KickDrum

The deal

$22 at KVR Marketplace (down from $44). Sale ends June 1, 2026.

What it is

KickDrum is a dedicated bassdrum synthesizer by Audija, available as VST3 and Audio Unit. It models kicks as pitch-sweeping sine waves with a modular chain of oscillators, samplers, linear-phase EQ, saturator, clipper, spectral pitch shifter, and wavetable distortion. Its novel non-DSP rendering engine builds each kick offline and fades it into the live output, enabling computationally expensive processing without audio latency or glitches.

Who it's for

Electronic producers who build their tracks around the kick - especially in EDM, psytrance, and techno - and want surgical, visual control over every stage of kick synthesis rather than relying on samples or simple single-oscillator plugins.

Key features

• Modular nestable device chain with wavetable oscillator, linear-phase multi-band EQ, saturator, clipper, spectral pitch shifter, and wavetable distortion - all stackable and copy-pasteable across presets
• Non-DSP offline rendering engine delivers linear-phase EQ and zero-latency output by rebuilding the kick from scratch on every edit
• Bezier curve envelope editor with unlimited nodes, freely movable control points, and tempo-relative length settings for precise pitch and volume shaping
• Analyze function converts any existing sample into an editable patch with optional wavetable creation for matching and morphing reference kicks