I own every Unfiltered Audio plugin (and wayyyyy too many Plugin Alliance plugins) but at the moment I’m still only seeing a $99 price tag for Battalion.
Absolutely love UA, so I I’ll definitely be grabbing this at some point.
This is fantastic! Excellent demo of what Battalion does well.
I find that I’m not using the sample engines much except for the occasional glitch/noise/granular layer. The synth engines combined with the fx and modulation are where it’s at for me.
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This! Please! I really, really love Battalion so far. This feels like a miss.
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Is there anyway of locking the channel outputs. Gonna get old having to set them every preset.
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Right-click on the selector to add a lock to it:
Quick edit: These locks will get saved with your project or if you save Battalion to a track template in your DAW. It’d be useful to create Battalion, set up all of your output tracks, group them together, lock the parameters, and save it as a multi-out template.
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Woo, thanks!
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Superb if those bugs get slammed! I have so many crashes. Good thing Bitwig sandboxes.
And 1 Q;
Everything gets randomised with the main topright randomizer. (unless parameter is locked)
But the sampler engine stays empty/unchanged?
Would be cool if we could param lock more than one macro (besides the usual pitch and sends etc …).
Great plugin anyway 
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Hi everyone, here are some beta builds to fix the worst bugs that made their way into the release.
@Stufflinear @Zelio @tdmusic Let me know if this build improves stability. We’re pretty sure that we isolated every reported crash on this one.
Battalion 1.0.4
- Fixed race condition crash when randomizing, turning Performance Steps negative, or other conditions
- Stop button works correctly again
- Performance controls no longer affect value labels on the sequencer page.
EDIT: outdated links removed. Beta 2 below
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Will there be improvement to cpu optimization? Plugin burns hot on my computer.
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what are your specs?
Thanks @trickyflemming, it’s great that you managed to fix the stop button bug.
For the crashes linked to the randomize button, I’m afraid it’s still the same, I used this version for something like 5 minutes and managed to crash it 4 or 5 times in Bitwig. So now it’s not the step button turned to the left that crashes everything, it’s something else.
It’s a shame because it’s such a great plugin !
Thanks for the quick testing! I’ll see if I can catch the randomization crash in the debugger. If so I’ll get new builds out once it’s fixed.
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Thank you! Super
Now i can sequence it myself with the stopbutton working, plus Randomize it without crashing.
Hasnt happened in 20 times, which like before crashed every 6 randomisations.
Weird that @Zelio has got it the other way around 
Randomisations also sound a bit more reasonable now haha. Which is good to me
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@Zelio Can you try this one?
I was looking in the wrong spot, as I was looking for a hard crash. Josh caught an infinite loop yesterday when rapidly randomizing mid-ratchet, and it seems like randomization is now stable. If this build fixes your issue, I’ll go ahead and send these in to PA.
EDIT: Windows build for anyone who needs it: Dropbox - WinBattalion_2024.05.01 1.0.4 beta 2.zip - Simplify your life
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It works now ! Hell yeah ! Thanks @trickyflemming that’s so great.
I’m a huge fan of plugins with randomization but what’s unique about yours is the combo of deep sequencers and a great variety of synthesis engines, that produce wild results that go well beyond the initial premise of “just” a drum machine and that’s perfect.
It’s the only plugin that I know that sounds like late Xenakis computer pieces when you randomize it, this is so great
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@trickyflemming, would you recommend users download this beta or just wait for the first proper update? I’ve not had issues yet, but maybe I’ve just gotten lucky:)
Thanks!
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Totally up to you! I just sent these builds in to Plugin Alliance, so they’ll be out officially in a week or so (I’ll post here once I hear). I recommend the update since it fixes a hard crash when manipulating sequences in a specific order and a lockup when randomizing presets. Additionally, the stop button works properly now, which is important for a lot of people.
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Ok. I’ll go ahead and install for now. Thanks for the quick reply.
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Some Battalion clips… been going deep on randomness and then trying to rein it all in. A little Echoboy and Blackhole on the output to smooth things out a bit 
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