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Actually do use battery. I'd like to see a 4 actually. 3 has always been buggy.

Yeah looks like the long awaited upgrade to battery 4? If so im sold

Yes i remember a basic buggy program called Battery... then i found Geist! It's like comparing the USS Enterprise to a push bike.

VirtualMark wrote:Yes i remember a basic buggy program called Battery... then i found Geist! It's like comparing the USS Enterprise to a push bike.

A:B::D:C

Hope it loads much faster than battery 3

Geist is the boobs honestly.

Hook a brother up!

Have never found a great 4x4 drum ap.

Battery is powerful, but awfully complex, a little buggy, knobs don't move in fine increments, etc. But still, the once king.

Poise is dope for a fast fast 4x4, lightweight, almost like no options.

FPC is cool, somewhere between Poise and Battery in terms of complexity, on the Poise side of things, but I use it the least.

Would love (love) to get Geist in there. What do y'all like the most about it?

The first thing I thought of was the Ableton Performance mode connected to a launchpad. I can see people buying it.

looks visually related to the traktor F1 controller

also that demo sounds fucking horrible. like seriously fucking bad. it's getting to a point where native instrument's brand identity has shifted from a manufacturer of professional tools (reaktor, kontakt) to... idk, image line (reputation/image, not actual quality so calm down FL users)

nowaysj wrote:Would love (love) to get Geist in there. What do y'all like the most about it?

I'd strongly recommend trying the demo, as it's a deep program! I don't know everything it can do yet, the manual is pretty big and i'm about halfway through.

Some of the things i like best are the way it handles breaks, rex and audio loops. It can chop them up automatically, or allow you to adjust manually - it automatically categorises them as kicks, snares, cymbals or percussion if you want. You can extract the groove from a break and apply it to your current sound.

You can play Geist with normal midi triggering one shots, or you can trigger patterns, or you can sequence an entire song inside Geist, up to you!

The internal fx and routing is as configurable as you'd ever need - you can group stuff, layer stuff and mix internally, or just use as a multi out with external fx. The dirac3 timestretch/pitch shift sounds good too.

Don't know what else to say about it really - it does everything other drum machines do but has tons more.

Genevieve wrote:It's looking like another DAW ...in a market that I think is slowly becoming oversaturated with DAWs.

They've made some awesome plugs, why not put their focus on another great synth? One that addresses the shortcomings of their previous synths (not that there are many.. but they still have some)?

If it is a DAW then the video didn't exactly do what they'd hoped it would do. Or at least to me. I'm rather comfortable with Renoise, thnq.

Couldn't of said that any better myself.

I recall Guru was kind of a pain in the ass with file management, ie locating and loading files, recalling files, how smooth is geist?

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Re the demo song for this thing, yeah, it sounded bad. Like really bad, no offense to anyone that may have been involved.

^ was just thinking that the demo sounds better than most trap stuff floating about.........

Disagree, actually. Thought this demo was like 'everything-lite'. Again, no offense.

Maybe Battery with a launch section just like Ableton.

I'd love to see a DAW by NI though, they design some really good plugins and synths, plus their interfaces are usually good looking and workflow friendly. Also, I've yet to encounter a problem using their soundcards or controllers, those are definitely built to last.

Anyway, I knew you were hiding something when I asked you about the daw, static_cast.

http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... battery-4/
http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... rs/monark/

blinkesko wrote:http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... battery-4/
http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... rs/monark/

Knew it.

I am digging the K9 though.

Other than fx, and skin, any other substantial changes to battery?

I've got quality fx, I don't care about the skin...