Ask Video - iZotope BreakTweaker: Explored (2014)

Dive deep into this iZotope/BT beat-making plugin and learn how MicroEditing your audio will expand your musical universe! In this 29-tutorial course Bill Burgess shows you how to get it done! We’ve been following the development of this awesome plugin from concept to finished product and the result is truly inspiring. Zen beat maestro BT has partnered with the geniuses at iZotope and together they have created something very musically powerful. This course created exclusively for us by the always informative and totally entertaining Bill Burgess – who’s quite a beat maven himself – explains the inner universe of BreakTweaker. From its multi-layered GUI to it’s sequencer, generator and astounding MicroEdit Engine, Bill expertly guides you through each distinct module with ease.

In section on the Sequencer, you learn how to layer and launch the 24 different step patterns. Bill shows you how to accomplish on-the-fly remixing, powerful step sequencing and how each of BreakTweaker’s tracks can mash together in completely different tempos!
Next up are the generators. In this series of tutorials, you learn all about BreakTweaker’s powerful synthesis engine with its morphing wavetable synthesis and it’s down ‘n dirty distortion ported over from iZoptope’s nasty Trash 2 plugin. Then there are the filters, a bank of LFOs and insane modulation patching that gives you the power to really crazy things up! Bill covers all of them with his usual array of sonic examples!
Now that you’ve got the BIG picture it’s time to focus on the molecular! iZotope calls it MicroEditing and if you know BT’s music, you know exactly what to expect! In this final collection of videos, Bill zooms in tight on the waveforms and applies the laser-like power of BreakTweaker’s MicroEdit Engine. This is where you can divide up the audio into thousands of microscopic slices. You learn how to create sonic contours and advanced rhythmic effects that push time into a completely different dimension!
So get ready to learn the insane power of iZotope’s BreakTweaker with the amazing Bill Burgess.

01 Installation & Authorization (04:21)
02 Playback & Presets (05:35)
03 Understanding Generators (04:09)
04 Working With Steps (03:39)
05 Working With Patterns (02:45)
06 Basic Micro Editing (04:02)
07 Adding Samples & Activating Discover (09:00)
08 Waveform Trim Points & Zooming (02:27)
09 Looping & Crossfades (06:34)
10 Synth Generators (04:45)
11 Wavetables (04:13)
12 Understanding Envelopes (05:12)
13 Understanding LFO's (04:26)
14 Applying Envelopes & LFO's to Wavetables (03:58)
15 Pitch, Gain & Pan Modulation (08:33)
16 Modulating Filters & Distortion (06:21)
17 Copy & Paste Tricks (08:19)
18 Choke Steps (02:27)
19 Saving Variations Of Undo (04:44)
20 Length & Speed Variations (04:59)
21 Managing Global Presets (05:52)
22 Managing Generator Presets (03:16)
23 MicroEdit Modes & Shapes (07:47)
24 Tension & Rotate (04:06)
25 Gate, Fade & Effect (04:57)
26 BreakTweaker & MicroEdit Tricks (08:36)
27 BreakTweaker in Ableton Live (05:36)
28 BreakTweaker in Logic (05:30)
29 BreakTweaker in Pro Tools (04:44)