working with battery.....

[ApolloSpeed]

I've been working with Battery 2 for a couple days now and damn! I still don't know what the hell I'm doing.

Of course I'm coming from making machine gun metal and funky rap beats on fruityloops (4footwood).....

Any advice on getting me started? Or maybe an online tutorial?

 

[KnifeVariable]

There's always the manual...

 

[ApolloSpeed]

wow...I read the whole manual!:zombie:

I guess I don't understand the midi "sequencing" part of it. I understand how to somewhat setup Battery......but how the hell do I make the beats? Sequence this beootch!??

Any Battery2 pros got some tips for a noob.

 

[Andy Sneap]

make a midi track and send to battery, easy

 

[Andy Sneap]

do you understand anything about midi by the way? Thats a genuine question, cause if you don't you've got a little bit of learning to do.

 

[ApolloSpeed]

that's just it......I need to learn about how to go about making that midi track.

 

[Andy Sneap]

what are you using as your DAW?

 

[ApolloSpeed]

Audition 1.5

 

[Sweetnothing]

Does audition support vsti?
I have battery 1 and have no problems running it on Sonar, just drawing notes on the piano roll and sending that notes to battery

 

[ApolloSpeed]

it works on alot VSTi plugs....but not all. I tryied GuitarSuite yesterday, and it doesn't work.
But my other VSTi stuff works, like Voxengo, GoldenGate, Drumagog....etc.

 

[smy1]

it works on alot VSTi plugs....but not all. I tryied GuitarSuite yesterday, and it doesn't work.
But my other VSTi stuff works, like Voxengo, GoldenGate, Drumagog....etc.

Those are not VSTi's but VST plugins.

VSTi = Virtual Studio Technology INSTRUMENT
VST plugin = usually to be used as insert or send effect

A VSTi needs a host program (unless it runs standalone) that allows you to make midi tracks. Midi tracks (simplified) are like a recording of you sitting on a piano playing the note C4 for 2 beats, D3 for 4 beats and so on.

For Battery that means you assign a drumsound to the note E2 (for example) and then you make a little note in the miditrack at E2 thereby telling Battery to trigger the assigned drumsound at the point where you wrote the E2 note in the miditrack. Of course you'll have to assign the miditrack to the Battery VSTi.

I somehow doubt that Audition can do that, but I am not sure.

 

[ApolloSpeed]

probably not....

think I heard someone say that Audition doesn't have midi support.

 

[smy1]

probably not....

think I heard someone say that Audition doesn't have midi support.

Then why don't you try a free system like Reaper (if it is still free?) and see if you like it.

 

[gumplunger]

Yeah ditch Audition, use Battery with Cubase or PT and you'll be much happier. I use Battery for whipping up quick drums during songwriting. It's easy enough that it doesn't interfere with the creative process and with good samples it'll sound as good as any fake drums you can find.

 

[ApolloSpeed]

Yeah ditch Audition, use Battery with Cubase or PT and you'll be much happier. I use Battery for whipping up quick drums during songwriting. It's easy enough that it doesn't interfere with the creative process and with good samples it'll sound as good as any fake drums you can find.

so in PT or Cubase..... is it setup like Fruityloops to make your sequence? Clicking all those boxes and shit??:Smug:

 

[Familia><Publica]

probably not....

think I heard someone say that Audition doesn't have midi support.

That was i, it has very limited midi support, you can use audition as a slave, not sure how to go about doing that. Audition supports vst effects plugins but not vst instruments. Battery is an instrument, and thus, won't work. Just connect up a midi keyboard and use it to trigger the samples within battery. Finger drumming ( using an audio/midi or midi sequencer, not audition )

Edit: MIDI time code support :
Use Adobe Audition 2.0 software as a MIDI time code (SMPTE/MTC) master or slave to synchronize audio playback with computers, video decks, or any hardware device that supports MTC.

Thats it for midi.

 

[ApolloSpeed]

Finger drumming ( using an audio/midi or midi sequencer, not audition )

it would seem that finger drumming would be pretty kard to keep in time and play it decently......

or am I missing something?

 

[sparkyness]

it would seem that finger drumming would be pretty kard to keep in time and play it decently......

or am I missing something?

yep ....quantize + humanize.......

 

[Familia><Publica]

I guess most people use the paino roll editor or something like that, i just like to play finger drums along to the song ive recorded for a rough idea of what i want and what works well. But then, i can play the piano so i can play lightning fast

edit: quantizings good too!

 

[ApolloSpeed]

whoa...whats quantizing?