- Product: Drum Breaker
- Developer: The Sample Lab
- Version: 1.1.2
- Format: VST3
- Requirements: Windows 10 or later
- Source: thesamplelab.com/pages/drum-breaker
Make your drums hit harder, dirtier & more vintage. One screen. Drive, tape, boom, resample and compress. Drop it on your drum bus and they knock like they were sampled straight off the wax.
THE WHOLE CHAIN, ONE BOX
Five ways to break a drum. Every knob you reach for to make drums dusty, punchy and real, wired into one screen. No menu diving. No fizzy digital distortion. Analog feel, broken-machine character, the sound you cannot fake.
KRUNCH!
From a gentle push to thick tube grit, choose exactly how your drums break up.
- Soft
- Medium
- Hard
- Thick Tube
- Crunch
- Damp
WOWWW
Run them through worn tape for warmth, wobble and analog imperfection.
- Sat
- Wow
- Flutter
- Wear
- Flux
BOOM!
Add weight under your kicks so they land in the chest.
- Solo
- Freq
- Delay
- Amount
ZZZT
Crush down to vintage sampler resolution for that dusty SP and MPC grit.
- Sample Rate 8K – 44.1K
- Bit Depth 4 – 16
THWAK
Glue and punch from a bus compressor voiced for drums.
- Amount
- Tran
- Attack
- Release
THE TRIMMINGS
A big analog VU meter, input and output gain, hi and lo cut shelves to clean the edges, and a full Dry/Wet control so you can run it in parallel and keep the original snap underneath.
- VU Meter
- In / Out Gain
- Hi & Lo Cut
- Dry / Wet
One screen. Built to be felt. No tabs. No hunting. Just dial it in.
Everything lives on one face, the way a real bit of gear would. Push the Drive, lean on the Tape, drop the Boom under your kick, crush the Resampler and let the Compressor glue it. Watch the VU swing while you do it.
- Whole drum-character chain on a single screen
- Drop it on the drum bus, or any sound you want to rough up
- Parallel-friendly with a global Dry/Wet
- The vintage, comic-book face that makes it fun to touch