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The NAMM Show, Anaheim, CA (January 23, 2014) - iZotope, Inc., a leading audio technology company, and GRAMMY®-nominated composer and technologist, BT, have combined creative forces to bring you a drum sculpting and beat sequencing environment that blurs the line between rhythm and melody.
“We are a company that loves to make innovative products, taking the best of the past and forging into the future. We were able to collaborate with BT’s forward-thinking vision on BreakTweaker, and we’re proud to offer something incredibly unique and brand-new to the world of drum machines,” says iZotope Product Manager, Jack Cote.
Powered by three distinct modules, the Sequencer, the Generator, and a futuristic MicroEdit Engine, BreakTweaker is a creative rhythmic instrument that can be used with any DAW and MIDI controller. Perfect for anyone looking to create truly original and dynamic beats, it’s a new platform for rhythmic composition.
Key Features
- Manipulate audio at a molecular level: control pitch, rhythm, and texture at the finest resolution available.
- Escape traditional drum grids: create complex polyrhythmic beats with unique isorhythm and playback speed settings.
- Get over 2 GB of professional, royalty-free content: explore presets, drum samples, and wavetables designed by today’s top musicians and DJs, including BT.
- Craft your own drum sounds: blend drum samples with robust synthesis features to generate compelling hybrid sounds.
- Take control of your beats: Easily trigger and sequence complex patterns and samples using any MIDI controller.
About iZotope, Inc.
iZotope makes innovative products that inspire and enable people to be creative. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iZotope has spent over a decade developing award-winning products and audio technologies for professionals and hobbyists alike. Used by millions of people in over 50 countries, iZotope products are a core component of GRAMMY-winning music studios, Oscar and Emmy-winning film and TV post production studios, and prominent radio studios, as well as basement and bedroom studios across the globe. Through a robust licensing program, iZotope also powers products made by industry partners such as Adobe, Avid, Microsoft, and Sony. iZotope was recently honored with an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development for its flagship audio repair suite, RX®. For more information on iZotope products, please visit www.izotope.com.
About BT
GRAMMY-nominated composer and technologist BT is one of the most cutting-edge artists and producers for a dizzying array of musical styles. Whether composing intricate scores for blockbuster films such as Fast and Furious, and the Oscar-winning Monster; writing and producing for Sting, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Madonna to creating cutting edge proprietary software tools from scratch to make it happen - BT is at the heart of it all.
Juxtaposing memorable songwriting with sonic innovation and hand-designed technologies, BT crafts classically influenced electronic overtures, ringing with living textures that are an industry source book of new and highly copied signature techniques and ideas.
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54 Comments
nice one!!
i want to try!
interesting….
Future Beat Machine - Introducing BreakTweaker™ by BT and iZotope
wo!nice drum machine!
Pretty exciting
aww i was hoping this would be a Geist killer. Can you load your own drum
samples? Are there included patterns etc?
Crazy! Looks interesting, but I wonder if it would end up unused with me
just like the stutter edit.
Checked the demo. No swing or groove settings. Why?
Impressive.. I wasn’t expecting the synth generator or modulation parts.
Will definitely have to give this a try.
If you can’t make music, make noise.
the noise and dirt music generation… if you don’t have creativity,
destroy your tracks…
I can see this being useful. But if you have your own overarching sound
design vision, you’ll probably be able to use the tools you already have to
get these results. Might take you a bit longer but (a) it’ll be YOUR vision
and not BT’s (no disrespect to the guy, he’s an amazing producer) and (b)
you’ll have a longer journey getting to your destination, which means
you’ll learn more, have more happy accidents, and you’ll be able to hold
your own making generic tools work together. Still going to check this out
though, because the GUI is my favourite shade of blue
reminds me NI interfaces from 2003
Maybe you guys can port it over to Reason7 as a RE That would be really
cool
Can I use it as a standalone Synth?
nice plugin, but boy was that UI ugly :-S
tweaker is an apt description for the target market of this demo, can we
hear it doing anything vaguely musical?
I’m pretty sure you can do this with native instruments reaktor.
make is as a hardware…and i will buy it
Add movement to your drums with this new instrument from iZotope and BT.
“BT” as in British Telecom?
Add movement to your drums with this new instrument from iZotope and BT.
im going to wait some more reviews about this new plugin, cuz Stutter Edit
was a bit disappointing…
Throw some vocals in there and that should be fun
now we can all sound like a stuttering squeaky door opening……..basically
stutter in sequencer form?……personally i would have liked to see maybe a
straight line tool in iris?a way to maybe synch and time stretch selections
in iris with midi?a copy and paste to a grid in iris?a decent layering drum
sequence module in iris?nope we get the squeaky door sequencer effect
backed by a guy that looks like he should be in a vidal sasoon shampoo
advert…
horrible
sweet, i like
push a button and presto-INSTANT squarepusher,aphex twin and venetian
snares!
WOW MOM LOOK NO HANDS/TALENT needed
!!!
can we get an automatic dubstep drop maker next?
nothing will replace step sequencing,hard work and creativity…EVER
this plug in is for lazy cunts
Does BT use this…?
the isorhytmic is interesting.. but ugh dubstep
After playing around with this a while, I have come to the conclusion that
this is a really really cool tool, and I’m glad I bought the “expanded”
version. Lots of great sounds to work with, plus you can use your own
samples. Now that I’ve used this Microedit, I wish Izotope Iris had similar
motif for drawing within the Iris editor. That would be a great upgrade to
an already great tool.
Please do this kind of apps for ipad!!! Or stutter fx.
…getting real sick of dubstep…
this. is. awesome
Oh.
The UI is enough to scare anyone away… iZoptope, you guys need to work on
the UI !
No thanks
very nice! ..But i don’t see any ”swing” options… and is it possible to
play the pitches/notes with midi? if these 2 thing are there i will get
this 4 sure..
I can’t wait to find the time to teach myself how to use it…
Dubstep…Blaaahhhhh. But this thing got potential.
Why, why, why are there no swing options? It’s awesome except for that…
makes its uses very limited unfortunately. Please add this in the next
update.
If you spend hours/days on trying to make a sound, there is probably a
plugin that let’s anyone do it in a second. It’s hard to find real
creativity in electronic music these days.
“If you can’t make music, make noise.” No dear friend,you make ART of
noise!
Kraftwerk in a can…
Everything has an application I’m down for a trial period
Tried it and didn’t like it. WAY too complicated to get something cool out
of it. UI is just a mess. I understand the need of iZotope to make an
interesting tool for doing that kind of creative stuff but there is nothing
easy to do with this. You will need hours of learning before you can get
anything decent out of this plugin.
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Thease micro system things that have only one button to push and there u
have music, thats full of shit in my opinion. certantly destroys creativity
and leaves no place for experimental shiet
Great for innovative artists like Katie Perry
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All’s I hear is noise. Can you load your own quality sounds to be edited
with this?
doesn’t seem very musical or realistic but that’s not necessarily a bad
thing
Aw shucks….not so much knocking the technology so much as the widespread
aping of a genre…nevermind the tidy lil’ package offered that makes the
aping even easier. I’ve said the same thing about Jungle, Drum n’ Bass,
Trance…and I’m totally dating myself here….Grunge, Hair Metal/Butt
Rock, Classic Rock, etc…If I never walk into a music store again and hear
a 13 year old kid playing Sweet Child O’Mine again, it would be too soon
lt,bkjdj
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