Overall this makes Battery 4's workflow quicker, though the best development on this front comes from a new tagging system for individual sounds within the plug-in's library.īuilding your own kits used to involve a lot of faff but now Battery 4 contains kit piece names that are further sub-categorised (acoustic, analog, electronic) so that you can audition via Battery's own browser to drag and drop hits into the cells you want them to fit. Velocity can be mapped to Volume or Pitch (or both), while a simple 'dual' filter design lets you scoop out bass and treble from either end of the frequency spectrum at the same time.Įach pad features its own Compressor that keeps things simple on this main page with a basic Amount dial only, while send dials to the Delay and Reverb modules (we'll come to these shortly) lie on the right. The lower part of the GUI concerns basic modulation possibilities, starting with Volume and Pitch Envelopes for each pad that feature two different Envelope configurations for each. Without a trace of light grey or green, the layout is now a slicker, darker affair. Battery 4 addresses this head-on with a much better design. The only way to track down sounds was either to audition them or to squint hard at the interface. Indeed, while colour-coding of pads was possible there was little continuity from one kit to the next. Although its cell based matrix of drum pads remains a great approach to beat programming and sound triggering, the grey and green combination was never our favourite. Our pick of the best drum machine pluginsįrom a design point of view, there's no getting around the fact that Battery 3 has been showing its age for some time.Of course it's available separately from that bundle, but with the landscape for virtual drum machines having changed so dramatically does Battery still rule the roost? Now, Battery 4 has been released as a flagship new application within Komplete 9. After all, does a company of this size need two dedicated drum engines? Delightfully, the answer is yes. "Does a company of this size need two dedicated drum engines? Delightfully, the answer is yes"īattery fans feared the worst when Native Instruments debuted Maschine in 2009.
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