Well I tested both Battery and DR-008 and decided to go with Battery for the GUI simply looks better and has all the features I need.
It's a superb drumsampler but I use it for other samples, too. For example I considered to switch to Pro Tools LE which only supports RTAS Plugins. Now I have the lovely M-Tron (which isn't supporting RTAS) and Battery witch will support RTAS (september 2003). It's so easy to recompile the tape banks for Battery and play them in Pro Tools.....*gg* Making own sample banks is very intuitive, too.
But back to the original features. The supplied drumkits are very good and offer a large variety of sounds (most are not very big and have less layers on each hit then let's say DFH - which is a good addition btw) but they sound good.
The best imho are: 70's Funk (which I used in 'Longing for hotter days'), Vintage, Steveland's Vinyl Kit (this sounds gorgeous), Jazz and REAKTOR..... but the other's are good, too. and you can even take single cells from different kits and combine them to one.
the only bad thing I gotta say... is the way the layers can be edited..... for it's not graphically.. and sometimes difficult.
BTW: the custumer support is pretty good.... they even have updates which are not on their homepage... you just gotta drop them a mail.
All in all it was definitely worth my money.Read Review
