Design Your Own Kickdrum Sounds

US Angular Momentum announce the KickLab XXL Virtual Kickdrum Designer 23/07/09

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Angular Momentum have announced the release of their KickLab XXL virtual kickdrum designer. Here's what they have to say about it...
Concept
Kicklab XXL is designed for producers who understand the importance of a good, solid Kick drum in their track. Often producers spend a large proportion of their time selecting, trimming, changing and balancing the Kick drum in their productions. It is the foundation and building block upon which all the other elements are set upon, and the reality is that a bad sounding Kick can quite simply ruin your track. For this reason many producers lean towards selecting a Kick drum sample over a "synthesized" Kick, for one simple reason.... Kick drum samples generally sound better. But the problem the producer is then faced with is a lack of control over tweaks and modifications to the sound of the Kick in a static sample. So layering techniques have developed over the years where a sample Kick is mixed with other Kick drums from different sources, Eq'd and pitch changed and mixed and tweaked...to create the desired result. Up until now this has been a combination of many different external techniques and processes all coming together, in samplers, external Fx plugins, synths and mixers. Enter...Kicklab XXL. Virtual section

Sub Oscillator Sine and Triangle
Pitch Adjust
Pitch shaper
AD Envelope Generator
Puncher
Click Generator
Distortion
SV Filter with LP/HP/BP/Notch/Peak filtermodes and Velocity Tracking
Sampler Section

Double Precision Stereo Sampler
Trim section
Loop/Forward/Reverse/Key Follow
4 Octave Pitch Adjust
Stereo/Mono Switch
ADS Envelope Generator
Easy scrolling thru samples with previous/next buttons
Mixer Section

3 band EQ
Saturator
Phase invert (Virtual and Sampler Sections)
Mutes (Virtual and Sampler sections)
Level Metering (Left/Right/Virtual/Sampler Output)
Channel Delay (Virtual and Sampler Section)
Preview Function (disables itself when host is playing)
Multi Channel Output Stereo Main/Virtual+Sampler/All
Main Volume Control
Darren Glen, co-designer and producer/engineer had this to say... "Kicklab XXL is the most advanced Kickmaking machine on the market, with the whole VST dedicated solely to the most important percussion element of any electronic track, the KICK.
Kicklab XXL features many original and unique functions and tricks that are often employed by the most savvy dj producers/engineers to get their kicks well and truly NAILED and brings all of these together into one beautiful interface. Kicklab XXL has two powerful sound-generating sections, a Virtual Kick Synth and a Kick Sampler section [with import functions] to rejuvenate your static kick samples with big, warm powerful synth kick sub. With filters on the sample to avoid frequency cancellation, phase change buttons to help match bottom end, delay trims to line up both kick attacks exactly, volume mixing with EQ and saturation options the KICKLAB XXL will create the big, in-your face, round stomping kicks with deep sub that you always dreamed of."

Pricing and Availability:
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