ErikMMAm I missing a product or means to make EZ Drummer look “somewhat” like my kit, at least in number? Is what I think would be better below already a possibility?
I have 15 pieces (9 drums, 1 hat, 1 ride, 2 crashes, 2 kicks(two different sounds if I prefer)). No products match this. Some go over it and I can turn them off, but this really looks and feels cheesy depending on the kit.
Why not reverse engineer EZ Drummer? Or at least provide a Self-Engineered Expansion Kit Model
Instead of fixed rock, jazz, electronic, metal etc. expansion kits, which might work fine for some people, especially non-drummers, why not reverse the logic? By fixed I mean an expansion kit might have 10 drums, and them’s the breaks. Need more? Too bad. Need less? OK, but you still have to look at the damn thing/drum/cymbal/whatever.
Remodeling the model:
a) The user tells EZDrummer I have w snares, x kicks, y toms, z cymbals…etc.
b) optional: The user gets to move the drums around a few pixels on an x,y (maybe z) coordinate plane to match their kit, like left vs. right handed, or two floor toms angled at 100 degrees etc.. It may or may not look “exactly” like their kit visually, but at least the numbers, kinds of pieces, and positioning is close.
c) optional: Beyond of course certain kit sounds going with certain colors and looks etc., users could bypass that to select a drum shell color (and sheen?), maybe the same for the cymbals.
d) optional: Users could select the diameter of x, y, z drum piece.
e) The user loads expansions into that kit (“a)” above). Some larger kits might not fill all the drums, and some small kits might have extras that can’t be used. So what. This is way better than the current way EZDrummer kits and expansions appear to work. Many if not most kits are useless to drummers with more than 10? pieces.
A bad analogy might be that EZDrummer is a shoe store, but many buyers are stuck buying shoehorns for shoes they really don’t want or like with standard laces. The remodeled store model would provide shoes that not only fit, they look and feel like something we actually would prefer to wear (or actually have), granted the laces might be short or long, but they could still be tied, or not. The current store isn’t really an “Expansion” store, its a “Restriction” store. The paradigm flip is Expansion away from Restriction.
This isn’t say things can’t be “both and.” The existing model doesn’t need to go or be trashed, but to offer a self-engineered model would a boon to Toontrack and certain users.
From a sales perspective, not that I care about this, I imagine it would be better. Currently people might be shoehorned into 1 or 2 kits or expansions. People with bigger kits might skip kits with less or more drums than they have. How many people want to turn a cymbal into a drum or vice versa (that is just weird (or desperate)).
f) Both/and…or…why not start to make new Expansion kits able to add or subtract drums and cymbals (not just gray them out)? Not a remodeled store as much as the ability to add accessories, find a better fit, or get a wash and shoe goo for the shoes we have.
Erik
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