I used to achieve some nice ones using drumatic and z3ta+. do someone know about some others?

fXpansion's DR-008's synth kick drums will pound your head off. Sweet stuff.

Devon

Have you tried Drumdragon or drumsynth (not a VSTi but free).

http://www5.plala.or.jp/wantech/vst/Drum.html
http://www.mda-vst.com/

Of course FLStudio has Fruit Kick, which does nice bassdrum sounds

ATA

xoxos used to do a great one called thumper,now its called kik i think? http://home.earthlink.net/~plattermatic/index.html
odo does 'kick me too',just tried his site but i got an error,look up in the instrument links.these are both very good i thinks.

Synth 1 works for me.

DR-008 is good because you have dedicated modules for kick drums.

The ultimate drum synth VSTi (capable of some nasty kick drums) has got to be Attack though....hasn't it?

Drumatic would be a good choice if you are after something free. I love the ephonic stuff, especially this and LoFi (goes nice with drums too ).

Of course you can usually synthesize a nice kick drum with a lot subtractive synths, but to use something dedicated is a lot quicker

you can also try my psy-drums
BTW the link for KMT still Works

OdO

Nobody's mentioned MicroTonic? For shame.

the synthesized kick drum module in RM4 is my favorite for dance oriented kick drums by far

MicroTonic MicroTonic MicroTonic

Yeah, I think DR-008's kick module is based off of Zap's "Stomper (Hyperion)". Neat little utility.

And I have no use for MicroTonic in my music.




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BUT DAMN IF I STILL WANT IT!!!

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thx a lot for all your replies

there seems to be some new stuff to try I didn't know about.

pro-sounds -> i did use attax some time ago and i find the sound drumatic a lot warmer, though it doesn't as many features. imo attax sounds a bit 'plastic'


odo -> i'll try your "psy-drums" for sure

Hey 604remix. As I assume your a goa(604)head you may want to look at this link...

http://www.infected-mushroom.net/Studio/Html/_Kickdrum_Tutorial.htm

Surely this would apply with another other frequency generator as well. Enjoy.

pough wrote:

MicroTonic MicroTonic MicroTonic

Yeah microtonic rocks! too bad it produces a nasty initial click sometimes if you make kickdrum/tom type sounds (I guess they should add some kind of volume envelope to control this) but that can be cured by sampling the sound to your fave drumsampler and control the volume envelope there.

jtstatic wrote:

pough wrote: MicroTonic MicroTonic MicroTonic Yeah microtonic rocks! too bad it produces a nasty initial click sometimes if you make kickdrum/tom type sounds (I guess they should add some kind of volume envelope to control this) but that can be cured by sampling the sound to your fave drumsampler and control the volume envelope there.

yea hopefully an attack parm for the OSC will be addressed in an update soon. i just hope its not like Chainer goin a year without an update

-k-

There is still also the free ErsDrums from the makers of Iblit/PolyIblit.

Check the instrument links right-top corner for that one..

Your mouth and a wave editor and a sampler (I swear).

Strangely enough I never heard any fatter Kicks then the (jomox!)presets wich came with the virsynth tera wich is not a drumsynth in the first place, but man those kicks are deeeep!!
Second on the kick is the microtonic for me.

I use fxpansion DR008, I love it. Synthesized AND sampled drums.
There's also Linplug RMIV, a similar VSTi, never tried it myself.
Reaktor has a few ensembles with synthesized drums.
Lots of people use Waldorf Attack, I never tried it.

Stomper and a sampler.

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/stomper/

Great for just about any drum. It can take a sample envelope it, fm it, mix it, pitch env it, etc.

Oh yeah and last time I checked it was free!