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KickLab XXL Manual

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Operation Manual for KickLab XXL software version 1.0

Introduction by Darren Glen:

"Kicklab XXL is the most advanced Kickmaking machine on the market, with the whole

vst dedicated solely to the most important percussion element of any electronic track,

the KICK.

Kicklab XXL features many original and unique functions and tricks that are often

employed by the most savvy dj producers/engineers to get their kicks well and truly

NAILED and brings all of these together into one beautiful interface. Kicklab XXL has

two powerful sound-generating sections, a Virtual Kick Synth and a Kick Sampler

section [with import functions] to rejuvenate your static kick samples with big, warm

powerful synth kick sub. With filters on the sample to avoid frequency cancellation,

phase change buttons to help match bottom end, delay trims to line up both kick

attacks exactly, volume mixing with EQ and saturation options the KICKLAB XXL will

create the big, in-your face, round stomping kicks with deep sub that you always

dreamed of."

Darren Glen

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KickLab XXL specifications

Virtual section

Sub Oscillator Sine and Triangle

Pitch Adjust

Pitch shaper

AD Envelope Generator

Puncher

Click Generator

Distortion

SV Filter with LP/HP/BP/Notch/Peak filtermodes and Velocity Tracking

Sampler Section

Double Precision Stereo Sampler

Trim section

Loop/Forward/Reverse/Key Follow

4 Octave Pitch Adjust

Stereo/Mono Switch

ADS Envelope Generator

Easy scrolling thru samples with previous/next buttons

Stereo SV Filter with LP/HP/BP/Notch/Peak filtermodes and Velocity Tracking

Mixer Section

3 band EQ with Hi and Low frequency split adjust

Saturator with depth and limiting

Phase invert (Virtual and Sampler Sections)

Mutes (Virtual and Sampler sections)

Level Metering (Stereo Left/Right and Virtual/Sampler Output)

Channel Delay (Virtual and Sampler Section)

Main Volume Control

Preset Section

Preview Function (disables itself when host is playing)

Multi Channel Output Stereo Main/Virtual+Sampler/All

Drop down menu preset select, previous and next selectors

Regular Disk operations, load/save preset or load/save preset bank

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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.

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Method of Operation

Kicklab XXL has two sound generators, the Virtual Kick section and the Sampler Kick

section. With Kicklab XXL you combine the best sonic elements of both sound

generating techniques to complement each other. The Sampler Kick section helps to

provide the unique transient and attack information that is often unable to be

reproduced by a synthesized Kick sound. The Virtual Kick section provides a far wider

range of unique control over its sound with all of its knobs to help customise the

sound much more than is otherwise possible with just a Kick sample.

There are several ways of building up a Kickdrum in KickLab XXL and here are some

suggestions that will give you a headstart in making the best use of Kickab XXL.

1:/ The Virtual Kick supplying the "Meat" and "Sub" of the kick sound and the Sample

section supplying the "attack" of the kick, with the bottom end filtered out using the

high pass filter, this is a concept suggested and recommended by Darren Glen, you

will find this technique in the presets kindly provided by Darren Glen.

2:/ Having the Virtual Kick supply the full kick and the sample supplying a "hat"

sample or some other attack transient, with a short decay.

3:/ The Sample section plays a reversed kick sample to give the Virtual Kick supplying

the full kick a different tail, even a ducking kind of effect when used with decay and

trigger delay. With the trigger delay you can adjust the tail ducking effect perfectly to

the groove of your project.

4:/ Another approach is that you could have the Sample kick supplying all the main of

the kick and the virtual kick supplying more midrange "thump".

5:/ The sampler section can be set to “follow keys” and therefore you could decide to

trim the attack off a Kick sound leaving only its sub tail and “play” the kick tail like a

musical instrument, possibly with the kick tail becoming a bass sound in your track...

6:/ A variation on suggestion 5 to "follow keys" is to have a very short trim setting on

the Sampler, with Sampler Looping on, providing synth wave type sounds that can be

used to generate an overtone to compliment the virtual section. The Trim Start and

End can be used to tune the waveform. The closer the trims are set, the higher the

pitch. With this technique Kicklab XXL can also be used as a bass instrument, the vir-

tual section could provide the “Finger stroke” of the bass string.

...and any combination of the above or in-between. The possibilities are endless.

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A Guide to Use

Kicklab XXL is a Vsti instrument. Add Kicklab to your VST Instrument rack or channel

and send it a single midi note (eg C1) to trigger a kick sound. Sending a single midi

note will trigger both the Virtual and Sample sections of Kicklab together at the same

time.

The most important thing to decide on first is which sound generator is going to be

responsible for the sub of your Kick, the Virtual Kick section or the Sample section.

As sub information is primarily sine wave there can be only one sound generator

responsible for supplying the sub information of your kick, otherwise you will end up

with random cancellation of sub frequencies and a combing effect that will make your

kick sound far from ideal in a club. It can also make your Kick randomly change its

characteristics as the sub sine waves fight it out for supremecy, as well as introduce

unwanted peaks and distortion. This is obviously to be avoided.

Build your Kick from the ground up in layers, starting with the sub, and use the high-

pass filter supplied from the appropriate section to remove the sub from the

secondary Kick sound you are going use. Other advanced fiter types are also supplied

and may prove to be more suitable.

Give yourself plenty of “headroom” in Kicklab XXL when you start creating your kick,

as volume levels can later creep up in many sections, including high Resonance, Punch

or EQ settings. Start with low Volume knob settings for each section. The meters are

there to visually notify you when internal clipping is likely to occur. High volume levels

or clipping will, aside from adding distortion, traditionally reduce the deep sub bass

power and response of your kick, so keep your levels reasonable. Use your ears.

Preferable the virtual and sample sections are set at the same pitch frequency in

correspondance with the key of the composition, however this is certainly not

mandatory as no formula is the right one, but preferable keep harmonics as much as

possible in the mid and high frequency range to avoid cancellation of sub.

Another method of tackling cancellation is to adjust the pitch of each sound generator

or change the phase of one of the generators and hear how the virtual and sampler

kick sounds interact together and how the overall Kick sound changes, most notibly

the sub and lower mid frequencies.

Adjust the timing of one of the Kick sound generators with the “trig delay” knobs and

pay attention to how any cancellation evolves as the two sounds morph. The different

waveforms align differently in time, thus changing or at best solving the occurance of

any cancellation.

Trim the start or end of the Kick sample to reduce noise or unwanted extra sound

information, think less is more.

Eq your resultant sound further with the EQ section and and perhaps add some

Saturation. Set volume levels for each section, adjust your overall output level with

the Output Fader guided by the meters and choose to possibly send the Kicklab XXL

sound generators to separate outputs to provide further individual processing (such as

compression) in your DAW. You are well on your way to your own slammin’ Kick!

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Virtual section

The Virtual section of Kicklab XXL is a real kick synthesizer. It creates Kick drums

purely from scratch without the use of any samples, and thus no two kicks are alike.

The Virual Section is designated by a blue colored panel surrounding the knobs. The

Oscillator that generates the Virtual Kickdrum sound can be set up as a Sinus wave or

Triangle wave. The Triangle wave can produce harsher distorted and "plasticky" kick

sounds, but has also the disadvantage of losing sub content compared to a Sinus

wave. Use the Sampler section to provide the sub

content in such presets. The Oscillator is the first

part of the sound generation process. The frequency

input of the oscillator is controlled and shaped by the

pitch adjuster and pitch shaper. The pitch shaper is a

AHDS (Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain) Envelope with Envelope Strength Control (Shape

E). The release is predetermined and can not be changed.

The puncher section is similar to a kick foot pedal, the punch

parameter controlling how hard the pedal is punched in, and the

impact parameter controlling how much impact the virtual drum

head receives. The Puncher is not related to the velocity sensitivity

of KickLab XXL. The Puncher predetermines how much strength the

Foot Pedal strikes the Virtual Bass Drum Head regardless of

velocity sensitivity. The more you turn these knobs, the tougher

the attack of your Virtual kick becomes.

Distortion can provide a little dirt into the kick, or can be used to

produce massive hard style kick drums. Be cautious how much to

apply if used with EQ and Saturation due to internal clipping if you

do not want them to occur. The Distortion has a selector which

can be set to strengths varying from low for subtle warmth to

loudest. The plugin will never output above 0 dB, so even with the

settings to loudest the plugin will not produce clips in the host mixer. The Distortion

applies to the Virtual Kick section only.

It is very well possible to get internal clips when using the filter in some extreme

settings, most often when having lots of, or a long decayed, sub with a Low Pass filter

cutoff parameter setting close to zero, or having added too much distortion, saturation

or EQ. This should be avoided when using a full sub kick drum in the virtual section.

Again, the plugin output will never output above 0 dB, but internal clipping can

happen. Use your ears and the graphical meters supplied to determine if your settings

are causing undesired clipping.

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Virtual section continued

The filter section consists of a mono State Variable filter with multiple modes (the

filter is mono as the Virtual Section is mono, which is desired for low and subsonic

information. The high quality filter is useful to get rid of unwanted frequencies or to

roll of subsonic frequencies, for instance, with a High Pass filter. The modes are:

Low Pass

High Pass

Band Pass

Notch or Band Reject

Peak

Bypass

The filter also has velocity sensitivity. Vary the input velocity of the Midi notes sent to

Kicklab XXL slightly between each other to change the filter position and thus make

each Kick sonically different. This is especially useful for samples to bring to life an

otherwise static Kick sample.

The Amp section consists of a click generator and a AD (Attack,

Decay) Envelope. The click generator produces a more apparent

attack on the Virtual Kick, making it more dominant in your

groove. If you do not like the sound of the click, use a low pass

filter in the virtual section to give the click more mid range

characteristics, rolling off the high frequencies. You could also

raise the resonance giving the click even more midrange, changing the “click” into

“stick”. Mid range boost gives the click naturally more decay as well. Please note that

you might also mess around with sub frequencies, so be careful.

The amplifier envelope sets the Attack and Decay of the Virtual Kick. All the envelopes

are in Sync with the oscillators, so you have a consistent, a precise defined sound

every time a MIDI trigger is received from your controller or host MIDI track. The

envelope will stop only if a note off is received with a predetermined release, just

enough to eleminate any clicks. KickLab will play the kick as long as you hold a note.

If you paint a note in your host sequencer make sure your note is as long as you want

it to sound. Note that KickLab is polyphonic, it will not cut a MIDI note or overlapping

notes when a new MIDI note is received. It will always play the note until a note off is

received. This could result in unwanted sub frequency cancellation. In FL Studio's step

sequencer notes will overlap as the step sequencer does send notes on only, not any

notes off. To tackle this problem use the piano roll instead to sequence KickLab XXL.

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Sampler Section

The Double Precision Sampler can read Mono or Stereo 16 bit and 24 bit wave files. It

will display the stereo information, but the left and right sample information are

merged together in the sample display. The Sampler section is designated by a red

panel area surrounding the related knobs, at the bottom section of Kicklab XXL. The

sampler has a trim section for the start and end to trim the sample information to

your personal preference. Simply grab the visual trim bars with the mouse pointer and

drag them to a new location. The sampler has incorporated all of the basic nessecities

you might need creating a well laid out kick drum. You can Loop, Reverse, Pitch adjust

and have the sample follow keys or play at a steady pitch over all keys. Grab the Pitch

knob in the bottom right of the display with the mouse cursor and turn the knob to

adjust the sample pitch playback. Reversing the sample will flip the sample data and

the trim start and end.

A stereo sample can be played in mono by selecting Mono in the sampler display. It is

often useful to select Mono when the kick sample that you are using has sub

information that is not panned center. In these cases selecting Mono will help avoid

mastering problems for your track later on. Choose this setting wisely.

Sampler loading is very easy, just load a sample and you can scroll through the

samples in that directory with back and forward buttons. Also clicking on the Sample

name in the sample window will bring up a drop down menu for even faster selection

of a wave file from the current directory, useful when you know what sample you want

in a directory with a large amount of samples.

Just as in the Virtual Section, the Sampler has a State Variable Filter with the only

difference being this filter is stereo. The rest of the features are identical to the filter

in the virtual section.

The amplifier for the Sampler section consists of a ADS

envelope (Attack, Decay and Sustain). If you want to play

a very long sample to the end, instead of using the Decay

parameter, turn up the Sustain knob to it's maximum

position. Also for playing loops the sustain should be set to it's maximum value. It will

play the sample until a note off is received. Alternatively you can use both an early

trim position and a short decay knob position, to focus on the contribution of the

Sample section to only a short transient attack of the Kick sample.

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Mixer Section

The mixer section is more sophisticated then it looks. It is where Virtual section meets

the Sampler section, both signals are mixed and fed to the EQ and Saturator. The

Mixer section is designated by a dark grey panel area surrounding the knobs.

The 3 band EQ has a frequency splitter so you can set the Low

and High Frequency's to your preference. The Hz values in the

blue window provide the frequency (click, hold and move up or

down to change the frequency split) and the knobs provide the

boost or cut setting. To emphesise, adding or substracting

Bass, Mid or High frequency's with the Low, Mid and High

parameters is not static like other traditional 3 band EQ's. With

the frequency splits, the EQ can provide a Roll off of low frequencies below 35 hz or

above 16000 hz easily. The EQ has a range from 35 to 20000 hz. There is no specific

frequency setting for the Mid knob, however it is not a static frequency either. The

wider the frequency splits are set, the more quality is added to, or subtracted from

the Mid Boost (Q). So, the frequency that it boosts or cuts is a frequency in-between

the Low and High freqency setting and is dependant on these values. All this provides

for a very versatile EQ with a minimum of parameter adjustment.

Elaborating on the EQ section, the kick is a driving force in a track. Depending on the

genre of music, it can have a lazy attack, being wet 'n sloppy with a distinct resonant

tone, or in contrast, can be nearly pitchless, with a focus on the beater's attack and

almost clipped-sounding waveform. Every situation is different, and suitably, the EQ

will differ as well. There is no formula applying EQ to a Kick Drum. It depends entirely

on the mix. This is where KickLab XXL has a strong point to make, being able to

finetune and blend your kick drum precisely into your mix.

The Saturator will add tape style saturation to your kick drum.

This can be subtle or intense with or without limiting. The

Saturator, just like the EQ section, applies to both the Virtual

and Sampler section outputs mixed and sits just before the

final Output fader.

A switch is supplied to turn the EQ or Saturator sections on or off. Turn each section to

“off” when not in use to reduce CPU overhead and any internal clipping.

Phase Invert

The Phase Invert buttons are a very important feature in KickLab XXL and a trick often

utilised by engineers. When cancellation of sub frequencies occur, you can switch the

phase and it will get rid of the cancellation. In some situations the kick drum can

interfere with bass (guitar) frequencies in your mix and the phase invert of one (or

both) sound sources might help there as well. There is no right or wrong setting for

the phase buttons. Just try different combinations until you find one that sounds the

best.

The Mute buttons will mute the Virtual or Sample section separately so you can

concentrate on the sound creation of each section before summing the two sound

sources together.

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Mixer Section continued

The “Trig Delay” knobs will delay the Virtual or Sample section from

triggering by a certain value. For instance, if you have a Virtual Kick

drum sound with a lot of attack, the sample might need adjustment by

starting a couple of samples later. Or, as mentioned earlier, to line up

reversed samples or loops. You can delay each channel up to 2000

samples. A value of Zero (0) delay on these knobs is set when they are

turned to the far left.

Multichannel out is another strong feature as you might want to use the

Virtual and Sample signal split into your host sequencer mixer to enable

further processing to each of these sections independantly with your

own VST plugins. KickLab XXL will always place 3 stereo channels on

your mixer, however Kicklab’s output will be routed to either the Main

Out, or Virtual out (2 x mono) + Sampler out (2 x Mono or 1 x Stereo

depending on the sampler settings). This setting can be found in the Program Window.

Click on “Multi Channel” to select either “Main Out” or “Split S+V” (Split Sampler plus

Virtual) from the dropdown box. The default is Main Out, with both the Sampler and

Virtual sections mixed together onto this single mixer fader. Another use of this split

mode is to use just the Sample output as the Kick for your track and the Virtual Out

sound purely as a silent sound feed to a sidechain compressor in your DAW session.

This can save you having to make separate kick tracks to run sidechain compression

in your song.

Level metering is provided for all channels. The meters closest to the fader are the

main output level meters. The furthest from the fader are the Virtual and Sampler

output metering. The metering for the Virtual and Sampler channels is done just after

the volume knobs of each section, so it shows what levels you feed into the EQ and

Saturator sections.

The main fader is to control the main output level. When turned down the Virtual and

Sampler meters will still show the levels of these sections. Give yourself plenty of

headroom with this fader to produce a kick with the most punch and least amount of

clipping...ie..louder is not always better. Keep the meters out of the red and turn up

the fader in your DAW mixer channel, or amplifier output if you require further level.

Preset Manager and Disk Operation

The preset manager is straight forward. You can load and

save presets or preset banks and rename them if nessecary

by clicking on “Disk”.

It has a previous and next button to scroll thru presets and shows you the preset

name and what preset number you are on. Presets can also be selected by a drop

down menu by clicking on the preset name.

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Authorisation and Legal

Along with your download we provide a serial key and user key file (user.key and

serial.key). KickLab will not output any sound wihtout those files.These files must be

dropped in the installation folder of KickLab XXL. This will authorise your copy of the

plugin on startup without further annoyances.

If you lose your keyfiles due to HDD or sytem failure we will send you new key files

ASAP (surely within 24 hours) just send us your Customer ID and date of purchase.

Please store your keyfile along with your serial number in a safe place to keep

resending of serial and user keyfiles to a minimum.

You can use the plugin on 2 systems, provided that you own them both (like laptop

and main DAW) and is only used by you personally. For studios we handle different

prices, Please contact us for details if you want to use KickLab XXL in a “public” studio

enviroment. Resale of this plugin is not permitted. Free updates provided only for

bugs in v1, upgrade prices apply for version 2. We will always keep support on any

version.

If AMvst would ever cease to exist, we will provide you a copy protection free version.

KickLab XXL can be used to create sample libraries, with (well almost) no restrictions,

but please do not use the provided presets in such, we assume you can certainly do

better.

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Troubleshooting

1:/ “I load up my preset but the sample is not loading”.

Samples are not saved along with the presets, only pointers to their position on the

disk. If you move or rename your kick samples then your presets may not load

properly. Either position your sample back to its place when the preset was made on

the disk or re-load the sample again with the sample browser from its new location.

2:/ “My kicks sound distorted”

Turn down the Volume knobs in both the Virtual and Sampler sections, turn down the

EQ levels, turn down the resonance values in the filters, turn off the distortion or

Saturate sections, reduce the Impact or Punch knob values, turn down the Main

Output Fader, turn down the level of the channel output in your DAW mixer. Turn the

Virtual Kick wave selection from TRI to SIN. Use an undistorted sample.

3:/ “How do i make my kicks have a pre-delay when the Trig Delay knob cannot have

a negative delay setting, only a positive value?”

The Trig Delay knobs are only able to delay Kick sounds forward in time. Kicklab XXL

cannot play a midi note before it recieves it. If your overall Kick sound is late in your

track then you wish to move the Kick back earlier in time. Set your DAW's midi track

timing to a negative value.

4:/ “The kick sounds different/shorter when played in my DAW from midi compared to

when i use the “Preview=On” setting.”

Kicklab XXL will play a short Kick if it is sent a short midi note from your DAW (and so

it should!). However in “Preview=On” mode, when you release the cursor on a knob it

will trigger a kick sound to assist in Kick creation when your sequencer is in Stop

mode. However when you release the cursor on a knob in this setting it has to guess

what kind of Kick length to play as it is not recieving Midi notes at the time. So Kicklab

XXL instead uses the “Decay” values on the Decay knobs for length. If these are set to

a different length to the Midi note length in your sequencer then you may notice a

different-length Kick being previewed. If this becomes a problem then you may wish

to lengthen your Midi notes in your sequencer to compensate, or alternatively design

your kick sound whilst your sequencer is triggering the Kicklab via midi in a loop.

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Troubleshooting continued

5:/ “I can hear a pop at the end of every kick”

This is most probably due to you setting an Endpoint for the Kick Sample that is

shorter than the Decay setting in the Sample section. Muting the sampler section to

see if the problems is gone, then you know for sure it is the sampler sections end trim

and/or decay settings. You can try re-positioning the Endpoint to a central point on

the waveform that will reduce the click or reduce the Decay knob so that the envelope

assists in reducing the pop.

6:/ “My Sample kick does not sound the same as it does in my editor”.

You may have a stereo sample that you are playing in Mono. This can cause

cancellation of several frequencies. Click on the Mono setting in the Sample window

and select “Stereo”. You may also have the Key setting to “Key = On”. This can cause

the sample to play back at different speeds depending on the Midi note. To keep the

Kick sample pitch consistent regardless of the Midi note set the Key setting to

“Key=off”. Also ensure that the Pitch knob in the sample window is set to “0.00”.

Check the filter settings, and the envelope settings in the red (Sampler) section.

7:/ “I am having a problem this manual does not cover”.

We are doing all we can to provide you with a quality product, if you have any

problems that can't be solved by this manual, feel free to contact us.

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That's it!

We hope you enjoy KickLab XXL and that it will be part of your musical creations for

many years to come.

This concludes this manual, and as we value you as a customer, if you have any

questions, problems or suggestions regarding this manual, us, our website or the

KickLab XXL plugin, feel free to contact us directly by clicking the "@" button on the

KickLab GUI or thru the contact page on http ://amvst.com

A special thanks to these wonderful people for their insight!

Malcolm Barbour

Darren Glen

Nippy Baynes

Exonerate

Infuzion

MyCo

Sambean

Acrobat

TomC

Tom7777

Skore

Leif Oddson

Sunsynth

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