Feature requests

[Jay Coover]

Starting this off, as a few things come immediately to...

Starting this off, as a few things come immediately to mind. The first one already mentioned frequently.

1. Ability for the song track to maintain the custom chords set by the user, while the user auditions different styles.

2. In addition to the octave up/down button in the chord selection dialog, the user should be able to switch chord inversions up/down. An octave is frequently just way too much.

3. A way to intelligently humanize imported MIDI files that were programmed or quantized. You know the type. All perfectly quantized with every note velocity equalling 100. Exactly the type of piano parts we have come to hate. Randomize the note placement slightly, in the manner a human would. Also, perhaps add velocity emphasis in certain places, with options on how to do this. Maybe it would be possible to steal the groove (note placement and velocities) from a library track and apply it somehow to the imported track.

4. A search/filter function to find grooves, fully indexed for speed. Add this to Superior/EZDrummer as well. If the above suggestion is not possible, this becomes even more important.

5. More MIDI files of course, but in addition, it would be much better to be able to keep all the rock files in “rock” and blues in “blues” at the very highest level of organization. By this I mean that it is difficult to search in one genre when the files are split up by MIDI add-on library name as in EZDrummer/Superior. With the EZDrummer method, I might have to search through 3 or 4 libraries, looking for “rock” or “swing”, plus my approximate tempo in each one. If we could eliminate the library designation at the top level and get straight to genres, time signature, tempos, swing/straight and keep it at that level, it would be much easier to browse files as more and more add-ons are introduced. It may be desirable to have organ/piano/etc separate, but I would prefer it if every piano library that came along did not create its own groove folder.

6. When I pick Bb in the chord selector, don’t rename it to A#. Just kind of annoying. Figure this out…have a simple sharp/flat checkbox and keep it consistent.

7. Upright piano, organ, clavichord, electric piano add-ons.

8. Transpose entire track in the editor up/down in half steps.

Anything else?

SD 2.3 NY vol 2/Metal Foundry/C & V/Roots 1 & 2/Music City Latin Percussion/Funkmasters/The Classic/Jazz/Pop!/#1 Hits/Electronic/Twisted/Claustrophobic EZKeys 1.1 with all the trimmings

Starting this off, as a few things come immediately to mind. The first one already mentioned frequently.

1. Ability for the song track to maintain the custom chords set by the user, while the user auditions different styles.

2. In addition to the octave up/down button in the chord selection dialog, the user should be able to switch chord inversions up/down. An octave is frequently just way too much.

3. A way to intelligently humanize imported MIDI files that were programmed or quantized. You know the type. All perfectly quantized with every note velocity equalling 100. Exactly the type of piano parts we have come to hate. Randomize the note placement slightly, in the manner a human would. Also, perhaps add velocity emphasis in certain places, with options on how to do this. Maybe it would be possible to steal the groove (note placement and velocities) from a library track and apply it somehow to the imported track.

4. A search/filter function to find grooves, fully indexed for speed. Add this to Superior/EZDrummer as well. If the above suggestion is not possible, this becomes even more important.

5. More MIDI files of course, but in addition, it would be much better to be able to keep all the rock files in “rock” and blues in “blues” at the very highest level of organization. By this I mean that it is difficult to search in one genre when the files are split up by MIDI add-on library name as in EZDrummer/Superior. With the EZDrummer method, I might have to search through 3 or 4 libraries, looking for “rock” or “swing”, plus my approximate tempo in each one. If we could eliminate the library designation at the top level and get straight to genres, time signature, tempos, swing/straight and keep it at that level, it would be much easier to browse files as more and more add-ons are introduced. It may be desirable to have organ/piano/etc separate, but I would prefer it if every piano library that came along did not create its own groove folder.

6. When I pick Bb in the chord selector, don’t rename it to A#. Just kind of annoying. Figure this out…have a simple sharp/flat checkbox and keep it consistent.

7. Upright piano, organ, clavichord, electric piano add-ons.

8. Transpose entire track in the editor up/down in half steps.

Anything else?

SD 2.3 NY vol 2/Metal Foundry/C & V/Roots 1 & 2/Music City Latin Percussion/Funkmasters/The Classic/Jazz/Pop!/#1 Hits/Electronic/Twisted/Claustrophobic EZKeys 1.1 with all the trimmings

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[Ian Scott]

This got a bit heated.
I also think a copy and paste function would be good especially if you are working in standalone mode without a DAW it could speed things up.
I do like the idea behind the product but to be able to lock the chords would be a great feature.

[Juicy]

Unfortunate to see this .Copy/Paste = Totally Reasonable request ,

[rgarber]

I would like to see markers added. I mean, where I can place a mark and annotate what that mark is. So if I want to mark off every four bars (hard for me to count up to five… ) then I, uh, can mark off every four bars. Or let’s say I’m building up a piano accompaniment for something I’m working on in a DAW. To me I would like to annotate what letter (A or something like that) or measure number… just so if I need to come back to it via a save or something, I can know where exactly this segment was suppose to be. Don’t know if the markers and stuff could be saved since this is midi though…

[Dave Modisette]

IIRC, the lack of Copy and Paste using key combinations is an accomodation made for DAW hosts that will not give up the keyboard strokes to a plug in. TT likes to keep all platforms on a level playing field so it (EZkeys) includes buttons, widgets and drop down menus for most functions.

Dave Modisette www.gatortraks.com www.plasticsamerica.com http://www.gatortraks.com/forum

[Jay Coover]

Another cool feature would be a way to intelligently humanize imported MIDI files that were programmed or quantized. You know the type. All perfectly quantized with every note velocity equalling 100. Exactly the type of piano parts we have come to hate.

Randomize the note placement slightly, in the manner a human would. Also, perhaps add velocity emphasis in certain places, with options on how to do this.

EDIT: adding this to my OP.

SD 2.3 NY vol 2/Metal Foundry/C & V/Roots 1 & 2/Music City Latin Percussion/Funkmasters/The Classic/Jazz/Pop!/#1 Hits/Electronic/Twisted/Claustrophobic EZKeys 1.1 with all the trimmings

[John.Byerly]

I would love the un-do, redo functions to be a keystoke, maybe Command Z. also after selecting a chord in the wheel allow us to arrow up, down, left & right to select chords and not be just a mouse select. More controls with keystrokes in general.

With the ability to cut up phrases it really is a powerful way to arrange but will also be excited to see some more styles to add on in the future

6 String Bassist Low End Lover

[metzigr]

*********** Disregard! It is in the latest version. I was running an older version. ***********

 

Simple request. Can you add the Load\Save project to the dropdown Menu similar to EZDrummer?

Many times I use EZKeys stand alone and construct a complete or partial song and save the project. If I think its’ worth doing more with I pull it into my DAW. I do this with EZD sometimes. It’s nice to pull in the actual ezd file and have all the elements as the were when I began the writing process. Once loaded into the DAW you loose the window menu which in EZKey is the only place you can Load\Save projects from. I can export to midi but I loose the individual midi parts & coloration’s etc…Would be nice if it worked like ezd.

Thanks.

Just a clarification, the Load\Save is in the Menu but it seems to disappear in my DAW (FL Studio 20.5).

EZkeys version: 1.2.5
Operating system: Windows 7

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