Need help setting up EZDrummer 2 in Cubase 8 – Multi-outputs issues !

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Hello everyone, I hope I’m in the right section of the forum !
I need some help setting up EZDrummer 2 in Cubase LE AI Elements 8…
I wanted to set it up having differents channels for each part of the kit, so I checked for tutorials and followed the instructions :
– Create an Instument track, choose the EZDrummer 2 plug-in
– Into the internal EZDrummer mixer, activate the “multichannel” option
– Activate the outputs of the Instrument track in Cubase
… and it worked, BUT I would like to also have the possibility to control the volume of the whole kit.
Right now I can mute or “solo” the different parts of the kit and control their individual volume but for the instrument track corresponding to output 1, the volume only affects the “Kick”, and I can’t rename the track of the output 1 without renaming the first instrument track I created at the beginning. When I mute the instrument track the whole kit is muted but when I change its volume only the kick is affected… Here’s a screen capture of my Cubase Session… Hope you guys can help me, thanks 🙂

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[Scott]

You’ll need to create a Group bus and send those channels to it. Then you can mute/solo/set volume level on that channel and control all the channels together.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[P-A]

Okay thank you ! Sorry I’m beginning with Cubase so just one more question, how do I “send” the channels to the Group track ? Because I can’t set them “under” the Group Track in my Cubase Session ?

[Scott]

It’s under the Routing output in the mixer at the top of each channel. You can choose the output routing of each track.

I use Cubase 8.5 so I’m not sure about Cubase Elements. A bit of Cubase manual may be in your future

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Ben Callard]

Hi,

I’m still missing an answer for the OP’s other question about renaming the entire VST track when changing the name of the track that the output EZ1 is going to. I assigned each piece of the kit in the EZD mixer to a different output, from 1 to 8 and activated those outputs in the VST in Cubase. I can rename the tracks in Cubase (EZ2 -> Snare Top, EZ4 -> Hi-Hat etc) but when I rename EZ1 (e.g. Kick) the main VST track is also renamed (similar to the photo in the original post).

I guess I’m just missing something basic, but I haven’t got my head round it yet.

Any tips gratefully received!

[Scott]

Ben Callard wrote:

Hi,

I’m still missing an answer for the OP’s other question about renaming the entire VST track when changing the name of the track that the output EZ1 is going to. I assigned each piece of the kit in the EZD mixer to a different output, from 1 to 8 and activated those outputs in the VST in Cubase. I can rename the tracks in Cubase (EZ2 -> Snare Top, EZ4 -> Hi-Hat etc) but when I rename EZ1 (e.g. Kick) the main VST track is also renamed (similar to the photo in the original post).

I guess I’m just missing something basic, but I haven’t got my head round it yet.

Any tips gratefully received!

I believe if you load EZD2 from the Instrument Rack and not as an Instrument Track, you can rename the first output.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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