Drums for breaks tracks

[SoundofArman]

Anyone have any specific recommendations for drum packs that are good for breaks? Whenever I try to make a breaks track, the drums that I've used with success for other tracks like prog house and melodic techno turn out sounding cheesy for some reason!

Thanks!

[n2077]

Start with some amen break like stuff?

https://www88.zippyshare.com/v/T3I2OBQl/file.html
Just chop these up and your good if you want jungle breaks

[Ikaz7]

If we are talking about classic drum breaks: you don't want to use House or EDM sounds for that. Rather you would want to use samples of vintage acoustic drumkits - totally different sound. Then you would also have to recreate the groove and feel. These are some good free libraries:

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/virtuo ... an-studios
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/gogodz ... -karoryfer
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/lorenzos-drums-v1/

[theorize]

Wow this is a very broad question, but very understandable.. it really depends on what kind of breaks, like others have said. If you're looking for florida breaks type stuff then you're going to want to use a lot of Roland drum machines layer them with other drum samples you like and process the hell out of them, if you're looking for some stuff that's more ready to go loopmasters has some packs from DJ Fixx and a couple of other notable florida names. If you're looking for NuSkool breaks drums then you're kind of on your own on that one because pretty much anything goes there. It would be a good idea to get some classic breaks, idk if fatso's place is still up i doubt it. On Splice there's the Vintage Breaks series if you don't want to use classic breaks, they do a good job of sounding authentic using gear of the time. Also on splice I picked up most of the Breakit pack I like the flavor and they're fairly punchy.

[Biome_Digital]

You'll need to post some examples of what you're looking for.

[TW1306]

Yeah, some examples are definitely needed, 'breaks' to me means 'Hybrid's early 2000s stuff' but the genre covers a good few decades at this point.

[Erisian]

MT-Power Drum Kit - FREE

https://www.powerdrumkit.com/download76187.php

[Ah_Dziz]

Do you have kontakt? If so then I'd grab all the free Drum Drops kits. Taking those real drum samples and making some cool breakbeats with them will give you plenty of food for a sampler. I dunno what style of "breaks" you are referring to but this method can give you the "break" part for anything you need. Past those kits there are lots of other free kits and extremely free kits that can be used in kontakt. If you don't have kontakt then there are lots of really nice "real drum" vsts out there like Addictive Drums or BFD that will let you cook up some breakbeats with the quickness.
If you have anything more specific then maybe things would be easier to suggest.

[j wazza]

loopcloud is the best place ive found for royalty free break and jungle samples. they have good one shots too. you can get a free trial, listen to some of these packs

https://sounds.loopcloud.com/search?use ... d18&page=1

they also have loopcloud drum, which has packs like jungle rollers and chopped breaks exp, they are loop presets made from one shots and you can solo the hats etc, change the rhythm, swap some sounds for your own samples, great fun way to get clean breaks and edit them, you can try out different snares and immediately hear them in context of the whole drum loop, which is important as with drums its all about how they work together. With audio loops often theres an annoying cymbal etc u cant get rid of, or when you chop you lose the end of the snare etc, here you have isolated samples. its also a great learning tool seeing how these beats are made and makes it easier to recreate them in daw.

also a ring mod on an acoustic hi hat can instantly make it sound breakbeaty

[TIMT]

An arsenal of vinyl breaks and a bunch of drum machine hits. If you are going for more of the Prodigy, or Jungle Hardcore Rave breaks, you'll wanna combine the two. A desk emu like Airwindows Mackity and a model of a cheap VCA comp(or old plugin comp) will help merge them(i recommend Black Rooster Audio's Blue and Blackface comps for that sound). Don't wanna be going all surgical if ya looking for authenticity

[Bansaw]

I recall reading somewhere that EZDrummer, HipHop kit/patterns at 2x speed were pretty good for certain drum breaks styles. e.g. DnB etc.