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.”

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