AvailableInstrument

Kicker

Shape a kick from pitch drop, body, click, and drive.

Engine preview

VST3

About

A deterministic sample-free kick synthesizer with separate pitch and amplitude trajectories, body, transient, nonlinear color, and 24 factory presets.

System requirements.

The downloadable Kicker release supports the hosts and systems listed below.

VST3macOS · arm64
Works in Ableton Live, Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig and FL Studio.

Version 0.1.0

Build evidence

Every row below is a recorded build row or the recorded absence of one. Nothing here is inferred from what this module is meant to support.

Module: music.codex.kicker v0.1.0
Built at: 2026-09-12T10:33:31Z
Closure hash: f98765f2079e…
Toolchain: scriptc 08fd3e4e1ac2…
moduleToolchainDist f5cb74b687e3…
pluginShellKitRuntime d9a581e5bd21…
faceShellGeneration 06b504b248cf…
uiPreservation cd28dbd7e3d6…
packagerVersion 4

Build result and download for each format
Format	Result	Download
Browser package (JS)	Builtweb bundle sha256 c609876d7888… · 382 KB	Built, but no downloadable archive was recorded.
Browser package (WASM)	Builtweb bundle sha256 82ddf29d5bb8… · 2.0 MB	Built, but no downloadable archive was recorded.
VST3	Builtdarwin-arm64Steinberg validator + VST3 host render: passed bundle sha256 43f5e4b7fc13… · 2.2 MB	CodexKicker-vst3-darwin-arm64.zip archive sha256 8f575ebc4b07… · 2.2 MB · darwin-arm64
Audio Unit	Not built no recorded artifact row for au; native-lane-report.json is absent or records no au row for this module	Not built for macOS
CLAP	Not built no recorded artifact row for clap; native-lane-report.json is absent or records no clap row for this module	Not built for macOS, Windows or Linux
Standalone app	Not built no recorded artifact row for standalone; native-lane-report.json is absent or records no standalone row for this module	Not built for macOS, Windows or Linux

Parity

browser-js = browser-wasm = vst3 qualified against their own recorded digests. Not recorded: au, clap, standalone.

Presets

Start from a named sound, then adjust the instrument to make it yours.

InitFoundationShort PunchDry StudioDeep ClubWarehouseRubberSub DropTiny BoxPaper ConeRound EightHard FloorSoft BeaterClick TrackLong TailBroken SpeakerLow Tom KickNeedleDark RoomHollowClean ElectroSlow FallMono SystemFeltAftershock

Signal graph.

Experimental

Migration fallback: approximated from parameter groups, not a runtime wiring diagram.

How it works.

Each strike snapshots the current controls, then an integrated pitch envelope drives the body oscillator while a short harmonic punch, sub oscillator, and seeded filtered-noise click build the transient and weight.

The voice passes through the selected drive curve and output clip before the master level. Randomness is seeded per note and velocity layer, so the same strike is repeatable across renders and hosts.

The authored Processor owns a bounded eight-voice pool and the generated adapter owns event timing and buffers. Native formats remain marked as planned until their downloadable releases are qualified and published.