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Date: 22-Nov-04 @ 03:40 PM -
Battery 2 has arrived :)
hey hey! - any Battery2 questions?... fire away
I must say, the app' is good, seems cleaner now with better meu's etc, but i'm a bit dissapointed with the new samples/kits - too much weird and wonderful (mostly ported it seems from KONTAKT 'Best of synth' or whatever drums by the sound of it.
There's a few extra quite nice 'real' kits, some of which have like 6 types of 'mic placement', one per cell.. so you get dry kik on CELL-1, then descending verticaly in the cell Column below it you get
outside kik
overheads
room
etc etc
you can bring in/out more/less of the other mic's and balance the sound from dry to ambient.... It's a little like BFD in that respect except the additional mic placement shots are within actual cells rather than being a dedicated section for all kits... anyways, it does mean for realdrums you get the option of a few more basic kits with greater control of ambience without the need to apply fx and extra routing on the s/w mixer
However, i was hoping for some decent ethnic and percussion stuff, sadly there's just a pretty standard but well recorded latin set... some of the new hip-hop drums are ok tho, there's a nice snares and kiks, but imo too much oddball stuff generaly (btw you also get timpani kit which i'd say wasnt too often required ???)
Plus you get all the battery-1 kits all over again which if you already own Battery-1 is a bit sad
The comp & eq & mod' sections work good tho - definately an improvement in the few brief minutes i've had to check it out, the comp is definately a welcome addition as are the eq's and mod stuff, makes it more mangle-able.
Not bad anyways all in all
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