It’s been over a year in development and obsessing over the smallest of details, but it’s finally ready for everyone to try out. Systran 6 premium serial. There are a whole host of new features including Harmonic Sub Control, 3 Fully Featured Click Areas, Drag & Drog Click loading, External sample folder browsing, 3 new distortions, Full graphical EQ, Waveform exporting, a compressor and more control over your limiter! As a limited time offer – all orders will receive a free Artist Preset Pack with the purchase! Kick 2 for Windows and mac (VST/AU/AAX) is available for purchase for £49.95 GBP. Kick 1 customers can upgrade at 50% off.
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There have been a fair few revisions of Sonic Academy's original Kick plugin, but the recently released Kick 2 (VST/AU/AAX) marks the first full-blown sequel, which Sonic Academy says has seen the plugin almost completely rewritten from the ground up. The original Kick was a simple yet effective affair, essentially letting you combine a sampled 'click' transient with a synthesised 'sub', then tweak the results in a fair amount of detail in order to design and refine characterful kick drums for your electronic productions. Kick 2 is a far more flexible animal, based on a much cleaner synth engine that exhibits less aliasing distortion - basically, generating a purer sound than that of the previous Kick synth. Although the included presets will give you a taste of what Kick 2 can do, most of them are geared up for obnoxious big room house productions; it would be absolutely criminal to use Kick 2 as if it were just a preset kick library, though - to make the most it, you have to dive into its editing capabilities. Sub focus As with the previous version, Kick's sound- design architecture is split between the main 'sub' generator and sampled 'clicks'. Version 2, however, has three identical click sources, for layering multiple sampled components over the sub. Each source has its own amp envelope, while the sub generator features a pitch envelope (the magic ingredient for turning a plain old oscillator into a dance music kick drum).
Kick 2 has inherited the super flexible Bezier curve envelope editor of its predecessor, with its snap option for locking nodes to musical note values, and tag option to show pitch indicators (expressed in both Hz and musical notes). 'Kick 2 is a huge upgrade, with refined sound quality and a greatly extended feature set.' For those not yet fully comfortable with designing their own kicks from scratch, a bank of preset curves is included to get you started and teach you the fundamental principles. For v2, the sub generator has been improved with the addition of an additive synthesis-style editor, offering up to eight partials.
Thus, rather than being limited to using a sine wave for the basis of your kick drum tail, you can now pick from a menu of more flavoursome shapes and edit them at the harmonic level. With three click sample sources now onboard, it's good news that each sound source has independent keytrack on/off switches. And making life even easier, the waveform display also has individual on/off switches for all four sources, enabling as many of their translucent waveforms to be overlaid simultaneously as you need. This makes it fantastically easy to adjust the amplitude curve of the sub sympathetically to the sampled clicks, helping you to easily craft a smooth transition from sampled attack to synthesised body/tail. The waveform display also boasts incredibly precise vertical and horizontal zooming functions, so you can really zoom in on the nitty gritty details, if required. Two new distortion types, Tube and Wave, join the original clip distortion algorithm, expanding Kick 2's sonic palette further, although we weren't too impressed by the quality of any of them. 'For those not yet fully comfortable with designing their own kicks from scratch, a bank of preset curves is included to get you started and teach you the fundamental principles.'
The previous simple one-band EQ has been expanded to a four-band parametric EQ with high- and low- shelves, plus two peaking bands. Although the EQ itself is housed in its own panel (opened with the Edit button), for convenient access, the gain level controls for each band are also always visible on the main screen. Getting rendered One of our favourite new features in Kick 2 is the Render tab, where you select a key and velocity value, click Generate, then Export to save a pitched, velocity-adjusted WAV file, all from within the plugin. A sound designer's dream come true, this makes it very easy to generate a kick then recycle it as a sample in the clicks library. Incidentally, all samples used in your kick drum designs are packaged into saved preset files, making the library and its contents perfectly portable. While version 1 of Kick was fully responsive to note velocity, Kick 2 lets you set velocity sensitivity from 0% to 100%, making it possible to adjust the dynamic impact of MIDI velocity variation without editing the actual MIDI data.
Oddly, there's also a new portamento slide function - apparently this feature has been requested by some far-out trap producers. Happy feet Kick 2 is a huge upgrade, with refined sound quality and a greatly extended feature set. There aren't many dedicated kick drum synthesisers that come close to this level of sophistication and tweakability. The only thing that lets it down are the internal effects, but these are nice-to- have bonuses rather than core features, so it's hard to get upset by the fact that they don't match up to the best dedicated plugins. Ultimately, Kick 2 does exactly what it says on the tin, and then some. If you're making electronic music - particularly EDM - you'll want this in your collection.
As all dance music producers and artists know, the kick drum is the most essential piece of percussion in a track. The kick sets the pace and rhythm and is always the most noticeable sonic property in any particular dance music song. With this in mind, the partnership of and Sonic academy set out to revolutionize the producer community with a go-to kick drum (and other percussion) synthesizer. Personally, I’ve use this piece of software on about 95% of the tracks I’ve made since acquiring it. KICK itself is visually appealing and allows you to see the whole process behind shaping and creating your own customized kick drum, as opposed to just turning knobs. The main window has 3 panels: pitch, amp, and click.
As they intuitively suggest, each of the panels control the features for which they are labeled and allow you to shape the waveform of the kick drum by moving around pinpoints in the main window. This feature is singlehandedly my favorite part of the software. As a visual person, I like to be able to witness the process of creation in my sounds and it helps me better understand what I’m doing in the overall experimentation process. The visual component for KICK makes it a bare essential for any producer’s list of tools because it teaches you how to better customize your own sounds and allows producers to move away from reusing percussion samples.
The secondary features that I think need to be addressed and explained are the pitch panel itself and the click customization. Firstly, the pitch control panel is the Holy Grail of this synthesizer. Sonic Academy provides you with a clearly labeled illustration of what the kick’s shape actually looks like and the frequency of each individual point along the ADSR curve. Being able to perfectly tune each kick to the necessary parameters is one of the best implemented features in the entire world of dance music production, especially with regards to work flow. Additionally, the frequency information provided allows producers to quickly and easily EQ the kick and other instruments in the mix for a cleaner overall fit between sounds and more satisfying finished product.
Along with the pitch panel, you have the click customization menu in the upper right hand corner. Producers are able to load in their own click samples or choose from a preexisting list of clicks created by and Sonic Academy. The click menu is comes with an organized drop down menu, and when paired with the click visual panel, it gives complete control over the high end piece of the kick itself.
This revolutionary piece of software has become commonplace in my production projects and I honestly believe some of my tracks would not have reached the quality they did without it. I’ve never had any issues with the user interface or had any bad things to say about the product in its entirety and I would recommend getting this product immediately if you don’t have it already (you can get the Artist Edition of KICK for just $40).
Does exactly what it says: its a simple yet flexible way to create great sounding kick drums, and makes the process a lot of fun. Dance producers in general are always looking for 'The Perfect Kick,' and this plugin makes that journey a bit more attainable. You can even import your own samples. The only issues are that you can't drag samples from your DAW (that I'm aware of), so you actually have to manually find it, plus graphical overlays are not available to see where, for instance, the volume of the kick is relative to the pitch.
Hi, I am experiencing some issues with using the new midi automation editing in the piano roll editor. In the left hand side I have region selected. In the graph area I can toggle through the different automation I have written using the arrow button. Now, If I want to edit the modulation automation, for example, I toggle to show it. When I edit some of it (with the pencil) the line disappears.
So I have to reselect it again. Likewise if I toggle to view the modulation or the velocity or whatever, when I press play this disappears again to show everything “greyed out”. This is very frustatrating when I want to view the modulation, say, all the time. Also, when editing the modulation, say, for a certain instrument, sometimes it pops up with the automation for another instrument instead! It’s like it is combining many automation details all together.
Sometimes if I draw the modulation for an instrument I end up with 2 lots of modulation for that instrument, one on CH1 and another on CH2. richardmac February 23, 2018.
Hi – not here to cause controversy but I and others have a very serious problem with 10.4 Update experiencing disastrous fails with Flex Time. Most projects are virtually trashed cos I use Flex time extensively. Fortunately I had a backup of 10.3.3. We’ve created brand new Projects in 10.4 using latest HighSierra etc OS and bugs remain. Have Reviewers (and Apple Engineers) genuinely tried Flex Time (as opposed to Flex Tempo etc) in 10.4? Yes the new features look great and most work (Undo can be a tad buggy) but this is a disgrace – was there a Beta?.
Eli Krantzberg February 11, 2018. To turn smart tempo off after it’s done it’s job, switch the project tempo mode back to Keep.
As far as the vocals, you may need to go in to the File Tempo Editor and tap in the beats as it is playing if there’s is no natural rhythmic pulse in it. And as far as multi track audio, Smart Tempo doesn’t work yet when recording multi track audio. But once it is in the project, you can group the tracks, and then remove and reanalyze the tempo of one of them in the File Tempo Editor, and they should all follow. If you are in Adapt mode, make sure to enable the Maintain Position.
Check box in the File Tempo Editor. If in Keep mode you’ll need to manually update the tempo map via the Adapt Project Tempo and All Regions to Region Tempo function in the File Tempo Editor. Elia Rediger February 9, 2018.