Battery 2

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Right people, I've searched the forums to see if this has been spoken about already but I didn't see anything.....I apologise if I've missed it.

Can anyone give me a few tips on how to make the actual beats with Battery 2?

I've read the manual and the tutorial on the official site, plus posted a thread similar to this one, but I'm having no luck.

I've spent the last 2 days sitting in front of it constantly but I've got no further than making my own kit.

I don't like asking such a simple question but the frustration is rapidly putting me off using it.

Any help is appreciated people, thanks! :)
 
Where are you having problems with it? What software are you using with it? Details, please.
 
Just as the stand alone version.

I've used it in Cubase recording a drum pattern in real time...which I'm not fond of doing.

I was under the impression it would do the same job as a drum machine? I'm particularly fond of my Zoom RT-323!!!

The problem is I don't know how to actually make all the sounds I choose from my kit come together into one entire beat/pattern.

I know it's a case of getting round the learning curve but I'm one of the most impatient human beings when frustration gets a hold of me.
 
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What you'll want to shoot for is recording it as accurately as possible on a MIDI track (or several MIDI tracks) in Cubase. You could keep trying to do it in real time, which is how I record my drums most of the time, or bar by bar if your good with understanding beats/measures. I don't know about Cubase, but in DP there is a feature called "step record", which allows you to place notes (drum sounds) beat by beat while specifying note lengths per beat, as an alternative to recording it real-time to a tempo click.

If you do it in real-time, and can get close to recording it as accurately as you intend to, you can always tighten up the timing of your drum patterns with quantization or groove quantization, and you could humanize it later with small adjustments in timing with certain parts of your drum mix. If you have latency issues, this could also delay your timing when playing in real-time to a click. Can't you use Battery as a VST plug-in in Cubase? I was under the impression you could.
 
Yup, you can indeed use it as a VST plug in.

I could use the quantize option I suppose, but like I said I don't like recording things like drums in real time.

I'm way too used to my drum machine, having a click track running for 4 bars (or whatever) and just adding hi-hats hits or snare hits wherever I like and having it loop continuously for me.....seems a shitload simpler that way.

Battery 2 has a bucket full of excellent noises, but it's proving to be a pain in the arse, lol.

I'll struggle on somehow.

Thanks for your time Rhythm, much appreciated. :) :cool:
 
maybe i'm not understanding but i think you can use your vsti the same as you do your drum machine.

let loop points up in cubase, and start programming your drums one at a time. that is what i do with reason/sonar. i start the loop, and first record the bass and snare hits, then as it loops i add hihats, cymbols and whatnot.
 
You probably can do it that way with Cubase SX and I'm just not picking up on it yet...I'll have another poke around with it.

There's too much stuff to learn about! lol.

Ta for the suggestions :)
 
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