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[Brooks H]

Is 1.0.4 out? Do you all keep your music computers constantly online? Do you open the Manager everyday?

I wish Toontrack & others would send notifications of updates via email.

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[Brooks H]

In the near future, I’d be happy with a minor update. Add what I imagine would be easy, like a bar-zero option.

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[Brooks H]

Yeah, this is available in both EZbass and SD3. I can’t imagine it would take much to add this to EZkeys. It’s just a 1-bar shift in the sequencer, no?

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[Brooks H]

Yeah, another vote for extended chords. It may not be important in some genres, but it’s important in others. Jazz bassists play extensions regularly.

Sure, we can edit grooves, but that’s no where near as convenient as labeling a chord and the line including the extensions intelligently. And maybe add a % setting for how often extensions are played.

Also, I haven’t tried much of them yet, but lines played over slash chords aren’t done well from what I’ve heard. They could use some help.

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[Brooks H]

Damn! 2nd MIDI drage thread re: Studio One.

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[Brooks H]

Sweet, came to ask the same thing.

John wrote:

Hi,

it’s a plugin you can put on a track where you e.g. have recorded a guitar or drums and send it to the EZbass plugin to track and convert to MIDI for a bassline.

BR,
John

As the title of plugin indicates, this is for guitar/drum audio, not MIDI, correct?

I’ll likely hold off on this install, at least for now. I’d be using drum & piano MIDI to create grooves.

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• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Brooks H.

[Brooks H]

The interview on the product page gives the impression the keyboard MIDI was used for the strings in the demos. Can anyone confirm that?

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[Brooks H]

Robert Shaplo wrote:

This thread is four years old this month and still no major updates.  Very disappointing.

And they announce well in advance, so there seems to be no EZKeys 2 coming in the foreseeable future.

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[Brooks H]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I’m noticing this phenomenon in the overheads of the included kits. I forget witch bass drum – I’ll report back if it matters – but it’s way to the left in the overheads. I used some mid/side EQ to center the bass frequencies which is having some undesired effect on my floortom 2. But it seemed to work better than narrowing the stereo field as I want a spread on my toms, and the kick would only be less to the left.

This is a bit disappointing. I’ve been trying to use SD3 more as the feature set is incredible. But there always seems to be a “small” thing keeping me from using it as much as I’d like. If this is in fact due to the room, I wish more care was taken in the room selection or kit/mic placement. My other go-to is obviously using some trickery as I can pan kit pieces in the overheads & room mics, but it’s convenient if not as realistic.

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[Brooks H]

I am hoping for some additional feedback. Regardless of where the files are dragged from, the extra bars are there. I imagine the problem is SD3’s interpretation of the file.

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[Brooks H]

Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

What kind of results do you get if you drag one of the offending MIDI grooves from the Finder (IIRC you’re on a Mac?) into SD3?

jord

• This post was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

The same grooves dragged from the finder have all the extra bars.

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[Brooks H]

Found it. I added the grooves via:

“Add a Linked folder of 3rd party MIDI files to the Folder Browser section of the Grooves tab.
Adding linked folders to the Folder Browser is done by clicking the Menu > Folders > Add Linked
Folder. You will then navigate to the folder on your computer.”

And Finder = file location on my Mac. Ha! I was thinking Toontrack terminology. No, I haven’t tried dragging directly from there. I will try that once back in the studio in a few hours and report back.

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[Brooks H]

I forget exactly how, and without the terminology, I’m having trouble finding it in the manual. But it was something to the effect of directing SD3 to the locations where the MIDI was already stored and picking the appropriate mapping for each group; Abbey Road Series, Studio Drummer, BFD 1.5 and some Loop Loft (GM) stuff I had.

I misspoke as the BFD MIDI is not GM and resulted in the most misrepresented loop lengths. But the Loop Loft files produced quite a few as well and are the files I’m interested in fixing, at least initially.

I’ve added these files to Addictive Drums 2 in a similar fashion (not the BFD files yet). Though there were a handful with a similar issue, it was always just an extra bar, and a very small fraction of grooves had this problem.

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[Brooks H]

As usual, some of the terminology is going over my head. Operative system’s finder/explorer? I’m dragging from SD3’s groove tab. I’ve previously synced these grooves so they show up there.

Help me understand where you’re saying to drag them from and back to please.

I do understanding needing to sync afterwards.

Thanks

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[Brooks H]

Yeah, this happens to me sometimes, more often lately. I’ll try this.

 

Thanks!

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