Using a loop in a song

[James]

At the start of a song, I want to loop the first two bars (in this case with 2 patterns). No big deal. Select it. Play it, it’s looped. But… the goal is to come out of the loop and have EZ just keep on playing through the tune. However when I click the icon to stop looping, EZ jumps to the point in the song where it would be as if I didn’t use the loop at all. And this is regardless where in the measure the playback is when I click the loop icon. Meaning it will jump in the middle of a measure if I so click. Basically, I’m wanting to use the loop as a vamp.

 

I’m using it with Mainstage 3.4.0. Thanks in advance for advice and suggestions.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

It’s been a while since I used Mainstage, but have you enabled “Follow Host” in EZdrummer 2? Do you have to sync the timeline in EZdrummer 2 with any other virtual instruments in Mainstage? If not, try to disable Follow Host.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[James]

Hey Henrik,

 

thanks for the reply. Yes, I do have follow host enabled as I’m using other synced channel strips, such as Ultrabeat and synced echos on another patch. But strange enough, with Follow Host disabled, EZ does the same thing.

[Henrik Ekblom]

EZdrummer 2 can only follow the host, or be kept in a loop. The combination you want isn’t possible, since it (probably) a pretty uncommon way to work. The idea behind the song track is that if you want some iterations of a song block, you should duplicate it, as many times as you want it to play.

If it’s important that it works the way you describe – can you have a loop in Mainstage and do the looping/remove loop area there? (I don’t remember how Mainstage looks exactly, maybe there isn’t even a time line there?)

Otherwise, I would suggest a DAW, maybe Live since it’s developed to support live performances.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[James]

It looks like I’m going to just have to go with building a song in EZ, switching patches in MS as the song progresses, and thereby triggering a new pattern/loop/song in the EZ module that would be a part of the MS patch. But thanks for the replies.

 

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