How to set “Genre” in 3rd party midi packs

[Hakan Lindholm]

I wonder how to set set “Genre” and “Play Style” in 3rd party midi packs.

I have some 3rd parti midi packs for EZDrummer3. The problem is it seems that I can’t use the genre filter.

This is especially a big problem when using BandMate since the suggested matches only list the matching midi from the genre filter.

Is there a way to set the genre and play style filters for 3rd party midi packs?

Is there a way to omit the Genre filter in BandMate when showing matshes?

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Mick Avoidant]

More information needed. Does ‘can’t use the genre filter’ mean it doesn’t work or you don’t know how to use it? Which filter are you talking about?

There isn’t a way to switch off the filter in Bandmate.

Packs are already rock, blues, reggae and so on. Which packs do you have?

[Hakan Lindholm]

The genre filter and play style filters work fine with all the Toonetrack midi drum packs.

The problem is only when I am using a 3rd part midi drum pack. They are not categorised by EZdrummer3 in genre or play styles. The other filters seem to work well ie the type, signature and power hand filters.

Since I want to use my 3rd party drum midi packs as well (not only the Toonetrack midi packs) when trying to match a drum beat with BandMate this is a BIG problem since no items from the 3rd party midi packs are shown in the “Matching list” this is since the matchng list filters on “Genre” and the 3rd party midi packs are not picked up by genre.

So my quistion is, is there a way to manually assign a “genre” to the 3rd party midi drum patterns?

[Mick Avoidant]

My bad; I missed the ‘3rd party bit’.

Have you set the file path to your 3rd party? I think EZD can only filter tags written into the MIDI files.

Bandmate will look only in Toontrack grooves for a match or make its own.

[Hakan Lindholm]

Yes I have linked the 3rd party midi packs to EZD. It works fine I can use them all and I can browse through them all.

What I am trying to do is also to be able to use them with BandMate when trying to find a match to songs that I have dropped into BandMate.

The problem is that the suggested matches from BandMate seems only to be selected from “Genre” ie my 3rd party midi will not be included since the “Genre” attribute is not set for it. So I am wondering if there is a way to include the 3rd party midi in the BandMate matching feature.

[Mick Avoidant]

Hakan Lindholm wrote:

Yes I have linked the 3rd party midi packs to EZD. It works fine I can use them all and I can browse through them all.

What I am trying to do is also to be able to use them with BandMate when trying to find a match to songs that I have dropped into BandMate.

The problem is that the suggested matches from BandMate seems only to be selected from “Genre” ie my 3rd party midi will not be included since the “Genre” attribute is not set for it. So I am wondering if there is a way to include the 3rd party midi in the BandMate matching feature.

Read my last answer. It must have crossed with yours.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It will take more than setting the genre in order for Bandmate to recognize the groove. As Mick stated, Bandmate will not offer up user grooves. You are best to put in a feature request.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Hakan Lindholm]

So where do I put in a feature request?

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Requests and Feedback

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Mick Avoidant]

Hakan Lindholm wrote:

So where do I put in a feature request?

Here https://www.toontrack.com/forums/forum/customer-service/requests-and-feedback/

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