HELP! How to Convert GM Drum Files to EZDrummer?

[Newsoniclight]

Yes, I’ve done some forum and online searching before posting this kind of newbie question, but everyone has different production software, setups, etc. so got buried in stuff that may or may not have been relevant to my own situation.

I have Cubase 6 on Win7 64-bit and need to use and re-edit older GM Drum files that were edited almost ten years ago in earlier versions of Cubase (SXI, SX3). I put a huge amount of work int those manually adding grace notes, etc. But the real problem is that while putting such files in the EZdrummer VST Instrument track are far fuller and louder, cymbals and other drums just don’t match up.

I’ve seen that that EZDrummer has enhanced GM (as shown in the manual image attached), I get that and appreciated it. EZDrummer’s presence is just so much fuller than just GM. BUT i still need to have the files play exact-instrument-to-exact-instrument; right now I get sidesticks instead of snares, stuff like that. Also since I didn’t have the mike-ing option in the old days, the overall default miking seems to make the track sound a bit off (probably something I can tweak once I get my intended drum elements to play right.

I’ve never used mappers, such as one I found online that converts the other way around — EZDrummer to GM. So please tell me how or what to do besides having to go in and spend a lot of time trying to figure out and move notes around (I play all instruments for my stuff so can’t spent years on just the drum tracks. I need this to be, well…. EZ. 🙂

Thank you for your a.s.a.p. assistance

PS: Also, GM Midi files are so much lower in volume that EZ Drummer or most everything else. If I have to use GM Tracks, is there a way to bump up the overall volume for these?

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[John]

Hi,

EZdrummer is indeed GM compliant, the enhanced part is outside the GM range. If your MIDI does not play back as expected, they’re really not GM standard.
Now, this doesn’t necessarily pose a big problem, since I guess it takes about 2 mouse moves to select all e.g. side-stick notes and drag them one half note up in your DAW.

Experiment with the EZ mixer presets to learn what you like and tweak from there.

I am guessing that you mean velocity rather than volume and your DAW should have some pretty simple means to just raise the overall velocity of your drum track.
I’m not in front of Cubase now but it’s very easy in my standard DAW.
If you meant volume, just raise the output from either the plugin or the track it resides on.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Newsoniclight]

Thanks for reply. On further inspection, the notes did seem to correspond to more or less the right MIDI key assignments and I did switch some rows of “diamond” in the gird to get the better version a snare. But truth is I have barely scratched the surface of EZDrummer for I’m been so used to building up stuff from other sources. I have yet to really dive deep into all of the variations of the style songs I have. So I’m probably going to abandon trying to save the old files (or just steal parts or patterns from them) and get used to EZDrummer with more fluency. Sometimes my perfectionism gets in the way of actually getting stuff done. 🙂

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[mihailov99]

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EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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