Hi-hat control, articulations and computer performance

[jamo82]

Hi

I am thinking of buying EZDrummer with BFD Eco as my other option. I have looked through forums but cannot tell for sure the answers to my questions. Please help me if you can. I used Logic Pro.

1) How well does EZDrummer respond to Roland VH-11 hi hat, with regard to triggering the top or edge of the hat, and opening and closing it.

2) I read that there is only a sample of the centre of the snare. Is that correct? Are there no samples of rim shots etc?

3) My laptop is fairly decent except that my hard-drive is only 5200 RPM. Is that going to be a problem? I have 4GB DDR3 RAM and Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26Ghz CPU.

Many thanks
Jamie

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[Scott]

1) EZdrummer has limited edrum support and works the best with Toontrack Solo as host. Superior Drummer 2 is the Toontrack product for best edrum use.

2) In EZdrummer (Pop/Rock kit) there are Left/Right, Rimshot, and Sidestick snare articulations. S2 (Avatar Kit) has Center, Edge, Rimshot, Sidestick, Rim Only, Muted, Flams, Rolls, and Ruffs snare articulations.

3) Hard drive speed doesn’t affect performance because all samples are loaded into RAM and are not streamed from the drive. I bought a 1TB Seagate USB drive (7200RPM) for my laptop for samples and have no problems. I only got the drive for storage reasons as I have alot of samples and not for performance reasons.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[jamo82]

Thanks for the quick reply. That’s good to know about the RAM.

When you say ‘limited edrum support’, does that mean it will not respond to the CC04 hi-hat controller (open->close)?

Thanks

[Scott]

When you say ‘limited edrum support’, does that mean it will not respond to the CC04 hi-hat controller (open->close)?

I’m not sure as I don’t have a VH-11 so someone will have to answer that for you.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

It will in Toontrack solo and with Toontrack solo a few note corrections are made to the MIDI layout to match the GM notes sent from your Roland module.
You can not re-assign notes within EZdrummer as you can with Superior 2.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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