EZkeys? No, well certainly not ye!

[outsounder]

Well, downloaded the demo and gave it a whirl and have to say, firstly, well done Toontrack, an original idea but an end user really does have to question it‘s potential use and pitch for pound so to speak.

The time line composer with circle of fifths is interesting, a SUPERB educational tool and would be better as a standalone separate plugin that could be routed to any vsti rather than having to wait for new libraries from Toontrack and, really speaking, most of the functions such as midi file drag and drop, transpose to new keys and scales and a lot more can be done in far simpler, sophisticated and more interesting ways using a modern DAW’s built in midi transpose key & scale functions and wizards. also there are just so many midi files available for pennies these day’s it’s untrue.

Also there’s more than enough piano’s out there, especially if you already own a good sampler package. There are also some pretty good low price/freeware ones. The market is really over saturated with them, a better launch would have been choral or orchestral.

Other annoying little “annoyances” in the demo were noticed:-

In stand alone, the metronome doesn’t start and stop with it’s own transport bar , REALLY annoying!

When you use the scroll wheel to zoom, the highlighted section doesn’t stay in view so you have to grab and drag the bar below around to find the bit you were working on., fiddly and annoying

Loop marker doesn’t fit to selection unless zoomed in so you have to zoom in/out and then drag the bar along to get to the piece you were working on – annoying

Substantial ASIO resource use, even higher than Steinbergs new Padmachine, Retrolouge and 1/2 dozen instances of Kontakt. Maybe the coding needs to be tightened up somewhat?

Disables host start/stop when it’s in focus on second monitor in Studio One V 2

Bought EZdrummer and a collection of the kits/song/midi packs and love using it,

I also got EZplayer as a “track building sketch pad” it’s that’s ok for separating the midi notes into parts, but I wouldn’t have got that if I’d known how fiddly it was to use as a composing aid.

Why purchase something that’s you already have in your daw, is more flexible and creative with endless sound libraries that are out there to play the sonds on?

Though, having said all that, It will be interesting to see how it develops beyond a piano arranger, if it had a good choir & string section and was able to carry out similar functions (especially on long modulated choral & string passages as an aid to orchestrating it would really be worth having a look at., but Toontrack will have to pull there fingers out what with people like Rapid Composer/Cognitone and many more now having there really quite interesting software chord arrangers and key surfers in PC & Mac as Standalone & Plugin – and they’re not alone Mucorders Tone Space is actually FREE !!!

Asta La Vista Guy’s & gal’s – Have fun with it ! I’ll be back !

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