Battery KIts Builder?

[kcsherrell]

Hey Stray,

Once again, I would like to say thanks for everything you do here.

I was wondering if you would post the kitbuilder for Battery as a downloadable file to import into Battery? I personally have Battery 2 and 3, but I am not sure if it matters or not?

Anything you could do would be great!

Thanks Again,

kcsherrell

[Stray]

I figure most people are probably using 2 or 3, I’m still using 1 though.

I can still tell you how to do it, but I’d need to know a couple things.

When you insert Battery into a project, how many cells does it have? And are the cells set up chromatically? Chromatic would mean the first cell was set up on C1, the next cell was set up on C#1, the next on D1 and so on up the keyboard.

If it isn’t set up like that, let me know. But if it has 48 or more cells and the cells are set up chromatically, here’s how to set it up.

In the 1st 16 cells, load up 16 kicks. 2nd 16 would be snares. 3rd 16 would be hihat sets. Would look like this:

Kicks on C1 – D#2
Snares on E2 – G3
Hihats on G#3 – B4

On the pK, C2 = C1….it’s an octave up. I know that can be confusing.

So, for the pK scene, set up the bottom 4 pads on C2 (the 1st kick), E3 (the 1st snare), G#4/A4 (the 1st set of hats).

The row of pads above that would be C#2 (2nd kick), F3 (2nd snare), A#4/B4 (2nd set of hats).

So now you have 2 basic kits. To switch between sounds, hit pad 13 (for example) then Settings, then Note/CC and turn the data wheel to the right to access your different kicks. If you changed it to D#3 for example, pad 1 would now be triggering the last kick in your set up.

I hope that isn’t too confusing.

[kcsherrell]

Hey Stray,

Thanks for the reply! When you open Battery 3 it gives you 16 cells in a 4 x 4 pattern X Axis = A-D and Y Axis = 1-4, as far as I can tell the that is all that is there? I am fairly new to Battery so I may be missing something here? (Please let me know if I am anybody?) But it is fairly simple to add columns and rown to get to 48, but I kind of like it to correspond with the PK (16 pads), but I also like your idea of changing out drums with the data wheel when they dont sound right?

Do you understand what I am getting at here? I would like to have the features of the PK like you had on the Battery Video (Data wheel changing drums, etc..) but I would prefer to use a 16 cell kit that matches the PK, so when I hit pad 1 on the PK it is cell A1 in Battery. For me this works well, but can I still do the data wheel trick to switch out sounds if I do it this way?

I am not asking you to do any work or research or anything, just if you already know. You have already been a ton of help with all of this and I really appreciate it!

Thanks,

kcsherrell

[Stray]

Here’s a pic of Battery 3…

www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=battery3
(Click on the pic to enlarge it)

The row labels (A-D) and column labels (1-6) are basically irrelevant for what we’re trying to do. What is relevant is the note number each cell is on. The note number is defined by the keyrange. In the screenshot, that particular cell is on note number F#3.

In order to trigger that cell from pad 1 on the pK, you’d need to have pad 1 sending on the same note number, but an octave up….so F#4.

Is that making sense so far?

Here’s an example of what a 4x4 matrix might look like…

Drum 1 (C1)	Drum 2 (C#1)	Drum 3(D1)	Drum 4 (D#1)
Drum 5(E1)	Drum 6(F1)	Drum 7 (F#1)	Drum 8(G1)
Drum 9(G#1)	Drum 10(A1)	Drum 11(A#1)	Drum 12(B1)
Drum 13(C2)	Drum 14(C#2)	Drum 15(D2)	Drum 16(D#2)

Here’s the pK…

Pad 1(C2)	Pad 2 (C#2)	Pad 3(D2)	Pad 4(D#2)
Pad 5(E2)	Pad 6(F2)	Pad 7(F#2)	Pad 8(G2)
Pad 9(G#2)	Pad 10(A2)	Pad 11(A#2)	Pad 12(B2)
Pad 13(C3)	Pad 14(C#3)	Pad 15(D3)	Pad 16(D#3)

In this set up, each pad on the pK triggers the corresponding cell in Battery.

In order to change the cell a pad is triggering, you have to change the note number it sends on. So switching pad 1 to C#3 will let you trigger Drum 14 in the 4x4 matrix example.

But there’s really no reason to do that since you have 16 pads and 16 drums. Changing the note number a pad is sending on only makes sense when you have more than 16 drums.

With 48 drums, for example, you’d have 16 kicks on C1 – D#2.

Pad 1 would be set up on C2 to trigger your 1st kick. You could now change the note number to C#2 to trigger kick 2. Or maybe D#3 to trigger your 16th kick. This obviously wouldn’t be possible to set up in a 4x4 matrix.

I hope that makes sense.

[kcsherrell]

Hey Stray,

It all makes sense except I am not sure about one thing, where does it say, or how do you know that on the picture you have linked that cell 1 = F #3? Like I said, I am new to Battery and that is the only part I am not getting? I cant find out how you figured that out?

Sorry if I seem ignorant here, but I am lost!

Thanks Again for All of Your Help!

kcsherrell

[Stray]

On the bottom half of the screen, left side, next to the name is the Key Range…which is F#3 / F#3.