Battery for dummies - how / where to save Kits / Presets / formats

cliff turner

Confused with user presets / kits in battery .

in logic ,when I go to my user presets , they're listed there , but when I load them they're empty . I have moved my content to an external Lacie Rugged and have probably just stuffed something up . I don't think Ive lost the files , just in the wrong place .

Also what's the difference between a Kit and a Preset. I like having access at the top left drop down menu so ideally want to access things there .

Is a .nbkt a kit file and an .aupreset a kit file .

Somewhere along the line I created sample folders but not sure if they're meant to go with the .nbkt or .aupreset .

I'm in logic ( latest ) with a one year old iMac . Just upgraded to Monterey but had the same problem with Big Sur.

Any help appreciated

Cheers

Cliff

cliff turner

Hi Kaiwan

Ok so deleting the Factory Library and the Battery file in Applications support and reinstalling the Factory Library direct onto my SSD has fixed the issue.

I was then left with a problem that when I saved a preset , it was saving empty .

Ended up closing everything , deleting all the presets and when I saved at this stage , it was ok .

Cheers

Cliff

Nico_NI

Hey @cliff turner, you might want to have a look at this guide we made for Battery ➡️ https://blog.native-instruments.com/a-beginners-guide-to-battery/

It should answer most of your questions 🙌

cliff turner

Thanks for that Nico .

It answered questions ( which is always useful ) but not the ones I wanted . My previous created presets and kits aren't linking up properly . I spent a l to of time creating them , so I'd like not to do the whole process again.

Looking in my system my user presets are save in username/Library/Audio/presets/Native instruments / Battery 4 as .aupreset files .

My kits are save in two places , in the above folder as well as username / documents / native instruments / Battery 4 / Kits as .nbkt files with an adjacent Sample folder .

On logic when I go to load up my user presets ( top left drop down menu ) I get my list , but when I click on them , nothin loads into battery .

Is preset just a link to an existing Kit or is it a complete kit in itself ?

Outside the .aupreset , do I need the

When I go to library to import my kit folder , it briefly shows a list of all of the kits in the folder , but then only loads some of them . Is their a naming convention to the kits that could be causing this .

While I can probably reload all. the kits individually , I don't wan to find I've made some basic mistake that means further down the line I've got to do the same thing again . At the moment with some of my logic templates which have seperate tracks with a Batter " kick " kit , each time I load up , it keeps showing missing samples which I thought I'd resaved . I'm not an IT guru , but not a total newbie.

Once I've resurrected all my kits/ presets , I'll save everything as monoliths and hopefully that helps clarify things in the future .

Cheers

Cliff

Kaiwan_NI

@cliff turner Saw that you raised a support ticket. Keep us updated on how it goes.

cliff turner

So far no joy . Gone over some things . Gave all NI apps full disk access . All files shared . Only one user .

The main thing I'm trying to solve is why It only loads up some kits in my user folder to the Browser Library . As I mentioned. before , when I click rescan , it briefly shows all the kits , but when it finishes , only a handful are visible .

I can load kits via the drop down / File / open kit and just realised that I CAN load them when I go to the browser menu / Files , rather than Browser/ Library , which is where I've always looked before .

Cheers

Cliff

Kaiwan_NI

@cliff turner Another user also ran into issues after moving content to an external drive and looks like they fixed it by deleting a Factory Folder in a Shared user folder. Maybe worth giving it a shot?

Check it out here: Battery 4 Factory Library on external drive

cliff turner

Hi Kaiwan

Ok so deleting the Factory Library and the Battery file in Applications support and reinstalling the Factory Library direct onto my SSD has fixed the issue.

I was then left with a problem that when I saved a preset , it was saving empty .

Ended up closing everything , deleting all the presets and when I saved at this stage , it was ok .

Cheers

Cliff