Battery 3 for 99 euro yes/no

[Musicsoul]

NI has a discount on battery 3 until today (31 may). I am looking for some new drumsamples and a nice sampler. Should i do this or leave it?

[myxomat0515]

Yes.

Battery is by no means 'perfect' in Live, but if you're lacking in drums, you'll definitely get your $99 worth.

[re.mark]

yes
yes
1000 times yes

I got it this month and love it

[mholloway]

yep. i paid full price a while back and have never regretted it. excellent collection of drum samples, cool interface. it's not my main drum setup (i use drumracks for my own custom kits) but there's plenty to use and love in battery. at half-off it's a must have.

[Tarekith]

I'd actually vote for Ableton Session Drums for the same price. I had Battery 3 before, and I have to say the Session Drums are definitely on par with NI's offerings.

[Machinesworking]

I'd actually vote for Ableton Session Drums for the same price. I had Battery 3 before, and I have to say the Session Drums are definitely on par with NI's offerings.

Isn't Session Drums an acoustic kit? Battery 3 has as much or more electronic samples as Ableton Drum Machines etc. and less acoustic kits that Session Drums.

Biggest advantage of Session Drums or any sample library from Ableton over third party is that Live will save the samples in a set etc. It's hit or miss if third party samplers will save in Live without saving the samples and preset you make in the sampler. I rarely lose a kit, but it's happened.
Personally I really like Battery, the FX and such to tweak the sounds are pretty cool. I would get Session Drums by upgrading to the download suite as to get anything near what Battery offers sample library wise, you have to buy both Session Drums and Drum Machines, and for only a bit more you get the Suite.

OT but it's retarded to me that the DAW 10 years later, still cannot save samples from a VSTi or AU with a song, unless it's an embedded instrument like EXS, Sampler, etc. Not blaming the DAW manufacturers, it's probably a shortcoming of AU/VST.

[ekwipt]

Logic setup here and just bought it, waiting for shipping, but i think it's a perfect companion to Ultrabeat.

Just waiting for Guru 2 now

[logic_user99]

I quite enjoy Battery 3 every now and again. If nothing else, I'll often raid the sample library and drop them into a Drum Rack in Live. That said, the B3 interface is very nice, and you can do some pretty cool sound-designy things in it.

[Musicsoul]

Can anyone tell me what's the biggest difference in the sample library from Guru vs Battery? Except the size offcourse..

[mholloway]

Can anyone tell me what's the biggest difference in the sample library from Guru vs Battery? Except the size offcourse..

I've got both, but this is kinda hard to answer -- basically I'd say the Battery library is overall of higher quality, perhaps much higher quality, and also each kit is drastically bigger, as Guru loads 16 hits per kit, while battery kits have way more than that. Battery also has much more variety of sounds across the kits. Guru has some good stuff, but it's not exceptional, at least not often. Battery kits perhaps lean too heavily toward idm/ambient/space-age type percussion sounds (you won't find much acoustic sample based stuff in there, though it has a couple....) but still, they quality level is very high, and the kits are just so damn huge.

the real difference between the two programs isn't so much the library as the functionality -- guru slices and sequences, battery is just pads with basic FX. but if you've got live then you already have slice functionality...