A kick drum module at its core with the ability to be much more! The Entity Ultra-Kick picks up where the SSF Bass Drum Synthesizer (now discontinued) left off and adds tons more features like finer control over pitch and decay time to find those percussive sweet spots easier while still providing an extended range to create resonating bass and other synthesizer sounds.
New to the Entity Ultra-Kick are dual-core resonator topology evolved from the original Entity’s single core designs. The main core handles the frequency component while the character core provides a whole new level of sound sculpting beyond what the original designs were capable of. This opens up Ultra-Kick's capability to craft a wide variety of attack and impulse sounds as well as one of the resonator cores can be used to modulate the other. The addition of the ripple feature accomplishes this by allowing an adjustable amount of the main core to modulate the character core. Ripple dramatically enhances the initial impulse transient offering a novel means to shape clicks and accents, as well as providing additional girth and frequency modulated tones. Since a resonator is essentially a filter, the additional core via character can provide low-pass filtering for muted and softer kicks as well as unison resonant boosting when the main and character frequencies are matched.
Also on the Ultra-Kick are two effects that are guaranteed to beef up your kick in the mix as the module comes with built-in distortion based on transistor soft-saturation and compression. Side-chain filtering is encouraged by the Ultra-Kick and if you're worried about losing some of that low-end growl and gain while you compress, SSF added bass drive to gain stage some gain back into the Ultra-Kick after you've compressed it.
Technical Information:
POWER CONSUMPTION: +/- 110mA
WIDTH: 14hp
DEPTH: 23mm
OUTPUT RANGE: 0-19.8Vpp
DECAY CV RANGE: 0-10V
CHARACTER CV RANGE: +/- 10V
BASS DRIVE CV RANGE: +/- 10V
SDCHN INPUT RANGE: 23Vpp
GAIN-DIST CV RANGE: +/- 10V
RESONATE CV RANGE: +/-10V
PUNCH CV RANGE: +/-10V
ENVELOPE OUTPUT: 0-8V
| _hp | 14 |