Dear Friends:
I am new (so, so new) to electronic music production - please forgive the following ignorance. I was wondering if any kind and patient mentors out there would be able to help me with a problem I am having creating music with Ableton 8 and Battery 3. To help you help me I will describe what’s up in as much detail for you as possible. Here goes:
This site has been a godsend. The tutorials are incredibly helpful, but my problem lyes in when I try to use Battery 3 in Ableton rather than the download files that accompany the tutorials on this site. This is what I am doing wrong… I open a new Live Set, insert Battery 3 as a plug-in, draw a bar or two of beats, and then experience problem #1 - during playback of this bar the Battery interface “seeps” through the ableton GUI, i.e. the programed cells in Battery come through the screen as the loop plays, mucking up my screen real estate. =?
Problem #2 - in the French Electro House tutorial I see that Phil pulls the individual drum samples out of the Impulse MIDI drum clip to separate them for return track tweaking, giving them their own Audio Tracks. How can I do this with Battery 3? If it isn’t possible, does anyone know if I can extract the Battery 3 samples for use in impulse? (or if that would even be a good idea?)
I know I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, and I have only been using Ableton and Battery for 3 weeks now (told you I was new), but I want you all to know that I have been spending hours looking on the net for information on how to resolve this so I didn’t have to embarrass myself on the forum here. The forum guys at NI haven’t got back to me yet, and everyone here at Sonic Academy seems to have a genuine want to help others. So any information y’all could send my way would be super-terrific! Many, many thanks in advance =)
Sincerely,
Adam
i’ve never really had any issues using battery 3 so i couldn’t really tell you what may or may not be going wrong there. how ever i have recently stopped using it. battery 3 is needlessly over complicated for creating drums, it also uses to much cpu and memory when compared to Impulse and guru. my advise would be to drop battery and use impulse at least until you have you head round programming drums.
impulse may not look as flash but it has all the right functions in all the right places for creating drum grooves, stick with whats simple to use and give the brain a rest 
you should be able to use any of the samples from the battery sound bank by locating them with ableton and dropping them into impulse
+1000 with wot jon said …i’ve used ( “and sweated on”) battery a long time ago …;it’s just
too much almost if u’re new in production …
Thanks for the help guys!
Battery is stated above a ‘flashy’ version of Impulse. It works pretty much the same. You load cells with .wavs and map them to MIDI notes. If you are loading drum ‘sets’ they are grabbing the .wavs for you, but you can search your hard drive for the individual sounds. Once you know where to browse, drag and drop them into Impulse. Your second question could be solved with a second monitor. If you are going to get into stuff, it will make your life much easier.