BreakTweaker Expanded from iZotope features BreakTweaker, a virtual drum machine. In addition to offering a drum-sculpting and beat-sequencing environment, the package includes four expansion libraries specifically designed for the software. These comprise Vintage Machines, Kicks and Snares, Cinematic Textures, and Modern Grooves.
Available for download, BreakTweaker from iZotope is a virtual instrument for drum sculpting and beat sequencing. Geared towards EDM producers, DJs, and composers, the software consists of three modules: the Sequencer, the Generator, and the MicroEdit Engine.
Assemble pattern-based beats in the sequencer, which features six tracks for layering sounds. The sequencer can store up to 24 different step patterns, triggered via MIDI for on-the-fly remixing. Isorhythmic step sequencing makes it possible for each track to have a unique tempo and step length, freeing it from the host tempo if need be.
The Generator is a drum synthesis module featuring morphing wavetable synthesis, one-shot sample loading, and noise tables. Additional processing includes dual-stage distortions and vintage-modeled filters. Four LFOs with unique wavetable shapes and four envelopes provide extensive modulation possibilities for almost every single generator parameter. Every sequencer track supports up to three generators.
The MicroEdit Engine provides a different method of sound design. A MicroEdit is the division of a single step within a pattern into potentially thousands of slices. These slices can be contoured and shaped to create harmonic, pitched, and rhythmic effects. Each step can be repeated or chopped at an infinitesimally small rate.
This software is compatible with Mac and Windows platforms. It will operate in AU, VST, AAX, and RTAS plug-in formats.
Available for Download iZotope's Modern Grooves by Black Octopus is an expansion pack for BreakTweaker, iZotope's take on a software drum machine. This library of sounds was programmed by Toby Emerson.
Modern Grooves gives you crisp, modern, and clean sounds—over 300 samples in total, as well as 40 presets. Though rooted in electro, house, deep house, and other styles, Modern Grooves is designed to stand the test of time. It's intended to work well within many genres.
Cinematic Textures from iZotope is an expansion pack designed to enhance film and television scores, as well as the textures of electronic and electro-acoustic music. It features a collection of rhythmic material ranging from esoteric patterns to dense pulses and beats. Although they can be used anywhere, the sounds are mostly geared towards composers, producers, and sound designers. The pack includes 71 presets and over 700 samples.
Kicks and Snares by Beatport Sounds from iZotope is an expansion pack for the company's BreakTweaker software drum machine. It features kick and snare samples along with a little percussion and is the perfect expansion pack for creating modern drum productions.
Vintage Machines from iZotope is an expansion pack for the company's BreakTweaker software drum machine. It features vintage beats that include hip hop, trap, upbeat techno, two step, Dilla style, off kilter, and much more. Over two-hundred samples represent many of the greatest drum machines out there, assembled into fifty kits with twelve patterns each.