ezdrummer help with creating and editing grooves

[greenroomstudiony]

I am a new user and am trying to learn how to use ezdrummer to create and edit a groove from the ground up and finding some challenges.

For example, starting with the kick, I then move on to the snare.  For the snare strike using the mouse, I am unable to click the mouse quickly enough to capture the 32 or 1/16 where i want to place it.  Quantizing did not seem to correct it.  I tried various options for quantizing 1/32, 1/16.  So then I hoped that there would be a midi editor that would allow me to move the snare but I did not find that feature.  I also cannot figure out how to undo a note, it seems I have to undo the entire snare and start over.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Adam

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[Henrik Ekblom]

EZdrummer 2 is designed to have a groove to start with, and edit that to taste, rather than starting from the ground up. If you want to start from the ground you should program this in a DAW (like Cubase, Logic, etc) or invest in Superior Drummer 3 – which has its own Grid Editor.

To get musical suggestions, you can tap in the rhythm you want in Tap2Find (or drag a file from the song track to the Tap2Find drop zone) to find similarly played grooves.

If you want to record things using the mouse, but you can’t play that fast, you can lower the tempo of the song so it doesn’t play that fast. However – this is a clumsy way, where it’s difficult to set individual hit velocities, change where individual notes should play, etc.

greenroomstudiony wrote:

I also cannot figure out how to undo a note, it seems I have to undo the entire snare and start over.

Do you mean when you have recorded snare notes and you just want to undo the last one? This can’t be done using undo, and it’s designed like this since EZdrummer 2 isn’t mainly designed to create or start building grooves from scratch.

• However, there’s a workaround:
  • Use the cut tool on the song block and cut out the part where the unwanted snare is.
  • Double click the song block, in Edit Play Style right click the snare and select Remove MIDI

To cut parts and edit the MIDI is the way to alter certain small parts of the song.

 

Please reply back here with further questions you may have! Nice to have a new user onboard 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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• This post was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Henrik Ekblom.

[greenroomstudiony]

Henrik,

Thanks for your reply.  I had good luck with slowing it down.  I got the kick/snare pattern I wanted, dragged it to the midi input and did the search. Even though it came back with a 50% match, they were very close to what i was looking for.  I guess i could also export the midi to Reason 10 which is my DAW and move around the notes if need be.

Thanks for responding.

Adam

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