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How to Make a Techno Kick Rumble Using Only Vital

Here's how I make a techno kick rumble only using Vital, starting from the sampler.

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01

The sampler 48 semitones down

I disable oscillator 1, open the sampler and take it down 48 semitones. Then I take a filter and add the sampler to it.

Vital sampler for a hard techno kick rumble: pitch on -48, sent into filter 1 on Analog 12dB
The sampler 48 semitones down, into filter 1.
02

Soft clip, a second filter and reverb

In the effects, add distortion on soft clipping and take another filter down. Add reverb at around 30%, and put a compressor at the end without changing anything.

Take Vital into the mixer, add some sidechain and add a top kick. You can change the character by opening the filter or changing the semitone transposition.

What I use in this video

Vital

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