Patching Panda - Blast

The Blast module is designed to make crafting great kick drums easier. It helps you overcome the challenges of balancing low-end depth, midrange impact, and high-frequency clarity to create kicks that feel powerful and sound cohesive.

Blast focuses on the essential elements of a kick drum: delivering enough punch to stand out in the mix while maintaining a full, rich sustain. Its unique envelope offers a fast decay with a slower release for amplitude, ensuring a tight, punchy transient without sacrificing fullness. In addition, the Body Control feature allows you to increase the weight of the kick, adding depth and power without overpowering the mix. With tools like compression, envelope shaping, and subtle distortion, Blast gives you the flexibility to shape the transient for just the right amount of impact and definition-without overcomplicating the process.

Whether you're looking for a clean, punchy sound or a more versatile tone, Blast offers intuitive controls that adapt to a wide range of musical styles. It's designed to help you get the sound you want easily and effectively, without compromising quality.

Features:
• Analog kick drum module
• Manual and trigger input
• Separate amplitude and pitch decay controls, both with CV inputs
• Unique envelope provides a fast decay with a slower release
• Body control to increase the weight of the kick
• Compression with soft clipping
• Pitch amount to determine how offset the initial pitch is
• Blendable waveshape distortion with wave folding
• Thru-zero FM input
• AM input
• Accent input with level/accent attenuator
• Tuning control and 1V/Oct input for consistent pitch tracking
• Final output plus a unipolar positive and unipolar negative amp envelope outputs

DIY-Kit-Type:
SMD-Kit-1. This is a Do-It-Yourself kit, not an assembled module. The kit includes all parts to build the module. All SMD parts are pre-soldered, only trough-hole parts to solder. For build guide, more info, videos etc. please check the buttons below.