Does anyone use Cyclone anymore?

I was going to try kontakt out, then I saw the price. After hearing Battery was easy to map samples, I tried out the Battery 3 demo. And sampling was actually really straight forward and in your face, instead of stuff happening behind the scenes. 

All I did was save a groove clip using save loop, saved it as a wave file. Within Battery's built in media browser, I opened up the Acidized wave file I was talking about, and It automatically opened a big enough grid of samples, and layed them out across the pads/keyboard. Many more sample clips could have been loaded as there were blank pads left to be used. Its a small mpc style pad/grid looking vst when you first open it, but it definitly expands quit a bit. There's even an easy drop down menu to change the grid size manually. The samples played one after the other, cutting each other off. Pretty sweat.

Then I just tried dragging and dropping to see the effect. I just loaded a new/blank kit. Changed the grid size, then selected all the chopped samples, dragged then over the pad/grid ui in battery 3. The grid/pads highlighted yellow, I let go of the mouse, boom, they were ready to be played/saved as a kit.

Thanks for that Geist video. That was pretty dope. Really dope actually. Kinda makes me want it, seeing as how battery 3 and Geist are in the same price range. 

Not going to lie though, Battery made it really easy to load the samples, much like I wanted. Thanks for all the suggestions. As it stand right now, I'm going to download Geist demo and decide between the two, but I don't think you can match Batterys user friendly sampling ability (besides Exs 24, whom I still Love) 

Thanks for the input everybody. If anyone has anything else to add, I'm always all ears.

scook...did anyone use cyclone to begin with. I always thought cyclone was a good idea that never quite caught on. If I'm not mistaken it did have neat trick of being able to map out regions created in soundforge. It's been awhile.

Battery is also a first rate drum machine. The kits you get with it are excellent, it's a breeze to make your own, the in-house processing is great and it's an absolute doddle to set up the multi-outs (unlike Kontakt). I think it's one of my most used plugs, I never thought about using it to trigger chopped up beats though. Great idea. 

If you do go with battery, Komplete bundle is on sale for $399. That includes, Battery, Kontakt and 25 other plugins. Thinking about biting myself

Or you probably can get a second-hand licence of it, or Komplete somewhere online,
like at KVRaudio forums, or eBay...

FYI' Battery3 has been around for a while, if ever you find a licence for Komplete 5, 6, or 7 on the cheap, you'll get the same version of Battery in the bundle, only, you'll have Kontakt 4, and less samples. which IMO is no big deal.

Cheers ! 

V

dubdisciple


If you do go with battery, Komplete bundle is on sale for $399. That includes, Battery, Kontakt and 25 other plugins. Thinking about biting myself

You do realize that Komplete is a gateway drug that leads to Komplete Ultimate.....I ended up making the upgrade when they had that on offer too. Although if I was in the market for it now I'd be tempted to wait for Komplete 9...whenever that is. 


I have so much fun with Komplete. There are so many amazing synths and plugs and effects chains. Even if you're not making a tune, you can have fun all night with the sequencers and grooveboxes in Reaktor. I was going to work on a track tonight but ended up playing with the Limelite groovebox/sequencer for 2 hours. Soooo much fun. 

I can just see the Public Service Announcement where the kid gets caught clandestinely creating his own Reaktor synths and tearfully proclaims 'I learned it from you!"