Brush articulations with Roland TD27

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  • Shootie
    Participant

    Swirls do not work. Only brush hits. You could figure out to trigger a swirl, but you can’t control it.

    Point being, just load a brush hit into your snare drum, or re-assign your module’s snare to send out the correct midi note for a brush hit.

    From my article on the topic…

    “EDrumming with Brush Sounds:

    When it comes to using brush sounds on ekits or midi controllers there are limitations. Regular brush articulations that are simply striking the instrument work like any other standard drum sound. But swirls or sustaining brush articulations are not intended to be used with edrums. These are more for building songs with the corresponding Toontrack midi or programming beats using the Grid Editor or your DAW’s piano roll. It is possible to simply midi-learn a swirl articulation to a drum pad on your ekit, but these articulations have a duration and speed that cannot be controlled in realtime. Simply put, swirl articulations do not yet integrated into live performance.  I read some posts in the past of users having complex workarounds to get this to work to some degree, but it is not the intended use of the software (yet), and beyond anything I want to pursue myself. In the past when working with an edrummer that demands a brush swirl articulation, i would use a capable edrum module and it’s sounds for the snare.”

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    Mick Avoidant
    Participant

    Assign articulations in a drop menu on the right of the Drums tab. I think it’s called MIDI Assign.

    Peregrinator
    Participant

    Thanks Shootie – helpful to have that confirmed so I don’t keep chasing it. If I understand correctly this is a limitation of EZD not knowing how to make use of the data that the digital snare is sending? So this works in module but not with EZD.

    So you’re saying one option would be to use the module’s snare sound (not MIDI) as an input to my DAW and use EZD for the rest of the kit? Do you have any references for setting that up? (I’m sure I can figure it out on my own eventually so no worries if not).

    Appreciate the response Mick – as Shootie alluded to, what I’m really interested in is swirl articulations while playing.

    Shootie
    Participant

    I’d stay tuned on this thread incase someone has info I’ve missed. This is my conclusion from a year or so back.

    Yes you are correct about EZ. But I do not believe any 3rd party software has figured this out yet. So stick with the hardware that can do it.

    I imagine you could use analog out from your Roland and send that to an audio interface or FOH. Turn down the volume of the rest of the drums if you only want the snare. And for a hybrid experience you could use the rest of your kit with EZ and simply unload the snare from the Drums Tab.

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    Bear-Faced Cow
    Participant

    It’s not really an EZ Drummer issue as this is how MIDI works in general. The swirl articulation is really nothing more than a Sample that is fired by a MIDI note triggered by your drum module. EZ Drummer is pretty much agnostic as to where it receives it MIDI note. Thus, unless your drum module is able to interpret your swirl movement into a MIDI note (as most do not) you will have to think differently as to how to fire that note.

    jord


    Jordan L. Chilcott

    Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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