Newbie basic question

[Ginridge]

Hi Everyone,

I’m interested in changing the snare drum sound on several loop blocks from a side hit to a side stick to support a dynamic drop in the last verse of the song I’m working with.  Based on everything I’ve read, this should be easy, but I don’t see a way do do this.  Can any more experienced help me out?

I’m running EZ drummer 2 w/ Pro tools 12 on a Macbook pro running IOS 10.11.6  Thanks!

Chris

Operating system: OS X El Capitan (10.11)

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[Brad]

You can do it one of 2 ways. Drag and drop the groove from EZ2 to Pro Tools and edit the MIDI there, or in EZ2 double click on the groove/block you want to work on. This will bring ups Edit play style, right click on the snare, select Articulation > Sidestick.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

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[Ginridge]

Ah, That worked!  I was missing the right click o get it to accept the change.  Thanks!

[Ginridge]

OK, the next basic question…  I want to write parts.  I’m a singer songwriter/roots musician using lots of finger style and bottleneck slide guitar.  This is very dense rhythmically, think Mississippi John Hurt style playing with the ongoing double thumb on the bass notes to set the rhythm.  Drums need to be fairly simple, but interesting.  Think Jim Keltner or Ringo Starr… drummers who used their playing to support the song rather than just keep a beat.   Most of the groves and fills are much to busy to effectively work with what I’m doing, though I’m finding ways to use them.

For the song I’m working on right now, essentially a rockabilly beat on electric slide guitar, I’m using Modern Drummer, Straight 4/4, Verse, Variation 2 and removing the opening crash for most of the clip.  I tried to find an appropriate ending, but nothing came close (all way too busy and too long).  I was able to create a rough idea of what I wanted in the Tap to Find, quantize it and come up with a fairly good idea of what I was looking for, a triplet followed by three straight beats.  Nothing matched it or even came up. On a whim I tried dragging that out of the Midi Drop Zone and it ended up as a usable loop though I never did find a reference to this in the manual (yes, I read it!).  That’s the ending fill of the track now.

Is that the only way to create loops entirely from scratch?  I’d like to add in some simple drum responses to some of the lyric and some different fills but don’t see much details in the manual just how to do that.

Thanks very much!

Operating system: OS X El Capitan (10.11)

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