Mats Claesson`s
short introduction to Battery 2.
This tutorial is mainly for my students at The
Norwegian Academy of Music but everyone is welcome. Its not a complete
tutorial, its intended as a support for the students at the academy, but
it can be used as a self study. If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me.
I prefer positive an constructive comments :-) after all I'm doing this for free
(its not a part of my work at the academy to produce tutorials on
the internet) .
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Mats Claesson`s
short introduction to Battery 2.
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This is all about
the BASIC programming of Battery 2, how to do it. NOTHING ELSE
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If you are
one of those computer musicians that demands instant response, 1000
of "wicked
techno sounds" by the press of a button, stay away , this is NOT
for you.
Introduction.
This guide will give you most of the basics of how to program Battery
2.
The guide has eight videos, 25 Mb all in all. You really need a broadband
connection to use this guide.
These pages work with Explorer 6.0 or higher.
This tutorial is mainly for my students at the academy. This text and the
videos is just a part of what we do at the lessons....there is more going
on at the lectures.....( I hope).
Battery is a relatively simple
to program!
Battery is a sample player program. That means it plays back pre recorded
sounds. Some of us (like me) still call this a "drum machine". Battery
contains
quite
a few sound manipulating features like an individually envelope a really god
filter (lots of options) and a comprehensive modulation matrix. We won't
go through
all of this but I think you will get the general idea.
I use battery only with its built in Library. I seldom program Kits
(a
Kit is a ready
to
be played program). I may compile a kit of my own from other kits, but that's
not happened very often. At the academy we have two extra libraries the Studio
drums
and the
wonderful Synthetic Drums, both of them from Natives. Together with the libraries
included they cover a wide selection of sounds for nearly all musical
styles.
The
exception
may
be the orchestral and ethnic instruments, but then we have Vienna Symphonic library
Drums and percussion are maybe the instrument group that has the largest "ready to buy" library/programs around. I tend to use these libraries and programs a lot. If I do any programming of percussive sounds I do it in Reaktor which offers a far wider sound manipulation possibility that Battery
| The videos are not heavily
edited. They contains (to mention some) bad grammar, inconsistency,
a terrible accent ( in the videos) and even some fault. |
| I really appreciate comments.
I have gotten quite a few so far. I appreciate to hear from
you all. Up to now
only 10% gives feedback. Its a bit....sad. An e- mail from you is the only "payment" I would like. So please send an e-mail and tell me that you where looking at these pages (and maybe some comments?). And wicked techno sounds-guys. I told you, this is not what you are looking for :-) |