savage8190I have EZD3 and about a dozen EZX packs. I use it with my Roland TD27KV2 just in the standalone software….nothing else is running on my PC (which has higher end specs…should be no issue running it). Everything worked fine for quite a while. The last pack I bought was the Hard Rock pack. I use this one a lot, but I notice now when I try to use a different pack, or load a sample from other packs onto the kit I have setup, the volume reacts strangely.
The sound seems to randomly just drop out, and then won’t come back. For example, say I’m running a hard rock kit, and then add a tom from another pack. It’ll be fine for like one hit, and then the volume drops massively. I can crank up the volume on that one tom and it’s still barely audible. Or, I’ll switch out my kit entirely and just load a default kit from another pack, it’s fine, and then the volume drops on the whole thing.
Basically, now that I have the hard rock pack, it’s the only usable pack. I don’t know if it’s coincidental…
That said, I kind of feel like there may be an issue with that pack as well, only it’s the opposite. It sounds kind of cranked all the time, and I think I’m hearing some distortion in the sound (it’s not my headphones, I play at a reasonable volume).
Kind of at a loss here….maybe I should uninstall everything and then load one pack in at a time and see if I can narrow down an issue? I don’t see how a pack could mess with everything, but im out of ideas.
ShootieOn the Tom that plays loud once. Does it play loud because you clicked on it with your mouse, and then used your ekit?
If you explanation is perfect, then this is hard to tell what’s going on. If this is a loose description of the problem, I would suspect incoming Velocity. Which can be fixed in the edrums menu or in the Roland Module.
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savage8190No, I know they are always louder when I click it than when I hit it. But even when I click it, it will play loud once, and then drop off when I click it again. It’s very bizarre.
ShootieI believe you. To rule out velocity, hit record and then play in EZ, perform a beat. Then examine the Velocity in the recorded midi.
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savage8190To be honest, I’m not sure how I would even go about doing that?
I have narrowed down the issue though, and the problem seems to be mixing the Heavy Rock pack with pieces in any other pack, and how the volumes are balanced specifically.
I started from scratch, and didn’t even connect the ekit just to remove it from the equation. I put a standard groove on repeat and cycled through the preset kits, and everything was balanced volume wise, including the Heavy Rock pack. It sounded very similar volume wise compared to all the other packs.
However, when I put on a Heavy Rock preset kit, then change one of the pieces on the kit to something from another pack (tom, cymbal, snare, whatever), the volume on that piece is very low. Conversely, if I start with a preset kit from another pack, say, Signature I, everything is fine, but if I change one of the pieces on that kit to something from the Heavy Rock pack, that one piece becomes extremely loud in comparison.
For whatever reason, when mixing sounds from different packs, the Heavy Rock kit pieces are always way louder to a point where it cannot be balanced through volume adjustment.
This is pretty frustrating because I really like to mix and match pieces from different packs to make up my kits. Basically renders the Heavy Rock pack useless to me.
ShootieAs a workaround, are you using the volume knobs on the Drums Tab?
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savage8190Yes I tried that; I would have to lower everything “Heavy Rock”, or boost everything that’s not, or meet somewhere in the middle. But its not just volume, there seems to be an impact to sound quality. I had mentioned the Heavy Rock pack sounding distorted, with the other packs their mix sounds oddly muffled. Its a big swing in volumes that can potentially be matched, but the sound quality is still weird, for lack of a better word. There’s some kind of odd interaction going on there.
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