BATTERY: Drum Programming and Sampling

2h 2mAdvanced2015-07-17

Authors

Evan Sutton

Music Producer, Engineer, Composer, and Sound Programmer

Course details

BATTERY is the cutting-edge drum and percussion sampler from Native Instruments that lets you create awesome beats and explore new sounds. In this course, Evan Sutton covers everything you need to know about drum programming and sampling with the app, from developing beats with BATTERY's factory kits to customizing its library to fit your sound. He'll show how to use different control surfaces and adjust the way BATTERY reacts to incoming MIDI and knobs. He'll also help you experiment with modulation, audio effects, loops, and sidechaining and help you save your patches for use in DAWs like Logic Pro and Ableton Live.

Learning objectives
Playing and editing factory kits
Importing and playing raw audio
Customizing MIDI settings and macros
Modifying samples using alternate playback modes
Vintage drum machine emulation
Signal routing for optimal mixing
Saving and archiving kits and sounds

Skills covered

BatteryVirtual InstrumentsNative InstrumentsMusic LessonsAudio and MusicDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Drum Programming with Battery

04 - Basic layout and playing factory kits
05 - Moving, previewing, and replacing sounds
06 - Building a kit from scratch and importing raw audio
07 - MIDI Learn and keyboard tracking
08 - Basic cell settings
09 - Alternate sampler engines and tuning
10 - MIDI setup and voice groups
11 - Cycle random and round robin
12 - Audio FX
13 - Advanced modulation
14 - Cell rendering
15 - Sample editing and looping
16 - Loop playback and slicing
17 - Controller routing and automation
18 - Master processing and FX
19 - Bussing and stemming in Logic Pro
20 - Bussing and stemming in Ableton Live
21 - Saving and exporting

Conclusion

22 - Next steps