NEMABREAK

precise and fun NEMABREAK slicer

NEMABREAK VST is a companion to AMENBREAK VST. It's a precise and fun breakbeat slicer for jungle, breakcore, and resampling. Arrange your slices, add operations, and capture the render as a new source. It runs on its own or as an AU / VST3 instrument.

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Project resampling.nemabreak 140 BPM
Source
drum-loop.wav
8 slices / 140 BPM / 3.429 s4 slices selected
Build
Render
Selecting source slices48,000 Hz · Stereo

Build a pattern from a few slices or a whole recording. Reverse, Stretch, Retrigger, Jump, and Tunnel run in the order you choose. Each operation has its own Chance setting.

Export a WAV or drag rendered audio into your DAW. In the instrument, trigger the pattern with MIDI or let it follow the DAW timeline.

Get NEMABREAK for a one-time payment of 29.00 USD. You can retrieve a purchased code from infinitedigits.co.

NEMABREAK grew out of many SuperCollider and norns scripts, including abacus, amen, makebreakbeat, and sampswap. Those scripts explored different ways to slice recordings, rearrange them, and render new loops. The plug-in brings that work into a DAW, alongside the standalone app.

NEMABREAK is a sibling to AMENBREAK VST. AMENBREAK is great for full chaos; NEMABREAK is for precision, with direct control over slices, clip placement, and the order of operations.

The abacus screen showing sample slots above a sliced waveform. abacus
Sample slices arranged into patterns and chains.
The amen screen showing a selected region of a four-beat loop. amen
Loop sampling with softcut and processing in SuperCollider.
The makebreakbeat screen generating a beat from amen_resampled.wav. makebreakbeat
Beats assembled from processed slices with SoX and aubio.
The sampswap screen showing a loaded loop and operation probability bars. sampswap
Copy, process, and paste regions to edit loops in place.