You can't build loops with Battery. It simply edits and plays back samples. You have use Battery as a plug in with some DAW, like abelton, to sequence the samples youve got in battery.

manual

quote:

Originally posted by DjWoody Anyone know where I can find a Battery 3 Tutorial that shows step by step how to build a drum loop? I found this SICK Ableton tutorial that I really like. Please bare with me, I'm just starting and no one is teaching me, so this one is fucken PERFECT!!! I'd like to find a similar one for Battery 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVVpzdbHdqI Thanks! - Woody

The vid is pretty easy to copy in logic with battery.

Open Logic, create a instrument track, select battery, put various samples in the cells (control click, load sample), then set a playback loop in logic, hit record, then tap in on your midi keyboard according to which notes you want. If you don;t have a midi keyboard then, then if you press caps lock, a virtual keyboard comes up and you can use that.

There is a nice vid to get started with battery 3 at http://www.native-instruments.com/i...3videospots&L=1 but I assume that won't be that satisfying..

I'm a bit confused myself about the channels in Battery3 compared to how they work in Battery 2. For instance, when I select output channel 7/8 for some sample in battery 3, I can't get any sound out of it.
In the options screen i can set any number of stereo or mono outputs, but my new stereo outputs are being simulated by 2 mono's, which is not what I want. I need at least 8 normal stereo outputs, like Battery 2 gives me.

Anyone some experience?

___________________
- Yarune-Music.com - Click to visit website -
Productions:
Airballoon [Intuition] | The Book Of The Water | Sands Of Time | Terraphonic - Ad Hoc Havoc | Muse - Uprising (Yarune Remix)
Also visit my soundcloud and Twitter

That tutorial is very standard stuff. But as a beginner I can see why it'd be helpful

Last edited by Nicolas Oliver on Feb-22-2009 at 15:54

quote:

Originally posted by terrytutone You can't build loops with Battery. It simply edits and plays back samples. You have use Battery as a plug in with some DAW, like abelton, to sequence the samples youve got in battery.

Pardon my ignorance, than what's the purpose of Battery? So you're saying than it's just pretty much to make my own drum kits? I have several producer friends that they always show me their new beats and they tell me they do them on BATTERY.

I do have Ableton and Logic, but before I dig onto Logic I wanna finish exploring Ableton.

I bought Ableton 6 when it first came out and I didn't touched it til last year. lol That beast was intimidating as hell. Than, one day Mike Lord showed me the basics of making mashups and mixes. Ableton became a piece of cake after that. Now that I got the producing bug, I'm digging more into it and I have tons of questions! lol Unfortunately my good friend Mike Lord moved out of the country so I can't ask him anymore.

quote:

Originally posted by Zombie0729 manual

Manual doesn't show you how to use it, it just tells you what each function does. I'm a visual guy, I need to see someone do it once to get it.

quote:

Originally posted by Jay M There is a nice vid to get started with battery 3 at http://www.native-instruments.com/i...3videospots&L=1 but I assume that won't be that satisfying..

Thanks Jay, that's the same video that came with the DVD. The problem is that it leaves you hanging. Once you load the samples than what? How do you program the samples? How do you automate them? Stuff like that. Get what I'm saying.

quote:

Originally posted by Nick Cenik That tutorial is very standard stuff. But as a beginner I can see why it'd be helpful

Yea, I'm just learning. I had Battery 3 since it came out and never used it. I simply don't understand it. Until I see someone use it, someone show me or simply watch a video I probably won't get it. The thing with Battery is that it came with some pretty cool samples, so now that I'm getting my feet wet I wanted to use them. Oh well, in the meantime I loaded them into Ableton. hahahaha


THANKS GUYS FOR YOUR ADVICE!!!

Oh yeah BTW. That Ableton Video actually SHOWED ME A LOT!!!!! And I mean A LOT! Like you said, "as a beginner" that video is priceless to me.

BTW, what my current goal is, is to create ROCK Drum Loops and obviously EDM so I can remix Spanish Rock songs into EDM or change their rock drums into something more club friendly.

Last edited by DjWoody on Feb-22-2009 at 22:15

i have it and it is very simple to use

___________________
www.facebook.com/Oza.trance