LOGIC PRO X - Beat Breaker

This week, I’m taking a first and fairly deep dive into Logic’s Beat Breaker plug-in. This allows us to think of a piece of audio in slices and to apply Time/Pitch manipulation, Repeats and Volume offsets to each slice. As its name suggests, Beat Breaker has been designed with on-the-fly beat loop manipulation in mind. But having taken a tour of Beat Breaker’s Modes over a wonky hip-hop groove, I’ll show you how it can also be used to transform synth pattern sequences, paying particular attention to the Mix dial and the Automation capabilities which lie within.

00:00 Intro
01:20 Understanding Slices
03:31 Volume offsets
05:53 Repeat Mode
07:24 The value of the Mix control
09:35 Time Mode - waveform analysis
10:39 Time manipulations
13:28 Exploring De-click
14:23 Moving slices and turning them on/off
15:14 Understanding Patterns
16:30 Listening through revised Beat pattern
17:47 Using Beat Breaker on a sequence pattern
19:18 Testing De-click
20:13 Mix dial down on synth pattern
21:01 Mix Automation
22:09 Pattern Automation
23:20 Automated playback
24:11 Summary