent for harder kicks with punch, probably why they called it punchbox

[nomadjames]

I use a trick Into the Void posted a while back, stretching kick samples to make rolling basslines, good stuff.

Could you please repost that trick?

I use PunchBox from D16, too.

Here you go

Take any kick, load it as an audio clip. Go in to the clip editor, switch to warp, beats mode.
Create a warp marker at the beginning of the kick, then one well after the initial transient, then another about half way in to the meat of the kick, just as the decay begins, or well in to the decay. Pull this warp marker out (whilst looping the kick in session view) and ass you pull it out you will start to generate sub after the kick transient.
It takes a lot of fiddling but it`s a really nice way to turn a kick drum in to a kick and sub bassline, without losing the punch of the kick. Stretch it out enough and the sub will start rythmically pulsing.

Cool.

[nomadjames]

Fartbox.

[Lost to the Void]

[Huck Farper]

+1 for punchbox, easily best kick vst I've used

[rsntr]

I brought the Punchbox VST and it was one of the best decisions i have made.

I have only got into the factory stuff so far but it is all I have needed to up the quality of the kick drums in my tracks.

http://d16.pl/punchbox

I was thinking of getting that.
Versatile?

vs.

D16's Punchbox is worth checking out.

http://d16.pl/punchbox

God damn. The amount of shit in that plugin!!!!

I mean, how much trouble making decent kick drums are people having that something with that amount of crap on it is needed???

I'm always up for creative tools, but bloody hell, that seems like the throw enough mud at the wall and hope some of it sticks method of kick drum creation.

[Lost to the Void]

I brought the Punchbox VST and it was one of the best decisions i have made.

I have only got into the factory stuff so far but it is all I have needed to up the quality of the kick drums in my tracks.

http://d16.pl/punchbox

I was thinking of getting that.
Versatile?

vs.

D16's Punchbox is worth checking out.

http://d16.pl/punchbox

God damn. The amount of shit in that plugin!!!!

I mean, how much trouble making decent kick drums are people having that something with that amount of crap on it is needed???

I'm always up for creative tools, but bloody hell, that seems like the throw enough mud at the wall and hope some of it sticks method of kick drum creation.

I was interested in the actual kick generation\generator and not the bells and whistles gaffa taped on to all sides saturators, distortions and all the other shit they bolted in to it. Hence *thinking* of getting and not bought already.

[buffered]

MDrummer from Meldaproduction is pretty nice. Complicated interface but once you figure it out it is very powerful.
All percussive elements in this track was made with one instance of it;

https://soundcloud.com/user4687170/exchange