Battery 4 development

Yep however, if I look at my vouchers, they all say

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So if anyone wants to give one a try, I still have some left.

Before Kontakt 8 was released I was speculating that perhaps an option for NI would be to integrate a Battery like UI into Kontakt, since Battery is really just a glorified sampler. Now after the release of V8 I'm starting to wonder that even more so.

With the advent of Conflux and Leap it's more easy to conceive that Kontakt 9 might come with the new Battery update/substitute. As with Leap, and Conflux to an extent, the features were already there, NI just made them more immediate and intuitive by presenting them in a new UI. It's now more easy to imagine that they will do the same with a drum sampler like Battery.

Personally, I would be fine with this approach. I would just feel a whole lot better about it if I new it would also import/convert Battery patches.

• Limited to 8 sample slots.
• Limited to their extremely questionably MIDI-note-to-slot choice (chromatically starting at C1). All your GM-drumming skills, all your MIDI files, all your virtual drummers, you name it - everything goes outta the window instantly.
• No proper sample tweaking. No real filters per sample, no modulation options.
• Lousy onboard sequencer limited to 4/4 and even note grids.

There's possibly more. Seriously, XO is quite a huge fail. Which is a pity because their sample organisation "cloud" along with the "similarity" functions is quite nice.