Just out of interest. After reading this thread and watching the video tutorial.

My suggestion with the request to turn off the futurehit feature so that your shaker / tamb act like a normal one shot sample.

I figure the easiest solution would be simply to keep the velocities on the shakers below 40 on the velocity strength

and then simple set up the gain structure to make the tamb triggered at 40 to be the loudness that you desire, in relation to the other instruments in the mix. This of course could be achieve by either setting up the gain structure carefully in the EZ drummer plug in in the mix window.

Alternatively (and this is the method that i would recommend) would be to use a seperate instance of the EZ drummer 2 plug in specifically for the tamb etc. keeping the velocity below 40 and again setting up the gain structure (vol) of the tamb in balance with all the other instruments in the mix.

The reason why i prefer this method, is that the EZ Drummer plug in doesn’t take that much CPU power or RAM, but also because you would have more options when mix engineering if you have individual drums on their own independent channels / tracks.

As you would be able to not only use the built in features of EZ Drummer, but also be able to insert and send the individual drum or sample to any signal process or effect plug in at your disposal in isolation without having an impact on the other sounds using in the track coming from the same plug in.

I appreciate however that having the mix engineering features in EZ drummer is useful in some circumstances.

Just not how i prefer to work.

The only problem that i can see using the gain structure method is the possibility of increasing the noise floor on that track.

One way around this would be to record each hit in isolation while at max volume without distortion or artifacts and make samples out of the desired hits. If there are multi samples used, then try and get all the ones needed.

Then import the samples into a sampler (either software or hardware) and create your own tamb instrument from it, ideally using multi samples if available, if such features are available in the sampler that you are using.

Yep. loads of options there. Also for live.  For the creative sound tech / sound engineer / producer.