I have an I mac for recording but I work out of town and have a PC laptop. is there a way to work on a project in PC and move it to mac later? I looked for answers first but didnt find anything. Thanks
The short answer is: Yes
The more precise answer would be longer but it depends on your host of choice. Toontrack solo Projects are cross-platform. EZdrummer save states should be in any kind of host.
then no, you need the same host on both platforms.
That said I am not sure what you mean by ‘transfer beats’, there are certainly ways to export MIDI from Cubase and import in GarageBand or vise versa.
It is definitely not as convenient as having a common host at equal version on both though (though even that does not guarantee in all cases that you can just move the project seamlessly, though I believe that is the case for Cubase, 3rd party plugins used in the project besides EZdrummer notwithstanding).
Can you save anything in EZD like a “Combined Preset” in SD2 Rogue?
With different hosts, in theory you just need the EZD config to be identical and the MIDI to be copied across. Im not an EZD user, so I can’t speak with any authority, but can you save the EZD config to a cross-platform file?
The rest is host project specific, but this would get the EZD bit across…
Edit: If Garageband can save in some for of Logic subset format, AA Translator might be able to convert the project -don’t know if AA-Translator would convert the VSTi config stuff; I’ll try to find out.
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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.
One cross-platform DAW that wouldn’t cost you anything but your time to try out is REAPER.
It’s not as good in the MIDI department as Cubase, but you should be able to transfer projects seamlessly across as long as you have identical plugins -and REAPER’s built-in ones aren’t too bad.
Obviously this would mean you learning the REAPER way and the investment of time that involves, but it’s not crippled to try it out, (60 day evaluation) and for your use, I think one licence would cover the two machines anyway.
Just an idea…
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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.
My thoughts were… Im stuck out in the middle of nowhere with no tv, internet or anything at work. I wanted to work on writing music at night, and work on the beat part during the week on my laptop with cubase, then mabey the correct term is to import my work into garage band where i could add the other tracks. Is that possible? I gotta figure out how to get the ez drummer on cubase first, thats turnning out to be a task of its own, lol
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Can you save anything in EZD like a “Combined Preset” in SD2 Rogue?
hum, and which part of this would be EZ, ‘combined’ or ‘preset’?
… but don’t mind me, I jest to get the gist of it, practice makes perfect as they say 🙂
to be OP, like I said, it is quite possible and not particularly difficult to export MIDI from Cubase and then import it into GarageBand if that’s all you need.
Judging by the thinly veiled humour, I’d say I’m expecting too much of the EZD package
You have the advantage of me sir, I don’t possess EZD and I don’t know its limitations compared to SD2.
Do you just select the drum kit library (eg Rock Solid), load a EZ Mic preset (eg close and compressed) and set the levels on your mixer?
I’m presuming that EZD doesn’t have the inserts, the bleed control, the routing, the dynamic level control, the mapping, the MIDI nodes, the X-drums, the tuning, the randomisation options, the layer & voice limits, etc, etc that SD2 does…
If there’s virtually nothing to set in an instance of EZD, I can see why you might be wondering why it’s worth the effort to transfer projects when the MIDI file is 99.9% of the content.
To the OP, if you want to do this seamlessly, run REAPER on both machines. I understand it will happily transfer project files between the two platforms…
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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.
