Honestly this might sound like a stupid question but I've struggled for years with understanding how to work with breakbeats. I like drum and bass / jungle / rave / hardcore from the 90s and want to make stuff with breakbeats. I have a folder with tons of them.
I've used renoise/kontakt/bitwig sampler and drum machines and I feel like no matter what I do I just don't "get" how producers work with breaks. I'm pretty good with other areas of music and picked them up over time but I still feel lost with break chopping and use of sampled drum loops.
I like Venetian Snares (for an extreme example of break mangling) and Squarepusher, but also just more vanilla style jungle music and rave music. I'll look into any pointers for software or methods that work.
best VST/method for break chopping and programming
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- KVRAF
- 5375 posts since 22 Jul, 2006 from Tasmania, Australia
Magix Acid was successful for me years ago,
but I haven't repeated that really.
-- anyway 1 vote for Acid
there is a cool breaks kit in ReBirth 338 Regulation Issue
it can be rendered down and sequenced in a more complex sequencer
but I haven't repeated that really.
-- anyway 1 vote for Acid
there is a cool breaks kit in ReBirth 338 Regulation Issue
it can be rendered down and sequenced in a more complex sequencer
I wonder what I want in here
-my site is gone and music a mess
-my site is gone and music a mess
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- Banned
- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
Well basically any DAW sampler / drum machine or a 3rd party plugin that can split audio into slices and play those slices with MIDI notes will do just fine. Bonus points would be if your DAW allows you to randomize the notes. Then a lot of magic happens with post-FX, like Delay & Reverb sends, Glitch/Stutter effects.
Here's a video I made with Bitwig some time ago:
Here's a video I made with Bitwig some time ago: