Dawesome Chop Suey Black Friday Deal 2026: $53.40, 40% off

Dawesome Chop Suey Black Friday pricing takes 40% off this kick design plugin from Tracktion, leaving it at $53.40 until Nov 6, 2026.

Chop Suey builds kicks by sequencing their parts instead of stacking them. The transient, the body and the tail each come from a different sample, played one after another.

That is the maker's answer to a familiar problem. Layered kicks tend to smear into a muddy mess, and sequencing sidesteps the phasing that causes it.

How does Chop Suey build a kick?

The maker says the combined kick keeps the crisp transient of one sound, the punch of another and the characteristic tail of a third. Nothing overlaps, so nothing fights for the same frequencies.

The design came out of a collaboration between Peter V (Dawesome) and German techno artist Björn Torwellen. Torwellen has spent 20+ years designing kicks, and his workflow is what the plugin puts into practice.

Why is editing visual?

A compressor, saturator or transient designer works on the whole kick. Reshaping the transient also moves the body, and the usable ranges are small.

Chop Suey shows you the sound you are editing. The first few milliseconds of a kick matter most for how it is perceived, so you can stretch that area on screen and edit it in fine detail.

What tools does it give you?

• Curve-based editing, so you shape exactly the part and the moment you want. A transient edit leaves the punch and the tail alone.
• A filter built for kicks. It follows fast cutoff or resonance moves without zipper noise or artefacts, where ordinary digital filters often lag behind.
• Punch Protect. When it is on, the frequencies below roughly 150Hz that carry the punch are kept out of the filter's reach.

That last one means you can carve the sound hard without thinning the low end.

The maker says the workflow was tuned with producers and artists from the dance music scene, and it also draws on feedback from top German dance producers. The goal was a workhorse for pro kick design that stays fun to use.

Formats and system requirements

• macOS 10.15 or later, Intel and M1 Apple Silicon, 64-bit only: AAX, AU and VST3
• Windows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit only: AAX and VST3

Torwellen also shared his kick-making approach in a 6-hour masterclass published by the Sinee Institute for Electronic Music. The plugin grew from the idea of turning that workflow into a tool.