Kick drum

Description

A simple kick that plays by itself on every quarter note, in time with the song: no notes needed. It follows the host's transport (or the plugin's Run): stopped, it's silent. One voice; keys do nothing.

Clock's Beat (a gate every quarter note) fires two envelopes and the click:

• Pitch env (a 60 ms drop) through Punch amt (x0.35: 3.5 octaves at the hit) sweeps Body (a sine at about 49 Hz, G1) down from about 550 Hz: the thump.
• Amp env (0.35 s decay) shapes Body's level through Amp.
• Click env (8 ms) lets a burst of white noise through Click band (a high-pass at 3 kHz) and Click amp: the attack that cuts through a mix. Body and click -> Kick (a mixer) -> Out.

Macros: 1 Tune: the kick's note, from about 49 Hz (G1) up to 69 Hz (C#2). 2 Decay: from a short knock (0.35 s) to a long, boomy tail (0.9 s). 3 Punch: a deeper, longer pitch drop: more thump and snap. 4 Click: more attack.

Try: Clock's A output (eighths, or a Euclid on 16ths) into the three envelopes' Gates for other rhythms; Body's Tune to match the track's key.