Topic: Inconsistent velocities

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Replied February 10, 2025 at 10:21 #3369905

Mick Avoidant
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How much difference in volume are you getting from hit to hit? Which drum room are you using? Every instrument in EZD has many samples, at different hardness of hit, and each event triggers nearby samples at random. This gives the feel and sound of a live drummer. No drummer will give the same hardness of hit throughout a song. The many samples also stop snare rolls having a machine-gun effect and stop fast cymbal hits having an unnaturally fast attack and decay. They are what makes EZD so lifelike. If you must have every hit the same, Settings > Advanced > Hit Variation > Low.

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Replied February 10, 2025 at 14:50 #3369953

Shootie
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If you’re using an older EZDrummer product from the EZdrummer 1 line, like Pop/Rock or Nashville (and so on), there is a mandatory Alternate Hits on the snare. Once you hear it you can’t unhear it and you cannot turn it off unless you own Superior Drummer. You can monitor it in the Edrums Tab > Mapping > and watch while a beat plays.

I couldn’t imagine all velocities being the same and it standing out this much with Hit Variation/Round Robin. Do try what Mick is saying though. There’s not much else to try.

What exact product are you using?

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Replied February 10, 2025 at 16:10 #3369969

Bear-Faced Cow
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if you were using a limiter in the context of a song, then what you are picking up is more than just the snare hits. Waveforms add up and the limiter is doing its job by taming the peaks. As it was also alluded to earlier, all drummers vary in velocity by a couple of decibels. this is partly the reason why bus compression is used on a drum mix. Also remember that in older songs, a tape machine also added its own form of compression.

I wouldn’t be overly focused on what is showing in a limiter as opposed to what is coming through on your speakers.

jord

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Replied February 11, 2025 at 00:21 #3370091

dg7779311
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Great advice everyone, thank you!

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