Curious about NI Battery

[deastman]

Several people have mentioned BFD as an option. I’ve never really used it except for a brief dabble with a light version that came with an old issue of Computer Music. Can third parties develop sample sets for BFD? I assumed it was only for use with their internally developed packs. Same with Addictive Drums, etc. Since the OP wants to develop his own library to sell, is BFD a viable option for that?

[herodotus]

If you're NOT using the scripting and so forth, why not continue with SFZ. Another thing I've not used - for anything. Because interface.

You answered your own question. No one likes SFZ.

Except I myself do like it. I employ sampling for my own creative purposes. A lot, actually. It's some pretty oddball sampling, mind, but sampling nonetheless. And SFZ, especially since Sforzando came into being, is strangely intuitive to me.

But if no one else likes the format, they won't buy samples in that format. Hence this thread.

[herodotus]

Can third parties develop sample sets for BFD? I assumed it was only for use with their internally developed packs. Same with Addictive Drums, etc. Since the OP wants to develop his own library to sell, is BFD a viable option for that?

I was wondering the same thing.

[jancivil]

If you're NOT using the scripting and so forth, why not continue with SFZ. Another thing I've not used - for anything. Because interface.

You answered your own question. No one likes SFZ.

Except I myself do like it. I employ sampling for my own creative purposes. A lot, actually. It's some pretty oddball sampling, mind, but sampling nonetheless. And SFZ, especially since Sforzando came into being, is strangely intuitive to me.

But if no one else likes the format, they won't buy samples in that format. Hence this thread.

I doubt I'll have heard of it outside of KVR. It looks right popular here, if only because of the 'can't afford better so reactionary support of everything I don't have to pay for' contingent which seems high here. So yeah, people that buy use teh other thing.

[jancivil]

Can third parties develop sample sets for BFD? I assumed it was only for use with their internally developed packs. Same with Addictive Drums, etc. Since the OP wants to develop his own library to sell, is BFD a viable option for that?

I was wondering the same thing.

Well, Platinum Samples is not FXpansion. I don't think. It's the one thing on my FXpansion products page where 'View all available downloads' link is no downloads, has to be Platinum Samples.

I don't think it's like NI Kontakt where anyone can put something out. Probably costs for a license to. It's probably just harder to do in every way.

[herodotus]

If you're NOT using the scripting and so forth, why not continue with SFZ. Another thing I've not used - for anything. Because interface.

You answered your own question. No one likes SFZ.

Except I myself do like it. I employ sampling for my own creative purposes. A lot, actually. It's some pretty oddball sampling, mind, but sampling nonetheless. And SFZ, especially since Sforzando came into being, is strangely intuitive to me.

But if no one else likes the format, they won't buy samples in that format. Hence this thread.

I doubt I'll have heard of it outside of KVR. It looks right popular here, if only because of the 'can't afford better so reactionary support of everything I don't have to pay for' contingent which seems high here. So yeah, people that buy use teh other thing.

The thing is that, for drums, the SFZ format has everything necessary to do first rate work. It has robust support for round robin, random robin, velocity layers, crossfading, and independent volume, panning, filter, and envelope controls for as many different simultaneous sample layers as your RAM can handle. Unfortunately, despite the fact that the format is open, most of it's features are unsupported in software that supposedly 'supports' it. The only software that actually supports the format as a whole is Sforzando and other apps that use the Aria engine.

Also unfortunately, the buy in price to release standalone or plugin sample sets with a custom GUI using the Aria engine proved to be, for me, prohibitively expensive. And people really seem to need an attractive GUI for some reason. I personally don't care About GUIs at all. Some of my all time favorite plugins just use the hosts default GUI, and I couldn't care less.

But, as has been amply demonstrated many times, I am kind of an oddball.