Well in many kicks you find there is a part where the pitch is a steady sine. This part at least is tuneable. I read today that in those lower regions of the spectrum you'd want 60ms at least of steady pitch to be able to identify the pitch. In pretty much all kicks i looked at recently this is hold...

In FL Studio (which is what i use) you can set the AHDR settings to values like '2 stepss' when rightklicking on the button. You can also freely adjust the Tension settings. This makes getting things in time a piece of cake. You can still move things around freely, no problem, it's just an option. T...

@steevio: I was actually going to PM you. I reckon i worded my thoughts like i had my balls in a twist. ;) I think we pretty much have the same ideas regarding the topic. It's all about the ying and yang, as you put it. Contrast. Synergy. etc. I have learnt a great deal from you and i have still a l...

AK, that sums my findings up, nicely. And it will surely help beginners and more advanced people, alike.

Now, i was asking for it. :lol: I myself love to get nerdy about stuff. And until now i thought modular users were control freaks at maybe an even higher level, wanting to build everything from first principles. Steevio, i could say the same about others. I think i learnt what a 909 kickdrum is tune...

Would you mind uploading one kick?
I would like to help you out.

500 ms could possibly ride just over the next kick-drums attack/transient. I think the longest i would want to use is 1 beat long. But then i probably wouldn't add any bass over it at all. I have seen this in recent Ben Sims tunes for example. It's just a kick with a very long tail, making the need ...

Lots of people like UMEK seem to be using kicks with pretty long tails (entire kick length pretty much precisely half beat)
and his often seem to have a tail at around 44 Hz.