EZdrummer 3 – funky humanization

[Adam_F]

Hi all!

I have already written a post on this matter to the dev team on the Customer Service – Requests and Feedback forum, but I’d like to see what other people think – obviously user error is not unlikely, so perhaps someone has come across a similar problem and developed a solution.

I programmed a 12-bar boogie shuffle beat (4/4, 8th note triplets), then humanized it to normal/soft. The result was quite satifying indeed, but I wanted to add a little emphasis on some of the bars and snare fills, so I started experimenting with changing the humanization options, as well as moving the velocity and dynamics sliders (on manually selected bars, beats and notes, not on the whole song).

I wasn’t happy with the result, so I decided to re-humanize everything back to normal/soft and start over.

However, when I re-humanized the beat back to normal/soft after my unsuccessful tweaks, the result was wildly different from the first humanization after programming the beat! The velocities went completely wild – some parts became quieter or louder, as well as more or less dynamic than they were after the original humanization – and the issue was not limited to the parts I had tweaked, it affected seemingly random parts of the song!

So, has any of you had similar experiences?

Cheers!

Adam

EZdrummer version: 3.0.0
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Neb]

when I re-humanized the beat back to normal/soft after my unsuccessful tweaks

This is where you’re going wrong.

The first humanisation applied an algorithm. You then tweaked the results. When you applied the second humanisation, you weren’t ‘resetting’ the changes. You applied further humanisation to midi that had already been humanised once and then edited.

If you wanted to undo your manual edits, you should have used the history to undo the changes, and get back to the point where you applied the first humanisation.

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[Adam_F]

Thanks for the tip!

I was probably under the misapprehension that when I re-humanized, EZd3 would start from scratch.

As a matter of fact, a dedicated button to restore the original humanization is what I humbly suggested in the post to the devs.

Cheers!

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Thanked by: Granitza

[Stan Tester]

Funny, I just did the exact same thing! Came here looking for answers.

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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