Hiya.
I’ve constructed a song using the Nashville EZX as my main kit. I know wish to create a complimenting percussion track using the Latin EZX to run the full duration of the song. Is there any way to do this in stand alone mode? If not, what’s the best and most intuitive way to do so? I imagine my only recourse is to do so in my DAW, but it seems to me this will take a *lot* of stopping and starting as I use the various methods of grove construction (Tap2Find, groove choices, splicing different beats and fills, etc), not to mention that this will necessitate running two tracks of EZD2 at the same time. Can this even be done?
I hope I’ve explained my query well. What’s the best approach?
Thanks!
Well, I did the only thing I could think that would work and that was to work from within my DAW and construct a percussion track using a second track of EZD2.
If there’s a better way to do this, I’m all ears. I’d love to see the ability to add a second track of instruments in stand alone mode in a future update or some way to add in lots of percussion.
Any thoughts or ideas?
I use my DAW if I’m doing complex arrangements. I will set up a drum track with EZD or S2 and then another for percussion. Because I’m in the DAW, if I want to grab my guitar and lay down a part I just record enable a track and throw down. Or grab my bass. Or drop an EZkeys track in if the mood strikes me. Or even grab a real shaker or tambourine if I don’t want to program in EZD. I always have a few mics up ready to track whatever I need. I couldn’t do that in standalone mode.
If Toontrack were to add the ability to add multiple Song Tracks, they might as well make a DAW as it would almost be the same thing. I, personally don’t need it. I use my DAW I already have for that.
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
@Scott said:
I use my DAW if I’m doing complex arrangements. I will set up a drum track with EZD or S2 and then another for percussion. Because I’m in the DAW, if I want to grab my guitar and lay down a part I just record enable a track and throw down. Or grab my bass. Or drop an EZkeys track in if the mood strikes me. Or even grab a real shaker or tambourine if I don’t want to program in EZD. I always have a few mics up ready to track whatever I need. I couldn’t do that in standalone mode.
If Toontrack were to add the ability to add multiple Song Tracks, they might as well make a DAW as it would almost be the same thing. I, personally don’t need it. I use my DAW I already have for that.
That’s a very good point, Scott. You’re right… adding more track space would basically make it a mini-DAW.
The way I did it worked out nicely. The one thing that proved interesting was not finding a conga pattern that fit, so I used Tap2Find to create the conga pattern but there’s no way to get a conga “pop” and I didn’t want to use a bongo for that sound, so I grabbed a conga pattern with the pop, spliced it and joined it into my pattern to accomplish the groove. It would be cool if you could get a conga pop by clicking on the rim of the congas similar to the way you can get a side-stick sound by clicking on the snare rim.
The only other big feature I’d LOVE to see in an update is a fast and easy way to program flams and rolls. As it stands now, I have to find what I need in an existing groove and splice it into a groove I’ve made. Any chance this might make into an update?
Thanks!
@Mr.Ames said:
The only other big feature I’d LOVE to see in an update is a fast and easy way to program flams and rolls. As it stands now, I have to find what I need in an existing groove and splice it into a groove I’ve made. Any chance this might make into an update?
Thanks!
Only if they were recorded at the time of the initial recordings. I don’t know if they did.
But flams are easy to program in the DAW and I use the various rolls in the EZD 2 MIDI.
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
@Scott said:
@Mr.Ames said:
The only other big feature I’d LOVE to see in an update is a fast and easy way to program flams and rolls. As it stands now, I have to find what I need in an existing groove and splice it into a groove I’ve made. Any chance this might make into an update?
Thanks!
Only if they were recorded at the time of the initial recordings. I don’t know if they did.
But flams are easy to program in the DAW and I use the various rolls in the EZD 2 MIDI.
Scott,
could you explain how you get your flams (and rolls, if possible) in your DAW? I’m currently using either GarageBand or Logic Pro X (just getting the hang of it).
Thanks a lot!
Darin
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