EZ Drummer 2 Crash Cymbal Choke

[Johnbee1]

Hi. I use EZ Drummer 2 and my DAW is Sonar X3. I would like to use a crash cymbal choke (mute). The key I know is D2 and it does choke but after 1 or 2 beats. I would like it to choke quicker, on the same beat, like a real drummer would do with his hand quickly stopping it. Is there any way this can be done? Hopefully without using a Mod wheel setting because I don’t have too much luck with that.

Thanks

John B.

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[John]

Hi,

the Crash Mute keys are velocity sensitive for length. Try hitting the key at different velocities and see where it is the right length for you.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Johnbee1]

@John said:
Hi,

the Crash Mute keys are velocity sensitive for length. Try hitting the key at different velocities and see where it is the right length for you.

BR,
John  

Sorry. This isn’t working. Probably because I can’t seem to find out the proper way to set up my Nektar keyboard for MIDI commands. Thanks anyway.

[Scott]

You should bee able to adjust the velocity of the Crash Mute articulation if you drag and drop the MIDI into Sonar if you can’t do it in real time.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Sonic Scientist]

This is not working for me either.  Velocity just changes the intensity of the initial hit, not the length before it is choked.

 

Turns out cranking the velocity all the way to 127 causes a shorter choke.  Other than that, the velocity just changes the intensity.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

• This post was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Sonic Scientist.

[Shootie]

Sonic Scientist wrote:

This is not working for me either.  Velocity just changes the intensity of the initial hit, not the length before it is choked.

 

Turns out cranking the velocity all the way to 127 causes a shorter choke.  Other than that, the velocity just changes the intensity.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

• This post was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Sonic Scientist.

You’re out of luck if you’re not using hardware that supports Aftertouch (PolyPressure/PolyAftertouch). Some DAWs also don’t support it.

Hopefully a Mod will correct me if I’m wrong. If you’re in EZD2 Standalone or do not trigger EZD2 with a controller that transmits Aftertouch, you will be left with one of two choking options as you seemed to already have discovered. If you want a quick choke, you must use a loud dynamic, and visa-versa.

Would love to hear any other solutions myself. I remember years back that Superior Drummer 2 really got chokes right, so I would assume upgrading to SD3 would get you there as well.

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