Logic Pro Beat Breaker Explained

Looking for a way to shake things up and turn those stale beats into something fresh again? Logic Pro's Beat Breaker has you covered. In this Logic Pro course, Logic Pro guru Eli Krantzberg will take you on a tour of this entertaining and useful plugin, showing you how it does what it does and how to make it do what you want it to do. You'll learn how to deconstruct, mangle, and reimagine a beat in innumerable ways—via pitch, timing, effects, and much more. By the end of this Beat Breaker video course, you'll know the plugin inside and out, and you'll be ready to start using it like a pro on your very next beat. These Beat Breaker videos are designed for new users.

Videos

• Introduction to Beat Breaker (03:48) - Get an overview of the plug-in and what it does; then hear a few examples of it in action.

• Input & Output Snapping (06:23) - Learn how to work with the snap values of the input and output scale and hear the effects of modified time, pitch, curve, and snap values on slices of a drum loop.

• Pitch Snapping (02:54) - Hear how snapping the pitch of individual slices to semitones is used on a chord pad and the effect the curve parameter has on the pitch transitions.

• Repeats & Declick (05:39) - Explore the Repeat function at various speeds, in conjunction with the Declick parameter, to give the generated repeats either sharper or smoother transients.

• Volume Gating on Steroids (04:03) - Discover the slope and curve functions in volume mode that allow for unique volume envelopes on individual slices.

• Vocal Chops (09:05) - Explore some vocal slicing ideas that introduce a degree of chance, coupled with some regularly occurring anchor points, to maintain a degree of consistency. Also see how to save custom settings in each of the pattern slots.

• Beat Pumping (05:48) - Take a look at a creative approach to generating flexible side-chain pumping-style effects at various positions within a pattern, saving a Beat Breaker preset, and then using multiple instances.

• Creative Pad Envelope Shaping (06:07) - Explore some interesting subtle musical approaches that use Beat Breaker to add some dynamic envelope-style movement to otherwise static pads.

• Creating & Controlling Drum Fills (07:07) - Watch as a bank of related drum fills are created and then see how to use automation to switch Beat Breaker patterns throughout your arrangement.

• Mix Bus Madness (04:28) - Discover some fun ideas using Beat Breaker across an entire mix.