Kick-focused synthesis
End-to-end kick generation: transient and body components, pitch and amplitude envelopes, character shaping.
Personal project · Open source
Kick drum synthesizer — VST3 audio plugin
KickForge is a VST3 audio plugin dedicated to kick drum synthesis — the most important sound in an electronic track, and the hardest to sculpt. The project was born from a collaboration with my brother, an electronic music producer: he brought the artist's brief, I brought the code.
An audio plugin is software in its most demanding form: signal processing runs in real time, with a budget of a few milliseconds per audio block and zero margin for error — any overrun is immediately audible.
What this project demonstrates: the ability to work close to the metal — performance, memory management, real-time constraints. When your web application needs to handle load, this culture of rigour makes the difference.
End-to-end kick generation: transient and body components, pitch and amplitude envelopes, character shaping.
Signal processing calibrated for studio-grade latency, with no allocation on the audio path.
Compatible with mainstream digital audio workstations (Ableton Live, FL Studio, Reaper...).
Single C++/JUCE codebase, compiled for Windows, macOS and Linux.