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I have a song that’s in 6/8. It’s 147 BPM, as in the eight notes are 147. My host DAW, Reaper, was set up with 6/8 147 bpm, with my scratch guitar track recorded along with the 147 bpm click track. I double checked by tapping along using the tap feature in my metronome app to verify that the song is 147 bpm. I cannot figure out how to get EZ drummer 6/8 patterns to match the song tempo, or even be somewhat close. Choosing follow host doesn’t work (which it correctly displays as 6/8 147 bpm) nor does adjusting it manually. I’ve checked that the “preview original tempo” option is turned off. I’ve tried lowing the bpm manually by 1/2 and 1/3, (73 and 49) figuring that EZ Drummer might define 6/8 bpm by counting by the dotted quarter or regular quarter notes. In general the patterns sound kind of silly and too fast, not the usual slowish serious rock 6/8 ballad feel, if that makes any sense. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? BTW, EZ drummer has worked perfectly in every song that I’ve used it with, having used it a lot lately, although all of those songs were in 4/4.
Assuming your playing midi out of EZ Drummer 2. Did you try dragging the midi out of the Song Track of EZ Drummer and into a midi track of your DAW? How does that midi react to your DAW’s grid? Maybe that will be a clue on where the error is. Save an EZ Drummer Project File first.
6/8 can be easily translated into 3/4. If you’re looking for a workaround because there is no apparent solution. Give that a try on either end. You could then change your metronome settings to make up for the 1/4 counting.
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, If you’re hearing 147 eigth notes a minute, your tempo is 73.5. Maybe you over explained and I missed the point. Or maybe I don’t understand BPMs when it comes to 1/8 note time signatures.
I’m curious about your issue. Let me know if any of that helped or not. Or maybe my comments inspired some new question from you. Goodluck!
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Thanks for your help. I just discovered an oddity in Reaper. The regular metronome in Reaper doesn’t let you change it to quarters or eights. But it’s really easy and actually more flexible making your own click on a regular audio track, so I’ve been doing that. Just out of curiosity, I turned on the regular reaper metronome and it was blasting out sixteen notes, twice as fast as an eight note click I created Once I figured how to set my few tracks’ rulers to time base instead of the default beat base, I was able to adjust the song tempo in Reaper to 73.5, which now had the regular metronome be on the 6/8 eighth notes. And at this setting, the 6/8 rhythms work fine and are in tempo. So moral of the story, next time I do a song in 6/8, I need to check to see if reaper’s regular metronome is on eight notes , even if I don’t use it.
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