Prodigious producer, technologist, and GRAMMY-nominated composer, BT is one of the most well recognized faces in the Electronic Music Industry. Besides his dizzying variety of musical styles and productions he is also renowned for inventing the “stutter edit” as a musical technique, as found in Stutter Edit, the first product release with his collaboration from Audio Engineering company iZotope. BT has now combined once again with iZotope and launched the unique and intuitive BreakTweaker, featuring BT’s patented micro edit technology based on pioneering rhythmic sound design research.

Here’s what BT had to say about this unique Future Beat machine.

I’ve always been intrigued by the way humans perceive rhythm, particularly the threshold point of where the ear perceives rhythm as pitch. The idea of exploring and exploiting this threshold inspired BreakTweaker, a tool where I could finally realize rhythmic possibilities that I once imagined but had never before been able to hear.”

If you could distill my life work into an application, this is it. I truly believe this with fundamentally change modern rhythm programing.

— BT (@BT) January 23, 2014

So what is BreakTweaker?

Simply put, its a plugin to synthesize Drum Machine loops. But with BT, its never quite that simple! Described as a ‘drum sculpting and beat sequencing environment that blurs the line between rhythm and melody’, the plugin is a powerful machine in itself in forming new & unheard sounds that you had only envisioned but were incapacitated to design till now!

The key features include:

• Manipulate audio at a molecular level: control pitch, rhythm, and texture at the finest resolution available.
• Escape traditional drum grids: create complex polyrhythmic beats with unique isorhythm and playback speed settings.
• Get over 2 GB of professional, royalty-free content: explore presets, drum samples, and wavetables designed by today’s top musicians and DJs, including BT.
• Craft your own drum sounds: blend drum samples with robust synthesis features to generate compelling hybrid sounds.
• Take control of your beats: Easily trigger and sequence complex patterns and samples using any MIDI controller.

Designed into three major component modules, the first of which is The Generator – which is the basic palette on which your drum loops may be sculpted, using the exhaustive library that BreakTweaker offers besides the ability to import libraries and download new samples!  It features the ability to morph wavetable synthesis, one-shot sample loading, hand-craft noise tables, dual-stage distortions, vintage-modeled filters, four LFOs with unique wavetable shapes, four Envelopes allow vast modulation possibilities for almost every single Generator parameter and up to three Generators to allow greater freedom to sculpt those complex sonic overtures! 

The second module is The Sequencer – which allows you to compose your complex loops and patters using six tracks for layering your sounds. It can store up to 24 different step patterns, via MIDI & on-the-fly remixing. Which means you can evolve music with a more dynamic production approach than ever before and even have a unique tempo and step length everytime!

The third and final module is The MicroEdit Engine – where your sound can be taken to a whole new process of sound design. The engine allows the division of a single step within your pattern into potentially thousands of slices. These slices can then be contoured and shaped to create harmonic, pitched, and rhythmic effects, resulting in new textures and sonic ventures for your ever-evolving beats. Just like BT’s vision, by pushing the limits of the brain’s ability to perceive sound, the MicroEdit Engine blurs the line between rhythm and pitch, inspiring beats you’ve never heard before!

The BreakTweaker is tipped to become one of the most powerful drum machine engines in Electronic Music production today and is the dream plugin for Music composers, EDM producers as well as Beat Aficionados! Click here to know more about this awesome plugin and grab a free trial as well!