Quote Originally Posted by hiroprotagonist
so you would say using battery is mostly for drum pattern programming? or is it to fine tune a drum SOUND. im really in the dark about this program. if you have time could you take me through a simple session in battery. just tell me what you use it for on a simple project thats all :) thanks
What I use it for is to set up little drum kits to create parts with.

So, for example, you might load a couple of kicks, a few snares, some hats, then some more random noises into different cells.

First order of business is to set start points for each sample. Some drum samples are very badly edited, and have a bit of silence at the beginning.

I'd then set an envelope for some of the sounds... for example if I wanted them to suddenly stop playing when they recieve a MIDI-off message, or maybe if I wanted to make a sound a bit tighter.

Then set up mute groups... this lets you make certain groups of noises mutually exclusive - particularly useful for open / closed hats etc.

Finally, route different samples out to different output channels... (you can set up whatever combination of mono / stereo outs you want in the options). By doing this you can choose which drums get processed together etc.

Then you can go and start layering up MIDI parts.

By putting in the time making a decent kit in the first place, you make it a lot easier for yourself to play around with your keyboard when creating loops.