KickLab XXL Manual
Virtual kickdrum designer
Concept
Kicklab XXL is designed for producers who understand the importance of a good, solid
Kick drum in their track. Often producers spend a large proportion of there time
selecting, trimming, changing and balancing the Kick drum in their productions. It is
the foundation and building block upon which all the other elements are set upon, and
the reality is that a bad sounding Kick can quite simply ruin your track. For this reason
many producers lean towards selecting a Kick drum sample over a “synthesized” Kick,
for one simple reason.... Kick drum samples generally sound better. But the problem
the producer is then faced with is a lack of control over tweaks and modifications to
the sound of the Kick in a static sample. So layering techniques have developed over
the years where a sample Kick is mixed with other Kick drums from different sources,
Eq’d and pitch changed and mixed and tweaked...to create the desired result. Up until
now this has been a combination of many different external techniques and processes
all coming together, in samplers, external Fx plugins, synths and mixers.
Enter...Kicklab XXL.
