Sonic Academy introduces KICK 2.

New Features:
SUB Harmonics Control
Completly re-writen additive synth engine producing cleaner warmer waveforms. As well as being able to use a clean sine wave to create your KICKS, you can now take full control of the waveform by using our Sub Harmonics to add even more depth and character to your sound. Presets of various kick, snare, tom models included.
3 Fully Featured Click Areas
New to KICK 2 are 3 click areas jam packed with features including start time, length control, Low / High Pass Filters and fine pitch adjustment.
Drag & Drop Click Loading
Found an audio click that you like? simply drag and drop it straight onto the plugin window to load it directly into your soundbank.
External Sample Folder Browsing
Browse your personal sample collection direct from inside the plugin - allowing you to audition all of your favourite samples without having to manually load them in.
Tube, Clip and Wave Distortion Algorithms
As well as our original CLIP distortion from KICK 1 - we have included 2 new High Quality and expertly modelled Analog distortion units to allow you to add a little warmth to the sound, or to simply nail that hard dance kick
Included also is our signature Drive sound from Kick 1 to push everything that little bit more.
Full Graphical EQ
Too many highs? Too little lows? Simply adjust them with new built-in graphical EQ to do a boost or cut accross the frequency range without ever having to leave the plugin
EQ Quick Controls
Once your EQ's are set up you can control and manipulate them quickly and easily directly from the front of the plugin.
Waveform Export
You can you now quickly and easily export your created KICK using our generate function
Simply choose the Velocity and Note you would like to export at - then drag and drop it directly from the plugin into your DAW or save to folder.
Compressor
Use the built in compressor to get even more control over your KICK sound - perfectly tuned for kick drums.
Limiter
Keep your levels under control with KICKs built in limiter. Featuring a threshold control as well as 3 release settings. Alternatively you simply disable it if you do not want it interfering with your sound.

Pricing & update info coming shortly.

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Last edited: Apr 22, 2016

nice, kick 1 is my goto

 

Wow, I want this !!!...

 

Wow that plugin looks incredible! Thought the 1 missed a couple things...And the 2 got everything i wish it had! Looking forward to this

 

Kick 2 + Free Artist Bundle

Price: €63.36

 

Amazing.
Kick 1 was perfect for me. And there is more than perfect.

 

Yes it's a nice plugin but you can't import Kick Vol 1 presets or convert the presets to Kick Vol 2

 

I see no upgrade price for existing Kick v1 customers .. (?!)
Maybe i am blind ..

 

i had to login on the sonic academy site. after that i saw the price change

 

Like others have said, the first was cool. I didn't use it personally as it's workflow wasn't to my taste. But this looks to radically improve that. Might be just the kick synth I've been looking for.

 

call me crazy but I actually don't have/use a kick synth, I've settled with fl's ADSR and decent sample packs.
might give something like this a try in the future

 

back a little while ago i chose plugin boutique's big kick over the original sonic academy kick.
this update looks the shit, and i wonder if i picked the wrong side?!?

 

Hey guys, please excuse me as a noob to this forum but i recently uploaded the 14 day demo version to kat if anyoe wants to have a look and try it out. Cheers. https://kat.cr/usearch/Sonic Academy KICK 2/

May i also add that this link is for the demo version and is not a cracked/reverse engineered version so i hope i am not violating the forum rules by posting this link (that certainly is not my intention). If i am please accept my apologies and remove my post. Thank you.

 

Last edited: May 29, 2016

they are doing a bank holiday special on kick 2 until 30th may 20% off
about £10 off the original price
Discount Code = MAYDAY

 

Ofc drag n drop doesn't work with SO 3.

 

I have both and I like them equally. The only difference is that the Kick2 has a shorter learning curve and you can make very punchy kicks quite easily.

For Techno I mostly use BigKick and for Psytrance/Electro-House I tend to use Kick2, but this is also because of my user library.

 

Really? Well worth it from what iv`e seen. Was having a play with it yesterday, the 1st version sempt to be very `clicky`on the attack side but v 2 sounds much cleaner to me anyways......