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Hybrid Kick Design Engine
Legendary kick emulations, sampling, and wavetable power - fused into one modern sound-design engine.
Hybrid Kick Design Engine
Legendary kick emulations, sampling, and wavetable power - fused into one modern sound-design engine.
Vast Factory Content
An enormous factory library puts a massive range of sounds, presets, and wavetables right at your fingertips.
Vast Factory Content
An enormous factory library puts a massive range of sounds, presets, and wavetables right at your fingertips.
Wavetable Power
Push kick design further with a Wavetable engine that unlocks a wider, more modern sound palette.
Advanced Editor
See every layer, shape every movement, and take full control with an Advanced Editor built right into the PunchBox 2 workflow.
Built-in FX Rack
Shape, route, and finish every kick your way with a flexible built-in FX rack and Patchbay-powered signal flow.
Get under the hood
Something bigger. Smarter. Stronger.
PunchBox 2 is the next evolution of PunchBox, packed with powerful new features, improved performance, and an even better experience-crafted in collaboration with D16 Group, Sounds of Revolution, and CFA-Sound. Here's a quick look at what's inside.
The factory library for PunchBox 2 includes a premium collection of professionally crafted presets and drum sounds created by leading sound designers from Sounds of Revolution and CFA-Sound. Renowned for their work with top music production tools and commercial releases, these designers have contributed a wide range of punchy kicks, modern electronic drums, and production-ready sounds that showcase the full power and flexibility of PunchBox 2. The included content provides instant inspiration and covers genres ranging from EDM and techno to house, trance, and beyond.
PunchBox 2 is not just a kick drum generator. It’s a full-scale bass drum design engine built for precision and power.
At its core, four independent sound generators combine layered samples with advanced synthesis models, giving you total control over every transient, tone, and tail. From classic analog-inspired engines to modern wavetable shaping, everything flows through a flexible effects rack and intelligent routing system so you can sculpt kicks that hit harder, cut cleaner, and sit perfectly in the mix. This is where raw impact meets deep sound design.
3 multi-purpose sample based Layers
Three flexible sample layers designed to shape and enhance the character of your kick.
Main Kick generator
The core of your sound. Switch seamlessly between sample playback and multiple synthesis engines — including models inspired by classic drum machines — to craft everything from iconic hits to entirely new textures.
Wavetable generator
The Wavetable mode expands the Kick generator with a more synthetic and highly flexible sound source based on wavetable playback. Shape your tone with control over position, phase, level, and filtering — and bring it to life with modulation for dynamic, evolving kick designs.
Advanced FX Chain
Sculpt your sound with four reorderable effects, plus dedicated Mono Bass and Master Limiter stages - all configurable within multiple routing topologies for maximum creative control.
Flexible Patchbay Routing
Choose from ten unique routing configurations to define how your effects interact and shape the signal flow your way.
Drag'n'drop Audio Export
When your sound is dialed in, render it instantly to an audio file and drag & drop it straight into your project - fast, seamless, and ready to use.
Creative Randomizer
Out of ideas? One click is all it takes to generate fresh, inspiring sounds and kickstart your creativity.
3 multi-purpose sample based Layers
Three flexible sample layers designed to shape and enhance the character of your kick.
Main Kick generator
The core of your sound. Switch seamlessly between sample playback and multiple synthesis engines — including models inspired by classic drum machines — to craft everything from iconic hits to entirely new textures.
Wavetable generator
The Wavetable mode expands the Kick generator with a more synthetic and highly flexible sound source based on wavetable playback. Shape your tone with control over position, phase, level, and filtering — and bring it to life with modulation for dynamic, evolving kick designs.
Advanced FX Chain
Sculpt your sound with four reorderable effects, plus dedicated Mono Bass and Master Limiter stages - all configurable within multiple routing topologies for maximum creative control.
Flexible Patchbay Routing
Choose from ten unique routing configurations to define how your effects interact and shape the signal flow your way.
Drag'n'drop Audio Export
When your sound is dialed in, render it instantly to an audio file and drag & drop it straight into your project - fast, seamless, and ready to use.
Creative Randomizer
Out of ideas? One click is all it takes to generate fresh, inspiring sounds and kickstart your creativity.
Advanced editor
From subtle movement to complex, evolving kicks - this is where sound design goes from precise to limitless.
Take full control of your sound with a powerful multistage envelope system that lets you shape parameters over time with surgical precision. Visualize every detail in real time with waveform overlays, and dive deep into modulation across generators and effects.
Parameter Group Selection
Jump between layers, Kick, effects, and master - and instantly focus your modulation exactly where you need it.
Waveform Preview
Visualize your sound at every stage of the process. Compare individual layers and the master output in real time to stay fully in control of your mix.
Multi-Stage Envelopes
Shape movement with powerful multi-stage envelopes assigned per parameter — modulating both generator and FX chain controls for deep, dynamic shaping and virtually endless sound design possibilities.
Quick selection of predefined envelopes
Quickly shape your sound with a library of predefined multi-stage envelope presets, giving you ready-made modulation curves to speed up your workflow. Start fast, tweak freely, and turn ideas into polished results in seconds.
Parameter Group Selection
Jump between layers, Kick, effects, and master - and instantly focus your modulation exactly where you need it.
Waveform Preview
Visualize your sound at every stage of the process. Compare individual layers and the master output in real time to stay fully in control of your mix.
Multi-Stage Envelopes
Shape movement with powerful multi-stage envelopes assigned per parameter — modulating both generator and FX chain controls for deep, dynamic shaping and virtually endless sound design possibilities.
Quick selection of predefined envelopes
Quickly shape your sound with a library of predefined multi-stage envelope presets, giving you ready-made modulation curves to speed up your workflow. Start fast, tweak freely, and turn ideas into polished results in seconds.
Streamlined workflow
PunchBox 2 is built for speed as much as power.
A sticky sample browser keeps everything within reach. Global presets and dedicated sub-presets let you quickly assemble and refine kicks without breaking your flow. It’s a streamlined workflow designed to keep you creating, not clicking.
Sticky sample browser with 1505 factory samples
Always within reach, never in the way.
Quickly browse factory content or map your own sample libraries for a smooth, uninterrupted workflow.
On top of that with factory content that big, you can instantly explore and shape your kicks without slowing down.
1119 Master Presets
PunchBox 2 delivers instant inspiration and a vast range of ready-to-use kick sounds to jumpstart your creativity.
66 Wavetables
With 66 onboard wavetables, PunchBox 2 expands your sonic palette with rich, flexible tones ready to shape the core of your kick.
241 Kick Presets
Effortessly dial in the perfect core for your sound - from classic punch to modern, hard-hitting designs.
Sticky sample browser with 1505 factory samples
Always within reach, never in the way.
Quickly browse factory content or map your own sample libraries for a smooth, uninterrupted workflow.
On top of that with factory content that big, you can instantly explore and shape your kicks without slowing down.
1119 Master Presets
PunchBox 2 delivers instant inspiration and a vast range of ready-to-use kick sounds to jumpstart your creativity.
66 Wavetables
With 66 onboard wavetables, PunchBox 2 expands your sonic palette with rich, flexible tones ready to shape the core of your kick.
241 Kick Presets
Effortessly dial in the perfect core for your sound - from classic punch to modern, hard-hitting designs.
27 Bitcrusher presets
Instantly dial in everything from subtle grit to aggressive digital crunch.
27 Distortion presets
Auickly add anything from warm saturation to heavy, hard-hitting drive.
Back panel
Go beyond the main output with flexible multi-output routing.
It lets you send individual layers or the Kick directly into your DAW for separate processing and mixing. Fine-tune your gain staging with dedicated output trims, keeping everything clean, controlled, and ready for further shaping. Whether you’re splitting signals across channels or integrating PunchBOX into a complex routing setup, the back panel gives you the control you need to fit seamlessly into any workflow.
Multi-Output Routing
Want to shape your sound directly in your DAW? No problem — route individual generators to separate outputs and choose whether they pass through the FX chain or bypass it entirely for direct processing.
Precision Output Control
Dial in your levels with confidence. Monitor signals in real time and fine-tune output gain to feed your DAW with clean, perfectly balanced audio.
Master Output Trim
Master Output Trim lets you instantly optimize PunchBox 2’s output level for seamless integration into any mix or production workflow. Choose between 0 dB, –6 dB, or –12 dB settings to maintain clean headroom, prevent clipping, and keep your low-end hitting with maximum impact.
Multi-Output Routing
Want to shape your sound directly in your DAW? No problem — route individual generators to separate outputs and choose whether they pass through the FX chain or bypass it entirely for direct processing.
Precision Output Control
Dial in your levels with confidence. Monitor signals in real time and fine-tune output gain to feed your DAW with clean, perfectly balanced audio.
Master Output Trim
Master Output Trim lets you instantly optimize PunchBox 2’s output level for seamless integration into any mix or production workflow. Choose between 0 dB, –6 dB, or –12 dB settings to maintain clean headroom, prevent clipping, and keep your low-end hitting with maximum impact.
... and much more
Screen fit
Several UI sizes and HiDPI support for better screen fit
MIDI Learn
MIDI Learn for easy controller assignment
Downloads
Manuals
User Manual - English versionOthers
Press KitSystem requirements
Windows PC
- OS version
- Windows 7 or newer
- CPU
- Intel x86 / AMD x86
- Software
- VST2 / VST3 / AAX compatible host application (32bit or 64bit)
- Sample rate
- ≥ 44.1 kHz
Apple Mac
- OS version
- Mac OS X 10.13 to macOS 26
- CPU
- Intel x86 / Apple Silicon
- Software
- VST2 / VST3 / AU / AAX compatible host application (64bit only!)
- Sample rate
- ≥ 44.1 kHz
Document containing system requirements for entire D16 Group plug-in line-up you can download from here Compatibility Chart
Note
This product is not a standalone program so you need a host application to use it.
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