Making Your Own Midi Patterns

[nyk7]

Dear All,
The presets in the EZdrummer as well as the expansions are not sufficient to “satisfy” my mindset as well as my needs…Im using NUENDO…and i wanted to make my own patterns with ezdrummer..i have DFH expansion pack…how do i make my own midi patterns…explain step by step?..or maybe gimme a link where i can find the same…Thanks a lot..

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[Brian]

New user here..I would like to know how also.
 
THX

[Wilfredo Nanita]

Create a midi track. Set EZ as the output. Assign a drum map to the track and use the drum editor’s pencil to draw the notes and create your grooves. If you want, you can find drum maps for EZ on the user’s area (don’t know if they work for nuendo).
 
Wilfredo.

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[Brian]

I got Pro Tools 7.3.1 . I am thinking about going to Nuendo.

[marine boy]

Wilfredo’s method works great in Cubase too. The only limit is your imagination.

[Greg Hurley]

works great in Samplitude also.

Greg

Samplitude ProX (or latest beta)/dfh-Superior2.x Sonic Core Scope Xite-1

[chovie]

“Create a midi track. Set EZ as the output. Assign a drum map to the track and use the drum editor’s pencil to draw the notes and create your grooves. If you want, you can find drum maps for EZ on the user’s area (don’t know if they work for nuendo). “
 
what and where is the “users area”?
what is a drum map?
-thanks!

[bfr666]

Download the correct drummaps from here(“user area”):

http://www.toontrack.com/notloggedin.asp?redir=software_updates.asp

Drummaps are files(.drm) which tell your sampler which drum should be played when certain midi note is recieved.

If you spend 2500$ on nuendo, you should read the manual? Atleast the MIDI basics? It explains all of these things.

short version:
Select your midi track and look to the very left of the screen. You should see something called “inspector” which contains horizontal “tabs”: “Track parameters”, “inserts”, “sends” etc. If you cannot see this, click on the “show inspector”, third button from the left in the icon row at the very top of the window.

Choose the very first “tab” and look for a “map” button. Click it, choose “drum map setup”, then “load” and find the file you downloaded from the link i gave you. Then click the “map” button again and choose the map you just loaded.

Then delete the pirated version of Nuendo and go buy a real one.

[dortola]

Wlfredo’s explanation is 100% right, but is there a way to click on the Ezdrummer screen instead of using the drum stick on the drum editor? That would be more intuitive as you see what are you playing/hiting.
Thanks!

[Scott]

ORIGINAL: dortola

Wlfredo’s explanation is 100% right, but is there a way to click on the Ezdrummer screen instead of using the drum stick on the drum editor? That would be more intuitive as you see what are you playing/hiting.
Thanks!

No, there is no way to write MIDI to a track from the EZD interface. I’m not aware of any VSTis that you can…drum VSTis or any other.

You can also trigger/write MIDI data using a MIDI keyboard or another MIDI controller like a Korg PadKontrol or M-Audio Trigger Finger.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
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[TK]

2000.00 bucks for Nuendo, and you dont know how to create a midi track??
 
That’s a head scratcher.
 
TK

I want to be like Rammelt!

[GORILLA]

I don’t know how it works in Nuendo. But in P.T.L.E. when I have to do a tune rather quickly. I just grab some of the midi files from EZ Drummer and drop them in a instrument tracks piano roll.
PIANO ROLL —-> The track that has a symbol on the left side resembling a pianos keys.

Then I add and subtract what I want! Add a cymbal hit or a tom roll. It’s rather EZ to do And you can adjust your velocities to taste! There’s a Guy on YouTube with a few videos using Nuendo and either DFH or EZ drummer I can’t remember. Just search using both those phrases.

Good Luck

GORILLA

http://www.metalmusicians.net/<- click here for GORILLA'S website!!!!!

[Tom]

If you want to create your own drumtracks the easy way, use Jamstix 2.
 
You can make a pattern (where the kick, snare etc. sounds) and let Jamstix 2 do variations over that. Or you can just pick a style like Rock, pull some sliders to vary the thing. And whether you started with one or the other you can add different drummers who will interpret whatever in their own fashion. Jamstix 2 gives me drumtracks I would never have been able to get by writing in a piano roll or tapping some keyboard pads.
 
Personally I use DFHS/C&V, but Jamstix work with EZdrummer too.
 
 

[Jeff Trumpold]

Slightly OT:  I *love* the idea behind Jamstix, and even requested something similar for EZD/Superior, but I tried the demo version and found it incredibly unintuitive.  It’s great that they give you so much flexibility/control over the variations, but it’d be even better if they had an ‘EZ’ option with just one or two sliders (like a “Subtle vs Drastic” or something) and just let you cycle through different variations. 
 
I suppose I should be posting that on the Jamstix board, but I saw mention of it here and must’ve blacked out for a second… 

[Reinhard]

EZDrummer is a great tool, but if you are looking for grooves, that really fit your songs, the included patterns will usually not make it. My solution is to use a little drum tab editor called TabTrax, which allows to write your own grooves very easily. You can export your patterns from TabTrax to MIDI and copy these MIDI files to the EZDrummer folders to make them directly accessable via EZDrummer.
I connect the output of TabTrax to EZDrummer with a virtual midi cable. When I write drumlines the setup is: TabTrax, virtual MIDI-cable (LoopBe), EZDrummer in Toontrack solo.
Sometimes I refine the grooves in the Cubase drum editor as TabTrax does not allow that much volume levels and does not allow to include small changes of notes (1/256 for instance) to add some real human feeling. On the other hand it would at least take 10 times longer to create my basic drum lines in the Cubase drum editor. I have tried it in cubase and with lots of other drum editors. Nothing compares with TabTrax.

There is however one limitation: you should basically know, how a drummer plays. Otherwise you should take some drum-tabs from the WEB, load it to TabTrax and learn.

In any case it is worth to try Tabtrax, if you feel, that the EZDrummer pattern library does not really fit your songs.

 

[Chammy]

I’ve been wanting to make my own patter ns also but almost in a real time way, then go back to clean up, but, is there a way to just maybe use the keyboard of your own computer to make the patterns then just sorta peice them together?” Its very hard using the pencil.

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