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zeoy · Post by **zeoy** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:09 am

Andrea Pettinao from http://www.pettinhouse.com/ offers for free some quality acoustic drum kits here http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=130251

My problem is that I dont have NI's Battery so I can't use them. I searched for possible solutions to automatically convert the kits to sf2 or sfz format with no luck. For a moment I thought I could do it with Vsampler's demo but it only imports *.kit files (I suppose a previous version's format) and not *.kt2 files.
Any ideas guys?
(I know I can do it manually for the sfz format, since the wavs are given along with the kt2 files but I was looking for an easier solution)

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:23 am

I think the Battery 2 format isn't widely supported yet (if at all), so I guess you'll have to do it manually. I would do so (having Battery 2 to compare), but right now I won't have enough time.

zeoy · Post by **zeoy** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:31 am

Sascha Franck wrote:I think the Battery 2 format isn't widely supported yet (if at all), so I guess you'll have to do it manually. I would do so (having Battery 2 to compare), but right now I won't have enough time.

Thanx Sascha. I'm afraid it's time to practice my skils in sfz programming. If I find the time and patience to do it I'll let all the sfz-heads know

PS isn't it possible for Battery II to export in its former *.kit format? (that'd be my last chance ...)

pettinhouse · Post by **pettinhouse** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:09 pm

Hi,
I'm sorry if I uploaded my sounds in Battery format and not in other popular format like soundfonts. I'm looking for a conversion or a good software for creating soundfonts.
Hope to have time to convert them. For the next sounds I promise to make everything for upload them in SF format.
Stay tuned because soon I'm going to upload professional MIDI patterns for the brush kits.
Thank you
Andrea Pettinao

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:18 pm

pettinhouse wrote:Hi,
I'm sorry if I uploaded my sounds in Battery format and not in other popular format like soundfonts. I'm looking for a conversion or a good software for creating soundfonts.
Hope to have time to convert them. For the next sounds I promise to make everything for upload them in SF format.
Stay tuned because soon I'm going to upload professional MIDI patterns for the brush kits.
Thank you
Andrea Pettinao

Actually, Battery files are very easily imported (just drag and drop) into Kontakt where they map perfectly. They were made to do this. And I believe that Kontakt is the best selling sampler. So your format is pretty broad.

Of course, that's not to say that you shouldn't try to accomodate others...

Thanks again for your generosity with the drumkit samples.

-B

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:18 pm

sorry-duplicate post

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:32 pm

Battery 2 kits won't load in any Kontakt version as it's apparently using a newer engine.

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:01 am

Kontakt 2 loads Battery 2 kits. It has for at least a year now.

-B

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:11 am

Hm... seems I need to try again.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:24 am

dr008 would be nice too ;D

RonC

Sahul · Post by **Sahul** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:34 pm

I tried the kits in Kontakt 2 and they import just fine. Thank you Andrea, great work.

zeoy · Post by **zeoy** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:03 am

pettinhouse wrote:Hi,
I'm sorry if I uploaded my sounds in Battery format and not in other popular format like soundfonts. I'm looking for a conversion or a good software for creating soundfonts.
Hope to have time to convert them. For the next sounds I promise to make everything for upload them in SF format.
Stay tuned because soon I'm going to upload professional MIDI patterns for the brush kits.
Thank you
Andrea Pettinao

Hi Andrea, no need to be sorry. You already gave us two very good gifts. If some of us dont have the required software to use them that's our problem.

Thanx again!

oddbods finger · Post by **oddbods finger** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:18 pm

I'm desperate for this Brush Kit, but I only have Kompakt which doesn't seem to load Battery 2 Kits

Can anyone with Kontakt 2 load the kit, but then save it as a Kontakt 2 file?

Maybe that will then import into Kompakt (or Halion 3 which I also have)

...or if anyone has converted this to sfz or sf2 let me know..pretty please

Cheers

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:41 pm

oddbods finger wrote: Can anyone with Kontakt 2 load the kit, but then save it as a Kontakt 2 file?

That certainly won't work as the current Kompakt engine isn't even at 2.x.

pawello · Post by **pawello** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:02 am

zeoy wrote:I searched for possible solutions to automatically convert the kits to sf2 or sfz format with no luck.

Conversion is done alredy but I don't intend to share converted files without agreement from Andrea... I write some e-mails and wait for answer.

Battery kt2 conversion