Breakdowns

A right-click generator for transitional drum fills in Ableton Live. Pick a genre, a technique, a length, and whether you want just the fill figure or a full groove bar that breaks into it. A live velocity step-grid and build-up lane show the result, you audition it through a built-in percussion synth, then insert. Nothing touches the Set until you do.

Fills are assembled from genre-authentic patterns rather than stamped from one gesture. Each genre owns a bank of groove cells and fill figures authored on a step grid, and the engine arranges them: a structural archetype (a genre figure, an accelerating roll, a tom cascade, a stutter, a build, a half-time drop, a hat run), then an expressive pass where ornaments expand into grace notes, velocities escalate toward the downbeat, and swing and humanize finish it.

Built on the official Ableton Extensions SDK, MIT licensed. Sibling to the Midnight Tools chord workshop.