changing a pattern

[Rich-80]

New to EZ drummer . I am trying to take a 16th note pattern on a closed hi-hat and make the (and of 3)  open and closed with the hit only on the open hi-hat.

I cannot find a pattern in ez drummer with that specific loop. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Rich

• This post was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Rich-80.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

• In the Search tab, open the menu (an icon with 3 horizontal lines) in the top right corner, click Visible Filter Columns, and enable Resolution. 
  • If you now click 1/16 in the Resolution filter column, EZdrummer 2 will show grooves with 16ths.
  • If you also select Hi-hat Closed in the filter Power Hand column , you’ll only see grooves with that power hand.

But very specific patterns are easiest to program yourself in a DAW, like Cubase, Logic, Reaper, etc. You can use a groove from EZd2 that’s close to what you want to achieve, drag it to the DAW and edit the notes that you want to customize. If you create a complete pattern by hand from start, it may sound a bit stale and “robot-ish”.

When this is done, you can record enable EZd2 and press play in the DAW, and the MIDI will be recorded back to EZd2 so you can continue to edit the MIDI in EZd2, with Edit Play Style, etc.

• Side note – you can create a hi-hat pattern from scratch in the DAW, to use with Tap2Find. This may result grooves that plays the way you want.

I hope this helps you on your way to the perfect beat!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

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[Rich-80]

Thank you. That is a big help. I will work on this after work and will let you know how I made out.

Thanks again,

Rich

[Rich-80]

Update.

I dragged a 16th note closed hi-hat pattern into reaper from EZ drummer. I changed the (and of three) beat to an open hi-hat and removed the closed hi-hat on the last beat of the bar but it still played as  two 16th notes. When I attempted to increase the length of the open hi-hat to an eigth note I could not get it to work. It continued playing as an open/closed hi-hat in 16ths. Do not know why I could not change the note length.

 

Anyway, I went back to EZ drummer and looked for an open hi-hat but could not find a pattern with the hi-hat by itself, so I selected a pattern where the hi-hat and kick was on the first beat. Removed the remaining part of the pattern and removed the kick from the first beat leaving me with an open hi-hat sound.  I overlayed that sound onto the (and of three) in the measure. This eliminated the fourth bar of the original pattern.  I then added the original pattern after the open hi-hat and reduced it to one measure in order to create the fourth beat in the measure. This gave me exactly what I wanted.

Closed hi-hat  16ths with an open hi-hat on the and of three, (8th note length,) followed by a closed hi-hat 16ths to finish to pattern. I was then able to copy and paste repeats of the pattern and saved it in user midi with the name of the song.

 

• This post was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Rich-80.

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