Gum Cuisine Kick, new kick drum Synthesizer plugin for mac & win - January 17, 2023

The plugin is simply called “Kick” and is a new kick drum Synthesizer with a fully-synthesized core. The GUI is very eye-catching, has relatively large controls, and comes with 6 color schemes. I would like something fine because they look a bit too massive, but that’s just my taste.

Kick consists of different sound-shaping sections. It starts with a multi-timbre tone section with a full ADSR envelope and pitch control. The filtered noise section with different flavors, an independent decay envelope, and a built-in filter give your kicks additional character.

It gets more intriguing and sonically rich in the second area of the plugin. A multi-flavored click section creates punchy transients while the body part adds more punch and rumble to your kicks.

There is also a resonance module consisting of a resonator for a special, more organic character. Plus, you can go further and apply a drive (soft overdrive to heavy distortion) and FM for additional harmonic overtones to your kicks.

Alongside the drive and FM, you have a random control giving natural variation each time you trigger a sound. Kick ships with over 100 ready-to-use presets. These give you a good overview of the sounds that the drum synth can produce. The real fun, however, begins when you explore the engine yourself.

Gum Cuisine Kick is available now for an introductory price of $25 USD instead of $49 USD.
It runs as a VST3 and AU plugin on macOS (Intel + M1) and Windows.
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