I have more toms than the EZX i purchased

[Christian Smyth]

Hi All,

I am a hobbyist.  I purchased the EZD3 bundle with the Pop! and Post-Metal EZXs.  I have a Roland TD-17KVX Gen2 E-drumset with 4 toms.  I notice on some of the Pop presets, and all of the Post-Metal presets, that there are only 3 toms.  Before I go punching buttons at random, I thought I’d ask a couple of questions here:

1. How do i get a 4th tom on a module where the drumset picture for the module only shows 3 toms?  For example, I want to be able to use my 4th tom with the “Scylla” preset in the Post-Metal module.  But all of Post-Metal shows a picture of a kit with only 1 rack and 2 floor toms.
2. Suppose I “give up” for now on 4 toms and just go into “Scylla” and “learn” my bottom 3 toms onto the 3 toms in the picture.  Well, if i go back to the main EZD3 kit i find that i have messed up the tom mappings there!!  So i have to re-learn my e-toms onto the correct toms on THAT module’s kit picture.  How can i prevent having to do this?  Do i need to set up a separate “project” for each kit in each module?

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Ventura (13)

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[Shootie]

1. With a DAW use multiple instances of EZD3. Or upgrade to Superior Drummer.
2.  Go to Settings>Edrums>after you finish your mapping, save it in the upper middle drop down menu “Save As”.

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[Christian Smyth]

@Shootie I don’t have a DAW.  I am using EZD3 as a stand-alone app.

When you say “multiple instances” what do you mean?  Mulltiple running copies of EZD3?  Or is an “instance” just the thing that is created when you “save it in the upper middle drop down menu ‘Save As’.”?

• This post was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Christian Smyth.

[Mick Avoidant]

You can’t add toms to a kit. Ezdrummer 3’s Main and Bright Rooms have five toms, as do at least some of the metal EXPs, and Progressive.

[Shootie]

Time to start using a DAW so you can use multiple instances of EZ, or find a preset to work with that has the amount of toms you need, or upgrade to superior, or accept the limitation. I’m afraid that’s it for you.

Free DAWs exist, or better, quality inexpensive DAWs exist too.

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[Christian Smyth]

@Shootie what is an instance?

[Shootie]

5 Instances of EZ would be 5 separate tracks in your DAW each with it’s own EZdrummer plug in loaded into it… or as many as your computer can handle.

So you load up a 2nd instance of EZ, for example, and put your extra toms on it and map them to your extra ekit toms. Both instances will work at the same time. Instance is common lingo.

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[Shootie]

Also, you’re on Mac, you have Garageband, you have a quality free DAW.

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[Christian Smyth]

Thanks, @Shootie.  I haven’t ever used a DAW which is why i don’t know common lingo.  Appreciate the lesson 🙂  I’m just a hobbyist drummer, not a hobbyist recording engineer 😀

[Shootie]

I encourage you to look into it. A DAW can simply be a routing tool. Best of luck and welcome to EZD!

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