Audija has released an update to its modular kick drum instrument created to achieve maximum precision and sound quality with an intuitive workflow.
Version 2.8 of KickDrum comes with some 70 improvements and fixes:
- Bezier Curve simplify function added to contextmenu.
- Boundary drag for multiple lasso selected Bezierpoints – start/end points can now be moved on x axis.
- Device Oscillogram handling has now two modes: straight forward and advanced (default is now the legacy straight forward mode back from 2.0 – making onboarding easier).
- Oscillator Wavetable – confusion causing random noise retired (still loads if used in presets/states).
- Audio engine rewritten — now stateless and copyable (future proofing).
- Device management overhauled.
- Oscillogram rendering refined.
- EQ appearance refined.
- Zoom and pan actions now added to undo history.
- Studio One sample drag & drop now working.
- Smoother slider manipulation.
- State Parsing refactored and solidified.
- Plugin UI layering system restructured.
- Clipboard handling improved.
- plugin window size reloading refined.
- new Bézier curve fitting algorithm – external library was slower and less robust (now 2–7× faster).
- Fixed: Non-ASCII file paths for samples (Привет, 世界, Ñ, ü) not causing crash anymore.
- Fixed: vst3/au presets could bloat over multiple edit save cycles causing slow plugin loading – fixed for save and load side.
- Fixed: ADSR NoteEnvelope now correctly restoring its state.
- Fixed: Grid labels no longer drawn twice at certain zoom levels in conjunction with bpm.
Regularly priced €44 EUR, KickDrum for Windows and macOS (VST3/AU) is on sale for €22 EUR for a limited time. The update is free for existing KickDrum 2 users.
More information: Audija
