What EZKEYS NEEDS. (Suggestions)

[Tom Howard]

HI

I have many ezkeys products and packs Also EZdrummer(Which I love)

My suggestions: EZ GRAND Piano.

1. Add 1/2 Block size to adding Chords. More than half the time. When You cut the block into 2 Sections. It gets confused and Non Musical!

So if we had the ability to enter a chord. That is intended to be Short(Comparatively). It would make a lot of MIDI Editing go away.

And Make the Music Flow more Correctly.

 

2. Grand piano Sound. Please Get a New Grand sound. Very high Grade Sample.(Sample it like Yamaha Sampled the S700 grand.).

I am sorry. But I can not wait to get away from that Sound of what you call Grand. And that is very disruptive to my Composing. *I have about 15 Different Grand Piano Sounds.

These 2 things would make the product. So much better.

I know you have the New Cin. Grand. But I would never buy it. If the Block size is not addressed.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Tom Howard wrote:

HI

1. Add 1/2 Block size to adding Chords. More than half the time. When You cut the block into 2 Sections. It gets confused and Non Musical!

So if we had the ability to enter a chord. That is intended to be Short(Comparatively). It would make a lot of MIDI Editing go away.

And Make the Music Flow more Correctly

Can you give a step-by-step example of how you want to write the music, and where/when it doesn’t sound musically?
Also, if possible, post an example of a EZkeys project here that you’re not happy with so I can have a look at it?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Olof Westman]

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Tom Howard wrote:

HI
2. Grand piano Sound. Please Get a New Grand sound. Very high Grade Sample.(Sample it like Yamaha Sampled the S700 grand.).

I am sorry. But I can not wait to get away from that Sound of what you call Grand. And that is very disruptive to my Composing. *I have about 15 Different Grand Piano Sounds.

We have two grands. The other one is the “Studio Grand”. Playing it feels more like sitting by a real piano. “Grand Piano” is processed to sit in a mix.

 

 

Olof Westman - Toontrack
Coder

[Adrian_49]

Suggestion:

A synth keyboard pack that can cover rock and hard rock rhythm parts, (such as Rush, Journey, Bon Jovi, Dream Theater, etc…) as well as fills and solos.

Thanks!

[Steve McNamara]

What I would most like to see is a button on the main interface for “original key” similar to “original tempo”.  The “key” choice is currently buried under the menu | browser drop-down button, AND selecting that option doesn’t disclose what the original key is (as far as I can tell).  Having that information right on the main screen would be extremely useful, along with the ability to have the major/minor key selector at the bottom automatically change to the original key of the verse, chorus, etc.

Thank you,

[Roy Campanella III]

Dear Toontrack,

Thank you for making an inspiring product! I have several suggestions:

1. It would be convenient for me if the “Details” panel on the Chord Selector were always open.
2. I would love a chord suggester function which made recommendations based on two factors:
   1. the common “substitutes” for a chord  (ex. the original chord in a progression is a I chord and the vi and the iii chords are suggested).
   2. the common “Leads to” chords (ex. the first three chords are I ii IV and V, I, vi, ii … are suggested as the next chord)
3. One possible way to integrate the suggester into the Chord Selector would be to have the suggested chords highlighted in green.
4. Ideally this suggester function would be customizable so that you could input your own “rules” or common choices given the chord that is to be changed and the chords that come before and after the chord to be changed.
5. Another great feature would be a “replace all instances of x chord with y chord” that could be applied to selected chord progressions in the Song Track.

Thank you for considering these suggestions.

[Tom Howard]

++++1

I totally agree on the Progression suggestions above.

That would have EZKEYS catch up with. All the newer DAW Chording and ‘Chording’ Programs. (Scaler, Instachord, Ect….).

[Tom Howard]

As I have said before.

2 different ‘Grands’ is not right.

The ‘Studio Grand’ should be part of The ‘Grand’ Instrument. Not a separate product.

It confuses your customers. And it is. Just not Right!

• You did not have the ‘ Studio Grand’ Back when I bought the ‘Grand’.
• It should’ve been a update to the grand product.

[Ray Campbell]

So, I came looking for answers, and end up with a suggestion:

• Allow Meter change within song track. If a song is mainly 4/4 but has a couple of bars of 3/4 during a change, one cannot have these changes reflected in the EZ Keys song track. Yes, you can go in and trim the relevant measures to be 3/4, but from there onward, the bar numbers don’t match the DAW, and you likely end up with each bar now starting somewhere in between the song track bar markers.
• I’d love to see a B3 type addon with appropriate MIDI Library. (OK, two suggestions.)

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Ray Campbell wrote:

So, I came looking for answers, and end up with a suggestion:

• Allow Meter change within song track. If a song is mainly 4/4 but has a couple of bars of 3/4 during a change, one cannot have these changes reflected in the EZ Keys song track. Yes, you can go in and trim the relevant measures to be 3/4, but from there onward, the bar numbers don’t match the DAW, and you likely end up with each bar now starting somewhere in between the song track bar markers.
• I’d love to see a B3 type addon with appropriate MIDI Library. (OK, two suggestions.)

Thanks for the feedback/ideas!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Steve Tichenor]

Maybe I’m missing it, but it seems that changing the velocity knob with the mouse is very inexact.   I use that feature all the time, but it’s very difficult to get it to the number I want, is jumps from one value to the other very quickly.  It would be great to have a popup when I could enter the numeric value.

I second the idea for a B3 midi pack.   The sound is in about 80% of my tracks.

[brookes]

please may we have the option to resize the GUI….its tiny…option to fill the screen even…thankyou for a great product.

• This post was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by brookes.

[onewayout_1]

Adrian_49 wrote:

Suggestion:

A synth keyboard pack that can cover rock and hard rock rhythm parts, (such as Rush, Journey, Bon Jovi, Dream Theater, etc…) as well as fills and solos.

Thanks!

+1

[Frank Schuck]

I’d love to see a B3 type addon with appropriate MIDI Library. (OK, two suggestions.)

 

+1

Great idea!

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