Your drums deserve more than two knobs. The first transient shaper you draw and sequence — hit by hit, band by band.
Sketch turns transient shaping into something you can see, vary, reuse and finish—without building the same move again on every hit.
Pull curve nodes into the gain shape you want, then shape each segment. Above 0 dB adds attack and body; below 0 dB pulls sustain down. Every accepted trigger fires the visible contour, scaled by Amount.
Stop translating a sound in your head into attack and release knobs. Draw the move itself.
MAIN stays live and permanently bound in position 1. Generate builds seven bounded variations in positions 2–8 while preserving timing, segment shape and slider states—so the part keeps evolving without redrawing a single curve.
Variation without redrawing seven curves—or turning the performance into uncontrolled randomness.
Two controls add life on top of the drawn move. Humanize varies the global Amount over time by Depth and Rate. Character adds a fresh random trigger delay of up to 5 ms, so no two accepted hits land in exactly the same place.
Movement without randomness taking over—the curve you drew still runs the show.
Varies global Amount by Depth and Rate.
Adds a fresh random trigger delay, up to 5 ms.
Start from five factory contours, save the curves worth repeating and move them where the session needs them: between bands or straight into sequencer slots 2–8.
The curve that fixed this kick is ready for the next one—without starting from a blank canvas.
Soft Clip rounds the crest toward its ceiling. Hard Red adds the tonal path, with Clip Intensity morphing how much of that serial character is applied. Clean keeps the strict hard clamp without the extra tone.
Three deliberate finishes after the transient move—not one generic clip switch. Off remains available when you want none.
Rounds the signal toward the ceiling.
Adds the tonal path; Clip Intensity morphs how much of that serial character is applied.
Clip IntensityThe hard ceiling without the extra tone.
No ceiling processing. Oversampling and phase controls remain separate.
Set the trigger, then pull curve nodes into the gain shape you want and shape each segment. Above 0 dB adds gain; below 0 dB reduces it. Every accepted trigger fires the visible contour, scaled by Amount. Height moves the curve vertically, Flip interpolates toward its vertical mirror, and Length sets the time window. Link Bands is a context-menu action that copies the current curve to all bands and propagates later curve edits.
Flip MB and Sketch splits the signal into low, mid and high — each with its own drawable envelope, solo, mute and effect bypass. Draw a positive attack on the low band, pull the sustain down on the high band, or any mix in between. Detector, Focus, Audio / Sync mode and musical division stay shared so each accepted trigger advances once and lands together across low, mid and high. Pick minimum phase for a unity-magnitude all-pass sum, or linear phase for latency-matched reconstruction of the input.
A shortcut when the detector needs a nudge. Hit LEARN, play a representative passage, and when confidence is enough Sketch updates Focus, Sens, Detail, Hold and Trigger Shift for you. Its absolute-threshold detector uses 38 samples of lookahead in LOW quality and 202 in HIGH at 48 kHz. Detail adds a guard against the local mean to help reject quieter local fluctuations. Character adds 0–5 ms of trigger timing variation for feel.
Explore the manualMultiband: shape the low-band attack and high-band sustain independently. Try a short positive low-band lift when the kick needs more punch. Bypass and level-match often — the useful amount depends on the kit and balance.
Draw a short positive attack around the trigger and return toward unity over roughly 40 ms. Adjust the gain and timing to the mic, drummer and song, then level-match against bypass.
Multiband: sharpen the low-band attack with a short positive curve, leave the sustain near unity. Keep the Amount modest and level-match against bypass so louder never reads as better.
On the high band, a small positive lift on the attack sharpens the stick. If the tail rings on, pull the sustain gently before pushing the Amount. Bypass often — hats forgive very little.
Sync at 1/16 with a mild positive attack on the mid band. If closely-spaced hits start to stack, ease the Amount before touching the timing. Level-match on every change.
Low band only: a short positive attack, sustain near unity. Level-match against bypass — long sub tails are easy to over-shorten and lose weight without noticing.
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