Four sections, one big kick
Pulse – Width, Amp, Sustain and Decay shape the trigger that excites the circuit. Short and sharp for a clicky attack, long and sustained for a fat, rounded body.
Noise – Add a burst of Uniform, Normal or Pink noise with its own Decay and Cutoff, for anything from a subtle beater click to a dirty, distorted top end.
Resonator – The heart of the kick. Set the Freq, Q and Damping, then use Tight and Bounce to add pitch drop and punch. Three modes change the character:
- Linear – clean and pure, ideal for long 808-style subs
- Basic – gently saturated, the classic all-rounder
- Bouncy – driven and elastic, for kicks that snap and bounce
Turn on Note Follow to tune the kick to the notes you play, with Glide between them, for tuned kicks and 808 basslines.
Output – Tone and Level, up to 4 overlapping Voices so tails ring out naturally, and switchable Velocity sensitivity.
Built for the Reason rack
- A CV input for every control, each knob with its own trim
- Gate and Note CV inputs, auto-routed, for sequencing from the Matrix, RPG-8 or a Combinator
- Note On light and patch browser on both the full and folded panels
- 5 starter patches, from house and techno kicks to a long Linear 808 boom
DSP based on ChowKick by Chowdhury DSP, used under the BSD 3-Clause License.
