Kick Start Rapture Expansion Pack (Professional and Platinum only)

 

Note: The Kick Start Rapture Expansion Pack is only available in SONAR “Everett” Update 4. After Update 4, the Kick Start Rapture Expansion Pack can be purchased separately from www.cakewalk.com.

The Kick Start Rapture Expansion Pack by Craig Anderton features multiple kick drums that are suitable for a wide range of music styles. Although there is an emphasis on kick drums for EDM (Electronic Dance Music), hip-hop, rap, and industrial, you can easily tweak the samples to suit many other styles, such as pop, rock, etc.

To use the Kick Start Rapture Expansion Pack, follow these steps:

1.	Open SONAR’s Synth Rack (see Using the Synth Rack) and insert a new instance of Rapture.

2.	From the Rapture browser, choose your basic kick drum category from the \Kick Start folder:

Category	Decay time	Programs
Short Decay	125 ms	S00 - S10
Medium Decay	250 ms	M00 - M10
Long Decay	500 ms	L00 - L10
Xtra-Long Decay	1500 ms	XL00 - XL10

All categories are based on the same sample, with the decay time being the only difference. For example, program S03 processes the sample similarly to M03. Each category has 11 programs, each of which processes the kick drum in different ways. The higher the number, the more “extreme” the sound:

00 = Low-level, low frequency, non-aggressive kick.

01 = Adds pitch envelope to give more aggressive attack and higher perceived pitch.

02 = Lower frequency, more thud, longer decay on pitch envelope.

03 = Tight, high amplitude pitch envelope, higher frequency.

04 = Aggressive, deep dance kick.

05 = Super-tight, high amplitude pitch envelope, higher frequency.

06 = Aggressive, punchy.

07 = Tight, thin, extremely high amplitude pitch envelope.

08 = “Chirp” kick drum, tight, high amplitude pitch envelope with moderate decay.

09 = Like 08, but based on a triangle wave instead of a sine wave.

10 = Like 08, but based on a complex FM wave instead of a sine wave.

3.	Load the desired Kick Start program. By default, only Element 1, the original kick, is turned up in Rapture’s Element Mixer. However, you can modify the sound considerably by mixing in different elements:

Element	Description
1	Original unprocessed kick drum.
2	Noise (step-sequenced pattern to add texture).
3	Click 1 (bright; can help the kick stand out in a mix).
4	Click 2 (midrange click; adds more “beef”).
5	Acoustic Kick 1 (midrange emphasis, distant).
6	Acoustic Kick 2 (bright emphasis, close).

4.	Use the KickMaster FX Chain to process the sound even further, especially if you want a harder sound. For details, see KickMaster FX Chain for processing kick drum sounds.+

 

Note:   4 Kick Start is intended to have its own “kick drum track” for maximum flexibility. 4 The electronic kick drums are mapped across keys C-1 to C8 so you can “pitch” these sounds, as well as do “finger rolls” across keys to get double-kick drum effects. 4 The Clicks and Acoustic kicks do not keytrack, so they maintain a constant pitch. 4 Because of the pitch envelope that raises pitch, you can get away with using much lower notes than you might expect. 4 Although the drum samples resemble an “808”-type sound, they use a synthesized sine wave to reproduce the waveform created by classic Twin-Tee analog oscillator designs. As a result, the sounds are exceptionally clean to give more flexibility when processing. 4 The Xtra-Long option enhances the basic sine wave sound by emulating the “humdrum” effect obtained with vintage electronic drums by turning up a drum’s trimpot sustain control as much as possible.

 

See:

Using the Synth Rack

Software instruments

Rapture (Platinum only)

Rapture LE (Professional only)

New features

 

See also:

KickMaster FX Chain for processing kick drum sounds