KICK 2 is finally out – the award-winning KICK game received a major update in 2016. Easily sculpt, shape, create, manipulate, distort your way to the perfect barrel. You no longer have to rely on sampled and resampled low quality kicks in sample packs. With KICK 2, you can easily create the perfect synth kick to suit your needs.
- 3 Fully Featured Click Areas
New to KICK 2 are 3 click areas packed with features including start time, length control, low/high pass filters and fine pitch adjustment. You no longer need to manipulate and set up your clicks before importing, just download them and get started right away. - Drag and Drop Click Load
Found an audible click you like? simply drag and drop it directly into the plugin window to load it directly into your soundbank. - Browse External Sample Folder
Browse your personal sample collection directly from the plugin, allowing you to listen to all your favorite samples without having to manually load them. - Includes over 230 factory add-ons
KICK 2 comes with over 230 factory presets in a wide range of styles including Analog / Bass / Drum & Bass / House / Live / Percussion / Pop / Progressive House / Psy Trance / Snares / Techno / Toms / Trance / Trap. - Over 180 clicks
The click section contains 180 click samples that can be loaded to give the kick its own unique sound, and if that’s still not enough, you can load your own click samples – KICK will store them in your user bank for later use. use. - SUB Harmonics control
In addition to being able to use a pure sine wave to create your KICKS, you now have full control over the waveform using our sub-harmonics to add even more depth and character to your sound. - Tube, Clip and Wave Distortion Algorithms
In addition to our original KICK 1 CLIP distortion, we’ve added 2 new high quality and expertly modeled analog distortion modules so you can add some warmth to your sound or just harden up a dance kick. Also included is our signature Drive sound from Kick 1 to push things a little further. - Quickly export your KICK
Prefer to work with your KICKs in an external program? No problem. Now you can quickly and easily export your created KICK using our generate function. Just select the Velocity and Note you want to export and then drag and drop directly from the plugin into your DAW. - Full graphic equalizer
Too many highs? Too few cons? Just tweak them with the new built-in graphic equalizer to boost or cut the frequency range without even leaving the plugin. - Quick EQ controls
Once your EQs are set up, you can quickly and easily control them right from the plugin’s front panel. - High quality bezier curves
Easily sculpt your KICK sound using our advanced Bezier curve algorithm to get smooth transitions from point to point. You can also adjust the duration and overall pitch using the corresponding controls on the XY panel. - Stay Connected
Use the SNAP and TAG feature to show the HZ and KEY of each node on the XY pad. Allows you to dial in the exact key of your kick. - Compressor
Use the built-in compressor to get even more control over the KICK sound, perfectly tuned for a kick drum. - Limiter
Keep your levels under control with the built-in KICK limiter. Has threshold control as well as 3 release settings. Alternatively, you can just turn it off if you don’t want it to interfere with your audio. - Gate, Keytrack and Portamento Controls
Get full control over how your MIDI input affects bass length and pitch using the Gate and Keytrack functions. If you want to get really creative, you can use our Portamento control to create TRAP basses quickly and easily.
Official changes since Kick 2 v1.1.5:
(v1.1.7)
- Fixed problems with online activation timeout before receiving a response.
- Fixed issue with missing text in Sub field when closing/reopening GUI.
(v1.1.6)
- Fixed problems with switching presets between folders.
- Fixed problems with demo time
- Fixed a bug due to which the INIT preset did not work in the drop-down menu.
Changelog
- Implemented time bomb fix from previous distribution
- Disabled update and similar notifications
- Added preset converter to convert legacy presets from Kick 1
- (Optional) Added Nicky Romero Edition, F Pulses skin (Go to “Settings>Skin select” to select skin)
- (Optional) Added many presets
- Remove the previous one
- Install “Setup Sonic Academy Kick 2 v1.1.7.exe”.
