Ok, now you didnt ask about that, but since its sample based and very good i thought i mention it.
Native Instruments Battery is very capable, simple to use, and still advanced drum machine plugin. Best i have for samples.
Microtonic is the best for synthesis. Downside is the small UI.
Microntonic’s UI is resizable?
Maybe it is? Maybe not in my version though; pretty sure i have tried. Is it the way of pulling the corner, or in the settings?
It’s in the menu on the top left (under the midi drag icon). Zoom.
Okay, i will check. Honestly, the software is good anyway but since i am 50yo i like to be able to resize to my liking.
Thanks for the tip.
@trickyflemming Any info on further updates? 
So I downloaded the trial of this after seeing it mentioned in another thread, man does it rock! I don’t think it will run on my main studio PC, as it’s 20% on my M1 MacBook Air which is more of my travel sketchpad, but looking forward to trying it out if I can trial multiple platforms within the remaining trial period. I really want to find a good midi controller to map to it.
I have an extended jam to upload later if people are interested in more samples, but I had a few feature requests if the devs are still listening:
Ability to “rotate” the downbeat, similar to the function+left/right arrows on an Elektron (not positive of key combo it’s more of a muscle memory than actually memory). Like most drum machines, while I’m jamming the natural downbeat ends of falling in the middle of the bar, and it would be good to be able to shift this on either a per track or overall basis (maybe you can and I don’t know how)
Ability to commit snapshots of the performance page - 8 would be sweet but even 4 that could be saved states underneath the reset / random / commit buttons that you could toggle between. This could be possible within Ableton through macros and snapshots as a workaround but there are only 16 mappable macros and it looks like a little less than 32 mappable parameters, so you have to plan really far in advance to make this work.
Probably difficult to implement at this phase but would be awesome if you could map the Reverb and Delay to their own outputs to record that on their own tracks. Edit - this was user error, mapping the first track to a different output pair gives you verb and delay on the “M 1+2” track
+1 for live MIDI out, man some of the fill/pattern performance options would be bananas on other gear or plugins.
I am just jamming with the mouse because I’m on the road, but starting to experiment with MIDI mapping through Ableton with keyboard commands (I don’t think the plugin does it natively but could be wrong). It would be great to have the “Reset” on the performance page mappable (I couldn’t get it to work when I tried it). Edit - actually, the “Enable/Disable” toggle kind of gets you there.
I’m really interested in checking out more from Unfiltered Audio, any other recommendations on plugins to start with?
I can’t remember which knob exactly but on the performance page if you turn pattern, density or probability all the way to the left (-100) it won’t play the sequencer, I’m not in front of my computer now but one of those will do the trick to disable the sequencer. It would be nice to be able to more easily decouple the sequencer.
Triad is brilliant, as is SpecOps. I also like Sandman Pro and Fault. Dent 2 is meant to be ace, as is LO-FI-AF. Bass Mint is raved about as well.
What midi controllers are you all using with this? I am thinking of mapping my torso t1 to it since it has 14 knobs.
The performance area is just so loaded that I have to figure out the best parameters to control. I’d also like some control of the sequencer. Maybe my launchpad mini would work there.
i’m currently using a faderfox EC4, sticking with macros 1+2 and send levels for each voice for now, plus some controls for the send fx. midi notes are sequenced by an octatrack. makes for a really nice hands-on experience.
honestly if you already have a torso t1 just use that to sequence it, much easier than worrying about 2 sequencers at once imo.
anyone else using this thing for techno? some of the engines are just *chef’s kiss* for raw/hypnotic stuff. especially the shame engine is super gnarly, reminds me of noise engineering eurorack oscillators. especially since the macros cover such a huge range of timbres without needing to switch engines.
i also really love the maximizer. would be cool if battalion had an audio input so you could add other sounds to it as well.
edit: one thing that’s kind of a bummer though is just how NUTS the maximum ranges for the amp envelopes are. i guarantee you in 99.9% of cases you don’t want a sound to drone away for 20 seconds at full volume, period.
it definetly makes the performance page bit less foolproof than it could be when iteratively applying changes to kits, and the patch/kit randomizer almost useless in my opinion.
Dear Unfiltered Audio, please add the ability to set an internal tempo for the sequencer!
I have no idea why suddenly everyone seems to be doing this. Providing great and fancy sequencing but then lacking pretty much the most essential thing, which is setting the tempo for the sequencer lol. Ran into this with Drumazon 2, same with Triaz, now Battalion. Why?
Imagine a hardware drum machine that requires being clocked externally to set a tempo 
Thing is I’d like to run Battalion as a standalone, but (besides other issues) not being able to set the tempo makes it more or less impossible.
Today I ran Battalion in Nekarine (https://nektartech.com/article/news/news-nektarine-2-5-available-now/) because I got a Panorama P1 controller (https://nektartech.com/panorama-p1/) which should be capable of being mapped to a ton of parameters in Battalion. I guess it would be great fun, but it doesn’t even make sense testing it out.
Nektarine has some sort of default clock/tempo that can’t be altered in any way. There’s no indication at all, but it’s very slow, feels like 40 maybe 50 bpm or so, hence barely useable.
Still it wouldn’t the slightest problem if it was possible to set an internal clock/tempo in Battalion
So please consider this, UA.
(this goes out to d16, WA and possibly others as well. I really hope this won’t establish as the standard now)
We’re still working on the first feature update! I’ll post more news once ready. The summer is slow for us since we’re both dads.
We’ve had a prototype kicking around since lo-fi-af for a single knob maximizer plugin that we’ll round out once we get through the Battalion feature update. Currently it has all the maximizer algorithms from lo-fi-af, Needlepoint, and Battalion in a simple interface. This has actually been our most requested plugin now for two years 
I love Needlepoint
Yeah I think that’s how I’ll set it up. I like the sequencer in battalion but torsos is also great and that makes it more of an hardware drum machine experience.
one feature request that is admittedly super niche but would really open this thing up: the ability to select presets via midi control change, with the midi channel determining whether it’s a voice’s preset or the entire kit.
you’d have a “MIDI programs” folder for kits and voice presets, and the pgm change just indexes those.
i can understand if it’s not high on the list (almost no plugins implement this nowadays), just came up with the idea since i’m having to wrap the plugin inside max4live to manage kit changes on the fly (which works, but was a bit of a pain). changing individual voices would be even cooler for seamless live improvisation.
(strangely enough ableton live doesn’t support changing vst presets except by loading a new project - they should have called it ableton studio instead…)
A method to change pattern without going through the small arrows is not an isolated request. With midi even better 
I cannot for the life of me find a trial or demo of this. Has there been one and now it’s gone?
I’m pretty sure you can just use the Plugin Alliance installer (https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/installation-manager.html). You should be able to install it and then activate a free trial (14 days, I think)