
:-) Also, I would prefer to hear from people who know both instruments well. I need Maschine and/or Battery for the way I work and collaborate with the people that I do, so I need to mostly stay on them. This post is NOT about recommending other software, so please don't go there. In Battery I'm used to very quickly setting up my own kits, often with round-robin action and sometimes multi-samples, and very easily being able to map them out, etc. Colour coding is more straight-forward too, with preset kits now mostly showing kicks in red, snares in yellow, claps in pink, hats in light blue and so on. Without a trace of light grey or green, the layout is now a slicker, darker affair.

My main questions for experts on both Maschine 2 and Battery 4 are: Do you feel that Maschine 2 can be used in the same way/as a possible replacement for Battery 4? What are the advantages/disadvantages with Maschine 2 compared to Battery 4 from purely a software point of view (excluding the Maschine hardware). Battery 4 addresses this head-on with a much better design. I know how to set Maschine 2 up for that and can get it going pretty quickly in Cubase. NIs Battery is an incredibly powerful sample-based drum machine but its easier to get to grips with than you might imagine. I do almost all of my programming in Cubase and have no use for the patterns, etc., in Maschine. I've owned Maschine 2 for about a year and haven't dug into it too deeply, but so far I find it much more wonky to use in the way that I use Battery. multiple Solo options will be available, including Die Maschine Solo. I've used Battery 4 for a long time (though I prefer Battery 3 in some ways!). Developed by Treyarch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 takes the top-selling franchise. There are a couple threads about this, but I need more specific details than they had.
