Ask Video – Battery 4 101: Battery 4 Detonated (TUTORIAL)

By | November 2, 2025

 

Release year : 2013
Manufacturer : Ask Video
Manufacturer’s website : www.askvideo.com/course/battery-4-101-battery-4-detonated
Author : Matt Vanacoro
Duration : 02:03:45
Type of distributed material : Video lesson
Language : English



Description : Native Instruments’ Battery 4 is incredibly simple. Native Instruments has redesigned the Battery interface and packed it with explosive new features that will boost your creativity and get you making great beats fast. In this video, Matt Vanacoro explains and demonstrates step-by-step how this new and improved version of Battery works. He explains that the new interface is much more than just a pretty face; rather, it’s a significantly improved and consolidated workspace where sonic solutions and creative ideas can be quickly achieved.

Native Instruments’ Battery 4 is here and it’s exploding with all kinds of killer features. Dive in with expert instructor Matt Vanacoro and see all the advances NI has packed in their flagship drum synth!

Battery 4 rocks. It’s that simple. With canons blazing, Native Instruments has completely redesigned the Battery interface and has packed it full of new explosive features that will detonate your creativity and get you blasting out innovative big beats fast.

In this course, Matt takes you step by step explaining and showing how this new, improved version of Battery works. He explains how the new interface is much more than just a pretty face. Rather, it’s a vastly improved and consolidated workspace where sonic choices and creative ideas are quickly accomplished.
Next you learn all about the bank of tabs that include everything from advanced modulation to studio quality effects. From there, you dive deep into MIDI and learn how to customize, modify and and design your own individual kits from Battery’s vast collection of high-end samples.

So sit back and watch as Matt detonates Battery 4 revealing all the features in what might be the best drum instrument ever created!

Content :

01. Intro to Battery (01:17)
02. The Plugin, Formats, Standalone (03:13)
03. Preferences, Optimization and Setup (05:57)
04. Cells, the Matrix & Menu Bar (05:55)
05. The Browser, Tags & Kits vs. Samples (05:10)
06. All About Cells (05:34)
07. The Main Tab (08:33)
08. The Effects Tab (08:02)
09. Modulation Tab (07:03)
10. The Setup Tab (07:40)
11. The Editor Tab (08:19)
12. The Master Tab (07:12)
13. MPC vs. Keyboard vs. V-Drums (07:35)
14. Mapping Individual Cells (03:58)
15. Cell Rendering (04:05)
16. MIDI Learn and Automation (05:16)
17. Creating a Custom Kit from Scratch (10:52)
18. Aftertouch and Velocity With Battery (04:53)
19. Sidechain Compressor (04:34)
20. Time Stretching & Granular Synthesis (05:35)
21. Wrap-up & Where to Go Next (02:52)

Sample files : none
Video format : MP4
Video : AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 30,000 fps, ~286 Kbps
Audio : AAC, 44.1 KHz, 96.0 Kbps, 2 channels



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