[BleedFunk]

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Once again going to answer my own question with a workaround.

The following worked for me:

• Leave the tom sound on “None” or set it to anything, doesn’t matter.
• Go to Settings | E-Drums/MIDI In…
• Select the tom.
• Click Mapping
• Go to any articulation that has a value, click the hamburger icon to bring up the context menu, and choose Clear | All.

Now when I hit the tom EZD3 does not voice, and I can assign a TD-17 sound to it.

Cheers!!

Reply To: EZD3 + Roland TD-17: Setting tom to “None” still voices when I hit it version: 3.0.6
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• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 8 months ago by BleedFunk.

[BleedFunk]

Mick Avoidant wrote:

BleedFunk wrote:

Mick Avoidant wrote:

Try listening to the audio previews of Big Rock Drums.

Some fantastic snare sounds in there, but the reverb in all the audio demos falls off like normal reverb. Would be great to have those sounds with a short sustain and then sudden decay. Would kill for that fast, loud aggressive but fast decay sound.

I only own EZDrummer 3, I’m guessing Superior would allow me to customize the sounds from EZXs like this?

Reply To: Lookin for that huge, gated 80’s sound, ‘Janet Jackson-style’. Which EZX..? version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

DDo you work with a DAW? That would let you gate the drums. SD3 would indeed let you gate drums. I play live to backing tracks made with Area 33. Those toms are big like in Air Tonight, not with reverb but with a close mic and another mic a few feet above each drum.

Ahhh I just learned something from your question. For live I was planning on running EZD3 in standalone with my TD-17 and playing mixed-down AIFF backing tracks from a separate device. My reason for that was “What does a DAW do for live play?”

You just answered what I’d use a DAW for for live play! Also thanks for the clarification about SD3. The only DAW I’ve been using is GarageBand, which has been fine for my needs. If you have any recommendations I’d love to hear them.

What do you use for backing track playback live?

Thanks very much for all the info!

Reply To: Lookin for that huge, gated 80’s sound, ‘Janet Jackson-style’. Which EZX..? version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

• This post was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by BleedFunk.

[BleedFunk]

Going through the kit presets in the Synthwave EZX that Shootie recommended (https://www.toontrack.com/forums/users/shootie-school):

Check out “Nostalgia Preset 1”. I’ve been looking for that snare sound for a project and this pretty much nails it for me:  https://www.toontrack.com/product/synthwave-ezx/

Cheers for the recommendation, Shawn!!

Reply To: Lookin for that huge, gated 80’s sound, ‘Janet Jackson-style’. Which EZX..? version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

• This post was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by BleedFunk.

[BleedFunk]

Shootie wrote:

If you have EZD2, the 80’s preset has an overdramatic snare. Also if you’re into blending tones, you could blend a snare from the Synthwave EZX with your acoustic snare.

Is sound blending something you can do right in EZD3? If you have a video or course about that I’d be all over it!

Reply To: Lookin for that huge, gated 80’s sound, ‘Janet Jackson-style’. Which EZX..? version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

[BleedFunk]

Mick Avoidant wrote:

Try listening to the audio previews of Big Rock Drums.

Some fantastic snare sounds in there, but the reverb in all the audio demos falls off like normal reverb. Would be great to have those sounds with a short sustain and then sudden decay. Would kill for that fast, loud aggressive but fast decay sound.

I only own EZDrummer 3, I’m guessing Superior would allow me to customize the sounds from EZXs like this?

Reply To: Lookin for that huge, gated 80’s sound, ‘Janet Jackson-style’. Which EZX..? version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

[BleedFunk]

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I see that a few other people have asked about user samples.

I’ve discovered a workaround which works for me (but a bugfix from ToonTrack would be better).

Be sure to save a copy of your project before attempting this.

What you need:

• A plaintext file editor (vi, emacs, Sublime Text, Notepad, pretty much any developer tool).

I am on macOS and fixed my problem with MacVim.

It turns out .ezdp3 files are plaintext. You can just open them and edit them.

In this case, open your file in your plaintext editor and look for the string “usersounds”. You should see a section similar to this:

usersounds 6 {
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/drums/covers/20240912_BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_bar_chimes_v01.aif"
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/drums/covers/20240912_BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_pickup_hit_v01.aif"
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/drums/covers/20240912_BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_backbeat_v01.aif"
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/covers/AnnieLennox/BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_backbeat_v01.aif"
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/covers/AnnieLennox/BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_pickup_hit_v01.aif"
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/covers/AnnieLennox/BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_bar_chimes_v01.aif"
}

In my case, the old directories that I had removed were the ones with 20240912_BrokenGlass. I deleted those lines, and EZD3 stopped complaining about the missing files.

Also note the integer next to usersounds appears to indicate the number of elements in the set (in other projects that had 2 entries, the number was 2, etc). It didn’t seem to make a difference, but I changed that value to 3 in this case. I changed the section to this:

usersounds 3 {
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/covers/AnnieLennox/BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_backbeat_v01.aif"
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/covers/AnnieLennox/BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_pickup_hit_v01.aif"
"/Users/foobar/dev/music/covers/AnnieLennox/BrokenGlass/edrums_export/percussion_bar_chimes_v01.aif"
}

Cheers!

Reply To: EZDrummer Bug: Complains about Missing Audio Files version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

• This post was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by BleedFunk.
  Reason: discovered another issue for this workaround

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Thanked by: Roman MacBook Pro and John

[BleedFunk]

It was the middle of the night here in New Zealand when it occurred to me, and I jumped out of bed to try it.

Work’s gonna SUCK today, but it’s worth it!

[BleedFunk]

BEST ANSWER

Cheers again Shootie! (I listened to your brushes stream and learned SO much. I need to figure out how to give you money because you’ve been an amazing resource)

I gave that a shot and it works, but I’ve figured out a workaround on the TD-17 that I prefer for my specific situation.

Typically when we use EZdrummer3 with a kit, we toggle MIDI Local Control “Off”. This turns off sample playback from the TD-17 module.

What I’ve done is turn MIDI Local Control back “On”, and I’ve made a User Kit with every other pad level turned all the way down only on the TD-17 side. Everything on the EZD3 side is normal.

So on the TD-17 side, I have a kit with exactly one instrument: A tambourine assigned to the hi-hat pad. Works perfectly for my situation, and I’m excited to experiment more!

Pros

• Flexible control over the mix volume of the resulting sound from both sides. You control the sound of the TD-17 mix from there, and the sound of the EZD3 mix from there.
• You can actually trigger three simultaneous sounds if you also use the layering feature of the TD-17.
• You can quickly mix-and-match any sound from the TD-17 library in the mix.
• The tambourine sample from the TD-17 is perfectly fine for my use case.

Cons

• Uses the TD-17 samples instead of the EZD3 ones.
• AFAICT Roland provides no way to just assign a “None” instrument to a pad on the TD-17 side, so turning down the level volume of every other pad in the User Kit takes a few minutes (but you only have to do it once).
• You have to muck with the MIDI local control toggle when you switch from kit-to-kit.

 

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 11 months ago by BleedFunk.

[BleedFunk]

If you have the time, lots of info on EZD and Brushes here.

Thanks Shootie! Just found your channel this morning was listening at work and just subbed. Really love your approach to teaching.

• This post was modified 11 months ago by BleedFunk.

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[BleedFunk]

Listen to the Brush Delight Preset in Audio Demos here https://www.toontrack.com/product/jazz-ezx/

Cheers Mick Avoidant . I actually listened to this but didn’t realize there were multiple tracks under the hamburger menu.

Sounds fantastic, thanks so much for pointing this out!

• This post was modified 11 months ago by BleedFunk.

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