GeonKick

1 Description

Geonkick is a free software synthesizer capable of generating a wide range of percussive sounds, including kicks, snares, claps, hi-hats, shakers, and also unique effect sounds.

• LV2, VST3, Standalone
• 16 Instruments
• 16 Stereo Channels
• 3 Layers/Instrument, 2 Oscillators/Layer
• Play, modify & blend samples with synthesis
• Save (JSON) & Export (FLAC, WAV, Ogg, SFZ)

Project webside: https://geonkick.org/

Source: github.com https://github.com/Geonkick-Synthesizer/geonkick/tree/main

Manual: https://geonkick.org/media/Geonkick_User_Guide.pdf

2 Features

• Kit
  • 16 instruments
  • user configurable MIDI key mapping for instruments
  • Save / Load kit in JSON format
  • Export instrument kit to SFZ
• Multichannel
  • 16 stereo audio output channels for plugin (1 stereo for standalone)
  • user configurable mapping of kit instrument to output channels
  • 16 input MIDI channel, user configurable mapping of instruments to MIDI input channels
• 3 layers
• Layers Mixer
• 2 oscillators per layer
  • sine, square, triangle, saw-tooth, sample (wav, ogg, flac)
  • initial phase control
  • amplitude, frequency and sample pitch shift envelope
  • low, band and high pass filter, cutoff envelope
• FM synthesis
  • OSC1->OSC2
• One noise generator per layer
  • white & brownian
  • random seed
  • amplitude envelope
  • low, band and high pass filter, cutoff envelope
• General
  • amplitude envelope & kick length
  • low & high pass filter, cutoff envelope
  • limiter
  • compression
  • distortion
  • distortion drive envelope
  • distortion volume envelope
  • tune percussion option (relative to key A4)
• Key velocity sensitive for instrument total output amplitude
• Jack support
• Export
  • mono, stereo
  • WAV: 16, 24, 32 bit
  • FLAC: 16, 24 bit
  • Ogg
• Open & Save presets in JSON format

3 First power on of GeonKick

First, check if you have the Geonkick LV2 plugin activated. Via webconf at https://zynthian.local go to the menu SOFTWARE / LV2-Plugins and then MIDI Synth. Select Geonkick and confirm the selection by clicking the SAVE button at the bottom of the page.

Now we can make chain with Geonkick since we will have it in the menu.

We must go to the main menu and select Add Synth Chain

In next step select Geonkick

After selection of midi channel you are in Zynthian UI of Geonkick

After back to main mixer page you see Geonkick without preset.

Now you need to set up to work in GeonKick's natural GUI

Turning on VNC check and SAVE button on the bottom of page in first

Zynthian restarts its UI.

Now it's time to work in the natural GUI of Geonkick

In webconf https://zynthian.local go to a menu Interface / VNC - Engines -> this opens a new window with connection to the Synth Engine Native GUIs. Click on Connect and fill password raspberry and push enter key.