SUPERBOOTH 2021: Rabid Elephant Portal Drum Updates

video upload by sonicstate

"We first saw the Rabid Elephant Portal Drum at Superbooth 2019 and it has come on along way since then. With some major improvements over the version that we saw in 2019 the Portal Drum has basically been completely redesigned. The design which we see here is the result of 3 years of development. Any kick drum that takes 3 years to design has gotta have some serious weight behind it."

Some Horses and a Portal Kick in a Drawer

Published on Jun 23, 2019 Rabid Elephant

"Looking at some nice horsies and giving some final pass over the breadboarded prototype of Portal Kick."

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Cool to get peeks at manufacturer's workspaces.

Superbooth 2019: Rabid Elephant Portal Kick

Published on May 10, 2019 sonicstate

Rabid Elephant Portal Kick

KICK DRUM SOUND DESIGN with Portal Kick from Rabid Elephant // Superbooth 2019

Published on May 9, 2019 DivKidVideo

"Portal is the new kick drum generator from Rabid Elephant. Taking influence from classic 808 / 909 architectures but building a modern kick drum machine from scratch. There's a unique click generator that imparts a click and transient into the core of the circuit, rather than just layer samples with softer "body" or "boom" elements. There's wavefolding/shaping 3 envelopes that are more natural and unique while also seeking to model the "knee" elements of compression. Taking more basic analogue kick sounds and adding in what the compression would do in a recording chain. It sounds ace and I'm looking forward to hearing more."