Feature request: Ability to offset hits.

[Ames Alch]

Feature request: I would love the ability to take a given drum’s hits in a pattern and offset them by +/- sequential degrees to allow, for example, tom hits to flam a bit rather than be in exact sync with each other.
Currently, the way I do this is to either find an existing pattern and splice it into what I’m doing or to use Tap2Find and quantize most and then add some hits using trial and error without any quantization on to try and get what I want. Being able to select a drum in, say, Edit Play Style and have an Offset Value option in the contextual menu would be a great and powerful tool.
Please pass this idea along to the deign team.

Thanks!

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[Juicy]

Very easy to do in logic but like anything does require editing.

[Ames Alch]

@juicy said:

Very easy to do in logic but like anything does require editing.

Agreed. That’s why I’d prefer to do it in EZD so I can continue to edit. As a matter of fact, I never drag my EZD midi into Logic… I just route all the input from EZD to Logic and have it follow the host. This way I can always tinker away until I’m I’m either finished or I order myself to stop tinkering.

[Juicy]

Understood, Problem with Commitment ?
Editing in logic you do have to re edit it if you change your mind, don’t you still need to do that in tinkering land in EZD2 too anyway.
They are similar in that regard.
It is just a different way of working, i think your idea is cool, I guess they blurred the lines and have brought this upon themselves with that limited Edit Play Style paradigm. I find it a bit time consuming and slows me down trying to force ideas that i can play/edit in no time.
You may just get what you want but it could be a long time coming so thats goes back to my original point .
Its all good friend

[Ames Alch]

@juicy said:

Understood, Problem with Commitment ?
Editing in logic you do have to re edit it if you change your mind, don’t you still need to do that in tinkering land in EZD2 too anyway.
They are similar in that regard.
It is just a different way of working, i think your idea is cool, I guess they blurred the lines and have brought this upon themselves with that limited Edit Play Style paradigm. I find it a bit time consuming and slows me down trying to force ideas that i can play/edit in no time.
You may just get what you want but it could be a long time coming so thats goes back to my original point .
Its all good friend

Commitment? I think you’d have to ask some my ex-girlfriends.

Seriously, are you sating that one can drag midi patterns out of EZD into Logic and then drag them back into EZD for more editing? If so, that would be very cool!

[Juicy]

No but if saved as a wmf and loaded into your MyMidiFiles you can but i didn’t mean that

[John]

@Ames Alch said:

Seriously, are you sating that one can drag midi patterns out of EZD into Logic and then drag them back into EZD for more editing? If so, that would be very cool!

Some hosts allow for dragging back to the EZdrummer 2 Song Track, others don’t. Logic is one of those that don’t but there’s a very easy workaround:
Simply Record arm the Song Track in EZdrummer 2 and then play back the groove in Logic. The hits get recorded in EZdrummer 2 and can be further tweaked with Edit Play Style.

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Juicy]

Yeah man you ” beat” me to it i just tried that , thats Sick for these uncommitted young ppl.
Mine did drop the first beat though.

[Ames Alch]

Appreciate the help, but I’d still like to see m y original suggestion/request added to EZD. The ability to select a given kit element and offset its hits by +/- increments would be a HUGE time saver and help in getting realistic grooves.
Plus,l I can’t believe this would be too difficult to implement.

Please pass this along to the geniuses in programing. Thanks!

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