No graphs, no hype. Press play and flip between Dry and Wet at the exact same spot. Same drums, before and after Drum Breaker. You will hear it in the first bar.
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86 BPM Break
The long look · full pass
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Starts on Dry. Tap WET to hear it break up.
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87 BPM Break
Head-nod tempo
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Flip mid-bar. The toggle stays in perfect sync.
3
88 BPM Break
The boom-bap pocket
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Listen for the drums to thicken when you go WET.
4
95 BPM Break
Short loop · quick flip
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Dry is clean. WET is the character.
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96 BPM Break
Uptempo · one-bar proof
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One bar is all it takes. Flip it.
★ THE WHOLE CHAIN, ONE BOX ★
Five ways to break a drum.
Every knob you reach for to make drums dusty, punchy and real, wired into one screen. No menu diving. No fizzy digital distortion. Analog feel, broken-machine character, the sound you cannot fake.
KRUNCH!
Drive
From a gentle push to thick tube grit, choose exactly how your drums break up.
Soft · Medium · Hard · Thick Tube · Crunch · Damp
WOWWW
Tape
Run them through worn tape for warmth, wobble and analog imperfection.
Sat · Wow · Flutter · Wear · Flux
BOOM!
Boom
Add weight under your kicks so they land in the chest.
Solo · Freq · Delay · Amount
ZZZT
Resampler
Crush down to vintage sampler resolution for that dusty SP and MPC grit.
Sample Rate 8K – 44.1K · Bit Depth 4 – 16
THWAK
Compressor
Glue and punch from a bus compressor voiced for drums.
Amount · Tran · Attack · Release
+ THE TRIMMINGS
A big analog VU meter, input and output gain, hi and lo cut shelves to clean the edges, and a full Dry/Wet control so you can run it in parallel and keep the original snap underneath.
VU MeterIn / Out GainHi & Lo CutDry / Wet
★ THE COVER STAR ★
One screen. Built to be felt.
No tabs. No hunting. Just dial it in.
Everything lives on one face, the way a real bit of gear would. Push the Drive, lean on the Tape, drop the Boom under your kick, crush the Resampler and let the Compressor glue it. Watch the VU swing while you do it.
Whole drum-character chain on a single screen
Drop it on the drum bus, or any sound you want to rough up
Parallel-friendly with a global Dry/Wet
The vintage, comic-book face that makes it fun to touch
★ THE REAL STAMP ★
Built for the TSL sound.
This is Issue No.1, brand new and fresh off the press, so we are not going to invent reviews we do not have. Here is what is actually true.
24,000+
producers already trust The Sample Lab for their sound.
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Made by the boutique producer brand behind the dusty, knocking sound you already chase.
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★ GRAB ISSUE No.1 ★
Buy once. Yours forever.
Launch price while Issue No.1 is fresh. No subscription, no nonsense. One payment and Drum Breaker is yours, updates and all.
✚VST3 + AU on macOS, VST3 on Windows, ready for your DAW.
✚50 factory presets built in, from drum bus to lo-fi to 808s.
✚Every future update, free for life.
✚Perpetual licence for 3 machines. Buy once, no subscription, ever.
✚Instant download and an emailed licence the moment you buy.
★ THE BACK PAGES ★
Specs & small print.
The calm, no-fuss details. Everything you need to know it runs in your studio.
Formats
VST3 + AUWindows is VST3
Systems
macOS 11+ & Win 10/11Apple Silicon & Intel
Your DAW
FL Studio, Ableton, LogicReaper, Cubase & the rest
Licence
Perpetual3 machines · free updates
★ ASK THE EDITOR ★
FAQ.
Download Drum Breaker and run it free for 14 days. No credit card, nothing to cancel. The trial is machine-bound, so you just activate it with a code we email you and you are off. Put it on your real drums in your real sessions and see if it knocks. If it does, grab the licence. If it does not, do nothing and it simply stops. The trial runs on one computer; a full licence covers three.
VST3 and AU on macOS (11 and up, Apple Silicon and Intel), and VST3 on Windows 10 and 11. It loads in FL Studio, Ableton, Logic, Reaper, Studio One, Cubase, GarageBand, Bitwig and anything else that takes those formats. Pro Tools (AAX) is not supported yet.
Fifty factory presets are built straight into the plugin, sorted across eight groups: drum bus, mix bus and master, lo-fi and vintage, saturation and drive, 808 and bass, keys and synths, guitar and vocals, and creative FX. They are there the moment you open it, nothing to install or import.
You own it. Drum Breaker is a perpetual licence. You buy it once and it is yours forever, including every future update at no extra cost. No monthly fee, no renewal, no holding your plugin hostage.
This is exactly why the free trial exists. Plugins cannot be returned once a licence is activated, the same as everywhere in the industry, so we built the 14-day trial to be your risk-free way to be sure. Run it on your own beats first, decide with your ears, and only buy once you know it is right.
Never. Free updates for life come with your licence. When we add features, fix things or expand format support like AAX and Windows, you get it at no charge. Buy Issue No.1 once and ride every issue after it.
It is built for the drum bus, the place where it really shines, but there are no rules. Drop it on a single kick, a snare, a loop, a vocal, a synth, anything you want to rough up and make sound real. The Dry/Wet control means you can blend it in as gently or as hard as you like.
★ TRY ISSUE No.1 FREE ★
14 days. No card. No catch.
The full plugin, free for 14 days on one machine. Download it, open it in your DAW, type your email and hit FREE TRIAL — a 6-digit code lands in your inbox and you are off. If it knocks, grab the licence. If it does not, it simply stops.
macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon & Intel) · VST3 + AU — Windows 10/11 · VST3. 50 factory presets built in.
Already bought Drum Breaker? Same download. Install it, open the ACCOUNT tab, type your purchase email and hit SEND CODE instead — your licence covers 3 machines.
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BREAK YOUR DRUMS.
One plugin. Drums that knock like they were sampled off wax.
