The first idea is already implemented. Let's take for an example the 808 kick, I know you can have samples of it at different attack/decay knob settings but it's no fun selecting them. Having to browse and preview for the right sounding file before using is not fun or intuitive and it's time wasting. It would be a lot nicer to be able to use an external controller knobs and "tweak" the decay and attack of your 808 kick while the pattern is playing just like in ReBirth. Well, I found a way in Battery of doing the same thing using CCs and multisamples. On my kit, I have all the different kick variations in their own cells and by having two knobs (attack/decay) sending CCs you can select the correct sounding sample. It works flawlessly. The only limitation of my samples is that they have only 5 knob position values (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10) but I think that the "in between" positions don't give you enough worthwhile variations and Battery doesn't give you enough cells for more combinations anyway...
My other idea is to have a nice realistic sounding TR-808 kit. The cool thing of analogue synthesizers is that they're umprecise. So I realize that just single shot samples won't cut it. The snare, for example, never sounds the same twice on the real thing. So the idea is to have a few samples each instrument for the same trigger key but layer them at different velocity ranges. You can then set you sequencer to play your drum pattern with random velocity values and voila! Analogue sounding 808! Now, this idea I haven't done yet because my samples are only one shot and I don't have an 808 to sample. This is where you, with an 808, come in to volunteer with the samples. I can give you exact directions of the knob settings for the 808 and how the samples need to be. So who wants to help me finish this awsome TR-808 Battery kit?!?
