New EZ Drummer 2 User – Where to Begin?

[Stratcat51]

After a lot of reading, delay and hesitation, and after viewing the (demo/Tutorial) on youtube I took the plunge and bought the songwriter edition of EX Drummer 2.

I am primarily a guitar player, that plays at home and thought I could try and put some backing tracks together to play Bass and Guitar over.  The YouTube demo looked great…. living with the tool, the reality is somewhat different.

Rikks demo on youtube showed dragging and dropping a ‘style’ into the play area of the browser then dragging that into the song creator, which seemed to give a palette of intro, verse, chorus etc. to build the track up with.   Well, its all a bit fast and chops a lot out, never mind the mentioned ‘gear wheel’ icon that is shown at the top right of the ‘browser bar’ that doesn’t show up on my installation (2.1.8 – only bought this month) at all and meant to facilitate importing other midi?

The build up of the song demo is weak, it doesn’t show how to edit the components, say the intro or verse component is too long…. or you only want part of it…?

The acclaimed ‘Edit Play Style’ has some things but the demo is poor and doesn’t show how to work across more than one section of the song structure or indeed more than one instrument.   So presently EZ Drummer is not going well, and is sounding no better than the woodentops (TV puppets) come out to play.   I realise that it takes time to learn the toolset, but I did expect a much better set of documentation once you bought the product to be able to read up and do these things.

 

Anybody got any suggestions or have I made a grave error and bought something that is just a money taking sales opportunity and isn’t actually supported?

Thanks

Phil

 

 

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 7

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[Stratcat51]

Guess the deathly silence says I bought a dud product with no support.

[Henrik Ekblom]

Generally, if you want to learn more about the product I would suggest that you watch Youtube videos (Toontrack has released official videos of how to accomplish different things), but there are also third party released howto-videos.

Besides that, there is a manual in which the different parts of EZdrummer 2 are described. In the Menu (top right corner of EZdrummer 2 interface), select Operation Manual.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

• This post was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Henrik Ekblom.

[Stratcat51]

If you mean the YouTube stuff…… I watched it.. it has errors that aren’t explained or corrected as I stated in my first post.

So far I can’t find anything on this site that supports the product properly.

[Stratcat51]

So after I use the contact support people I get sent a slightly more detailed pdf file than installed originally and was available from the menu, that was 21 pages long and mostly waffle and pictures of studios that had nothing to do with using the software.  The new version is 43 pages woo hoo… sadly it didn’t really go very far as a manual.

It vaguely tries to work as stand alone but as a VST in Reaper which I hoped to use it in, it is useless reporting ‘Audio Engine inactive’ in the UI page and it seems that has plagued a number of other users out there in other DAWs too….

I’ve wasted another day trying to get this crud to work and Toontracks offer is that I can sell it when I’ve only just bought it and from their website too… (Ha!), some kind of support.  To make matters worse I actually paid the full price £180! from their website not the reduced price on ebay.. I really do think I should have bought an Alesis SR16 at least it would work!

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Stratcat51.

[BlueAttitude]

Hi,

I use EZDrummer here with reaper. The only time I have ever seen the message “Audio Engine inactive’ is when the track that you have EZDrummer installed is muted.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

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