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What don't you like about Battery that the RMIII does better? I like the simplicity of Loopazoid so it's something I've been planning to step up to, would you suggest holding out?

Battery is a logical step if you're already working with Loopazoid. And in general it's more powerful than the RM III. But I need a drum sampler that allows me to browse through my samples easily and quickly while playing the beat so that I can choose the sample that fits the beat best. That's the way I used to work with my Akai S2000 sampler and that's what I really missed in all VST drum sampler so far. The RM III has this function. Battery doesn't have this function.

The RM III also has a velocity controlled LP filter that Battery doesn't have. This is a nice feature if you want to add some variation to the sound if you don't have various samples to create a velocity layer.

The RM III's GUI is much more appealing to me. First of all it does look and feel like a real drum machine to me. I like the possibilities of software, but I still want it to keep the hardware feeling. It's easy and intuitive to use and like Peter mentions on his site, it doesn't fill my entire screen like Battery does. Perhaps software developers think that we all have two 19" monitors, but I still have only one 17" monitor.

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While I'm pestering you, does Battery's loop mode automatically pitch the loops to make them fit the tempo? Is there any VSTi that can do that yet?

I know Ruction can do that, although it only changes the pitch. It doesn't timestretch.

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I'm a RM-II user who's DEFINITELY interested in the RM-III. It's just that I don't have the time right now to beta-test properly, so I feel I should pass. On top of that, the 1 second noise every 12 seconds means I couldn't use it in any "real" compositions (which are the focus of any free time I can scrounge up).

I understand, but what you could try once or twice is to take a finished song that you've made with the RM 2 and replace the RM 2 with the RM III. Just to see if it all sounds and functions well.

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ps.: Lotuz, take better titles when starting a thread, please

Sorry... Sales and marketing isn't my specialty. You're right, RM III: the greatest drum machine ever would have been a much better title.

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> But I need a drum sampler that allows me to browse
> through my samples easily and quickly while playing the beat

you can do exactly this with Battery. You can play the beat (let's say loop a certain part of it in the sequencer), and exchange a certain cell's sample while the song is playing. If you don't like what you find, you can click cancel and the old sample stays where it was; if you find some decent alternative, you click ok and the sample get's swapped.

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And he put those nice Panels on it for Lotuz.

You shouldn't have told them. Now they know why I'm so enthousiastic about the RM III.

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Sorry... Sales and marketing isn't my specialty. You're right, RM III: the greatest drum machine ever would have been a much better title.

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As the topic starter you can change the thread title, just edit your first post and you can modify the title, if you want to!

I didn't know that. I think the new title is a little bit better.

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Compared to all the other Sample Drum Machines, I think RM3 is the Best for New Sound creation and Inspiration.

I know you won't all agree ... so I will clarify now.
Okay sure, some of the other Drum Players have synths that you can build or create sounds with ..... Great, but for me it takes time to program sounds from Scratch. I want to be able to Tweak a new Kit Fast, and so starting with an already great sounding Sample I can then quickly create a new sound Fast in RM3. It just works better for me than programming synths and generators from Scratch.
So I guess it boils down to how you work and what's best for you in Your environment.
Cheers
Paul

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Anybody using the RMIII beta in Cubase 5 with success?

Yes, the pb2 seems to be working well in Cubase VST 5.0. The problems with pb1 that I encountered have been fixed already by Peter. Now I'm trying to get the ECS to work, but that might just be me doing something wrong.