Patching PandaBlast Kick Drum

Patching Panda Blast

March to the beat of your own drum with Blast, a comprehensive kick drum designer perfect for creating powerful kicks with a balanced, mix-ready sound. As the foundation of many electronic music genres, kick sounds deserve a sizable amount of attention to balance their harmonic content for a rich sound that punches through a mix without drowning out other sonic elements. Blast makes short work of this complicated task, giving you everything you need to create flexible kicks for all sorts of musical styles.

Blast features a specially tuned envelope with fast decay and slower release, offering plenty of punch while maintaining a balanced and full tone. Trigger your drum sounds with the manual button or trigger input, with a separate, drum machine inspired accent input for creating dynamic patterns. A manual body control sets the amount of low-end depth, from clear and pinging kicks to heavy booming bass. Add and adjust mid and high frequency content with thru-zero frequency modulation, amplitude modulation, and a waveshape distortion control, providing a vast range of kick timbres to explore.

At the output, a one-fader compression control with soft clipping helps warm and adjust the dynamic response of your kick sound. The decay of both pitch and amplitude envelopes can be shaped with CV or the manual fader controls, with dedicated amplitude envelope outputs in both positive and inverted polarities. These are great for sending to external effects and processors, creating pseudo-sidechain effects, and more. With a huge amount of sound design options for flexible kick drum creation in a fast and intuitive design, Blast from Patching Panda can easily become your go-to source for all your kick drum needs.

Blast Features

• Flexible analog kick drum voice
• Manual and CV triggering
• Drum-machine inspired accent trigger input
• 1V/oct pitch input and manual control
• Thru-zero frequency modulation input and attenuator control
• Amplitude modulation input
• Waveshaping distortion shape control and CV input
• Amplitude envelope decay control and CV input
• Pitch decay control with attenuator and CV input
• Body control adds low-end depth
• Compression with one fader control and soft clipping
• Audio output
• Positive and negative amplitude envelope outputs