Hardcore Kicks is designed especially for Hardcore and Hardstyle producers in order to make easy and quick the creation of kicks and basslines. Easy creation does not mean just sound design, but the general idea is to enhance music production by allowing powerful stunning automations through the host program.

Hardcore Kicks VSTi 2 is presented as an hybrid synthesizer as it runs with wave samples or with 3 wavetable-based oscillators including analog and digital waves with a complete set of wave shaping tools.

Hardcore Kicks VSTi 2 is expandable without limits: Waves, Wavetables and skins are fully expandable.

Features

Oscillators:

• 2 sources switchable: Wave Based or Wavetable based.
• Sample based oscillator support .wav 44.100 hz.
• 3 subtractive Wavetable based oscillators.
• 79 internal Wavetables.
• Support unlimited Expansions and Custom wavetables.
• Draw waves and subtraction result preview.
• Import custom waves into waves bank.
• Automatable source mode, follow pitch (waveloader) and all osc functions.

Wave-shapers:

• 7 points shaping.
• Auto resample for wav.
• Floats multiplier from 1 to 3.
• Normalized output (0;1).
• Draw shape directly on wave preview.
• Optional shape viewer.
• Automatable points, multipliers, Normalize, bypass.

Filters:

• 7 filter types.
• Full control over Frequency, resonance and keynote.
• 12db Lowpass, Highpass, bandpass.
• Notch, Peak.
• 24db Lowpass filter.
• ButterWorth Bandpass and Bandreject.
• Automatable Cutoff, resonance, keynote, bypass, type.

Envelopes:

• ADSR Envelope on Amp.
• ADSR Envelope on Pitch.
• Fast envelope for oscillators mode.
• ADSR envelope on Filter.
• Draw preview of envelopes.
• Automatable envelopes.

Distortion:

• 3 bands distortion.
• Frequency splitter with sync.
• Automatable amount, frequency, bypass, sync.

Lo-fi:

• Bit Crusher.
• Sample-rate reducer.
• Automatable bits, sample-rate, bypass.

Equalizer:

• 4 points control XY.
• Q Control.
• High quality precision.
• Automatable XY Points, Q, HQ, Bypass.

Midi:

• Pitch bend wheel control.
• Modulation wheel control over filter cutoff.
• Midi CC values.

Presets:

• 64 patches per bank.
• Support save/load single and complete patch/banks.
• Copy/Paste/Rename functions.
• Exported as common .FXP MIME Type.

Skins:

• Support unlimited skins.
• Easy skin development.
• Save default skin setting.
• "Core" and "LightinBlue" Skins included.

Export possibilities (requires extender):

• Wav conversion to 256 samples wavetable (.hkw).
• Export Wavetable.
• Wavetable conversion to .wav 44.100 16bits.
• Wave DC offset preserve/ transform to 0.
• Auto-recall without reload plugin.