For anybody like me who couln't find his expansions: Note: After installing the Expansion, it is important to run BATTERY 4 in stand-alone mode before using it as a plug-in in your DAW. This step is required for BATTERY 4 to detect the Expansion.
Hah, I rediscovered Battery like two weeks ago and have been using it a bit since then for drum kits, but always with the thought "I should really go through Battery and re-learn it properly" in the back of my head. Awesome timing, Jef! Thanks! :D
Is there any point to Battery if you're using Ableton Suite? As far as I can tell the mixing and FX capabilities seem limited to what's built-in in comparison, unless you only want to put FX on the entire kit at once after Battery itself. Also, the fact that all the sample parts go to one track and you can't mix them individually like in Drum Rack is a dealbreaker for me. I mean I already own Battery, but this is why I've opened it less than a handful of times; I'd rather just go to the samples folder and put those in Drum Rack so I have more control and can achieve a better mix. If I'm missing something let me know.
In 3 years since owning Komplete, I never ever used Battery. Not sure if that is going to change a lot, but at least you sparked my interest to explore it a bit. It's just amazing how you keep coming up with stuff that nobody else does. Always in depth and detailed, a joy to watch and learn.
8:00 That velocity to pitch subject feels like a useful tool . I know the most of all Battery functions, but Jeff's gentle voice made me stay and see what I've missed in knowledge. Top Host ✌🏼
I love Battery, I think it has huge potential and I wonder if NI will ever update it or keep focusing on the Maschine engine. But I have to say that ever since I discovered Drum Rack in Ableton Live, nothing come close to how modular and complete as a drum kit as it is. It is almost unlimited in terms of customization with using synths and VSTs for each drum part, and all the possible effects and processing signal routing.
Your videos are awesome. Thank you for what you do, brother. I'm not the type who's gonna crack a PDF manual; I learn by watching and doing. You keep things focussed and simple. I appreciate your efforts.
I normally use my maschine for most of my drum patterns, but I use Battery 4 a lot to create complex pitched hihat patterns. Battery 4 is a beast and very much relevant with the expansions.
Loved this video man! I have purchased quite a few of expansions but haven’t ever had the money to buy a Maschine. So I’ve always used battery but I never knew how to take the samples and map them on the keyboard using battery. This is amazing to know!!!
All this time I have owned a Maschine setup and had NO IDEA battery did all that. Just found a use for this Push 1 controller (almost took it Guitar Center to sell it). I can have all the cells populated and have a "sample chop symphony". Man this is Sound Design Stew for sure. Thank you sooooooo much for this video.
I've found Battery 4 to be THE go-to means of constructing drum kits........ it's nuclear-grade and actually works FOR and WITH you in terms of sensible layering for each of such a huge number of cels. Time to focus now...... :) THANK you for the excellence of tutelage.
I reaching for the subscribe button and it's already pushed. I have battery. I've had it for years. I used it for maybe a week or two when I first purchased it but never really messed with it after that. Watching your video, I said to myself....hey...I have that. I remember when I purchased that lol. Searched it on my computer, found it clicked and the computer was like Whoa? Took a little while to find the files i haven't clicked it in so long Great videos as always.
I use Battery for the most of my projects in Ableton. After changing from Maschine to Ableton push I can use the Maschine Kits in Battery. Great options and sounds. Also in tuning your drumsounds to the key of the projects
Great stuff! Just what I needed. Thank you 🙏🏾 I’m gonna look through your videos to see if you have a video on routing the pads to individual tracks in a daw.
Wow, great timing on this indeed as I am new to Maschine & NI and have recently been learning battery and it is overwhelming. The articulation part is so cool, love all those flams and rolls etc. Thanks again for this and keep up0 the great videos!!
Battery used to be my go to drum machine years ago. Now i occasionally pull it out more to mix things up while in Ableton. Since I sketch most of my tracks out in Maschine it isn’t really necessary any more but it is a great drum plugin.
My sincere condolences on the loss of your beloved Mac Pro. 🌧 However it was clearly a sign from the heavens, that you absolute had no choice but to order a shiny new M1 based system. ☀️
Great video, refresh in Battery is all that's needed in some workflows - I tried to use Maschine for so long before realising it wasn't the tool for me.
thanks pall,i dint know about this,i using fl studio 20 bout have searching for tutorial how to using it,AND now finaly i will use this vst very well,thanks a lot
Thank you so much Jef. Wonderfully informative. I've just bought a Maschine Micro (haven't even opened it!!)- I wish I had seen this video first, I've been a N.I. user since battery first came out .....but never really got on top of it. I've also come a cross a great piece of software called 'KIt Maker" which will make Drum Racks out of all your Expansions if you are using Ableton Live. BTW . Yes please ...do another video on the editor, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your tutorial, Jeff - very helpful! I just have one problem: is there a way to maintain the (loop)tempo in Battery 4 during pitch changes of samples? When I map loops, they run faster the higher the sound gets.
Question Jef. When I use Maschine 2 some kits say "cant load battery" or something similar so I have to open some kits in Battery 4 as a plugin. It seems that Maschine 2 can do everything battery 4 can do and more. Why would someone use battery 4 over machine 2? besides compatibility issues with some kits.
@@jefgibbons I can't believe you don't know XO. It's also a favorite of all the UA-cam music producers I know. I use XO with all my Maschine Sound expansions. I don't use Maschine. I don't like Maschine.
Great video! Just got Battery and really like it but I find with all the NI packages (Reaktor Kontakt ect) they are extremely overwhelming and frustrating without some kind of tutorial. Thanks a lot for this video it helped me a bunch getting started.
Quick question... How do you have your monitors set up? It appears you have a TV (or video monitor) mirroring your laptop. How are those connected? Physical connection? Thanks.
Love the MacBook Pro story. I’m still living with a 2014 MacBook Pro 16gb/1TB SSD but the fan runs almost continuously - just waiting a few months before I order a new 16” M1 Pro - if you get one first, please give us a quick review and impression 😁
Very handy video - just a shame that NI have now broken the ability of the scan to show expansions in the library, and seem to have no plans to fix it any time soon, so a lot of this no longer works so well. It was great when it did.
"key track" didn't work. You must have missed a step. I dropped the sample into the first pad and followed your instructions. Siggghhhh There's always a missed step.
NI Battery is very cool but, Native Access has been a horrible experience for me. I wanted to add Battery to my laptop...it forced me to create a new password and this is where the problems start. First off, it warned me that my password is already being used. No sh*t... it sold to the same guy... Anyway, I purchased it again thinking the new version could be registered as a separate copy but, for some reason NOTHING. Thanks N/I. SMH.
Thanks UkeofCarl! I definitely have been missing out on a lot of the features in Battery, the only thing it's missing is good slicing abilities for loops!
When you've edited a kit like you did in various ways here, do you need to resave that kit under a new name or will it remain edited if you for instance save the song it's present in, in a daw?
Well... awesome video first of all. But, when I enable key track on a cell it doesnt let me play this one cell over the keyboard but triggers all the other cells just as always. Hope you get what I mean? What should I do now?
Hi great video, I’ve been using Battery for a decade or more. For some reason in the last week I can no longer make any parameter changes. It’s as though the entire thing is locked. If I use the scroll wheel on my mouse I can move the parameters but if I grab even the volume it will not go up or down it just seems to be locked. Do you have any idea why this is happening?
now tell us Jef: did Father xmas visit you well before time? Is this a new white Komplete under your desk??? :-)... and I just saw your white Maschine.... you are a lucky boy!
Jeff thank you again for the nice explanation. Great tutorial. One question I have noticed the tempo sync don’t work. While you drag sample file to the Battery cell. It doesn’t go with Daw tempo. Doesn’t synch. Any advise. ? Thank you.
I have battery with native access it worked fine then I did a update on Mac now can’t log in native access and now my sound kits can’t load up any suggestions
Great video! Is there any way to preview each drum kit hearing all the samples in context - kinda like a demo song for the kit? I think Battery 3 might have had this. I use Ableton Live which also comes with its own drum kits. When I go through the Ableton Drum Kits, it plays a demo song of the full drum kit as soon as you click on it. Of course, one wouldn't compose exactly like the demo song - it's just a great way to hear a whole kit pretty quickly just to get the overall "vibe" of it. I guess for now in Battery 4, I'll simply select each kit and start triggering each sample. A preview kit feature is just a great fast way to hear everything.
For anybody like me who couln't find his expansions:
Note: After installing the Expansion, it is important to run BATTERY 4 in stand-alone mode before using it as a plug-in in your DAW. This step is required for BATTERY 4 to detect the Expansion.
Hard to find yes
Hell of a tip. Thanks
Jeff you are hands down the highest quality channel on NI gear, on UA-cam. so selfless!
Appreciate it Henry!!
If Machine, Battery & Kontakt came together... man what a powerful DAW it would be
Hah, I rediscovered Battery like two weeks ago and have been using it a bit since then for drum kits, but always with the thought "I should really go through Battery and re-learn it properly" in the back of my head. Awesome timing, Jef! Thanks! :D
Yup! Making the vid I had to dig in… it’s pretty great, and easy to overlook!
Is there any point to Battery if you're using Ableton Suite? As far as I can tell the mixing and FX capabilities seem limited to what's built-in in comparison, unless you only want to put FX on the entire kit at once after Battery itself. Also, the fact that all the sample parts go to one track and you can't mix them individually like in Drum Rack is a dealbreaker for me. I mean I already own Battery, but this is why I've opened it less than a handful of times; I'd rather just go to the samples folder and put those in Drum Rack so I have more control and can achieve a better mix.
If I'm missing something let me know.
@@mikeexits no you are 100% correct
In 3 years since owning Komplete, I never ever used Battery. Not sure if that is going to change a lot, but at least you sparked my interest to explore it a bit. It's just amazing how you keep coming up with stuff that nobody else does. Always in depth and detailed, a joy to watch and learn.
Bit late, but thanks for writing this Ed! I love filling holes in content on UA-cam... tough to find sometimes until I take step back!
I don’t get it either. It seems like you could do the same things with just a stock sampler or drum machine
I am going to go out on a limb and suggest this video is SO useful to anyone who owns Battery that I doubt this will EVER get a thumbs down!
8:00 That velocity to pitch subject feels like a useful tool . I know the most of all Battery functions, but Jeff's gentle voice made me stay and see what I've missed in knowledge. Top Host ✌🏼
Thanks! Have had this for years and never saw a really good tutorial.....until now. :-)
Thanks Damelos!
I love Battery, I think it has huge potential and I wonder if NI will ever update it or keep focusing on the Maschine engine. But I have to say that ever since I discovered Drum Rack in Ableton Live, nothing come close to how modular and complete as a drum kit as it is. It is almost unlimited in terms of customization with using synths and VSTs for each drum part, and all the possible effects and processing signal routing.
Your videos are awesome. Thank you for what you do, brother. I'm not the type who's gonna crack a PDF manual; I learn by watching and doing. You keep things focussed and simple. I appreciate your efforts.
I normally use my maschine for most of my drum patterns, but I use Battery 4 a lot to create complex pitched hihat patterns. Battery 4 is a beast and very much relevant with the expansions.
Best video I’ve found so far on battery!
Thanks Mike!
Loved this video man! I have purchased quite a few of expansions but haven’t ever had the money to buy a Maschine. So I’ve always used battery but I never knew how to take the samples and map them on the keyboard using battery. This is amazing to know!!!
Glad to hear it! Yeah, it’s pretty intuitive!
All this time I have owned a Maschine setup and had NO IDEA battery did all that. Just found a use for this Push 1 controller (almost took it Guitar Center to sell it). I can have all the cells populated and have a "sample chop symphony". Man this is Sound Design Stew for sure. Thank you sooooooo much for this video.
I've found Battery 4 to be THE go-to means of constructing drum kits........ it's nuclear-grade and actually works FOR and WITH you in terms of sensible layering for each of such a huge number of cels. Time to focus now...... :) THANK you for the excellence of tutelage.
I reaching for the subscribe button and it's already pushed.
I have battery. I've had it for years. I used it for maybe a week or two when I first purchased it but never really messed with it after that.
Watching your video, I said to myself....hey...I have that. I remember when I purchased that lol.
Searched it on my computer, found it clicked and the computer was like Whoa?
Took a little while to find the files i haven't clicked it in so long
Great videos as always.
I have always loved battery.
I stopped using it when I went to Maschine, but it still has loads of capability!
Ever since i bought komplete 14, I 've been lovin your channel
i love Battery!! i don't know why they stopped updating it.
Looking forward to the follow up video on the sampler in Battery!
I use Battery for the most of my projects in Ableton. After changing from Maschine to Ableton push I can use the Maschine Kits in Battery. Great options and sounds. Also in tuning your drumsounds to the key of the projects
Good to hear, playing with Ableton myself these days!
Best quality music production channel out there, Jef should have at least 500k subs by now !?
I love Battery and use it every time I use my DAW. Thanks for showing me all the tricks, many things I didn't know yet :)
Nice to see an up to date, comprehensive tutorial on Battery 4. Thanks..
Ayyy much love for the shout out! That fast Hi hat technique is called “the blue lab jab” 😄
Love it! Thanks for checking the vid, you guys are amazing!
thanks again bro.. I had to watch this a few times.. that articulation is sick, didn't know it could do that.
Just got Battery, and this was a perfect introduction! Thanks.
Best Battery Primer I have come across !
We'll explained. More videos like this please
So much to learn about these gems.
And, 2022 Best Teacher Award goes to Jef Gibbons!
Great stuff! Just what I needed. Thank you 🙏🏾
I’m gonna look through your videos to see if you have a video on routing the pads to individual tracks in a daw.
Wow, great timing on this indeed as I am new to Maschine & NI and have recently been learning battery and it is overwhelming. The articulation part is so cool, love all those flams and rolls etc. Thanks again for this and keep up0 the great videos!!
Thanks Regan, so glad it helpin!
Great lesson. Please do another one on Battery one day
Thanks Ease! Will do!
Really interested. Thanks for sharing the useful information.
Battery used to be my go to drum machine years ago. Now i occasionally pull it out more to mix things up while in Ableton. Since I sketch most of my tracks out in Maschine it isn’t really necessary any more but it is a great drum plugin.
Same here!
@@jefgibbons this inspired me to bring it into a new track and use it. Along with my always favorite synth drum machine Sonic Charges microtonic.
My sincere condolences on the loss of your beloved Mac Pro. 🌧 However it was clearly a sign from the heavens, that you absolute had no choice but to order a shiny new M1 based system. ☀️
True that my friend!! The old Mac Pro owes me nothing ;)
nice vid Jef I owned battery for years its a brilliant drum plugin thanks for the tips you gave me a reason to dig into its potential a little deeper!
Yes! I have to dig deeper myself! Been using it on a surface level for too long…
Great video, refresh in Battery is all that's needed in some workflows - I tried to use Maschine for so long before realising it wasn't the tool for me.
Thanks 🙏🏻 Jef Gibbons hope your well
thanks pall,i dint know about this,i using fl studio 20 bout have searching for tutorial how to using it,AND now finaly i will use this vst very well,thanks a lot
What an amazing explanation, I tried the key track but for some reason it didn’t work 😢
The new n0b hardware controller would fit perfectly with the vintage wood feel of your studio!
Checked it out, it’s cool!
Thank you SO VERY MUCH, Jef!!!
I've ALWAYS wondered what it was for (by always, I mean the 5 months i've had Komplete LOL)
It’s pretty great!
Great video and in depth straight forward explanation.
Oh we will need that Battery editor video...thaanks uncle Jeff
Alright! This video is doing so well I might just have to get to that video!
Thank you so much Jef. Wonderfully informative. I've just bought a Maschine Micro (haven't even opened it!!)- I wish I had seen this video first, I've been a N.I. user since battery first came out .....but never really got on top of it. I've also come a cross a great piece of software called 'KIt Maker" which will make Drum Racks out of all your Expansions if you are using Ableton Live. BTW . Yes please ...do another video on the editor, that would be greatly appreciated.
Kit Maker looks great! Will have to grab that to convert my Maschine expansions. Thanks!
@@namagenshu For sure! I have some vids on it already: ua-cam.com/video/8kKOjughyEE/v-deo.html
Nice! Not sure if I watched that one before or not. Will check out!
Thank you Jeff!!! I needed a lesson on battery good show mate!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks Sidney, glad it helped!
Thanks for your tutorial, Jeff - very helpful! I just have one problem: is there a way to maintain the (loop)tempo in Battery 4 during pitch changes of samples? When I map loops, they run faster the higher the sound gets.
Question Jef. When I use Maschine 2 some kits say "cant load battery" or something similar so I have to open some kits in Battery 4 as a plugin. It seems that Maschine 2 can do everything battery 4 can do and more. Why would someone use battery 4 over machine 2? besides compatibility issues with some kits.
Can you play these kits across the pads when you load a kit on the MK3 or do you have to load them individually across the pads...!?
I am still using Battery. I feel sad that NI support/love for it seems to be gone. But I bet that Battery 5 is on it's way;)!
I hope you’re right, it’s long overdue!
Nothing is better than XLN AUDIO XO. Goodbye Battery.
I’ll check it for sure!
@@jefgibbons I can't believe you don't know XO. It's also a favorite of all the UA-cam music producers I know. I use XO with all my Maschine Sound expansions. I don't use Maschine. I don't like Maschine.
Great video! Just got Battery and really like it but I find with all the NI packages (Reaktor Kontakt ect) they are extremely overwhelming and frustrating without some kind of tutorial. Thanks a lot for this video it helped me a bunch getting started.
sounds good im going try this on the daily scratch tracks i do
I can’t decide which one I like more, Battery or Groove Agent...
really good. i learned a lot of new things about Battery.
Really I learnt lots
Great vid. But got totally distracted by the huge screen. How large ? What kind is it ?
Quick question... How do you have your monitors set up?
It appears you have a TV (or video monitor) mirroring your laptop. How are those connected? Physical connection?
Thanks.
Love the MacBook Pro story. I’m still living with a 2014 MacBook Pro 16gb/1TB SSD but the fan runs almost continuously - just waiting a few months before I order a new 16” M1 Pro - if you get one first, please give us a quick review and impression 😁
Hey Jeffy G, great name! I will definitely be posting videos!!
19:02 key track again? Isn't working like that. I have Battery 4. Which version are you using?
Very handy video - just a shame that NI have now broken the ability of the scan to show expansions in the library, and seem to have no plans to fix it any time soon, so a lot of this no longer works so well. It was great when it did.
Hello, is there an undo on Battery 4?
If I erase a cell or a snare by error is there an undo that's on Battery 4?
Great content, love your desk btw
I just purchased Pure Drip, a Native Instruments 808 expansion but I can’t find it. Where do I look
"key track" didn't work. You must have missed a step. I dropped the sample into the first pad and followed your instructions. Siggghhhh There's always a missed step.
Figure it out then and stop complaining about somebody else’s hard work showing you shit for free.
Great video, Jef. Thank yuu.
Thanks! I needed that.
Very useful.Thank you Jeff 🎹🎵🎤🎵🎶🎹
Thank you so much for the lesson.
clear and easy
Most welcome!
NI Battery is very cool but, Native Access has been a horrible experience for me. I wanted to add Battery to my laptop...it forced me to create a new password and this is where the problems start. First off, it warned me that my password is already being used. No sh*t... it sold to the same guy... Anyway, I purchased it again thinking the new version could be registered as a separate copy but, for some reason NOTHING. Thanks N/I. SMH.
Nice one! I think I’m the only person in the world who struggles to make Battery sound good.
Thanks UkeofCarl! I definitely have been missing out on a lot of the features in Battery, the only thing it's missing is good slicing abilities for loops!
When you've edited a kit like you did in various ways here, do you need to resave that kit under a new name or will it remain edited if you for instance save the song it's present in, in a daw?
It all gets saved with the project for sure, no need to do anything else!
Hello Jeff I have some issue with Articulation ,midi echo and humanize inside batterry they doesnt work .
My friend recommend me to buy this and I have a Maschine. I just want to drop some sequence or sample live. What do you recommend?
The only thing I don’t understand about battery is why isn’t there any note repeat? Like that should just be a basic standard feature .. good review
Very beautiful and powerful plugin, but no internal Sequencer…That sucks 😡
True, that would be a great addition!
Well... awesome video first of all. But, when I enable key track on a cell it doesnt let me play this one cell over the keyboard but triggers all the other cells just as always. Hope you get what I mean? What should I do now?
I am I obsessed with the size of your screen! Souls you please tell me what are you using? Amazing content!
Ha! Yeah it’s great! Link in the description to tell you everything!
How may I change the path when I move all samples to a new drive?
👍thank you very much
Great walk thru--thanks!
you have a very beautiful studio
Appreciate it! Always working on it…
Thanks!
Great video Jeff!
Thanks Eric!!
I don’t have kids, and I certainly doesn’t have buddies!
Hi great video, I’ve been using Battery for a decade or more. For some reason in the last week I can no longer make any parameter changes. It’s as though the entire thing is locked. If I use the scroll wheel on my mouse I can move the parameters but if I grab even the volume it will not go up or down it just seems to be locked. Do you have any idea why this is happening?
Who’s the guy talking between the cool ads
now tell us Jef: did Father xmas visit you well before time? Is this a new white Komplete under your desk??? :-)... and I just saw your white Maschine.... you are a lucky boy!
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Thanks for another really helpful video!
Most welcome David!
Jeff thank you again for the nice explanation. Great tutorial. One question I have noticed the tempo sync don’t work. While you drag sample file to the Battery cell. It doesn’t go with Daw tempo. Doesn’t synch. Any advise. ? Thank you.
Hey Jeff my BATTERY isn't loading up on my MK3 you have any sugestions on how to fix this? (PLZ HLP)
I have battery with native access it worked fine then I did a update on Mac now can’t log in native access and now my sound kits can’t load up any suggestions
Great video! Is there any way to preview each drum kit hearing all the samples in context - kinda like a demo song for the kit? I think Battery 3 might have had this. I use Ableton Live which also comes with its own drum kits. When I go through the Ableton Drum Kits, it plays a demo song of the full drum kit as soon as you click on it. Of course, one wouldn't compose exactly like the demo song - it's just a great way to hear a whole kit pretty quickly just to get the overall "vibe" of it. I guess for now in Battery 4, I'll simply select each kit and start triggering each sample. A preview kit feature is just a great fast way to hear everything.
Jeff just curious what back up methods do you use to protect your system data and also your sound drives ? Thank you
We need a sync with project option on that speed knob.
Great video, Jef!
Thanks Mick! It was a good refresher for me!
Phenomenal video 💪🏾
hi. can anyone help me ti fix an issue with Sync BPM? my Battery 4 doesn't sync tempo to my DAW. please help me to fix this problem. Thank you.