How to Route Battery Cells to Individual Outputs in Ableton Live

This article will explain how to route Battery cells to separate audio tracks in Ableton Live. 

In certain scenarios, you may wish to route your samples from Battery to separate tracks in your host software. This allows you to apply different send and insert effects or use your host's volume and panorama controls for each drum sound individually.

Battery Setup

Select your version of Battery to view the instructions.

Battery 4
  1. Load Battery 4 as a plug-in in Ableton Live.
  2. After loading a Battery Kit, select and right-click the Cell you wish to be sent to a separate audio output. A drop-down menu will appear.
  3. Scroll down to Output and choose Direct Out, to route the audio to an individual channel.

    Note: By default, all Cells are routed to the Master channel (St 1/2) 

    Battery_4_Cell_Routing.png 
Battery 3
  1. Load Battery 3 as a plug-in in Ableton Live.
  2. After loading a Battery Kit, select a drum Cell, then click the Cell tab on the left side of the Edit pane.
  3. Open the Ch (Channel) menu in the lower right corner and choose the desired channel destination. In the example below, the Cell is routed to Channels 3/4.

    Note: By default, all Cells are routed to the Master channel.

    Battery_3_Cell_Routing.png

Ableton Live Setup

Note: In this example, Battery 4 is used. These instructions also apply to Battery 3.

  1. Create a dedicated audio track in Ableton Live to receive audio from the previously configured Cell. In this example, the audio track is named Bass Drum.
  2. In the Ableton Live Mixer, configure the Bass Drum track's input to receive audio from 1-Battery 4.
    Live_Setup_1.png
  3. Set the Input Channel to B4 St 3/4/-Battery 4.
    Live_Setup_2.png
  4. Lastly, switch the audio track's Monitor setting to In.
    Live_Setup_3.png

Now the Battery Cell's audio will be routed through its assigned audio track in Ableton Live.