Battery 5 ever comming? Or a new update to Battery 4?

JackGGolden · 2025-02-10T09:11:18+00:00

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Hey there, I recently started working again with Battery 4, but quickly was very frustrated since working with it without Komplete Kontrol doesn't make sense anymore.

But since at the same time when I have multiple instances of KK open my daw crashes, so I have to use it in it's vst version.

So what really sucks in Battery 4 is the browser:

-searching is a nightmare, you never have the option to look via genre.

-creating your own tags isn't possible and so I have to save each instance as it' own thing which is realy unhandy

So my biggest feature wish would be a browser like in Kontakt 8 which is really handy

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LostInFoundation

Battery 4 has just been updated. Mostly (only) fixes and compatibility, but I suppose this is what we will get

iNate

Honestly, UI Scalingand the Maschine (KK 2.x) browser is all they need to do with Battery 4.

That would make most users happy.

I cannot believe that they still have not udpated the browser. It's borderline useless in its current state.

JackGGolden

What really makes me furious is that I can't sort per expansion, search via genre or pull up favourites faster like in Kontrol and Kontakt 8 or even Guitar Rig. I love its sounds and possabilities, but on it's own it's so hard to work with it

ExX

I think Native drop Battery development since they created Maschine software and hardware. But unfortunately, users as myself come from Battery 3 wich was able to import AKAI MPC drumset and pursuie with battery 4. The other point i would still use Battery instead of Maschine is the simplicity of this sampler and the all-in-one ability. Like yall said i wish NI updated it since years, particularly the browser AND the Save/Load wich lose banks adresses very frequently.
I was surprised to see an update very recently but nothing about mention above have changed.
:/

iNate

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/217680#Comment_217680

Then keep Battery 3 or 4 (or whatever) for importing that content.

I think Native Instrumetns needs to make a Maschine 3 Sampler plug-in that is just the sampler from Maschine - driven by MIDI from the host DAW. That would alleviate some of the issues people have with the Maschine 2/3 Software being "too much" to use as a "sampler." It is a lot when used as a plug-in, especially without the ability to resize the plug-in (unless M3 has changed that aspect of it).

That being said, the drum samplers in most DAWs is more than good enough, so I haven't used Battery in years - at this point - other than loading Expansion Kits that I summarily port over to the DAW's stock drum sampler (then delete the Battery instance).

As for importing content, that's fine. I used to keep AIR Structure 2 installed for importing EXS24 and HALion patches (it's actually pretty clutch for that), as those were often in sample packs from LoopCloud.

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