Mapping Addictive Drums midi HELP!!!

[yohangayle]

Please forgive me if the answer to this question has already been given, but I couldn’t find it.

One of the tipping points that influenced me in purchasing Superior Drums was EZ Player Pro and the midi mapping feature. Well, I can’t figure out, for the life of me, just how to do it. I have Addictive Drums installed on my Mac and I’m using Pro Tools 10 for my sequencer. When I click on the “Menu > Add Path” option, I can’t find an Addictive folder with midi files. I have a feeling all of there midi files, along with the extras that I’ve purchased, are installed in the ADD plugin.

Am I missing something??? Do I have to manually drag and drop the midi loops to my DAW, then export them in order for EZ Player to be able to load them???????

I also have Native Instrument’s Studio Drummer and I can use the midi in my DAW with Studio Drummer and just switch the mapping to ADD and it plays it no problem. Can I somehow do this with Superior Drummer? Please say yessss!

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[Yohan Gayle]

So,

I’ve answered my own question. Kinda tedious that you have to load midi files in order to audition them in EZ player before they can be played with Superior Drummer. We should be able to change drum mapping to other formats WITHIN Superior drummer and not have to do 10 other steps to achieve the same goal. But hey, I guess it helps you guys sell more software, right?

[John]

Hi,

sorry for the delay.

To answer your question; yes, you are missing something. You do not need to drag MIDI files to your host and then to the EZplayer Pro plugin unless the manufacturer has stored the MIDI in a contained, proprietary format, which seems to be the case with the Addictive Drums MIDI. Then it needs to be exported from the AD plugin to be used with any other plugin.

Toontrack MIDI or any 3rd party MIDI that is stored as regular MIDI files on your hard drive, on the other hand, can be used and transformed on the fly with the EZplayer Pro plugin to and from any of the supported formats. Toontrack MIDI doesn’t need adding but other MIDI is added as you described above and then you also specify its format, e.g. Slate MIDI, AD MIDI, GM, etc. sp the EZplayer Pro plugin wraps it correctly to whatever output format you choose in the Browser or the Arranger Tracks.
In Pro Tools, just set up your Instrument Tracks to receive their MIDI Input from the EZplayer Pro plugin, select a groove in the EZplayer Pro Browser and output format, Record arm the Instrument Track in question and then click Play in EZplayer Pro.
You can set up the Arranger Tracks to send to different MIDI channels with different Map wrapping on each Track. Set up your receiving Instrument Tracks accordingly.
E.g. you can send MIDI from the EZPP Tracks to Superior 2, AD and SSD at the same time, feeding one cymbal MIDI, another Kick and Snare MIDI and the 3rd Toms MIDI.
The EZplayer Pro plugin’s Arranger Tracks can be set to slave to the Pro Tools Timeline as well.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Jay Coover]

On a PC the factory MIDI would be at C:Program Files (x86)XLN AudioAddictive DrumsFactory Midi FilesAD

…while I think all the add-on MIDI is in the proprietary single file format.

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

[Jym Feat]

XLN Audio normally packs its grooves within the corresponding ADpack (which can be used by Addictive Drums exclusively), but from http://www.xlnaudio.com/en/myaccount-myproducts/offline you can download any [registered] groove pack in standard midi file format

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