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Create professional kickdrums for Hard Techno with HardKick

Industrial Hard Techno Kicks? Raw Hard Techno Kicks?

HardKick features thousands of hard techno kick layers in the style of Nico Moreno, Dyen, Basswell, Aphøtic, NYCO, XRTN, Cloudy, Novah, Winson, Fantasm, Holy Priest, CARV, Onlynumbers, Karah, KLOFAMA

VST PLUGIN FOR KICK DRUM CREATION, LAYERING AND PITCHING

Hard Techno Kick builder

If you’re making Hard Techno in 2025, your kick isn’t just a drum hit. It’s the engine of the whole track.
HardKick is built around that reality. It’s not a generic “kick synth” that happens to work for harder styles; it’s a purpose-made kick builder designed specifically for the way Hard Techno, industrial, and adjacent genres treat kicks: layered, pitched, saturated, and perfectly locked to tempo.

Built for the full Hard Techno kick chain in one place
Hard Techno kicks usually need multiple components working together: a clean core, a sharp transient, gritty distortion, a rumble tail, and often a bass layer that “breathes” with the punch. HardKick mirrors that exact workflow with six dedicated sound sources. Kick, Attack, Crunch, Rumble, Bass, and SFX.
All inside a single plugin. Instead of juggling samplers, distortion units, EQs, and resampling lanes, you’re shaping the entire kick stack in one coherent interface.

HardKick ships with 5,000+ factory sounds and 180 presets, and the layers are tagged by style (including Techno/Hard Techno, Rawstyle, Hardcore, Experimental, etc.). That means you can dial into the exact flavor you want fast, then tweak from there. You’re not starting from a blank oscillator unless you want to; you’re starting from proven, mix-ready building blocks.

5000+

Kick builder layers

180

Ready-to-use presets

6

Layers + sub control

The next-gen Hard Techno Kick Builder

Modern Hard Techno kicks are constructed by a sculpted transient + a pitched, distorted body + a controlled noisy tail/rumble, almost always resampled + clipped to the max.
This is exactly what HardKick does!

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