This is just an experiment I did to see if it would make stacking kick drums easier. The kick stacker contains two simpler racks that allow the user to select from a collection of fat bottom kicks and more natural textured top kicks. I preloaded it with about 20 of each, but you can add your own by opening the zone on each simpler. You can also transpose the samples from the top row.

To mix the kicks, the “Fat / Texture” knob acts as a crossfader between the two samples.

The “Cut Freq” knob moves a high pass filter on the top kick and a low pass filter on the bottom kick, ensuring the frequencies don’t overlap and providing an easy way to find a tone you like.

It is also mapped to the frequency of a filter where the “Demud” knob is mapped to the gain. This is to lessen any overlapping frequencies that bleed through.

I also threw in a kick tools rack with a compressor and controls to adjust 4 EQ nodes specifically for kicks.

I haven’t even messed with it that much, so I have no idea how effective it will be, especially with a limited amount of samples. I’m also finding that the samples could definitely use some gain staging to make the crossfading more balanced. You can lower the gain on the fat kicks chain and see how that works.

Here’s the live pack:

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