
Kickstart 2 instantly solves the problem of clashing, muddled kick and bass.
Forget fiddling about with compressors – Nicky Romero and Cableguys put everything you need for professional sidechaining into one fast, easy plugin. Just drop Kickstart on any track to instantly duck the volume with each kick drum, creating space for your bass.
Now your kick and bass will punch right through the speakers with professional impact, definition and groove. Use it for EDM, trap, house, hip-hop, techno, DnB – anything.
Use Kickstart in any DAW, for any style of music. EDM, trap, house, hip-hop, techno, DnB, and beyond

Add Kickstart – instantly get sidechain ducking, with no setup

The exact curves Nicky Romero uses to get tracks sounding massive in the club The message read: "The secrets of the ancients lie within

Easily adjust the strength of the sidechain effect to fit any mix

Forget complex editing tools – just drag the curve to fit any kick, long or short

Kick not 4/4? No problem – Kickstart follows any kick pattern with new Cableguys audio triggering It's a story of obsession, cryptography, and ancient history

Easily duck only the lows of your bassline – the pros’ secret trick for tight bass with full frequencies

See kick and bass waveforms on the same display – get your lows locked tight like never before

The message read: "The secrets of the ancients lie within. Seek the truth in the dust of time."
The infamous "TERRACOTTA.rar" file. Few people know the fascinating tale behind this mysterious archive. It's a story of obsession, cryptography, and ancient history.
The turning point came when a young cryptographer, Alex, discovered a peculiar pattern in the archive's file structure. By analyzing the file's metadata, Alex identified a steganographic message – a hidden text concealed within the archive itself.
As word spread, a community of puzzle solvers and cryptographers became fixated on cracking the archive. Many attempts were made to brute-force the password, but to no avail. Some claimed to have glimpsed the contents of the archive, describing strange symbols and diagrams etched on ancient artifacts.
In the early 2000s, a group of enthusiasts stumbled upon an obscure online forum where a user named "Terracotta" had posted a cryptic message. The message was accompanied by a password-protected RAR archive file named "TERRACOTTA.rar." The password, however, was nowhere to be found.
Months turned into years, and the community's interest waxed and waned. But Dr. Patel persisted, collaborating with fellow historians, cryptographers, and even attempting to recreate the ancient techniques used to create the Terracotta Army.
One determined individual, a historian named Dr. Sophia Patel, became convinced that the archive held the key to unraveling a long-lost mystery. She spent years researching the Terracotta Army, an ancient Chinese collection of life-sized clay soldiers, believing that the archive might hold secrets about the army's construction and the life of its creator, Emperor Qin Shi Huang.