[Chad]

Brad wrote:

Chad wrote:

Hi,

I’m using Windows 11, Studio One 7, and EZDrummer 3 with the Latin Percussion kit.

What I’d like to do is this:

I have a shaker groove drug into the Song Track, which is great. I’d like to add a cajon groove as well and hear both of them together. Whenever I drag a cajon groove over the shaker groove, though, it just replaces the shaker groove.

I also tried adding a second song track so that the shaker is on Track 1 and the cajon is on Track 2, but only the selected Track (either 1 or 2) will play at one time.

I do know how to do what I want when I drag the grooves from EZD into my Studio One arranger window, but it seems as though there should be a way to do it all within EZDrummer 3 using the Song Track; I just can’t seem to find how.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Operating system: Windows 11

• This post was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Chad.

Hi there,

Instead of dragging the cajon to the song track copy it and then Right/Option click the track and select: Paste on Selected Groove > Cajon

That will merge the cajon with whatever is on the track/section.

Operating system: macOS Tahoe (26)

• This post was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Brad.

Thanks, I’ll give that a shot. I’m not sure I know how to copy a groove (I’ve always just dragged and dropped either into the Song Track in EZD3 or directly into the Studio One arranger window), but I imagine I should be able to figure it out.

[Chad]

Thanks John.

Ok, I don’t know what’s going on now. I just downloaded the 2.1.1 version update and installed it. It told me that I already had that versions installed. I continued with the “repair installation” option just to be sure, and it said it finished without any issues. But still when I check “About EZD2” under the Menu, it says “2.0.2,” and I’m still getting the “Some MIDI packs require a newer version of EZDrummer ….” message when I first open EZD2 in a project that I mentioned in the other thread. I’ve already tried restarting. I’m on Windows 7.

(This would also explain why the Toontrack site wasn’t showing an “update available” for EZD2 — because I’d already done it.)

Also, I tried your method above of recording the percussion in the Song Track of EZD2, and that worked, but I can’t find a way to turn on the metronome. The manual says it’s accessible via the the “Settings” menu, but I went through everything in the menu and couldn’t find a metronome anywhere.

[Chad]

My EZD2 version is 2.0.2.

Are you talking about recording in your host DAW or using the Song Creator? I’ve never used the latter.

Thanks

[Chad]

Ok great, thanks. It’s strange that it wasn’t showing me “updates available” on the My Products page, because it does show that on several of my expansion kits.

Anyway, thanks. I’ll give that a try!

[Chad]

That’s really strange. I have a blues MIDI kit and a jazz one, but I can’t imagine they’re augmenting my rock grooves much. When I do a simple kick – snare – kick – snare, I get dozens and dozens of 100% matches.

[Chad]

@David Levy said:

If I want to edit the Midi , I have to export the files out of EZD2 to be dumped somewhere on my hard drive , and then imported into protools so I can access the midi editor window …, then after editing , bounce / export the midi file out of protools , and then manually import it back into EZD2
(Note; but really thats another issue outside of this posts intention, as in depth Midi editing is a complex task, and thats why DAWS have dedicated editors)
…., but EZD2 should simply allow dragging of any midi file into and out of EZD2 .

I have yet to use the Song Creator function in EZD2, so I can’t speak to that. But in Reaper, I’m easily able to just drag an EZD2 pattern into an empty track and edit the MIDI there. Are you using EZD2 in standalone mode?

In fact, since I started using EZD1, which didn’t have the Song Creator, I just always built my songs directly in Reaper by dragging patterns into the track and editing them or punching in different fills as necessary. Maybe the Song Creator would make this easier with its features, but it seems really easy to me the way I do it. Like I said, I haven’t tried the SC yet, but if you’re having as many problems as you are, maybe you should just try building the songs directly into your DAW?

[Chad]

Ok thanks Scott. That’s the first chink it EZD2’s I’ve yet to notice.

[Chad]

Are y’all talking about using EZD2 in standalone mode?

[Chad]

By golly, that was it Scott. Thanks so much!

[Chad]

Hi John, thanks for the response. I tried re-scanning, but that changed nothing.

I opened the pin-connector and tried changing some stuff, but to be honest, I don’t know exactly how that works. Nevertheless, I made some changes to it, but it didn’t seem to change anything.

Should I just try reinstalling the program?

[Chad]

Thanks Scott. That’s what I did: completely uninstall and start over, and it worked. I appreciate the information.

[Chad]

Nevermind … I figured it out.

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