Battery 3 any good?
- Thread starter Rupturemetal
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Sure can.
I recently upgraded from v2 to v3. The best new feature is the ability to trigger multi samples randomly. Very cool.
Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
It's great for loading your own samples, just like the previous versions of Battery were. In fact, it's all Battery 3 on Backmask's Dark Fiber, using a variety of samples I've picked up over the years.
As for the included library, great for techno drums if you need them.
As for the included library, great for techno drums if you need them.
lordcthulhu
You Are Bewitched!
Wait, how do you do the "randomly" bit? I know that in mapping page in Battery 3 you can arrange the velocity ranges for individual samples in a cell, but how do you trigger multisamples randomly? Do you mean at the same velocity, like Drumagog? In which case, I'd really like to know. Thanks
havent used the new one (damn it i bought battery 2 like 2 months ago, although got a wicked price) but i use battery because it is so fuckin simple to use. saves me alot of time and shit
Until I got the Steven Slate stuff, I was using Battery 3 (for drums) and EZD dfh (for cymbals) as my demo drum machine and the randomize and round-robin cycle stuff helps a lot to cut down on machine gunning.
well then you qualify for the upgrade pricining, which is a good deal... and worth it.... 3 is a quantum leap from 2, which was quite good as it was anyway.
Is there any free/affordable alternatives to Battery 3? I don't feel like paying 200 for a drum sampler. No need to have sound libraries, I would use my own samples anyway. Randomizing hits is the main thing I'm after
http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?page=21
for $100 the dr-008 is a great alternative..it even has built in 808 type modules, support for battery kits etc.
for $100 the dr-008 is a great alternative..it even has built in 808 type modules, support for battery kits etc.
whitedamp's post in this thread helped me out:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/346459-random-multisamples-battery.html
it randomly triggers cells, not samples within cells. That was the bit that stumped me at first..
grywolf627
Member
No. To have any kind of bleed, you'll have to load up your own samples of bleed. Battery only plays whatever samples you load. Which is what DFH, Ezdrummer, and others are actually doing (playing their own samples of bleed). But in Battery, you'll have to find them/make them and load them up yourself.
grywolf627
Member
Just load up a good IR of a drum room on a bus and send the drums you want to "bleed" to that bus. That's the easiest way that I know of (and personally do this a lot).
lordcthulhu
You Are Bewitched!
Haha I attempted inserting bleed artificially in Battery last week by having 3 instances of Battery - one for bass drums, one for snare and OH bleed, and one for the OHs with a touch of snare bleed...was a bit hit and miss because I had the Humanize function on. Should work better now that I've removed the Humanizing, but seriously, this is a sucky way of doing it. I'll try what grywolf627 said, sounds much, much better than this.
Thanks for the pointer StoneLord, I also just saw it in the Battery 3 manual too, stupid me
Thanks for the pointer StoneLord, I also just saw it in the Battery 3 manual too, stupid me
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