[Steve Wallace]

I’m not recording hits… just editing how MIDI files fall. I’m not a fan of entering hits on the MIDI files with the Record function. I just don’t feel that it fixes the problem of accents on the pickup.

As an example, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” — the main riff of the song does not start on the down-beat, but on the “lead off” as some drummers call it.

I would like EZDrummer to have an option to do this automatically.

Since you do not (yet), I just hack up an existing MIDI file and put a small slice across the beginning of the measure, then have opening hit turned on and maybe increase the hits on certain drums so they all fall right on the lead-off before the downbeat.

Any of this make sense? I just want to know if someone has an easier way. If I just record a hit, then there is very often another hit of the same drum/cymbal on the downbeat so you get double-hits that don’t make sense.

Thanks.

[Steve Wallace]

I agree. Window is far too small; not for editing play style but for working with the MIDI section it’s terribly small.

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