I think the ability to pitch the punch separately would be simply amazing. 

Also I think the UI feels a little outdated by now and could be a bit fresher/modernized. Anyways keep up the amazing work as I just love my Nimble tools :)

I have a question for the manufacturer and users of this plugin. The plugin itself is amazing, after 10 years I'm going back to hardstyle and thanks to this plugin it won't be so difficult after all. However, I have one comment. Is it possible to move the Punch or tail in Nimble Kick? This is the only function that I MISS A LOT. It often gives Punch, Kick from another sample and tail from another. Unfortunately, bass (tail) is often too far away or too close to Punch. I can adjust it in the piano roll in my DAW but it's impractical. Here, looping the punch and tail would be great to precisely adjust them in real time. If there is such an option, tell me how to do it. If not, I'm asking the manufacturer to consider such an option ;)

So I reinstalled my pc and reorganized some stuff and now one of my drives has a different drive letter. 

Nimble Kick now can't find some of the samples I used in projects anymore. That wouldn't have to be a problem if I could read the full path length, find the sample in explorer, and re-import it. But this path length is limited in the Nimble Kick ui and some path lengths are too long to display hence I don't know which sample is being used.

Yeah I know you can save the samples with each project through Nimble Kick but I forgot to check that in my previous installation.

Any help on this?

Four years ago u/Ansjh (developer of Nimble Kick) posted this message. This was the first introduction of Nimble Kick which is a sampler that is dedicated to all kinds of kicks (think Hardcore, Hardstyle, Rawstyle, and Frenchcore).

I had some difficulties finding a proper tutorial on how to use Nimble Kick and I had to get my information from various Youtube videos and try it out...

I did my best on creating a tutorial, it is not perfect, but it will be a good starting point. If you have suggestions/corrections/additions to make it better, please PM me.

This article will explain the plug-in settings so you will know the available settings to optimally use Nimble Kick. This plug-in can be purchased for $29.99 and I think this price is way too low for its capabilities.

I am using Ableton as my main DAW so the tutorial will be targeted to Ableton, but it can be used together with any DAW.

If you find this useful please let me know, I will then also make an effort to create an additional guide on how to create your own unique kick sound by layering different kick samples files (or layering different kick parts (punch and tails) using Nimble Kick and Ableton.

The full Nimble Kick tutorial can be found here.

Installed the newest version also zo i have no clue whats happening.

Status: Quarantined

Affected items: file: F:\Softwares\Music\VST\Drum Machine\Nimble Kick 1.2.3 Setup.exe

Anyone know why this is happening?

You’ve truly created an outstanding plugin! I use it every day. It makes editing kicks and pitching melodies so much easier.

I just have a request for a new feature. It would be great if you could pitch the punch separately while keeping the tail in key. Essentially, being able to switch between the pitch of the punch and the tail. This way, you can also adjust the pitch of the punch while editing your kick.

^Jim Potters

And is there and way to introduce pitch slides? Like legato but more fine tunable. I love the way Fl studio uses slide notes.  Maybe using those? (if possible)

Is there also a possability to get another pitchfunction? Like to get that 'now old'ish' "boing-pitch effect" (for example in frequencerz-burning) 

Like the pitching-scale from yhimself's earlier Tutorials. 

If there is an easier way to get this result, please let me know. Pitching the Kicks back then with the scale technique  was a pain in the ass but still had the best results for me

Thank you in advance :)

1- Two sample windows so there is more building flexibility between different combinations of pre-separated Tocks (punch) & Tails. This way both elements can be mixed and matched to provide limitless possibilities (and if I may be so bold to say, an infinite amount of kick creation).

2- An area where you can import your own convolution reverbs to better enhance the Tock's (punch's) sound to your personal taste.  (And a Pre-Delay settings option would rock as well)

Good god if these two options existed this would be the holy grail for Hard Dance producers. (It already is at this point so let's say the Holy Grail taken up a notch)

 I really like this plugin you made an awesome work!

I have some ideas for your plugin so if you want some suggestions here are:

If you put a drag and drop exporting after processing like serum it could be more fast exporting kicks

Another thing is to have the possibility to choose a sample for the punch and another one for the tail, if you can do it this sampler will be the most powerful sampler for kick but maybe for other stuff as well

The punch reverb is also great, but for me it's missing the pre-delay function to make easy backverbs on the punch. Anyone else who would love to have this feature?

I'm experiencing plops / clicks at the end of my tail using Nimble. This isn't when I play my kick through Kontakt.

for example:

https://clyp.it/z3wc42sj

How is this happening? Are others experiencing this problem? It bleeds into the punch and alters its sound. This has been on both my producer computers.

Previously I used the built in transposer in Logic Pro which barely changes the length of the kick sample, even when pitched up 12 semitones.

Am I missing something?

The problem is that when i reinstall Nimble kick it works again. But then after a restart of my macbook it says that its damaged again. 

Do you have any ideas?

we bought nimble kick, we use same environments, but the only difference is that I use mac, other guy windows. When I start the project and save it then he can open it from his machine. But when he will press the save button and everything will be synced back to the cloud and I'll try to open the project then it will stuck. The only way how this can be "fixed" is that I will need to remove the nimble plugin, open the Studio One. DAW will say that plugin is missing and will open everything without it. Then I will need to replace all Nimble instruments with some other VST, save everything. Then I am closing DAW, installing nimble back again and then I can open the project and replace the VSTs back to Nimble. It will work until colleague will do his thing again. Is there any chance that this will be fixed? Because it is annoying, we loose all the settings of plugins all the time and this "bug" is drinking my blood all the time.

DAW: latest Studio One

Nimble: latest version

We have fully mirrored setups on Mac and PC, all plugins, and stuff is paid, so nothing is cracked.

- Pitch ability for the punch. By either using a knob or the midi roll. Preferably both. A knob would help in kick design and being able to trigger pitching the punch through the piano roll would make it much more easy to make dem raw kickrolls during composition (Preferably using 2 instances of Nimble Kick each on a seperate channel track, one for the punch and one for the tail). I can use the 'seperate tail' function to pitch the whole kick but if I solo the punch only nothing remains. Though I could use the ADSR, the pitch would than be dependent on the note played in the piano roll. Also, I can pitch the punch with external plugins, but this often creates artifacts.

- Being able to offset the start of the punch. I would love to be able to skip the first ms of a punch to have another instance of nimble playing a different attack sample to replace the first few ms of a kick or for instance being able to increase or lower the volume of these first few ms. This first part is very defining for how a kick sounds in the mix and how I want the same kick to sound in different tracks differs a lot.  This would greatly improve my workflow with Nimble Kick.

Let me know what you think of these suggestions. I'm communicating them from my own experience but I think a lot of people are also quite eager for the features I'm proposing here.   I'm eager to know when the plug-in is updated and new features are introduced ;).

Thanks

When drawing automation for the stretch parameter (tail) the parameter does not change.

Just wanted to let you know. Thank you for this amazing plugin

first of all I really love the Nimble Kick. It makes my live so much easier and producing so much faster.

I think it would be nice to have a legato mode when using only 1 voice. To have more fun it would be also nice to route it to velocity.

Another anoying thing is that you don't can save presets (Kick + Settings)

Thanks in advance

Some questions and feature suggestions:

1) What interpolation algorithm is used in Resample? Cubic, Sync? Maybe you can add these as additional algorithms like in Renoise: None, Linear, Cubic, Sync

2) Snap function for loop points. A specially zero crossing, so its easier for setting up clean loop points.

3) Ping Pong Looping

Thank you for this plugin!

If i wait after doing anything with the nimble kick, the CPU goes back to normal.

When i dont use Nimble Kick this does not happend.

Does Anyone have a fix to thise?

We're having trouble lately with loading presets. If we drag and drop presets in our project (latest Studio One + Nimble kick), the project crashes.

Hop you can help us out!

Kind regards,

Thijs

After playing around with it i changed the UI size tot 1.1 because it was a little bit to small. next i closed the plugin to look for a kick i could play around with. when i reopend the plugin i could only see half of the interface. now when i move the plugin around it automatically shrinks until i can only see the X button to close it. 

I'm using Ableton Live 10.1 on a windows 10 machine. 

I tried re-opening Ableton but the problem still occurs which makes the plugin unusable. 

Here's a little clip:

https://gyazo.com/d0de5729d2378c01c06905513990fbf7

-EDIT-

i managed to fix the problem by opening the plugin in FL Studio 20 and setting the UI scale back to 1.0. 

Loving the plugin, its such a workflow enhancer, definitely worth the money!

Some suggestions:

1. Some knob to be able to able to pitch the punch as well (like a switch maybe). I'm using Nimble Kick on 2 channel tracks with one for the punch and one forthe tail. However, if I want to pitch my punch I need to bounce the punch channel track and pitch the punch manually in my DAW.

2. Being able to enter precise values into the ADSR.

3. Reverse button. This way we can easily reverse our kicks and make that ' sucking' character you hear a lot in raw kicks and still make it tonal easily.

4. Make the root knob go to G#0. Now I have to put my kicks an octave higher in the piano roll and that's trigging my autism :P.

5. I know you're planning to be able to offset the tail, but can you also do this for the punch? This way I can cut my kick into 3 pieces in my projects (attack - punch - tail) with 3 layers for more control. Not a priority though.

I bought the plugin recently and I've been using it for a couple of days now, and I got to say I absolutely love it! I made such a huge improvement on one of my older kicks with the plugin, it's insane!

However, I do have some suggestions.

1. The Equalizer has three bands right now, of which only one bell. Maybe a second bell could be included? Also I'd like to  see the possibility to adapt the Q of the peaks.

2. I'd love to see a reverse button to make a reversed version of the kick, and if possible also a seperate version just to reverse the punch at the end of the kick to get that sucking effect like Radical Redemption has in tracks like f.e. The One Man Army. In the FL sampler this is called Crossfade.

3. Probably unrealistic, but I like to use my fantasy every now and then ;), but it would be amazing if you could load in a kick and just click a knob which transforms your kick in a reversed bass kick or the other way around.

Keep up the good work and thank you for this amazing tool!

Increasing my workflow ten fold, so thank you for that!

One small suggestion would be the option to fade out the tail audio, or a button to recenter the DC Offset of the sample at the end to avoid clicks.

(Of course this can be done before rendering the sample and dragging it into the plugin, but this plugin seems to increase workflow around everything, and so that small bit would be a nice feature too!)

Thanks again,

Zaorsha

I checked out Nimble Kick and I can really appreciate the thoughts that went into simplifying kick pitching especially for hardstyle. Really nice work!

Now there are 2 features I'm still missing from this and that would totally make other methods obsolete (at least for me).

1. A pitch slide function. Sometimes, especially if pitched very high, a sudden "cut" can sound too harsh. So what helps here (and also making it sound more smooth in general) is a slide function that sets in as soon as the tail part is playing. It doesn't need to be as wholesome as the cubase pitch function (which is imo still the best there is), but maybe something like an atk knob that regulates the time it needs to get the kick on the desired note.

2. A knob/slider that decides where the tail part is starting and/or allows to skip the punch altogether. When working with samples there can sometimes be unwanted noises/sounds in the very start of the tail or it just fits the flow better.

Keep up the good work and I hope you consider this feedback in the future!

Loving NimbleKick, I've been really enjoying it!

As a hardcore producer we use filter FX on kicks more compared to hardstyle producers, so I have couple of suggestions  for kick FX / filter section to make more types of workflow and sound decisions available for producers:

- Option to switch between X/Y control to separate sections for wider range of control such as:

1. Option to choose frequency ranges for ex. 100hz -10khz (default), 50hz-15khz and 0hz -20khz
2. Filter options (such as Low Pass, High Pass, Bandpass which I believe is the default)
3.  Option to tweak the resonance of the filter
4.  Option to change Dry/Wet of the Kick FX from 0-100% (currently sounds like 0 - 50%?)
5. Option to changethe Kick FX Gain from 0 - +40db to -40 - +40db

Then what I think is the most imporant:

- Current Kick FX is too loud.
It sounds like dry/wet and gain cause too much unnecessary frequencies to fill up, thus the overall becoming louder even if limiter would be turned on. I think this could be fixed with overall gain of the sample turning down a bit when going near the edges of X/Y controls.

Hope these changes can be applied in some way, can't wait to see what update you bring!

Just wanted to say thank you. Been waiting for something like this. It is easy to use and sounds SUPER good + it is awesome on other stuff than kicks as well! Big fan!

Important things I hope to see in the future:

Zoom on sample (mouse scroll wheel)

The possibility to set a start and an end point in the sample (and automate it for cool effects)

An option to loop the sample or a selected loop point (and the option to set crossover/fadein)

1. The possibility to play punch from one sample and tail from another and have separate gain and pitch adjustments for both samples.
(This will enable even more creative workflow and try out different punches with the same tail and vise versa)

2. Advanced and separated sample adjustments (gain, pitch & mute)
(Separate gain adjustments is very important because this will allow to have good pressure balance throughout the kick. I always put the punch and tail to separate mixer channels, mute button could allow this as I can find the sweetspot for the crossfade between punch and tail and then I can just duplicate the plugin and mute the tail from the first Nimble Kick and mute the punch from the another, then it's possible to route them both to separate mixer channels and have more control over the whole kick.)

3. The possibility to reverse polarity/phase

4. Attack and Release adjustments for the limiter.
(This way there would be more control over the way how the limiter works, the adjustments will be audible especially in extreme conditions if the kick is pushed to the limiter louder)

5. UI Scale settings to the top of the plugin and reducing the maximum scale.
(As in my previous topic I told, once you adjust the UI scale too large that the bottom of the plugin is not visible it will be impossible to revert the settings without deleting the settings files. If the adjustments were in top corner it would prevent this kind of situation of happening. The maximum scale should be much smaller aswell, I think something between 200% and 300% would be enough even for the largest screens.)

6. Improvements for the time stretch and pitch algorithms and Audition algorithm from Adobe Audition
(The current algorithms are okay, but definitely not perfect if compared to Adobe Audition CC 2015. They work in some kicks and others not that much. It seems the algorithms are struggling to keep the time stretch in same lenght. For example reverse bass kick will lose it's drive on different notes.)

7. Different distortion types
(The current distortion is okay, but I wouldn't use it as my primary distortion as it sounds a little bit cheap. If it could be improved or even if the plugin had a few distortion types that would open up even more doors for creative sound design. Especially some asymmetric distortion would be cool to see, for example Fruity Waveshaper priceless, really good for high pitched distortion. Fabfilter Pro-L Allround algorithm is perfect for low-end warmth and overall distortion. I don't know if any of these examples help but in anycase the possibility to change the distortion type would have huge impact to the plugin)

8. Advanced tail adjustments (reversing, time stretching, sample start offset)
(This would allow the users to do more creative kick sound design. I've lately found out that if you reverse only the tail and play the right part of the tail and stretch if needed, this will open up so much cool possibilities with the sound design. Sometimes I created 5 unique kicks from one kick just by tweaking the start offset and stretch.)

9. Linking the "Distortion" and "Kick FX" modules.
(Once you touch the XY-adjustment in "Kick FX" module the adjustments in "Distortion" module does nothing and even the values does not change when you adjust the XY-parameter. Would be cool to have the possibility to adjust in both modules as they were linked and show what you're doing in realtime. What I mentioned now is mainly quality of life stuff, but the biggest problem here is that when you've adjusted the XY-parameter it's impossible to adjust the mix-knob for the distortion, which should be the last adjustment in the sound design process once you've found the sweetspot for the distortion.)

10. Advanced stereo adjustments for tail (Mono low-end below 200hz and widening for high frequencies)
(Some of the algorithms seems to change the stereoimage in the kick and generate some artifacts, it could improve the end result if there was the possibility to switch the low end of the tail to mono and maybe even do some stereo widening to the high end where all that nice crispyness and tail character is. This one is not really that important as it's easy to do in mixer, but if it's easy to do for the plugin that would definitely make this plugin even better.)

Here's what came to mind, hope it's all fixable and really looking forward to see the future updates. I would definitely see this somewhere in 80-150€ price range If you polish this product and especially check that the algorithms are high quality (time stretch and pitch & distortions).

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Best regards,

Oskar Hänninen
Digital Mindz
LUJA Sound

Now I have another topic to address, when I open Ableton project the kicks aren't playing, I need to go to the arrangement view, open the nimble kick vst and than it works. 

Future Audio Workshop is vanguard developer, i think their SubLab maybe give you some idea.

But I get some artifacts in time machine and time machine 2 when pitching to certain notes. Not at all in Timefactor (mono), it sounds amazing.

Sounds a bit wobbly in the midlow-low end (but only on certain notes as I said before).

Any ideas?