EZDrummer to Superior trouble

[patrick geary]

Please someone help.
Basically I have a demo with the drums completed, made using EZdrummer. I have recently upgraded to Superior 3 and started recording the track again.
When I import the midi from ezdrummer to Superior it gets jumbled up and sounds,…well,..not so good. I have tried recreating what I done in the first place for the demo and it turns out it was quite complex with lots of grooves cut up and stuck together etc. so it would be lovely to just copy the midi created and dump it in the new song but as stated before, it doesn’t sound good.
Is there an easy way to merge the 2 programs together? Is the midi mapping all out?
Really don’t get it and need some help here.
It feels like all my work leading up to this point has been a waste of time and I will have to start all over again.

Cheers.

Mogger.

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[Brad]

I guess for starters can you tell us if you were using EZD2 or the original EZD.
What kit you were using in EZDx. Presets.
What kit and presets you were using in SD3.

Also a more technical description of “jumbled up” would help. Are the wrong drums being triggered? Are they all wrong? Some wrong?

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[patrick geary]

The song was created using EZD2 with the Indie Folk pack and the Lugwig Rock Kit.
I’m using the Heavy Rock Plate Kit in SD3.
After I went back and tried to get some answers for you I may have solved it. I noticed that one of the grooves that had been really ‘Jumbled Up’ was triggering Shaker and Tamborine pads which I think were being translated into Tom and Snare hits. I will dig deeper later when I’ve got more time.
I’m really just looking for an easy solution to bringing my old ‘demo’ mixes up to date with SD3, it’s why I bought it.
But if not then I will start over again. Just a shame because some of the tracks were spot on with a lot of time and effort gone into creating them, just need the SD3 sounds on them.
Hope that makes more sense.

Cheers!

Mogger.

[Scott]

Ok. I think I understand.

If you load the Indie Folk EZX library in S3, the MIDI should trigger as expected. Can.you do that and confirm? If you load an S3 kit, the tambourine mapping from the Indie Folk EZX library will not be mapped the same. If you load the tambourine from the Indie Folk EZX library as an extra instrument in your S3 kit, does the MIDI trigger correctly? You may need to highlight the tambourine midi and move all the tambourine midi notes.

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