Steady State Fate Entity Ultra Kick

Full Description

Thunderous kicks with Resonate control

Add some excitement to your drum sound with Resonate. Driving up the Resonate control will add punch, depth and a musical ring to your sound. Driving up the excitation, you will hear a dampened effect that can be driven into self-oscillation provided a new trigger does not re-excite the resonator core. When driven into self-oscillation territory at full maximum Resonate levels, you won't even need to trigger an input sound as the feedback can drive the input stage of Entity Ultra Kick.

Much like a typical resonance control, Entity Ultra Kick's Resonate control will add sustain to your sound to increase the tail duration. By driving the sustain of your kick drum, you can musically fill in the gaps between hits to create driving sustain, full of harmonics and character. Driving the resonance will also interplay with the rest of the controls to create a wide variety of kick sounds to tailor to your mix perfectly.

Shape your Envelope

To create interesting and musical textures, an envelope generator with fixed attack and voltage-controlled decay is included. With this, you can modulate the frequency of the Resonate and Character modules to drastically alter the core sound and behaviour of the Entity Ultra Kick. With the comprehensive CV control, a fixed-amplitude copy of your envelope can be sent through the ENV output jack, allowing for integrated control and trigger with external units within your Eurorack system.

Using only two simple controls, Depth and Pitch Decay, a wide range of flexible tonal shaping possibilities are available. Depth controls the intensity of the modulation and Pitch Decay changes the decay of time of the modulation envelope. Matching the Resonate decay and the Envelope decay will make for incredibly powerful thunderous modulating bass drums.

Customise your low-end

The main core of Entity Ultra Kick is centered around the Frequency control, allowing you to tailor the fundamental of your kick drum. Where the Entity Ultra Kick has a hidden secret is the Frequency control works together with the Envelope, Resonate and Pitch Decay controls to create unique and exciting drum sounds. Set between 8Hz - 80Hz, the Steady State Fate Entity Ultra Kick is able to reach incredibly low frequencies for extra sub and weight in your drum tracks.

Designed for experimentation, the Ultra Entity Ultra Kick can produce a wide range of sounds through different combinations between each parameter. Create fast and intense bass drums with a short decay by reducing Pitch Decay, driving up the Depth and then matching the Frequency to your desired pitch. For softer kicks, reduce the Pitch Decay and Depth while controlling the length of the kick via the Resonate control. A sound designer's dream, the Entity Ultra Kick can even produce natural tom-tom sounds to use in your compositions.

Take your sound to the next level

Mixing engineers will understand the importance of saturation in your sound design. Saturation can soften harsh peaks from transient-heavy sound sources, it can add character and sustain to your sound. With this in mind, the Steady State Fate Entity Ultra Kick includes the Punch control, an interstage transistor soft clipper/saturator. Adding gain and harmonics as well as chopping off the peak levels of audio, the Punch control rounds off your low-end for an explosive sound with a softer peak level. Located between the main Frequency core and the Character core, your sound will change drastically when driven to the fullest, displaying all the grit and warmth needed to sit your bass drum within your mix.

Features

• Highly-flexible bass-drum tone shaper
• Most controls other than Depth and Ripple are CV controllable to seamlessly integrate to existing systems and synths
• Triggerable via any signal between 0 and 2.5V
• Ultra-fast responsive pitch tracking for bass and percussive melodies
• Five octave tracking to span a wide range of input instruments
• Resonate controls adds sustain excitation to your signal
• Drive your signal into self-oscillation with Resonate dial
• Modulate your signal through Envelope controls
• Produce a wide range of bass drum tones to suit a wide range of electronic musical genres
• Flexible Frequency control allows you to create tom-tom sounds
• Integrated saturator to add harmoncis and grit to your sound

Specifications

• Power consumption: +/- 110mA
• Width: 14hp
• Depth: 23mm
• Output range: 0-19.8Vpp
• Decay CV range: 0-10V
• Character CV range: +/- 10V
• Bass drive CV range: +/- 10V
• SDCHIN input range: 23Vpp
• Gain-dist CV range: +/- 10V
• Resonate CV range: +/-10V
• Punch CV range: +/-10V
• Envelope output: 0-8V
• Product code: SSF-E-U-KICK