- NATIVE INSTRUMENTS BATTERY 4 AND ABLETON PATCH
- NATIVE INSTRUMENTS BATTERY 4 AND ABLETON FULL
- NATIVE INSTRUMENTS BATTERY 4 AND ABLETON SOFTWARE
A bit of investigation revealed that most were not in MPC-compatible formats. Within that is a (huge) tree containing some Battery-specific stuff and a huge number of WAV files.
I had a poke around and fairly quickly found out where the Battery library lived on my Mac: The reply mentioned that Battery stores all its samples as WAVs. I happened upon a post somewhere on one of the Ableton boards where someone was asking how they could use Native Instruments Battery (the NI drum synth/drum-specific sample player VST/AU plugin) samples in a regular Ableton drum rack. I did some experiments hooking my Electribe to the MPC and sampling that - it worked great, but it's lots of work and more hours than I could really throw at it to do it justice. Coming to the MPC world, I'm kind of starting from scratch - though it would be a lot of fun to make my own drum library from scratch, it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to sample stuff I already have.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS BATTERY 4 AND ABLETON FULL
Full disclosure: I'm just moving to using an MPC from using softsynths - my last two albums were all softsynth based, but the next one will be (mostly) hardware. I've only got a 1000, so I'm posting here. I won't even start with third party VSTs.This applies to any MPC that uses WAVs, so I think all of them except the MPC-3000. If I have to be very crude, I'd say at it's current state Push is pretty much useless for advanced sound design type of work, when it comes even to the native Ableton instruments and devices.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS BATTERY 4 AND ABLETON SOFTWARE
I sincerely hope these are all a matter of software tweaks and they will be implemented in future updates. I wanted to create some interesting ghost notes type of fills and I found it impossible to work with this relative values - if I know which note is playing at what velocity it would easier. Why show relative changes in the value? what does this bring me, I can't figure out.just show the 1-127 values.
I know it may seem like a minor point, but this slows down the workflow tremendously.Ī big minus point goes also to the step sequencer mode when you want to edit the velocity of the notes. It should work like it does on the screen when you hit the hotswap button and you can flick witht he arrow keys to listen to the samples. When you click the Browse button and you are able to flick with the up and down green buttons, you should be able to hear the samples just by going up and down, and not having to load the samples. Also, when you're building, a drum rack from scratch, the hot-swap function should work like it works in Live. Like creating nested effect chains and sending signals from each of the sample slots. Other minus points go for Drum racks limitations - like - there should be a way to control everything that you can do on the screen.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS BATTERY 4 AND ABLETON PATCH
I use Operator and Analog extensively and the way I work is by starting with a blank patch and creating the sound up to my taste and what works in the context of my track. And really what's the problem of having simply more pages of menus on the Push interface? (I am sure there is even a clever way to implement the powerful additive features of Operator of being able to build custom wave forms within push - it takes 4 fields - harmonic No, Harmonic level, next harmonic, previous harmonic) Anyway, I sincerely hope Ableton figures this out, becuase that's a major turn down. With time I can imagine getting really fast finding the parameters I need. I think it should not be such an issue to implement all of the parameters in the Push interface - sure you'll have to go back and forth between menus, but that's much preferable than having to spend separately some time with the mouse making sounds and then putting them to creative use. Otherwise, this device is just aimed at preset flicker type of 'producers'. Sorry, but for me and for many other users the sound design is an essential part of the creative process. Otherwise, what do you end up with? Using pre-programmed presets? Thanks, but no thanks! Or alternatively you have to spend time first designing the sounds you want to use, and then turn to Push just to play around, record some automation, etc. If you are following the dictum 'create songs from scratch' it is fundamental that you are able to control all of the parameters of the synths.
Of course, I know that there is a way to map that to a macro, blablabla, but that's not the point. I use Operator extensively and inside out, and there isn't a way to control something as fundamental as the waveform of the oscillators!!!! So if you load the deafault patch and you don t wannna use the mouse, all you've got is sine waves. There appears to be a selection of important parameters but that really doesn't work for me. Valyo wrote: The biggest turn off for me is that you can't really edit all the parameters of the synths.
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