Battery 4 development

That might be the best solution. But then, the future of PA is already tied to NI's future, Dirk Ulrich (their CEO) left the sinking ship already, so things aren't looking too bright.

Too bad as GR has some USPs. But it looks as if they removed some features I always loved, such as it working as a MIDI controlled plugin. Can't confirm, though, as I haven't even updated to version 6 (and likely never will).

I doubt PA would take over GR. I suspect there is a framework used at NI for all their products. Extracting a single product from it and move it over to another company which uses another framework sounds like more pain than gain.

I see evidence of a " 5 year plan" (or 3 year or ?) that has been taking shape rather aggressively since 2023. And I think a merging and simplification of their frameworks is a key goal. And a very smart goal.

This will benefit most everyone.. users, NI and the PE investors.

The creative purpose of tool like Battery might be better offered within one of the simplified frameworks.

What might that be? The framework within Play Assist?

You can even use Groove Agent SE in other DAWs, if you have a license of Cubase LE or higher.

https://o.steinberg.net/index.php?id=15224&L=0

Of course, the full Groove Agent has a lot more features.

That said, Battery's and Groove Agent SE's library are pretty different, and, Battery IMO is much more focused on electronic genres than Groove Agent SE's library.

if anyone’s interested, I have one of each of the following

70% off voucher for Cubase Pro 13, so you pay £147.60 inc UK vat

70% off voucher for Absolute 6, so you pay £127.20 inc UK vat (includes HALion 7 pro and Grove Agent 5 pro)

70% off voucher for Wavelab, so you pay £127.20 inc UK vat

70% off voucher for Dorico, so you pay £147.60 inc UK vat

In the past week I’ve bought all the above, for that price I couldn’t resist.

My Cubase vouchers have now both been used (turns out I had two, not one)  

I still have the following 70% off vouchers.

Three Absolute 6 Pro, vouchers, one  Wavelab Pro voucher and one Dorico Pro voucher.

While I still love Kontakt, Halion 7 is very good and getting it as part of the Absolute 6 package along with Groove Agent 5 , Pad shop 2, FM Lab, Retrologue, Backbone and quite a few other things, all for £127 (instead of the usual £424), well in my opinion if you can afford it, it's a bargain not to be missed

If one is using Cubase, this is an amazing offer and very strong ecosystem of first party plugins.

As said, I'm using Logic - and Absolute 6 is just as nice to have (sure, Mediabay integration must be even better).

Fwiw, I bought XLN XO and apart from the sample organisation it's a complete mess. Money wasted. Could've demoed more thoroughly but time for the sale was running out.