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Breaker Black Friday pricing means 50% off this Soundiron breakbeat drum library for full-retail Kontakt, which lands at $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
It is a Kontakt instrument built from over 80 multi-sampled drum kit and auxiliary percussion elements, each recorded bone dry and up close with 8 velocity layers per note.
Soundiron says the aim was a big, diverse drum palette that blends warm '70s funk with cold, hard '80s electro and pop.
Soundiron multitracked and re-sampled the source recordings, stacking them a dozen layers deep for a tight, punchy tone and a wide stereo field.
Those stacks then went through old analog signal paths with extra gain, which adds a little crud and mild generation loss and pushes the sound into saturated, tonal territory.
The maker calls the result electro-organic: electronic in sound, playable like an organic kit.
The tone is meant for chopping and mangling, and Soundiron says it soaks up digital, tape or tube distortion and FX of all kinds.
Breaker suits a wide range of styles, from hip hop, electro and soul to funk, pop, breakcore, drum n' bass, garage and dub, plus techno, glitch, 2-step, trip hop, illbient, dubstep and house.
The interface carries automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse and fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
There is an LFO with selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. You also get a choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes inside common scales and keys.
Breaker's effects section offers 18 DSP modules to fill 10 slots, and you can arrange them however you like. The selection spans modulation, time-based and drive effects, guitar amp and speaker cabinet models, dynamics and tone shaping, plus a rotary speaker.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.
Breaker 2.0 added a Remapper in a four-layer GUI, new ambiences and atmospheric pads, and 20 new custom FX presets.
It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later to load the.nki files.
The free Kontakt Player only runs it in a limited demo mode. The sample folders are unlocked, so the WAVs work in other WAV-compatible samplers.
System requirements: Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.9 or higher, a dual core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD drive.
Yes. The Breaker Black Friday deal takes 50% off Soundiron's Kontakt drum library, bringing it to $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
One master NKI bank with bongos, clacks, claps, clicks, cymbals, glitch SFX, kicks, snaps, snares, tambourines and toms. It also has 20 ambience patches, 40 custom FX and ambient presets, and 1,629 stereo WAV files at 24 bit / 48 kHz.
Only in a limited demo mode. Breaker is an open-format library that needs full retail Kontakt 5.5 or later for its.nki files. The sample folders are unlocked, so the WAVs also work in other WAV-compatible samplers.
It has an LFO, 12 filters, an arpeggiator and key and scale lock. The FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, plus a convolution reverb with 99 spaces and 40 FX impulses. Version 2.0 added a Remapper.
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