Topic: Turning EZDrummer on it's head (sort of). Matching drum patterns to guitar parts

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Replied January 13, 2019 at 13:39 #2306778

Scott
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EZD2 has a feature called Tap2Find where you can tap a pattern and EZD2 will search the library for similar matching grooves.

The below video shows the Tap2Find function in S3 but it is the same in EZD2.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
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Replied January 17, 2019 at 02:07 #2312508

sjamesc
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Thanks for the reply Scott. I am aware of the Tap to Find. That’s why the ‘tongue in cheek’ flipping EZDrummer on its head. EZD assumes you can ‘tap in’ the rhythm you are after (or something close). But this usually doesn’t come close because I’m not very good at. However, as a guitarist, I can capture the rhythm/timing easily with my strumming pattern. I need EZD to analyse the rhythm/timing of my creation (exactly what X Drums figured out) and then list similar rhythm patterns from its library (that’s the flip..it doesn’t start with a ‘drum pattern’ ..however simple..just something rhythmic). It would save people like myself a lot of time finding a drum pattern with the right groove.

Replied March 27, 2022 at 00:18 #2890091

johnbarryegan
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Speaking of iPads…. The App ‘Music Memo’ which is not longer available unless you already downloaded it has a brilliant function that takes your guitar strumming as you play and adds drums and baselines… The drum patterns come from Garage Band (so they are audio loops) and the basslines are midi generated. It’s very impressive… Like the author, I suck at drums and keep trying to find a new means of locating drum midi patterns to suit my music… with little success… I’ve gone as far as exporting the wav of the drum track from Music Memo and converting it to a midi drum track through the free Wav to Midi conversion at https://anyconv.com/wav-to-midi-converter/ … It does an acceptable job of converting except that the drum tones may be off…. Once I’ve converted it to midi, I drag it into a track (in Reaper) cut out a short clip and drop it into EZ drummer’s ‘Midi Drop Zone’ and get really bad matches… A standard country shuffle riff for example pulls up weird bongo beats or Rhumbas and such. The matches are often 60% or lower.. My attempts at Tap-2-Find are just as bad… I find it amazing that the one excellent feature I was looking for is available on a free iPad App and doesn’t work at all on a $179 program like EZDrummer…

EZdrummer version: 2.2.3
Operating system: Windows 10
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