Yeah this is also my concern. Super promising for a first release but there are stability and functionality things which I’d love to have some confidence will be addressed, and my experience with PA stuff is the same as yours.
On the other hand my intro offer of $99 with Lion included seems quite fair, though not sure if I’d actually use Lion and with PA there’s always that risk that it’ll show up for $29 at some point - though probably not while it’s new?
I’ve send several emails to @trickyflemming about bugs and crashes and so far he’s been very reactive, so for me everything looks very good.
The more I play with this plugin the more I realize it’s a complete step up from drum machines like Microtonic or Drumcomputer, it’s the Elektron workflow in a software a lot of people in here have been waiting for.
thats good to hear! might be new version coming then?
…after a first deeper dive this afternoon, i can confirm, it has an universal sonic approach and at the same time a very unique overall audio esthetic of it’s very own kind…great piece of code…!
It almost certainly will show up at $29 at some point…the real question is how much use will you get from it from now to then and if that worth the extra $XX ? Its pretty leftfield as far as I can tell, not a bad thing but I have tremor, drumcomputer and microtonic…you can only use so much of that stuff so ‘personally’ I think I can wait…maybe until the first bug fix and probable $49 next price at least 
Yes, the noisy chaos when randomised seems to me to be tamed when afterwards the reverb/delay amount is turned down plus the stepspeed in the sequencer goes up very far. (and sometimes distortionamount is too much) All subjective ofcourse!
I should just lock those parameters on a custom INIT patch before randomizing.
Yeah very good way of looking at it. I definitely don’t need this now and I’m not sure I’d use Lion much, so might do the same
Is he doing post processing on this for all of the glitch effects? Or is it all done within battalion?
Either way it sounds amazing!
I don’t usually like sequencers built into plugins (I’d rather just piano roll or midi generate my notes in bitwig)
but I’m actually fooling around with Battalions. Has anyone figured out how to incorporate it into the workflow of actual song making? I read the manual but what I’m not understand is how to use a sequence towards a song.
Renoise Redux tackles this well by letting you make and save multiple patterns across key zones, so you can just piano roll in different sections and ideas you worked on (even with baked in randomness.)
I’m not sure how to communicate to Battalion how to start/stop via my arrangement grid, which is how I’d personally want to utilize a built in sequencer.
I was checking out the walkthrough earlier and it’s a really beefy VST, bravo! Really interesting. I might take the plunge.
I’m a big user of XO though, and this kind of covers a lot of the same sample ground (XO doesn’t have drum synths however) in that you’re not many clicks away from something usable. In the case of Battalion it doesn’t have that ease of use in finding like-sounding samples from your own library easily unless I’m mistaken however.
For smegs sake… Battalion, Triaz, Visco… can everyone please stop releasing great new drum stuff.
I can’t decide which one to buy!
Just as I think I’ve decided, another one comes out.
Great time to be alive! (Until AI kills us all ofc 
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Does anyone with the demo know if you can split out the individual track outputs, sort of like drum rack in ableton or do you have to solo each track and record the audio out?
Also, can mutes/solos be automated on individual tracks?
It appears to be a full feature demo, and you can do this in the full version.
Thanks. I’ve avoided downloading the demo because I’m extremely weak. 
Loving this, almost certainly will buy it.
But - am I crazy or is there no way to have different patterns?
Yes has multi output.
Cheers.
Yeah, that’s what I was trying to figure out too.
I just use the pattern generator and the sequence modifier
…so, only downside seems to be…no export of midi patterns and always just one pattern of choice apart from saving various same presets, just with different patterns…
since the internal sequencer really adds a lot per step variations plocking like, i understand, exporting as midi pattern would limit too much the real potential, but arrangement variation options for patterns should join the cake, no matter how overwhelming the gui already is…
but end of the day, i’m getting too old for this…too much been there, did that factor…
i got that endless sonic power on it’s own daw bitwig, i got xo and life, i got microtonic and synplant2…while sugarbytes drumcomputer is already too much in that equasion…aaaaaand now, battallion alone is already another whole next new planet of option paralysis for me again…puh…i need to filter more, i’m afraid, not unfilter…