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Jarkko Sakkinen

This is my de-facto approach to kicks with #Bitwig: I put the reference made with KICK2 to the sampler and then fit my curves to it :-) #audio
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it would huge productivity enhancement for the grid if sub-blocks could be saved because you tend to use a lot the same patterns. then they could be just picked up and brought to the whatever is cooking :-)
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Additional notes:

  • Signal path has the bare minimum in order not to add any possible extra latency. The point is to play in low-latency.
  • Sampler takes care of transient peak in the same instrument rack.

My next thing is to write a script that takes KICK2 preset file, parses the XML and saves two Bitwig curve presets :-) This way I get away from having to edit programmatically an actual Grid preset, which would be probably too complicated. KICK2 has pretty simple format…

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 8 months ago
this is my project template kick ATM. it is not meant for referencing but more like finding something reasonable in bitwig, then knobs are bit nicer IMHO. i like to do presets that have barely enough stuff and refine per project :-)
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one thing that came to mind about bass drums. i often start with my self-made synthesized kick but then i finally pick a kick sample possibly e.g. from a sample pack or even splice. you make much more educated pick and less time spent. thus i have more knobby kick in the template... so even if not being a professional audio engineer and have studio grade room treatment, making own kicks can be turn out to be many ways useful. at worst that gives you some idea what you are looking for
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