I used the built-in Sound Manager audio as well as an Emagic AW8 audio card. For this review, I tested the standalone and VST versions on a Mac G3/300 MHz. Sound quality and latency - the vital issues with any software synthesizer or sample player - depend on the CPU’s speed and the quality of the audio card and its drivers. The plug-in version is better suited for use in a desktop studio because there, the audio can be kept in the digital domain and Battery can be more accurately synchronized to other MIDI and audio tracks. Used with a percussion controller and a well-endowed laptop computer, Battery is certainly gig ready. Because the standalone version does not provide a MIDI-file player or hard-disk recorder, it’s mainly useful for studio sequencing, live performance, and Kits setup. You can download a limited demo version of Battery from the company’s Web site.īattery includes standalone and VST Instrument plug-in versions. But Battery stands apart from the crowd in its ease of use, its thoughtfully designed user interface, and its extensive real-time sample processing. Software-sample players, percussion-oriented ones in particular, are not exactly in short supply these days. In addition to its own Kits, Battery can load Kits in Akai, LM-4, LoopAZoid, Reaktor, and SoundFont2 formats. Battery comes with 20 Kits (more than 600 MB of percussion samples) covering a broad range of styles.

Native Instruments’ Battery puts a percussion section on your desktop, and in this case, the batteries are definitely included. Battery Drum Kit Samples for Native Instruments Battery!Ī percussion section is sometimes called a battery.

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