Battery 3 – Full Power, Half price

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Native Instruments Battery 3This is silly.. really silly.. A 50% price drop on this amazing software from Native Instruments. I’m still on Battery 2 but now have no excuse to not upgrade. Battery, alongside Logic 8‘s EXS sample playback instrument, is my ‘go to’ solution for drums and percussion. Not only is it ridiculously easy to layer up, edit and manipulate individual percussion hits, the quality and diversity of the actual sounds are truly world-class.

Battery 3 raised that game a while ago with a new improved sound engine and upping the included sample library to a massive 12Gb library (that’s 23,000 individual sounds). These are grouped into styles of:

  • Acoustic (using a variation of mic placings and ‘stick’ sounds)
  • Production kits
  • Percussion
  • Electronic (from ethnic, classic machines, synthesised hits ‘n fx)
  • Synthetic
  • Special

Battery 3 also has a useful feature enabling ‘grouped’ access to types of drum sounds – for instance, you may want to audition a selection of acoustic jazz snares or, flipping to electronica, some synthetic kick drums to peruse. Also, the GUI sports a versatile, customisable cell matrix (multi coloured, bespoke layout anyone?) where you can apply some powerful sonic manipulation.

Loops, although not supplied in the included sound library, are not ignored for integration in B3. Just access your own loop library and it allows flexible sound shaping and time stretching to get them ‘fused’ with whatever rhythm pattern you’ve created – Groovy 8-)

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Paul Dakeyne is a DJ/Producer who has dedicated the past two decades of his life to dance music production and DJ'ing. For six years, he toured globally for the world famous Ministry of Sound and has played DJ sets for the likes of U2 and for the legendary, Kraftwerk, Although remixing around 250 records in his career, as an artist in his own right, Paul landed one of dance music's seminal crossover moments with his "18 Strings' monster hit by Tinman - scoring a UK top ten in 1994. He also co-wrote and produced the music for BBC's Watchdog and Crimewatch when they were both revamped in 2001 and '06 respectively. His other career highlights have included an A&R stint for Mercury Records, lecturing in 'DJ culture and music technology' and creating mash-up mixes for Radio 1's, Chris Moyles. Paul joined the DV group in 2003 leading to his role as blog and feature author here at the DV Mag.

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