Agreed and you are right, I read too fast.The question asked was:
"What are the best plugins for this and why?"
The fundamental frequency of a kick depends on style, 40hz is too low for some styles, and also for many speakers, which don't put out much energy at 40hz..... 50hz is the classic frequency for a kick and a good starting point.
If you're creating the kick yourself, it doesn't make a lot of sense to use a compressor, because with something like Kick 2 or PsyLab, you have complete control over the amplitude envelope. And with PsyLab you've got 16 infinitely tweakable envelopes, so you can also envelope a waveshaper, distortion or a million other parameters.
Instead of using a sine, you can morph between more complex shapes. So, start with a saw or noise and morph into a sine for the tail of the kick. If you think about it, this is more physically accurate to how a real kick drum is created. There's only a few plugins that have envelopes that are good enough and wavetable synthesis as well. PsyLab is easily the best, but Avenger could also do it. Kick 2 doesn't have any assignable envelopes for modulation.
The compressor is useful to glue multiple layers, the click and the sine wave.
In term of synth, twin 3 is very good. Strong control of the envelope, very good visual feedback.
Statistics: Posted by Jac459 — Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:54 am