Kick Ninja is dope!

[@kunzpeter433]

Finally we can make a hit track...

[@kap10ahab420]

LOL incoming triple platinum dopeness!

[@AlmerosMusicCode]

Is the 'AI' really AI or just pitch analyses? The feature is cool, but the AI label is just added for marketing reasons far too much imho.

[@ivayloivanov3744]

@@AlmerosMusicCode yea, nowadays AI is on everything just for marketing reasons, but the vst is good

[@shaunbillyboss4337]

Before AI...we just had computers

[@itsanthony1980]

When comparing the sounds of the kicks early in the video, I believe you still have the sample section turned on which may mean the sound is affected?

[@gianabrotherz]

Great! Thanks for showing!

[@oscilop]

Nice one! Much better AI use than Visco in my opinion. Does the resynthesis work only well for Kicks, assuming it's only a sine osc, or you've tried with other drums as well?

[@apoplexiamusic]

We NEED a plugin like this for snares!!!!

[@PolarityMusic]

Tried some rim shots, and that doesn’t really work. but rims are extreme. It’s just filtered noise.

[@hydrogxn]

I wonder still about the audja kickdrum beta is shaping up.

[@szetnezekaneten]

@@apoplexiamusic Try Backbone by Steinberg

[@SoundPeaks]

The feature that you are talking about in the second half of the video is also available in GeonKick and am astonished how these two plugins are similar. I don't believe that two different people could come up with nearly identical UX for a kick drum generator plugin

[@xgmode]

The dev should include locking the tail, it sucks when changing the attack/body portion of the envelope and the tail moves as well. Audija kickdrum is the only one that has this essential feature. So a pass for me.

[@gravity00x]

If someone could mail this to the developer I think, this VST would be the GO-TO for kicks.

[@xgmode]

@@gravity00x In a different video about this plugin I said the same thing, maybe the dev will read it here or in that vid.

[@BappinProductions]

I was on the beta team. I’ll pass on the suggestion direct to the developer.

[@BappinProductions]

Could clarify what you mean by “tail moves” do you mean the phase of the tail rotates when editing attack/body nodes or the physical position (as represented in the UI) of the tail nodes move?

[@xgmode]

@@BappinProductions The phase and the length of the tail stays locked in Audija kickdrum, no matter what you do in the attack or body of the kick.

[@onaucc9899]

This looks really, really interesting. However, like someone else mentioned, there should be a feature to lock the tail, so you don't destroy all your work with the phase alignment just because you have to slightly change something on the kick. Also, could you try how it handles (techno) rumble kicks? Because the very basic "standard EDM kicks" are one thing. Way more interesting and important how it handles not-so-standard kicks.

[@BappinProductions]

you can rotate the phase 360, there is a slider for it under the H3 and H4 knobs on the UI

[@rt5u]

Hey man why not make a video about that Resonic Pro that is peeking out at one bit of the video? ;) Cheers, love your videos!

[@bazebuster8330]

Not related to kickNinja but another software question. I can‘t figure out which sample-manager your using (here)? It isn‘t Sononym as far as I can say.

[@pbrninja19]

It looks like it says Resonic.

[@fruitsbat]

oh this is a good idea! especially since this gives you about as much control of the sound as if you synthesized it yourself! how does it do with more organic sounding kicks? 🤔

[@gravity00x]

Super cool, if this gets tail locking, it would look like a worthy purchase, given a good price.

[@Derpcat]

kick 3 is about to come out so its a funny timing

[@BFHPET]

how you know that?

[@DBTHEPLUG]

@@BFHPET Because the creators of Kick 2 made a video announcing it?

[@GeorgeLocke]

What does it do if you try and make it replicate some Foley or an electric piano or something?

[@PolarityMusic]

it just tries to track the pitch curve and then applies it to the simple oscillator. its nothing like synplant.

[@delayeedbms]

does the waveform actually represent whats going on unlike kick2?

[@lorranell]

I don't know about that one but I just seen that Kick 3 is coming out soon! Greez

[@moonstrobe]

Reminds me of a more cumbersome and tricked out version of Chop Suey.

[@aesonone]

i didn't like the results of the import to osc, but all the other stuff looks hella handy

[@TrueFakeNews]

Doesnt work for me on heavy hardtechno kickdrums - sadly the AI creating not the same

[@F4xP4s]

Why this and not Kick 2?

[@PolarityMusic]

can kick 2 analyze and figure out the pitch envelope of a sample?

[@F4xP4s]

@@PolarityMusic no, but I can, and besides why would I want to recreate a kick that already exists. Wouldn’t I just use the original kick? Or just make a new one?

[@PolarityMusic]

good for you, have fun!

[@tekalightmusic3125]

@@PolarityMusic KICK 3 will do this, there's even a batch feature to allow multiple samples analyze and will creates presets in a folder for you. Beta out today.

[@bonafontciel]

@@F4xP4s I give you one example. Let's say you liked the attack and body of a kick sample, but it's too long(more than 300 ms) for a track running at 122 bpm. You can edit it via izotope rx and remove cycles or you can use this plugin then increase the speed of the pitch envelope once scanned and have a nice kick of ~210 ms.

[@gepmrk]

You can pitch track in Kick 2

[@No.0.o.0]

😮

[@TheBigLou13]

Yes, but not only a single node (leaving the transient part un-tracked). Same for the 3 samples. That way you can keep the transient the same for different notes but still have a smooth transition of your sine sweep transient pitch into your body/tail pitch, without just cutting a fixed transient in front of a pitch tracked body (with an abrupt jump in pitch). It even looks like (might be wrong), that you can note-track different parameters than just pitch - like fx amount, so you can have a node of the fx curve follow the pitch of the midi note (like velocity tracking, but a 2nd parameter to independently control). I enjoy very much that we have/get another editor to splice sample accurate samples and oscs together, where the (Linear) control nodes don't leave the (Logarithmic) preview waveform, when you zoom in like in kick2. The missing linear/log switch in kick2 made me buy these other kick synths (Audija and this one), and both do things better than kick2, which makes me rarely use kick2 anymore. It feels limiting in many regards (can't end your curve below 20hz (in combination with amp envelope means you always end up above 20hz with your tail); you can only edit *the very left most* transient part of the kick when zoomed in and not the body/tail of the kick, because the nodes don't line up with the waveform, which is useless for any edit after the initial pitch level - and a kick/hit/impact can be much more than that, but you can't realisticly do that in kick2 (because of missing lin/log switch). And you can't automate parameters over time in kick2 like here in ninja kick). This ninja kick synth feels like a step up from a simple osc synth to a Wavetable synth. I feel like it's worth supporting/having/using.

[@Yohmss]

You who know how to do everything, I would like to know if this is a real tool that will help you? Or do you just find it interesting?

[@frequency_sequencer]

This and Audija will definitely eat into the Kick 2 market... Unless there's kick 3

[@vergaerd]

Yeah, going to wait and see what Audija will offer with its upcoming update. Don't think it will have AI, but it does almost everything else and all with phase alignment.

[@BappinProductions]

Literally released today!

[@kirkwoodwest]

Yeah I was wondering how it was missed mentioning in this video. This plugin looks a lot cleaner than Audjia. Also from adjust is missing these waveform tweaks along with the output module. I hope audjia can keep adding features to their plugin.

[@tekalightmusic3125]

@@BappinProductions Yes indeed, KICK 3 Beta is available to KICK 2 or Kick 1 license owners.

[@SoftClip_Q]

this drops right before kick 3 with ai is about to drop hmmm gonna wait for kick 3 and hope it has these features. pretty cool stuff but not stuff i will break the wallet for.

[@tekalightmusic3125]

Kick 3 Beta is out today.

[@SoftClip_Q]

@@tekalightmusic3125 Ty just got my beta!

[@listenfidi]

Audija kickdrum is the best

[@GermoStaalfeldt]

for psy trance lol

[@Henrychamber-r8w]

Backbone loads better

[@sebastianniebuhr2481]

if im right.....kick 3 does the same

[@CFox.7]

Wuh ?

[@alexandervaldorf1825]

But it is just a plug in vst. You play it with your mouse. It has not the fun to play like with a hardware drum synth.

[@bonafontciel]

just another kick plugin that is going to rot in my HD

[@X-101]

This looks like a Chop Suey rip off?

[@marceloribeirosimoes8959]

Thank you for the video! But... C'mooooon... ..."...kind of the same" is never "...the same". We could see this can't recreate your own kicks perfectly. The plugin seems really cool, but getting to the same saturation or "character" is not easy. I'm a Kick 2 user and, believe me, it takes a lot of effort to get far from what you want to.

[@PolarityMusic]

i dont think the point of the plugin is to re-create the kick to 100%, it's more about having the same pitch-drop, which can be a tedious task to figure out.