DOWNLOAD TRIAL – PC & MAC Extremely Tight Kick Drums in A Matter of a Few Clicks The kick drum is the backbone of many modern music genres, both electronic and acoustic. It’s oftentimes the thing you start with in a new mix, but to get it sounding just right can be a complex task. A well mixed kick drum has a warm sounding low end, doesn’t sound too boxy and pierces through the mix in. Many thanks for the new version of the kick 2 plugin. I've been trying it out in the studio last week and it's pretty much fantastic. I've replaced all of the kicks with this one on my tracks that I'm working on now as it's super easy to get just the right kick sound and no need to go through hundreds of kick samples.

A downloadable plugin for Windows and macOS

From the developer of Misstortion comes Nimble Kick, a kick sampler. Mainly used for pitching hardstyle kicks, it features several great pitching algorithms specifically suited & tweaked for this purpose.

Some of the main features include:

Drag and drop a sample into the plugin and start playing notes directly with midi!
Punch and tail separation - an option to only pitch the tail or to pitch the whole sample.
Four different pitching algorithms to choose from. *
Midi note velocity controlling the note output volume.
Dynamic pitch bending of the kick tail.
An option for either monophonic or polyphonic output.
An ADSR envelope for notes.
Sample trimming and normalizing.
Option to make the punch mono.
Brickwall limiter.
Distortion section with an option to only distort the tail of the kick.
Kick FX section for quick distortion effects.
Post-processing filter section with shelves and peak.

This plugin is designed with the help and feedback of professional hardstyle DJs Code Black and Frontliner, as well as many other producers.

Note: Nimble Kick is only available as a VST3 plugin, as well as an AU version on Mac. There is no VST2 version of the plugin, read about why here. On Mac, the plugin is only available on 64 bit hosts.

* The algorithms available are a commercially licensed version of SoundTouch (stereo, 2 variation presets), ZTX LE Time Stretch/Pitch Shift technology licensed from Zynaptiq GmbH, http://www.zynaptiq.com/ztx © Zynaptiq GmbH (mono), and basic resampling (stereo).

Status	Released
Category	Tool
Platforms	Windows, macOS
Rating
Author	Nimble Tools
Tags	hardstyle, Instrument, Music, Music Production, pitch, pitching, plugin, sampler, VST

Purchase

In order to download this plugin you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $29.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Development log

Nimble Kick 1.0.4 released
Aug 22, 2020
Nimble Kick now has pogo, looping, solo, and more!
Oct 12, 2019

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When it comes to hardcore techno, and style/genre like gabber, hardstyle, speedcore, new style hardcore, oldschool gabber, etc.. the kick drum is the more important part of the production:

the kick drum has to be ridiculously strong, and/or distorted, mangled to death, strong solid fat devastating and incredible.

For me the best combo is drum synth or sample + distortion (and couple of other effects like compression, distortion, EQ, and more distortion).
But sometimes it’s nice to have a dedicated plugin ! Here we go with the freeware plugins :

1. Gabber Master! VST by John Merrik

direct dl : Gabber Master VST download!

It’s a Windows-only VST, it seems it has been created with Synthmaker, and should work well in 32 bit VST hosts sequencers.
The GabberMaster VST is sample based with a nice variety of samples, and some parameters for destroying the sound.
Instant gabber hardcore breakcore speedcore terrorcore !

2. Bassdrum::Murda VST by Distocore

Distocore Bassdrum::Murdaaaaaa

Free Kick Vst

Information and download : http://www.distocore.net/

Concept by I:GOR , this free plugin is more sophisticated and is a powerful drum synthesizer:
You have 3 oscillators with many waveforms to choose from, envelope sections for the pitch and the volume.
The audio signal goes to filter + distorsion + bit crusher + eq.
Now you can create powerful hardcore kick drums from scratch.

3. Hardcore Kicks Lite VST by the CoreStylerz

Information and download : http://www.thecorestylerz.net/vst/hardcore-kicks-vsti-2/hardcore-kicks-vsti-2-lite

This one lets you make some noise too.
It is “facebook-like-ware”, not really freeware, but it’s nice and deserves some supports.
some agressive ear-destroying presets show the potential of this hard kick generator.

4. Synth1 by Ichiro Toda !

Synth1 VST !

Or any synth with at least one or two oscillator, a pitch envelope and some saturation / distorsion / filter / EQ effect.

– turn off all effects
– start with OSC2 (mix 100% to the right), choose the triangle waveform,
– activate the Modulation ENVelope for Osc2 : set Attack to zero and turn up the Decay and AMounT
that’s a basic kick drum
Now you can destroy it with the effect section :

– choose analogic distorsion (A.D) or DECImator.
– for more funkyness, you can also add a filter lowpass (or bandpass) + filter envelope, crank up the resonance to add screaming.
Or choose a square waveform instead of the triange.

Free Kick Vst Plugin

Vst Plugin Kick Nicky Romero Edition

now you can mix with a kick sample, layer it, resample, do anything you want

Only Synth1 audio examples :

Kick Vst Plugin Free Download

https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/synth1-corekick.mp3
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/synth1-kick.mp3
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/synth1-brainwashkick.mp3
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/synth1-badboyyy.mp3

Kick Drum Vst Plugin Free

5. Virtual KickLab XL by Angular Momentum

Kick 2 Plugin

it’s here : http://www.amvst.com/kicklab-xl

Free Hip Hop Kick Vst Plugin Download

A kick dedicated free plugin for Windows, you can create bass drum from scratch.
It’s not as ferocious as the other plugins in this list, but it can do some solid kicks.
It’s more clean, the saturator and distortion aren’t dirty enough.
But you can produce nice kicks out of it.