As cheesy as it sounds, I love the SA - Kick. I get some really good intelligible kicks from Arturia - Spark but for over a year this little bugger has been my go-to for kick drums and kick replacement. I've also used it to layer other kicks that just don't shine enough or lack that unmistakable low end. So, yeah I'm definitely gonna get it when I have the chance.

 

Metrum by Vengence, Bazzism, Credland Audio Big Kick, Sasquatch Kick Machine by Boz digital, Korzenie Kick, Bigroomkicksynth, GuDa Kikr & Drumr to name but a few other options (altho there are many more out there. Personally out these few i prefer Credland audio big kick, sounds similar to Sonic academy kick.

 

is what Swedish house mafia (aka Axwell, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso) are using alongside hardware compression...

 

question...can Kick 2 be used on an cracked DAW? I'm thinking of buying it...the price with the sale is right...but is it possible to used it that way?

 

it uses a serial key

 

I should think so yes, it works fine on my Studio One, try the demo first, iv`e posted a link to my torrent for it. I might add though it is just the untouched DEMO downloaded directly from Presonus.....

 

KICK 2 v1.03

Changes

• Increased performance & addressed issue where GUI would occasionally freeze on some systems.
• Auto Fadeout (to avoid clicking) only applied when GATE is on.
• Fadeout changed to exponential curve instead of linear to reduce clicking.
• The Length and Pitch sliders no longer snap to cursor position.
• Meter graphical response has been smoothed.
• Included Kick 1 Preset Convertor for Windows and Mac.
• Fixed: bug where changes to Limiter lookahead would be ignored.
• Fixed: issue where the tail of the KICK would modulate in certain scenarios when using a very short KICK length.
• Fixed: bug where plugin would crash on closing the plugin window after using the generate function in windows.

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