KICK 2 Drum Plugin

The KICK 2 drum synth is jam packed with all of the essential components required to create the perfect kick drum:

High-Quality Bezier Curves

Snap to key to keep your drum in key

Built-in compressor and limiter

Gate / Keytrack & Portamento Control

Full Graphical EQ

Quick Kick Export

Tube, Clip and Wave distortion algorithms

Sub Harmonics control

3 fully featured Click areas

Drag and drop click loading

Kick drums are, more often than not, sourced from audio samples from sample packs. The samples in these packs could have been sampled numerous times before making it into your sample pack.

Imagine a producer has made a track - using a sample from a sample pack, most likely applying some compression or eq directly on the kick, and 100% there is processing on the bus or master.

Someone has then sampled the kick from that track and included it in another sample pack. Then this sample is used in a track, and someone samples that track - an endless loop of sampling and resampling - with the quality deteriorating every cycle.

With the KICK 2 drum synthesizer your kick is synthesized from a pure sine wave generated inside the drum plugin - it’s in its rawest form. You can pitch it up or down / lock it to a specific key to suit your track, all without changing the quality of the kick, as it will always be 100% synthesized.

This is why our kick drum plugin has become one of the most essential tools in most producers' arsenal across the globe.

Our KICK Drum VST was designed to be super user-friendly. Aimed at beginners but with all of the advanced tools available for the more intermediate and advanced producer.

So if you have just started on your music production journey we urge you to not be put off by using drum vst plugins. They are extremely easy to use - we actually have an article on how to install plugins in Ableton Live that may come in useful if you are a complete novice.

Our Kick drum plugin is for creating perfectly synthesized kick drums in their purest form. Which allows you to pitch and manipulate your KICK without compromising on the quality of drum sound.

This can only be done with a drum synth - using audio samples, you will inevitably end up compromising the quality of your kick.

The KICK 2 drum synth is one of world’s best drum plugins available to producers and is used by some of the world’s most prolific artists. It is an electronic drums vst which is perfectly suited for making electronic dance music.

If you have been searching endlessly for a kick to fit into your song. Struggling to find one in the perfect key, with the perfect tail. Perhaps you have one that has a great click at the start, but lingers on too long. Or you find one that is short and snappy enough, but it’s the wrong key for your bassline.

Well, this is where drum vst plugins come into their own. Using our KICK 2 drum plugin you can solve this problem but creating a kick that is the perfect length, perfect key, and has the perfect click to cut through your mix.

KICK 2 is one of world’s best virtual drums plugins available and as a virtual synthesizer it is used as part of your existing DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).

It is a Drum Synth VST, and what this means is that it is installed on your computer and accessed via your DAW plugins area. Once installed, you create and add the drum plugin to an empty MIDI track in your project. You then sequence some MIDI notes onto this channel and it will trigger the Kick drum vst to play your kick drum sound.

All drum synth vsts have their own separate Graphical Interface (separate to your DAW) and it is from from there that you control all of your changes to your kick drum.

We have lots of free tutorials available for our kick drum plugin. We also use the kick drum vst extensively throughout our other course tutorials on our site. So if you are looking at a subscription to our courses you will see KICK 2 used a lot during the building of the drums in each course.