NI Battery

[fraz]

Hi,

Just wandering whether NI Battery and Stylus RMX would compliment each other or whether the two products have much of the same function.

Battery comes with 12GB of material and RMX 7-8 GB and both are for drums. From what I read Stylus is more for loops, is Battery the same or is it more single hit samples?

[jones-y]

they have different feature sets and different purposes. It depends on you. If you like pre-made loops, but hate inflexibility, RMX is your man. If you wanna roll your own drum patterns and need precise control over each and every sound in your drumkit, then battery has your name all over it.

RMX is more or less locked into its own sound library and expansions (unless you have recycle), whereas Battery is perfect if you already have a favorite set of drum samples or loops.

If you don't require as much tweakability over drum-sound properties, but want a great step sequencer, then Guru is it.

[dreaddd]

sooner or later, i thought , i wanna get battery..
tonight i discovered this thread on NI site about Battery 3 and it s not even the only one about that...im SCARED now..
http://www.native-instruments.com/forum ... hp?t=41962



Peace

[harman012001]

Battery 3 works just fine for me in Ableton. I've never tried it in Cubase, but I know a lot of producers that have and they haven't had any problems. I know there is an update that was just released in the past couple of weeks. So all issues/bugs have been taken care of and no I don't work for NI.

[5Lives]

I have both Battery and RMX - I think they compliment each other very well. You can use Stylus grooves against some basic hits from Battery, etc. Although the kit mode in Stylus is cool, building up your own kits in Battery is much more flexible. Both are awesome at what they do.

C

[Shane Sanders]

In case it applies to you, I've had nothing but problems with Battery 3 in FL Studio. The latest bug fix from NI fixed the note truncation issue, but when I save even just a single pattern using B3 within FLS, the song becomes corrupted when I try to reopen it. I think it has to do with the state-saving within FLS and it could be a FLS wrapper bug or an NI bug--neither seem to be acknowledging a problem exists, though. It happened on my system before I lost my C: drive last week, and it happened again yesterday after a clean install of WinXP on a brand new drive. So this leads me to believe it's an FLS/Battery issue and not a bad computer system issue. I've posted about it before on LoopTalk and always someone posts that Battery works fine for them and then no one from IL ever deals with it. But I think these people who say it's fine don't actually work with it long enough to find the problems, they just load it up and assume its fine. But I could be wrong about that. There are others who've posted about B3 and FLS, though, and I don't think I'm alone.

On the other hand, I bought Project5 so that I could begin using Battery3 and Trilogy again, and both work without a hitch in P5. Haven't tested Stylus RMX in P5, but it works great in FLS.

I love the effects in RMX. It really has its own character, and I'd pay good money for those effects as standalones.

-S

[dreaddd]

on a recent battery 3 thread on kvr i posted a link to a page about Battery 3 thats quite scary, from the NI forum...there are TONS of people posting on that thread even claiming (quote) "GIMME MY MONEY BACK NI" since they seem to be lost between bugs..some of them downgraded or actually even uninstalled it completely after having bought that because of battery crashing almost every time while in use on the host or loading back a previous project....
now: considering i was thinking about getting battery in a while, that scared me quite a lot...
of course other opinions and experiences about the use of battery are welcome

Peace