Breaker: Kontakt Breakbeat Drum Instrument by Soundiron

Soundiron recorded more than 80 drum kit and auxiliary percussion elements with eight velocity layers per note. The developer says these were multitracked and stacked to create a tight, punchy tone with a wide stereo field, then passed through old analog signal paths for added crud and generation loss.

The samples are a 24-bit, 48 kHz PCM library covering bongos, clacks, claps, clicks, cymbals, glitch SFX, kicks, snaps, snares, tambourines and toms. Soundiron positions the sound across hip hop, electro, funk, techno, drum and bass, breakcore and other styles.

The instrument includes sound-shaping controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching and cross-fading. Each parameter is automation-ready in your host.

An LFO system offers selectable shapes, targets, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. The arpeggiator provides a velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A modular FX rack holds up to 10 slots for 18 DSP modules, and the convolution reverb includes 99 room, hall, chamber and outdoor impulse responses plus 40 custom FX impulses.