Tracks Within EZDrummer (Feature Request!)

[Dolphran]

Within EZDrummer itself (independent of your DAW) you can create multiple tracks, but I have yet to see a useful scenario for this with one exception (as a workaround). However, I think these tracks could be VERY useful with some feature enhancement.

First, the workaround: I found that I could not copy selected notes from one instance of EZdrummer (on one track of my DAW), to another instance of EZDrummer. Paste is not available in the second instance of EZDrummer, presumably because they don’t share a clipboard for this function. So my workaround was to export the entire midi track from one instance and import it into a SECOND track instance within EZDrummer (using the “+” button next to “Track 1” to get a second track). NOW, one can copy notes from one track to the other.

BUT WHAT I’D LIKE to be able to do is use the multiple tracks more in the way that Ableton Live 11 does Comping. Highlighting selected sections of alternate tracks and combining them into the one master track. THIS WOULD BE GREAT!

In the absence of this I can’t see much usefulness to multiple tracks.  Anyone here found the otherwise useful?

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Scott]

I use the multiple tracks to try out different arrangements. Or try 3 or 4 different verse/chorus groove feels. Or try one verse with a different kick or snare pattern

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Considering that you can select parts from one track and paste them in all or in part in another track and on over regions, that is pretty much comping.

Paste is not available in the second instance of EZDrummer, presumably because they don’t share a clipboard for this function.

Perhaps, but you can drag grooves from one instance to another.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Thanked by: Brad and Scott Eshleman

[Dolphran]

Well, copy and paste isn’t really comping in the way I mean. Yes, it works – because there’s always multiple ways to do something in this kind of software – but this is about ease of use and workflow. Wouldn’t it be nice to highlight measure ranges from multiple different tracks and have those selections be what gets played. Even better if you could do it per drum (e.g. just Bass drum). Scott says he uses tracks for trying different groove feels, but it’s still cumbersome to then combine ranges from the different tracks quickly and easily. If I want to hear a couple of sections of Track 2 played but the rest coming from what I put in Track 1, there is no quick and easy way to do it. And with copy and paste it’s a lot harder to quickly change your mind and modify what comes from which track. If you’re familiar with how Ableton Live 11 does comping, I think you may see how this could be very powerful within EZDrummer.

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