It’s running (in Ableton 12), 8 Battalions, 8 Microtonics, a lot of Sampler/Simplers, 1 instance of Omnipshere 2, a lot of LFO’s and M4L devices, and a few other bits too.
That Mac’s project is around 320 tracks, and is basically just a sound-module, triggered from my Hapax. The interface is an old MOTU Ultralight MK3, and the audio is piped through to my main Mac.
The main Mac (also running Ableton 12), is a Mini M4 Pro (14 core), that runs a big project (760 tracks so far) which handles everything else (mixing, mangling, effecting) for my jamming rig.
Buffer on both is 128 samples, seems to be the sweetspot between latency and CPU.
I was running two Mac Mini M1’s before, honestly it was amazing how powerful they were. For the price you can pick them up for nowadays… it’s insane how powerful they are. They don’t seem to need as much RAM as their PC equivalents, either.
Yeah I was last on Win 7 and it was fine, but later ones killed it. There’s a lot about Macs that annoys me… but it all just works, bloat is fairly minimal and the footprint/power usage to CPU power ratio is amazing.
Usage is divided between building/upgrading and jamming. When jamming, I don’t need to touch the keyboard or mouse at all, I have lot of controllers handling everything, including 9 LCXL’s, 8 Ipads running TouchOSC and various other bits.
When building it’s okay because everything is laid out logically, colour-coded, organised as best a possible (at least in Ableton anyway).
Tbh, navigating my Drambo project is much harder. One of my Ipads runs a large Drambo project (over 4,000 modules), which handles a lot of the MIDI processing for my rig. Finding stuff in there can be a pain in the arse, especially stuff I built a while ago and have forgotten about. I sometimes forget how exactly I made something work and have to dissect it.
But yeah, a lot of time and effort has gone into making everything work as well as possible, and to be as clear and easy to both use and build!
I was wondering the same thing… It looks like UA has their own web-page and can pivot to doing things in-house, but I don’t know what that looks like in terms of account creation and elegantly getting onboard their systems. I got all of my UA plugins via UA, so I’d need to just integrate into their world which I’m more than happy to do.
I’m sure this is a shit-show for them as well. I hope they’re doing well and can keep up the good work with a minimum of disruption.
Edit: I’m not sure why this was community flagged and in fact I strongly object. It’s fair to say that patterns in particular have been touted as being on the cards for over a year, and people will have bought Battalion on the understanding that patterns were coming soon. Battalion hasn’t been updated since 2024, and patterns are not listed in any of the beta change logs, so it can be assumed at the glacial rate of UA’s development that patterns won’t arrive this year.
Just checked PIA and it appears 1.0.7 is the version they have available for download, any word in when this might change to 1.2 for those of us who like installers to do the work please?
I was puzzled why it was community flagged. I agree with wanting the patterns, I’ve not used Battalion much lately partly because of the lack of patterns. It would be good to see them and yes, sooner not later.
That said, buying something cos of what it might be seems a stretch. Each to their own.
This! Buy stuff for what it does at the time of purchase. Any later additions you happen to like is a happy bonus gift. Buying for what a product might do some time in the future is a sure path to disappointment.
