KICK 2 Manual

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

Sonic Academy Kick V2 Manual

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Table of Contents 1. Overview ................................... .................................................... .....................3 ....3 2. Installation.............................. Installation............................................... ........................3 .......3 Microsoft Windows Installation ............. .............. .............. .. 3 Apple Mac Installation.............. .............. .............. .............. 3

3. Interface ................................. .................................................. ........................4 .......4 4. Preset.............................................. .............................................................5 ...............5

8. EQ ................................... ..................................................... .............................10 ...........10 EQ Edit Window Window .................... ............................... ..................... .................... ..................... ............. 10 EQ Band Controls.............. .............. ............... .............. .... 10 EQ Band on/off switches ............. .............. .............. ......... 10 EQ Nodes ..................... ............................... .................... ..................... ..................... .................... .......... 11 EQ Quick controls & On/Off On/Off ............. ............... .............. .... 11

.................................................. ....................11 ...11 Selecting Presets ............. ............... .............. .............. ....... 5 9. Distortion ................................. Saving Presets Presets ..................... ............................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ............... .... 5 Distortion Type ............. ............... .............. .............. ......... 11 5. Pitch & Amp Nodes ........................................ .........................................6 .6 Distortion Control Knobs.............. .............. .............. ......... 11 Curve Presets Presets .................... ............................... ..................... .................... ..................... ................. ...... 6 10. Drive ................................... .................................................... .......................12 ......12 Undo/Redo Undo/Redo ..................... ............................... ..................... ..................... .................... .................... .......... 6 Drive Amount Amount ..................... ............................... ..................... ..................... .................... ............... ..... 12 ................................................12 ..............12 Gate.................... ............................... ..................... ..................... ..................... .................... .................... .......... 6 11. Compressor .................................. Snap ..................... ................................ ..................... .................... ..................... ..................... .................. ........ 6 Threshold Threshold ..................... ............................... .................... ..................... ..................... .................... .......... 12 Sub View .................... ............................... ..................... .................... ..................... ..................... ............. ... 6 Ratio ..................... ............................... .................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ................. ...... 12 Click View..................... ............................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ............ 6 Attack............... .............. .............. .............. .............. ....... 12 Pitch Env Slider.................. ............................. ..................... .................... ..................... ................. ...... 6 Release.................... .............................. ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ............. ... 12 Length Length Slider ..................... ................................ ..................... .................... ..................... ................. ...... 6 Makup.................... ............................... ..................... ..................... ..................... .................... ............... ..... 12 Adding & Removing Nodes.............. .............. .............. ....... 7 12. Limiter............................................... ........................................................13 .........13 Bending a Node Line ............... .............. .............. .............. 7 Limiter Switch .............. ............... .............. .............. ......... 13 Window Selection Buttons Buttons............... .............. .............. ....... 7 Limiter Threshold .............. .............. ............... .............. .... 13 .................................13 ...13 Zoom .................... ............................... ..................... .................... ..................... ..................... .................. ........ 7 13. Velocity & Portamento .............................. 6. Sub Controls .................................... ...................................................8 ...............8 Velocity Velocity .................... .............................. ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ............. ... 13 Pitch Knob.................... .............................. ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ............ 8 Slide ..................... ............................... .................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ................. ...... 13 Harmonics Presets .............. .............. .............. .............. ..... 8 Portamento Time............. .............. .............. .............. ....... 13 Harmonics Harmonics Sliders.............................. ........................................ ..................... ..................... ............ 8 14. Render & Export ................................. ..........................................14 .........14 Harmonics Harmonics Knob .................... .............................. .................... ..................... ..................... ............. ... 8 Key.................... ............................... ..................... .................... ..................... ..................... .................... .......... 14 Waveshape Display .............. .............. ............... .............. .. 8 Velocity Velocity .................... .............................. ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ............. ... 14 Generate Generate .................... .............................. ..................... ..................... .................... ..................... ............. 14 7. Click Controls .................................. .................................................9 ...............9 Pitch Knob.................... .............................. ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ............ 9 Export Export .................... ............................... ..................... ..................... ..................... .................... ............... ..... 14 Length.......... Length..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... .................... ..................... ................. ...... 9 Drag & Drop ......................... .................................... ..................... .................... ..................... ............. 14 Start.................... ............................... ..................... ..................... ..................... .................... .................... .......... 9 15. Settings Panel.................................. .............................................15 ...........15 HP / LP .................... .............................. ..................... ..................... .................... ..................... ................. ...... 9 Skin Select .................... ............................... ..................... .................... ..................... ................... ........ 15 Click Browser Browser ..................... ................................ ..................... .................... ..................... ................. ...... 9 Processing Processing .................... ............................... ..................... .................... ..................... ................... ........ 15 Click Left / Right & Load Load ............. .............. .............. ............ 9 Limiter Release Time .............. .............. .............. .............. 15 Drag & Drop .......................... .................................... .................... ..................... ..................... ............. ... 9 Limiter Lookahead Lookahead ............... .............. .............. .............. .. 15 Keytrack / Phase /Mute / Solo ............... .............. .............. .. 9 Curve Algorithm Algorithm .................... ............................... ..................... .................... ..................... ............. 15







1. Overview

Sonic Academy’s Academy’s Kick v2 is a kick drum synthesiser allowing you to quickly and precisely create kick drums and tune them to your tracks. It combines an eight Partial synthesised sub oscillator, 3 part sampled clicks, EQ and effects to create a wide variety of o f kick drums, percussive percussive and even bass sounds.

2. Installation Prior to installation, you first need to download the kick license key from the My Account page - https://www. sonicacademy.com/my_account/downloads/plugins. sonicacademy .com/my_account/downloads/plugins. Place the license key on your desktop and select it when asked by the plugin. Once complete the license can be removed from your computer. co mputer. Should you need to reinstall kick at any time, you can download the license key from your account page at any time. Microsoft Windows Installation Run the full version installer that comes with the download to install Kick on your hard drive. During the installation process you will see an option screen asking you to select which version of kick you want to install VST or AAX. Once installation is complete you can then select KICK 2 from within your DAW. DAW. You will be asked for your license key - simply point it to the file you downloaded previously previously.. Apple Mac Installation Run the full version installer that comes with the download to install Kick on your hard drive. Once installation is complete you can then select KICK 2 from within your DAW. DAW. You will be asked for your license key - simply point it to the file you downloaded previousl







3. Interface

1. Curve & EQ Presets 2. Undo / Redo 3. Gate / Snap / Tags Buttons 4. Main Presets and settings panel 5. Waveform display buttons 6. Sampled click control co ntrol panels 7. Output Fader, Meters and Limiter controls 8. Velocity amount slider

9. Portamento control 10. Sub control panel 11. Compressor and Export render 12. Drive 13. Distortion controls 14. EQ quick controls 15. Display window selection 16. Main display window







4. Preset

Selecting Presets Presets can be selected either using the left and right arrow buttons or by clicking on the preset window and opening the Preset Browser. The preset browser has 3 banks each containing multiple categories.

1. Factory 2. User 3. DLC. The factory bank contains all the presets that come as standard with kick 2. This includes all the much loved presets from kick v1. The User Bank is where you save your own modified or custom presets. DLC bank is where preset packs bought from the sonic academy shop will be stored. Saving Presets Presets can be saved either using the save or save as buttons. Save - Overwrites the current preset Save As - Saves the preset to a new user defined location Presets in the factory bank should not be overwritten and should be saved to a new location. The User Bank is where you save your own modified or custom presets. DLC bank is where preset packs bought from the sonic academy shop will be stored.







5. Pitch & Amp Nodes Curve Presets Kick 2 comes with some predefined curve presets to help you get started quickly. Click on the preset name to start browsing some examples. You can also save your own curves cur ves by pressing the Save Button or reset to the default curve shape by hitting the Reset Button. Undo/Redo The undo/redo buttons enable you to step back or forward through a list of edits you have made to the curves and also to the other elements of the sound shaping tools. There are 50 levels of undo. Gate The gate button selects between using a held midi note to control the volume envelope duration or have it play through to completion on each press. With Gate ON the longer you press a midi note the longer kick will play through the volume envelope. With Gate OFF kick 2 will play the full duration of the volume envelope. I.e. one shot. Snap With Snap ON movement of o f the pitch nodes will be restricted to semitones. With Snap OFF pitch nodes will move freely to any pitch value. Sub View Sub View enables or disables the waveform view on the main display Click View Click View enables or disables the waveform views of the 3 click channels on the main display Pitch Env Slider

The Pitch envelope slider controls the size of the pitch range that is applied to the pitch curve from 0-50Hz to 0-20,000hz Length Slider

The length slider controls the length in milliseconds of the pitch and amp curves from 50ms to 3000ms









Adding & Removing Nodes

You can add a new new node by double clicking and any space in the curves window. window. You can also remove remove a node by double clicking it. Bending a Node Line You can bend a Node line by by dragging in the middle of the line up or down. You can also straighten straighten the line by ALT ALT clicking. Window Selection Buttons

The window select button switch the display between: Pitch: The sub oscillators oscillators pitch envelope controls Amp: The sub oscillators amplitude envelope controls Click 1-3: Click channel amplitude envelope controls Zoom

You can use use the + & - buttons to zoom in/out from100% to 5000%. 5000%. you can also click and drag the zoom display window up and down. You can use the zoom scroll bar to move the some location. If you have a node selected the window will zoom in on that node.







6. Sub Controls

Pitch Knob The Pitch knob increases or decreases the pitch relative to the pitch nodes on the main display. Harmonics Presets The Sub in Kick 2 has a new additive synthesis engine enabling creation of more complex waveforms. The factory presets are based on the harmonic series of various drums that have been analysed. Simply select a preset using the menu to try different models. Harmonics Sliders Kick 2 has 8 harmonic sliders which relate to the volume level of each partial in the harmonic series from particular preset. They are initially setup to accurately model the volume level from the measured drum. Harmonics Knob The harmonics knob controls the volume level of the 7 partials that follow the fundamental partial. If the harmonic knob is set to zero there will be no additional partials heard and you will be only generating a pure sine wave. Waveshape Display The waveshape display shows the shape of the waveform currently being generated. There are also left and right preset selector buttons which enable you to cycle through the harmonics presets.







7. Click Controls

Pitch Knob The Pitch knob increases or decreases the pitch (playback speed) o f the click sample. Length The Length knob controls the length of the endpoint of the sample. Start The Start knob controls the start position of the sample. HP / LP THE HP/LP knob enables you to apply either a low-pass filter by turning to the left or a high-pass filter by turning to the right. Click Browser

The click browser opens up the click browser window where you can select a new click sample. Click Left / Right & Load

The left / right arrows allow you to cycle through the various clicks. The load button enables you to load a new click sample from your computers co mputers file menu. Wav Wav and Aiff are supported. Drag & Drop You Y ou can drag and drop a click file from your DAW DAW, its browser or from the computer file browser. browser. (not suported on all DAWS)







8. EQ Kick 2s EQ section contains four bands or fully parametric EQ. There are two bell filters and a high and low shelving filter filter..

EQ Edit Window From this window you can manage all 4 bands of the EQ on a graphical layout. EQ Band Controls

Each of the 4 band controls have frequency, gain and Q controls. co ntrols. Frequency controls the frequency







EQ Nodes

You can also also adjust the Gain, Frequency and Q using the EQ nodes. Moving the node up and down controls gain, left to right controls frequency and holding SHIFT while moving up, down, left or right adjusts the Q. EQ Quick controls & On/Off

The EQ quick controls enable you to quickly adjust the gain of each of o f the 4 EQ bands. The Blue EQ on/off button located top left enables you to completely bypass the EQ section.

9. Distortion

Distortion Type

Kick 2 has 3 different distortion models with unique characteristics









10. Drive Drive Amount

This drive control is the legacy overdrive from kick v1. It is used for compatibility reasons for kick v1 presets but can also add a nice extra layer of overdrive to v2 presets.

11. Compressor

Threshold The threshold control sets the level at which the compression effect is engaged. Ratio The ration sets the amount of attenuation applied to the signal. Attack the time it takes for the signal to become fully compressed after passing the threshold level.







12. Limiter Limiter Switch

The Limiter switch turns the limiter on and off. Limiter Threshold

The Limiter threshold control sets the level at which the limiter effect is engaged.

13. Velocity & Portamento Por tamento







14. Render & Export

Key Sets the midi note at which you would like the kick to be rendered. this only applies if you have set one of kicks sources to folow key tracking. Velocity Sets the velocity that the kick will be rendered at. Generate Generate renders the current kick with the its curent settings to a temporary cache and also updates the waveform display. Export Export enables you to save the generated kick to a file location of your choosing. Drag & Drop You Y ou can drag from the waveform window in to to your daw by holding down the left mouse button on the waveform waveform display aand dragging to one of the audio tracks in your DAW. DAW.







15. Settings Panel

Skin Select Sets the current skin. users can create their own skins using the PSD file that will be provided. Processing Sets kick 2 to either Mono or Stereo mode. This has some imapct on CPU usage. Limiter Release Time Sets the release time for the limiter







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