My favourite new features in EZD3 are having finally the capability of importing our drums (although not multisampled yet) and creating our own midi inside the application with a dedicated midi editor (“Grid Editor”), which I am suggesting to all sampled instruments of all companies (compared to a general purpose midi editor) because it’s more specialized and you can have one place to store all your patterns (“grooves”) and then be able to recall them and reuse them – with variations – in another song project.
For this process to start, I need to save a midi groove as soon as done from scratch in the Grid Editor. Luckily, the Song Track is visible down there and a block has been created in there automatically. To my surprise, I couldn’t find a button to save the groove as midi, neither in the grid editor tab nor in the song track. So I want to share my discovery, I had to read the manual up to p.99, when, talking of the track menu (par 9.3), the manual writes how you export a song: there it is well cleared that the grooves are not saved when exporting the song, and the way to save them is : open the groove tab, navigate the left browser to User Midi, and drag the block in the song track to the User Midi. I would add, rename the track before you do it (although you may rename the midi also after drag to the browser).
I suggest Toontrack to make this job easier in the grid editor, or at least explicit in the user manual.
Of course a block in the song track can be dragged to host in the VST version, and my host (Cubase) saves midi when dragging out of it, for instance to the desktop and then to Toontrack User-Midi. But this is convoluted and out of EZD3, I needed a way to do this straight in EZD3.
EZdrummer version: 3.0.5Operating system: Windows 10
