EZ 2 Update suggestions?

[William Kitchens]

Feel free to add your wish list here!

1. User Midi File…. Ability to set a default location preference. I know you can add a file location but this would still be nice.

2. Right Click on a Midi File and export file! … great for lazy days when just creating new grooves you’d like to add to your collection. Currently you have to treat the single file as a song and then export song…. I’d like to be able to select individual files from within the song creator and export them to my user midi file folder.

3. Some sort of pre-roll click function!

4. Include sticks in all of the EZ kits! Yes like a real drummer! Also include the sound of a stick hitting the Kick Drum rim! Big time cool Nashville sound nowhere to be found. aka Foster and Lloyd “Crazy Over You” No company has ever done this… be the first Toontrack

5. Do I see the ability to step write in the future and control the velocity of the note? Place the cursor on the time line and strike the drum you want to add or remove? Then slide the velocity control and dial it in? Yes!

6. Custom names and colors in the Song Part choice selection! Where’s the “Count Off”. I’m old school and love the sound of sticks! (You didn’t know?) Since you’re already creating the illusion of of a live session drummer take it another step.

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[Scott Eshleman]

2. +1

3. +1

4. +1

5. +1

[William Kitchens]

7. Have the cursor line in the EZ2 midi song track stay in sync with the host DAW. It will follow on playback but does not move when selecting another marker. It would be nice to see in the Midi Track window where you are in the project relative to the host DAW!

8. Allow the Midi Track Transport controls to start and stop the DAW as well when in Follow Host Mode. That way you can move from inside EZ2 quickly to the section of the song you are working on and have the DAW be there too!

Would like to see support acknowledge the requests in this thread?

[Henrik]

Hello folks, thanks for the thoughts. I can answer some of them for you:

1. Is there a particular scenario where this is needed, or is it a “nice to have” feature? Basically, it’s a locked locations since MIDI files takes (almost) no space, it’s possible to mount User Libraries and User MIDI is directly accessible by right clicking root folder and choosing “Open in Finder” (Mac)

2. You can drag and drop the MIDI file straight out from EZdrummer 2 to a folder, the host’s track or any other destination.

7. This is beyond our control (unfortunately). The position of the time header is only reported to plugins when the time line is playing in the host.

8. This is, also, beyond our control. Generally – hosts can start and stop plugins but plugins can’t start and stop the host.

All ideas that are posted on this forum are noted, so keep ’em coming

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[TRex23]

No answer to Number 4 — regarding the stick hits for count-in? This is curious. Why is it that this very useful feature cannot be addressed for EZ Drummer 2?

[Scott Eshleman]

@TRex23 said:
No answer to Number 4 — regarding the stick hits for count-in? This is curious. Why is it that this very useful feature cannot be addressed for EZ Drummer 2?  

My friend, you have resurrected a very, very old thread,
created just after the release of EZDrummer2 (May 2014).

There have been many updates to EZD2 since the last post to this thread.
I’m not in the studio now, so I cannot tell you how many of these requests have been incorporated into the product.
I use stick hits for count-in all of the time but I can’t for the life of me tell you if I get them from the Percussion extras
or from an EZX expansion library, like Nashville.
I’ll check later when I get to the studio.

[olliepudge]

1. Master fader that shows if you’re clipping or not

2. Additional editing options? Not to the extent of SD3 obviously, but maybe an EQ and reverb for all EZX expansions?

I’m sure I’ll think of more but that’s all I got for now.

Thanks!

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