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Sasquatch Kick MachineUser’s Manual
Sasquatch Kick MachineUsers Manual
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IntroThank you for installing Sasquatch Kick Machine. We hope it blows your mind. If it doesn’t blowyour mind, it should at least blow your speakers. Don’t blame us if your neighbors complain.
The Sections
Sasquatch Kick Machine is divided into three sections: Click, Oomph and Direct. These threeprocesses run in parallel and are summed together at the output stage. You can control thevolume of each of these sections from any screen. By clicking the “Edit” button for each section,you can view more advanced controls for that section.
Main Screen
The main screen shows input and output peak meters, aswell as a trim fader, which adjusts the master outputvolume. From this screen, you can control the outputvolume of each section (Click, Oomph and Direct). Eachsection shows a peak meter to give you a quick referenceof your sections’ output levels.
Click Controls the amount of beater click added.
Oomph Controls the amount of low frequency content.
Direct Controls the amount of dry signal.
Edit Access advanced controls for section.
Green Button Click this to enable/disable section.
Reset Resets all the controls to the default settings.This includes any advanced controls that you may haveadjusted.
About Shows some very, very, very exciting informationabout Sasquatch Kick Machine.
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Click Screen
The Click section gives you control over the sound ofyour beater click.
Shape This X/Y pad adjusts the shape of the beaterclick sound. The best thing to do is just to try differentpositions to see what best compliments your kick drum.To the left creates more sustained clicks, to the rightcreates shorter sharper clicks.
Tone This section is provides two separate filters toshape the character of your kick.
Freq The frequency of each filter.
Focus Controls how much resonance is placed oneach filter which is the boost just before the cutofffrequency.
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Oomph
This section controls the low frequency tone generators to give your kick drum some addedbeef.
Tone This section controls the main tone of theOomph. This is like the home base for the low end.
Freq This controls the frequency of the sine wavegenerator.
Target Note This drop down menu lets you pick anote for the tone generator, rather than using the freqknob to pick a frequency. This is particularly helpful ifhave a song in the key of G, you can pick your tone toplay a G to better blend with the song.
Sustain This controls how long the sine wave willsustain in milliseconds after it is triggered.
Decay This controls how fast the sine wave will decayafter the sustain period has ended.
Snap to Note When this is enabled, the tonegenerator will automatically snap to the frequency of thenearest note in the chromatic scale. This is useful ifusing automation to control the frequency to play a
series of notes.
Dive When enabled, this section causes the note to dive (or rise) dynamically instead ofplaying a single sustained frequency.
Freq This controls the starting frequency of the pitch dive (with the ending frequency being thehome base frequency). Note that the start frequency changes depending on the strength of theincoming kick drum. The louder the volume of the incoming kick drum, the closer the startingfrequency will be to the value in this box. This provides a more natural dynamic response to thekick drum.
Speed This controls the speed of the pitch dive. The higher this value is, the faster the pitchwill reach the home base frequency.
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Harmonics When enabled, the tone generator will create additional harmonics to the originaltone.
Level Controls the level of the harmonics. Each harmonic will be attenuated by this value. Forexample, if you have 3 harmonics with a level set to 8, the first harmonic will be 8 dB lower thanthe fundamental, the second harmonic will be 16 dB lower than the fundamental, and the thirdwill be 24 dB lower than the fundamental.
Freq This controls the relationship in octaves between the harmonics and the fundamental.When set to 1, the first harmonic will be one octave above the fundamental, the secondharmonic will be 2 octaves above the fundamental, etc. As you change this value, the harmonicsbecome harmonically unrelated to the original tone.
Num This determines the number of harmonics that will be present.
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DirectThis section controls any processing performed directly on the incoming signal.
Tone This section provides an equalizer for the directsignal.
HPF A high pass filter frequency for getting rid ofsome of the low end rumble.
Reso This controls the resonance of the high passfilter. This is the same filter that Bark of Dog wascreated from. Increase the resonance to boost thenatural low end of your kick drum without making itflabby. Be careful, this one is easy and fun to overdo.
LPF A low pass filter, because sometimes you needto tone down the beater click, not add to it.
Detector This section applies only to the input leveldetector that is used to trigger the Click and Oomph.None of these processes will be applied to the directsignal to manipulate triggering.
NOTE: The settings in this section can have a drasticeffect on the sound of the Click and Oomph sections. Itis strongly suggested that you configure this section first.
HPF This is a high pass filter. It’s main purpose is to prevent boomy resonant kick drums fromcreating false triggers.
LPF This is a low pass filter. It’s main purpose is to make it easier to prevent the cymbal andsnare bleed from triggering the Click and Oomph. Lower this frequency to cut the highfrequencies out of the detector
Gate This value determines the threshold of the gate. This is a further helps to prevent falsetriggers from drum bleed, but can actually result in tighter, faster kicks in Sasquatch dependingon the source material.
Gain This boosts the output level of the detector. Turning up this value will increase the levelsof the Click and Oomph sections, so be careful. It will also adjust the character of the OomphDive section if it is enabled.
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Listen This bypasses the Click, Oomph and Direct sections and solos the detector section sothat you can better listen for bleed and other issues that might cause false triggers.
General Tips
● It is super important that you set up the detector settings to where they need to be. Thiswill prevent track bleed and has a strong effect on the tone of the Oomph section.
● Sasquatch Kick Machine comes installed with a bunch of presets. Use them as a startingpoint to help you get a feel for how the controls sound.
● To change the values of the parameters, you can either adjust the knobs or click on thevalue to enter it manually.
● Double click a knob to reset it to its default setting.
PresetsSasquatch comes installed with over 300 presets to help you get a feel for what it can do. Someof these presets are designed to be blended with the original kick, some are designed tocompletely replace the original kick, but of course you can use whatever settings you wanthowever you want.
The presets that are designed to replace the kick have the direct (dry) signal muted and arelabelled as “use with blip.wav.” If you would like to blend these presets with your orignal click,simply unmute the “Direct” section after selecting the preset.
Other presets are designed to be blended with the original kick. We do not recommend usingblip.wav to trigger these presets because it will sound pretty nasty. If you would like to use thesepresets to replace your kick drum, simply mute the “Direct” section after selecting the preset.
Blip.wavIncluded with Sasquatch is a wav file called Blip.wav. It is located in your install folder (usuallyunder C:\Program Files\BozDigitalLabs\Sasquatch for windows or /Library/ApplicationSupport/Boz Digital Labs/Sasquatch on Mac). This is designed to be a trigger for Sasquatch thatcan be used with some sequencers. Because Sasquatch reacts dynamically to the incomingsignal, some of the presets may sound different than originally intended (for better or for worse) ifyou use another sound to trigger Sasquatch. By using blip.wav to trigger Sasquatch, thesepresets will sound the same to you as it did to us.
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Contact
If you ever run into issues or have any questions, you can visit our support forum athttp://bozdigitallabs.com/supportforum/ and ask any question. We check in often to make sureany questions are not left hanging. If you need to contact our support team directly, you can sendan email to [email protected].
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