when I program drums in guitar pro and bring them into my daw to play through ezdrummer2, the China cymbal plays in dfh but not in the modern kit, even when changing a crash cymbal to a China. what am I missing?
The china in DFH is on the midi notes, D#0, F0, C7, or C#7. There is no China cymbal on the Modern kit as you know. Nor do any of the China cymbals from DFH share those same notes with the modern kit cymbals. You will have to change the aforementioned notes to the note that the cymbal in the modern kit is using… for example E2. There’s a handy midi layout .pdf for every kit, see attached to help you understand or get through this quicker…
ok, that actually helps alot. would you be able to tell me, for dfh, why when using 52 to trigger china, it doesn’t work?
for context I’m writing drums on guitar pro and bringing them into reaper and playing through ezdrummer2 dfh. I’m not sure what dots I’m not connecting
I do not know. I also do not know the Guitar Pro workflow.
Note 52 is an E2 midi note. In the PDF, E2 is a China Crash. If I look at the Instrument Panel Details button on the China cymbals, I do not see E2 for any China hits, which is where I got the midi notes from in my original post. I wonder if the documentation I’m referring to has kept up with software updates.
Regardless, I assume you can assign whichever note/number in Guitar Pro? If so, are you aware of the Details Panel for your individual drum instruments? If not, try opening DFH in Reaper, and right click on the China cymbal you like and select the details button. There will be the midi note you’re looking for. Let me know if you’re up and running after that. You can select the tiny “key” button if you want midi numbers instead of notes. Try midi note 109 for example.
You did not specify which version of EZ Drummer 2 you’re on. If it’s not 2.1.8, please update and test before writing back.
shootiehg, guitar pro uses general midi mapping for drums, as well as well as tabs for other instruments
52 in guitar pro is in fact the China cymbal. 108 or 109 in guitar pro isn’t a valid value otherwise i would just rewrite it, and have it play like that
I’m using 2.1.8 of ezdrummer2, and have used the detail key
I’ll check if i need to update dfh and get back to you, unless you can think of another solution? thank u for taking the time
Midi notes 108/109 were just an example, assuming that actual number is too high. You have multiple China cymbals there, example #27. We’re chasing work-arounds at this point though.
When you open up the Piano Roll in Reaper, can you not find, or click and trigger which notes will sound a China and troubleshoot from there?
I think your issue, which I assume has nothing to do with how EZD2 is suppose to perform, does not have an obvious or popular solution. Or one of the Toontrack support guys on the forum would have chimed in. If you’re losing patience with it, I would submit an official Toontrack support ticket. I would prime your request with all of the GP info you stated here including “52 in guitar pro is in fact the China cymbal” and so on.
I never have issues like this. But I strictly work in DAW’s Piano Roll or from withing Standalone Toontrack products. I would guess at this point that the language of midi is missing something from GP.
Did a last hail marry google search. See if there’s anything you’ve missed in here… https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/guitar-pro-ezdrummer.30090/
A lot actually comes up Googling “guitar pro drum midi dfh”. It’s a wormhole for me since I don’t actually use Reaper/GP though.
