Very interesting concept and... you rock on techno stuff!

Sounds incredible Robin ! Especially with that Soundscape you created here. There are so many levels of sound upon different sound... This is an amazing patch ~🎶👏🏽💥🎛🔥🥁✨🚀❗

You can get pretty good results with an envelope hitting a Stereo VCA, something i should patch more often.

FYI, really enjoyed the ongoing product demo jam, really nice music brother. "came for the Euro module review, stayed for the music"

i put all my synth tracks through a 2hp comp. That little module has side chain. Plus a full on distortion!

Kickain is such a freaking good name for a module.

Sidechain compression, use it today :) Seriously though, nice to see this in an all in one unit, next up, dynamic eq in a module ( like the Fabfilter Pro Q 3 can do )

WOW....this is perfect for my eurorack set

That's the most 'produced' I've heard one of your jams Robin, getting ever closer to making regular music on the modular 😅

Nice groove btw :)

i got one for You. Akai (professional) MPC X, the best C.V. / GATE nerve center there is, 8 C.V. outs and midi via a touchscreen keyboard control ... or Akai MPC LIVE mkII. You should do a evaluation on that. Side chain is basically a second internal "audio" path along side the main path with a (full) wave rectifier (Mutable Instruments Kinks, has one) and use this rectified signal via mixer/attenuater on a VCA. so the VCA is basically sound controlled and follows the contour of the input wave.

You could make a sidechain using a VCA, mult or env. follower and a attenuverter!

At the moment I use the God'sBox Lollipop compressor with sidechain which is amazing.

Great unit but I wish there was an additional out so I can just send a copy of the kick signal to a delay/distortion/filter for some additional rumble, or have it within the unit like they did with the reverb all while the stereo out sum the dry(side chained) kick with the main audio. There are work arounds to this but would be an add that would make it an absolute must have.

Merv Pepler would love this module.

Killer Techno!

MAN this track is sounding really nice tho

To my understanding (and this is how i do it) generally you sidechain only your bass synth to your kick drum and use EQ to move everything else out of the bottom end. So you only need to move the bass synth out the way to hear the kick. But this is a cool method also. Thanks for the video! Peace

Also, you can get a 2hp sidechain compressor to use with your erica synths kick drum for the same desired effect with more flexibility.

Excellent thank you for the video! How do you like tiptop 909/808 kicks?

hey, what modules are creating the 303-type bassline? sounds really nice! and where does the sequence come from?

side chaining is kind of necessary when it comes to dance music, don't go too overboard with it though or otherwise you are heading straight into the territory of French house, that being said, if French house is your jam, grab an alesis 3630, throw it on the master bus and have it suck most of the life out of your mix, with the trade off of you instantly sounding like daft punk and getting that awesome French house super pumpy vibe!

I wish it was 100 bucks. But dude this video is hype, you should do a follow up and just jam for a while.

This is timely, I’ve been worrying about how my kick gets lost in the mix entirely. The Disting has a side chain function that I need to check out..

If you wanted to utilise the side chain of this but sculpt your kick else where, could you route the audio that you want to side chain into this and then bring its internal kick level down to zero? Thanks

Maybe the Kickain is more of a solution for compact performance racks. In a Kickdrum-module I'd search for intense shaping-options for the sound instead of additional functions for mixing as a substitute for that. The options seem to be absolutely ok, concerning you could synthesize a kick with a combination of modules in another "sound-design-philosophy"which would be quite less immediate and costs more space. Your statement on the sidechaining-aspect of it feels almost mistaken for "I have no idea of sidechain in general" - which for sure cannot be true :) I myself would - and will - go with a messor or another stereocompressor to have more flexibility in patching (and for what seems to be way wider options on dialing in the sidechain-ducking, maybe I am wrong about that). Seeing your system growing: Are you aiming for keeping a transportable live-performance-case or are you getting more open to the "shelf-approach" of using more modules and therefore more space to go deeper into individual design of sounds? Or both?

Honestly, I was pretty blown away by the opening track, it was fantastic! Are you using the VEGA for those hats? How did you get a nice variety on them, I didn't think that module had any CV input.

Basically an insta-buy for me

Came for the gear. Stayed for the acid.

Ok ok . It's a sidechain.... Thank you.

you seem to have a fair amount of Befaco stuff, ever tried the Kickall?

Might be late to the party here with this but rather than use the divkid mutes to switch the trigger on/off, if you set the 4th dip switch on the back of the kickain to on, you can then mute/unmute the kick trigger via the trigger button.

whats that love system module on the left?

If this could switch 707/808/909 it would be an insta buy. Still cool though.

This is a out of case experience.

A thudding mammoth. Yeah. I wonder if my _neighbours_ want me to want one of these…?

Who's Nora?