User MIDI in EZKeys2

[Andreas Lettow]

Hi, I have bought the “Blues Bible” Library from ADG Productions. When dragging the MIDI files directly into Studio One I realized, that a drum part is included as separate track. In Studio One such track can easily be removed. In EZK2 there does not seem to be an option to choose, which tracks should be imported.

Is there a way how to exclude such drum parts. I want to save the riffs as User MIDI to have a quick access to them.

EZkeys version: 2.0.0
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Brad]

Hi there,

Not familiar with ADG. Are the drum MIDI and keyboard MIDI not separate MIDI files?

You could just export the keyboard MIDI from Studio One into a folder and then import into EZKeys 2 as user MIDI.

EZkeys version: 2.0.0
Operating system: macOS Ventura (13)

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One Pro (always up to date)
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

[Andreas Lettow]

Hi,

Unfortunately, they are not seperated. On the other hand, it would take a couple of hours to save all of the riffs after having deleted the drum tracks. I am looking for a quicker solution, but you’re right, this will work.

I hope, that this is not again a Studio One problem, as I think they have not resolved so far the drag&drop issue. It still does not work in EZK2

[Brad]

Andreas Lettow wrote:

Hi,

Unfortunately, they are not seperated. On the other hand, it would take a couple of hours to save all of the riffs after having deleted the drum tracks. I am looking for a quicker solution, but you’re right, this will work.

I hope, that this is not again a Studio One problem, as I think they have not resolved so far the drag&drop issue. It still does not work in EZK2

Drag & drop from a DAW to a plug-in is not supported in most DAWs, Studio One, Pro Tools and I believe Logic Pro are the only ones I have actually used and none in that group allow it.

Would it be possible to post one of the files here (in a zip archive) so I could see if there’s any alternate way to process them?

EZkeys version: 2.0.0
Operating system: macOS Ventura (13)

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One Pro (always up to date)
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

• This post was modified 2 years ago by Brad.

[Andreas Lettow]

The files are very small, therefore I did not zip it.
Here one of them as an example.
Further, I could it be that Toontrack probably removed the feature of choice of tracks in a multi-MIDI file? I am asking this because I am wondering why there is no option of “select hand” in the Grid Editor, although they show it their promo videos

[Zed]

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In EZKeys 1 when you drag MIDI into the lower section it would recognize when a MIDI file contained multiple tracks and would list them and allow you to checkmark only the tracks you wanted to load.

But thanks to your message, I just tried this in EZKeys 2 and see that it is not working like that anymore and is just opening all the tracks of the MIDI file dragged in (in my case 4 parts of orchestral MIDI).

Not sure if there is a way to change this behavior in EZKeys 2, but it looks like it make be an oversight that will need to be fixed in a coming update.

In answer to your questions, EZKeys 2 SHOULD INDEED allow you to ignore and NOT load the drum MIDI in a combined track MIDI file that you want to work with… but it presently seems to be not working in version 2.0.0. It is not just your Blues Bible loops.

EZkeys version: 2.0.0
Operating system: macOS Sierra (10.12)

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