Metal Heads snare velocity problem

[AZD00]

Not sure if its just me, but just adjusting the snare velocity of a single note down a couple notches from the max 127, makes the snare sound like its being hit with a tooth brush. Sounds like like the volume/tone was completely sucked out. I don’t have the same velocity problem when using EZ drummer DFH snares or kits. Not sure what’s up. Any ideas?

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[Scott]

You can take a look at this thread from last year for a discussion on the same topic:

http://www.toontrack.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=104562

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
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[sean7]

I had a similar problem. What I did find though, was that if I turned up the velocity knob to 60 (I think, I’m at work now, I’ll double check), then I could hear the snares on all of the grooves/fills. I haven’t tried adjusting them using Reaper’s midi editing function, though I will need to on some older tracks. I find the biggest problems to be on blast beats. Honestly, once the drums were inserted into the mix, I literally could not hear the snare at all. It was just all kicks. On one particular blast beat, adjusting just by one (59-60) went from inaudible to machine gun like. I’m still not quite sold on the Metalheads kit. I actually went back to DFH for some of my latest recordings. I like the sound of the Metalheads kit, but it’s very temperamental compared to the other EZXs I have.

I’m probably not the best judge though, as I only just learnt how to route the drums to different channels after owning EZdrummer for over a year. It’s time for me to start reading manuals. The kits sound awesome with some extra polish added. I thought you had to mix all the drums together in EZD and needed SD to route out. My idiocy knows no bounds.

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