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NI Battery - worth getting? (pg. 2)
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| PaULiN0 |
I just finished checkin out nerve and giest. Out of both I liked nerve better. It feels more tactile and I like the interface and workflow. It comes close to reason essentials but its more expensive. I also tried audio realism's adam and that just sucks. You can only load mono wavs in 16 bit and what not.
Anyway, yeah that was informative and fun learning. |
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| tehlord |
If you like Redrum then take a look at the D16 drum plugins as well. They do a 909, 808 and 606 emulation and all are almost identical in layout to Redrum, which really copied the Roland drum machines that Redrum copied in the first place......
And they're all on sale :p |
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| PaULiN0 |
| Idk, I'll give it another try, the thing i didn't like about it was that you couldn't use your own samples. |
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| tehlord |
They're drum synths not samplers.
I think if you want the classic Roland sounds they're a good way to go as you can tune them and play with the decay/envelopes which doesn't always work too well with samplers. |
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| Raphie |
Sold my tempest this weekend, ordered an analog rythm and a Maschine Studio
Never played with maschine before curious if i can gell with the sample libraries.
In cubase i tend to use GA1 a lot when playing ITB, but the TR-8 didn't dissapoint either, so time to explore digital drums a bit further again |
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| tehlord |
GA1 is infuriating.
Why create a sampled drum machine plugin that doesn't have a sample browser. Having to drag and drop from the pool is absurd and kills workflow. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
I've been using Battery 3/4 for many years and I think it's one of the better drum instruments on the market. One of its best features is it's browser/library. If you take the time to import and tag your own third-party samples,it's very easy to find what you're looking for, audition them, etc. it also has very deep and intuitive sample editing and layering features. I use it with Sonar's step sequencer, which is a perfect complement to Battery. But, if you want a drum solution with a built-in sequencer, look at Maschine or Nerve (I also have and use both). |
Completely agree with this. Out of all the ones I've tried over the years, Battery is the only one that stuck. Simple quick and dirty editing of sample cells and even loops without being forced to use a step sequencer.
| quote: | Originally posted by Geoff
Some of the features in Nerve are genius. Export a sequence as audio?
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Really? It can do that? Om-ing-nom-nom. Going to have to give it a try. |
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| DJ RANN |
That is ing great. Dragging one sample isn't really a big deal (unless you like to rebuild loops actually in the daw arrange view itself) but being able to drag a pattern? ing genuis.
Thanks Geoff! |
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| sr126 |
I just bought Geist. I haven't tried Nerve yet, and I probably won't since I don't want to spend time learning a new piece of software.
For the OP: That depends on YOUR needs. If I could go back and do all over again, I would have picked up Geist, and called it a day. If felt more at home w/Geist after demo'ing it for an hour than I am w/Battery, and I've had Battery since Komplete3. This is because Geist reminds me so much of my MPC. The MPC style workflow is something that has been sorely missing from my life.
Not that Battery is bad, it's a pretty good program... but do yourself a favor and demo a couple different things. who knows, you might find something that suits you better. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
That is ing great. Dragging one sample isn't really a big deal (unless you like to rebuild loops actually in the daw arrange view itself) but being able to drag a pattern? ing genuis.
Thanks Geoff! |
I know right.
I bought LFO tool ages ago to solve Cubase's ty sidechaining fiasco, but even that has hidden depths.
I must say Duda seems to think long and hard about how the dance community in particular actually use software and what they might need out of it for fast workflow.
Oh, and Nerve would solve Cubases's ty no bounce in place as well :p |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
Oh, and Nerve would solve Cubases's ty no bounce in place as well :p |
WAT? Cubase doesn't have bounce in place? How the do you quickly bounce a region? Don't tell me you have to manually print it?
@Sr126 - Geist does look really good, and I can see if you grew up as an MPC user, it's a total no brainer, but I just can't ever get my head around a sequencer inside a sequencer :confused: |
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