Topic: 2-Beat bars in EZDrummer

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Replied September 30, 2012 at 09:42 #1961164

Nathan
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That’s done in your host, surely? EZD provides the sounds and some MIDI grooves to start with, to use in your host, but the song structure is constructed and sequenced in the host’s MIDI editor.

Are you looking for 2-beat grooves in EZD’s groove library? What EZXs or MIDI packs have you got? Just the EZD base set?

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Replied September 30, 2012 at 11:09 #1961165

kenwardc
Participant

Hi there, planetnine

I’m looking for a way to make a signature change from 4/4 to 2/4 for one bar in a musical piece. Just keeping the track 4/4 and inserting a 2/4 bar, or shortening a 4/4 bar to 2/4 isn’t going to work. I’ve got the EZDrummer package with the XL standard pack as well as the Nashville and Americana packs that I’ve bought more recently.

Perhaps it’s in Logic Pro that I need to change the signature? Stumped! 😉

Thanks for getting back to me. Look forward to more replies on this one.

Cheers
Chris

Replied September 30, 2012 at 12:49 #1961166

kenwardc
Participant

Aha – I think I’m part way there…

I’ve figured out that I need to change the time signature in Logic (thanks, planetnine)). Dropped down the Global Tracks option then discovered I could create a new time signature for just one bar, then revert to 4/4 for the rest of my track. However, I’m still a bit baffled that EZDrummer doesn’t cope with that. If I drop another of the same 4/4 grooves from my chosen selection in EZDrummer onto the 2-beat bar, it creates what appears to be a one-and-a-half bar block which has some silence in it. OOPS? So what I did was delete that, then put the old 4/4 block back in, then grab the right-hand corner and shorten it manually to fit the 2-beat bar. Works fine but of course it’s a workaround.

Do you know if there’s a way to tell EZDrummer about these 2/4 bars or am I doomed to forever doing it this way?

Cheers
Chris

Replied October 1, 2012 at 18:37 #1961182

John
Moderator

Hi,

currently there is no way to “tell” EZdrummer what your host timeline looks like with respect to time signature changes. Tempo is sent to the plugin, though, so changes in Tempo is picked up.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied October 2, 2012 at 21:40 #1961228

Nathan
Participant

Am I understanding you correctly Chris?

If you drag a groove “chunk” from EZD grooves to your host (Logic Pro), specifically a (say) 4-beat one into a 2-beat bar, the resultant midi in your timeline will be entirely down to Logic Pro’s interpretation of this data being dropped onto that space.

Apologies if I’ve got it around my neck, I would have thought Logic would ignore the extra or paste the surplus notes in the nexr bar, but I don’t have access to a Mac with EZD and Logic so I can’t check…

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