A four-bar break instrument. Chop four breaks, rearrange them into a 16-beat phrase, and play it in time with your DAW.
AUv2 for Logic Pro, plus VST3 and CLAP. Apple Silicon and Intel. The 174 BPM breaks ship inside the plugin.
How it works
You work in two places: the source waveform, where you cut the break, and the player, where you arrange the cuts. Both stay on screen together.
- 1
Slice a break
Pick a source and split it into 1 to 32 slices. Drag the markers to land on the hits. Click a slice to hear it, right-click to mute it, and tag the bass hits that drive the 808.
- 2
Pick a break for each bar
Each of the four bars gets its own break. Until you place anything, the full break plays underneath as a ghost, so the groove never drops out.
- 3
Place slices
Drag slices onto the player grid. Set each one’s length, Original or Fit speed, bit depth and retriggers (up to 8×), then lock the ones you want to keep.
- 4
Let it suggest fills
Ask for a fill in any bar, or turn on Live variations to get a new phrase every four bars. Freeze the one you like.
- 5
Thin it out or make it thicc
One crossfader runs from Thin (high-passed) through Dry to Thicc, which layers a decaying 808 on your tagged bass hits at the root you choose. Push it all the way for a sub octave.
Export the phrase as MIDI
One click writes a four-bar .mid file to ~/Music/Junglizer/Exports and shows it in Finder. Drop it on the Junglizer track in Logic and switch the plugin to MIDI region playback. The file includes slice notes, bar sources, and controller data for speed, bit depth, retriggers and tone.
Automate and map everything
Every control is a host automation parameter, so you can draw it in or map it to a hardware controller. Phrases, markers, placements and locks are saved with your project.
The plugin follows your host’s tempo. Away from 174 BPM, the breaks change speed and pitch to stay on the grid.
Download
Junglizer 0.9 beta 1 is free. Pick your Mac, then the format your DAW uses. Each zip holds one plugin.
Apple Silicon
M1 and later · arm64
Install
| Format | Unzip, then copy the bundle to |
|---|---|
| AUv2 | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/ |
| VST3 | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/ |
| CLAP | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/ |
Restart your DAW so it finds the plugin. The breaks are built in, so there’s nothing else to install.