Do the ez paks contain new grooves and do midi disks work as groovews?

[Earl]

Do the expacks contain new grooves?

Do the midi files work as grooves ?

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[Scott]

Do the expacks contain new grooves?

Yes, except for the newest ‘Americana MIDI pack’ that has the same grooves as the ‘Americana EZX’.

Do the midi files work as grooves ?

Not quite sure what you mean. The MIDI that are in the MIDI packs are drum grooves, yes.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Earl]

I’m not quite sure what I mean either.  Heck if I knew I wouldn’t have to ask the question.  So let me try asking a series of questions and you may get what I’m trying to understand.

I have EZ drummer and played with it a while before I noticed I did not have the cocktail set. D/led the the cocktail set and see that I have new grooves but that the cocktail set can kind of play the other original grooves also (just don’t sound to good but they do play).  Now I also notice that you have an area for customers midi files with nothing in it.  I assume that this is where the midi pak files would go.  The question is what do I do with them once I have them..  do you basically select and paste like you do with the groove clips? 

I am an old timer that really would like some simple swing beats instead of everything being so rock based.  I would like to use some of the beat patterns created with Band in a Box or taken off of some of the commercial Yamaha PSR keyboard styles that fit my music much better than your more modern drummers do.  I also wonder if I might not be able to use the midi paks to expand the library of grooves available to ezdrummer?

I hope that all makes more sense than my original post.

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[Scott]

Here’s a picture of a portion of my Groove Browser. The pic is from EZplayer but displays the same MIDI in EZdrummer.

As you see, all the MIDI libraries from Toontrack appear in the browser and the grooves can simply be dragged and dropped into your host DAW (Cubase, Pro Tools, etc.) onto a MIDI track that is set up routed to EZdrummer.

You should check out Toontrack TV under the Tutorials section http://www.toontrack.com/tv.asp#3 for some feature walkthroughs. Check out EZdrummer Tutorial – From a Songwriters Perspective (parts 1 and 2) for a good overview of work flow.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Earl]

Thank you Scott.  You have answered my questions.  I watched the suggested videos and will be watching others as time goes on.

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