Start with a sound.
Kicks, snares and hats sit alongside vibrating strings, metallic resonators, particles and fractured noise. Pick any of the 24 engines on any channel.
Generative drum synthesizer v0.1.0
Eight voices.
Endless rhythm.
Build a kit from 24 synthesis engines. Give every voice its own sound, sequence and movement. From focused drums to percussion with a mind of its own.
VST3 & AU · macOS & Windows
Public beta · 0.1.0
RAVIK / Desktop8 independent voices
Every channel has its own pattern, pitch range and probability.
The instrument
A whole kit.
Eight individual ideas.
Choose a synthesis engine for each voice, shape the hit and give it a pattern. Each channel has its own controls, so a kick can stay steady while everything around it shifts.
Give it its own rhythm.
Nine generative algorithms, with independent patterns, root notes, scales and octaves. Probability, swing and variation turn a repeated loop into something that keeps moving.
Let the kit interact.
Three MOD lanes and an LFO per channel bring movement to pitch, timbre, filters and effects. Route modulation across the kit to make different voices respond together.
Watch & listen
Meet Ravik.
Eight voices, 24 engines and generative drum sequencing. Hear the instrument and see it in use.
Watch on YouTube ↗Sound shaping
Round it off.
Rough it up.
Shape each voice from its first transient to its last echo. Filters, envelopes and effects belong to the individual channel, with shared processing for the whole kit.
SEM-inspired filtering
Sculpt the body and brightness of each hit with cutoff, resonance and filter type. Use envelope movement to give a static tone its own contour.
Polivoks-inspired VOKS
Switch to VOKS for a rougher filter character. Push the resonance, open the cutoff or make the filter bite with each hit.
SNAP & decay
Soften the front of a sound or sharpen its impact with SNAP. Adjust decay to move from short, tight hits to ringing percussion.
Effects on every channel
Sixteen controls for delay, reverb, distortion and dynamics. Give a snare its own space while keeping the bass drum dry and focused.
Fold, duck & compress
Add harmonics with wavefolding, shape the level with ducking and compression, and place sounds across the stereo field.
A shared space
Delay, reverb and distortion sends bring channels together. Master effects shape the combined mix when you want to finish the kit inside Ravik.
The engine collection
24 ways to
make a hit.
Familiar drum shapes and less familiar ways to excite, collide, resonate and break apart. Every engine is available on every channel.
24 / 8
Synthesis engines / independent voices
01Drum foundations07
BDBass drum
SDSnare drum
CPClap
HHHi-hat
TMTom
CYCymbal
RMRim
02Strings, skins & resonators07
KARKarplus strings
MDLModal resonator
SYMSympathetic strings
CMBComb resonator
MBRMembrane
DFFDuffing resonator
SHKShaker
03FM, formants & digital05
FMPFM percussion
BYTBytebeat
SIDC64 percussion
VSMVOSIM
FMDFM drum
04Particles, grains & friction05
PTCParticles
GRNGrains
GDNGENDYN
SCRScrape
BRKBreak
Keep a good accident.
Randomise one engine, one sequence, all engines or all sequences. Choose TOTAL CHAOS for a wider change, and lock what you want to keep.
Save it. Share it. Come back to it.
Seven factory presets include Velvet Tide and Tight Loop. INIT recalls Tight Loop as a starting point. Save your own patches or copy a share key to pass the whole idea along.
RAVIK · Public beta 0.1.0
Build your next kit.
Download Ravik for your desktop. Try it in your own sessions and tell me what works, what surprises you and what needs attention.
macOS
Apple Silicon & Intel · macOS 11 or later
- Audio Unit & VST3
- Universal installer
- Developer ID signed & notarized
Windows
64-bit Windows · x64
- VST3
- Installer with runtime setup
- WebView2 support included
Beta feedback & support: vald.labs.lisbon@gmail.com