Codwaves’ Seaquake Techno Rumble is a free tool to help bring your kicks to the next level.
The plugin is available for macOS and Windows in VST and AU formats.
Seaquake Techno Rumble is designed to elevate your kicks by adding rumble with serious depth and resonance.
Codwaves names techno producers as the main target audience for the plugin, but naturally, it can be used for any genre that calls for phat kicks.
The plugin is designed to free producers from the need to create fiddly effects chains to dial in their kick sound. Instead, it simplifies the process down to just five main controls.
The five key controls are Length, Delay, Dynamics, Distortion, and Colour.
The Length control allows you to alter the tail of the kick rumble to fit your track; Delay adjusts the timing of the rumble so you can align it with your beat, while Dynamics can shift the intensity from a subtle undertone to a powerful boom.
Distortion can add increasing amounts of grit, and Colour adjusts the tone to fit different genres and moods.
The control scheme is rounded out by Wet and Dry level controls and a preset selector.
Codwaves has provided a fairly simple download process, which we have always appreciated here at BPB.
The plugin is available via a ‘name a price’ model, and you can score a free download by providing an email address.
Once I did that, Codwaves sent me an order receipt with a license key. However you don’t actually need to open the email, and you can instead click straight through to the order and licence key on the website after submitting the email.
After clicking through, you can download the install files straight from the website.
Codwaves provides the choice of two files here, namely a 3.83 MB macOS pkg file and a 3.25 MB Windows exe file.
If you’d like to hear what Seaquake Techno Rumble can do, Codwaves has produced a short YouTube demo and a four-minute walkthrough video.
I can see how the plugin would be a really handy tool to dial in a big sound with a minimum of fuss.
It’s got enough parameters to be able to really customise the sound, while also having a lightweight and focused design.
That’s the advantage of having a plugin that’s designed purely for a single task.
It’s worth noting though that even when the controls are dimed, the plugin doesn’t go uber crazy with the sounds.
So, if you want to create some really extreme kick sounds, you might need to pair Seaquake with additional plugins or look elsewhere for your kick boomification needs.
Download: Seaquake Techno Rumble (FREE / Name-your-price)
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Last Updated on December 9, 2024 by Tomislav Zlatic.
