EZD2 routing anomaly

[David George]

I’m using the Hip-Hop EZX, specifically the “For Dilla 2” kit.

I have a section in a song where I use a bell once and only once. I want to be sure that’s loud enough. It’s circled in red on the picture.

I always use the multichannel function so I can route each piece to different tracks for EQ, parallel compression, etc., as needed, in my DAW (Pro Tools 11).

One weird thing I found is that although the EZD mixer shows a separate channel labeled “bells,” these bells are not controlled by that channel at all in the EZD mixer: The bells are routed to three channels: cymbals, comp, and reverb.

Is there any way of changing that?

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[Brad]

If you right (CTRL) click the little bell next to the FX-Bell that you have circled, you will see that the same articulations/instruments are available. The ‘Bell” instrument is routed through the channel labelled “Bells” and should do what you want it to do.

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[David George]

Thanks so much, Brad. I can’t believe I missed that.

This the perfect solution.

Edit: That’s one thing I sometimes have trouble with: knowing which channel a specific piece is assigned to.

[David George]

One thing I noted is that with the version of the bell I previously used, when you add it in edit mode the first choice is one hit. With this other bell, the first choice in the same pattern is 5 hits. This is the same issue I run into with the vibraslap, which (bizarrely I think) adds 1 hit for each bar in a groove (so with an 8-bar groove you get 8 vibraslap hits, which I feel would never be done in the real world).

I’ll manage it by adding 5 and clearing four of them in the MIDI editor in my DAW.

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