[Charlotte McMillan]

John wrote:

Hi,

is the time signature the same in DP as on the EZdrummer 2 Song Track?

Does it make any difference if you first drag the MIDI to the Desktop and then drag to DP, alternatively import via menu to DP?

BR,
John

The time signature is exactly the same in EZD2 and Digital Performer.  It makes no difference whether I first drag the midi to the desktop or import via menu to DP, the midi always ends up being garbled.  I’ll add that it also doesn’t matter if I drag midi from EZD2 inside VE Pro to DP – I still get the same result.

Reply To: dragging EZ Drummer grooves into digital performer version: 2.1.8
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• This post was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Charlotte McMillan.

[Charlotte McMillan]

I’m having this problem, too, when I drag from the Song Creator window of either EZ Drummer or EZ Keys!  Not only don’t the measures align, but the midi information is garbled – notes are elongated, shifted, etc.  It’s a mess.

Reply To: dragging EZ Drummer grooves into digital performer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

[Charlotte McMillan]

I’m having this problem, too, when I drag from the arrange window of either EZ Drummer or EZ Keys!  Not only don’t the measures align, but the midi information is garbled – notes are elongated, shifted, etc.  It’s a mess.

Reply To: dragging EZ Drummer grooves into digital performer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

[Charlotte McMillan]

Chris Wilson wrote:

The first main issue is that when I import the MIDI into DP the start of the midi file is missing (meaning the first chord disappears) and in some cases the end of what appear to be chunks of MIDI data (it looks like EZKeys exports the file in sections/chunks) also disappear.  This results in gaps in the MIDI that while possible to fix (by manually replicating the part) will be horribly time consuming.  The other main issue is that the timing of the file is off throughout the entire song – meaning, different sections are off different amounts.  So, you can’t simply drag the entire file into time

Chris: I have had this very same problem for at least two years now.  I’m now on DP 10.11 and the most current version of EZKeys (1.3.0) and EZD2 (2.1.8).  When I drag and drop from the arrange window in either EZKeys or EZDrummer2 to DP, the midi ends up garbled at the beginning:  sometimes notes are missing or very elongated, the whole pattern might be pushed off by a fraction of a measure, and/or the whole pattern might also be stretched beyond its original length…  I’ve filed support tickets with Toontrack, who ultimately told me that it is a known issue and just shrugged their shoulders.  I also corresponded with MOTU about this; they said they couldn’t duplicate the problem, but the tech person was using a demo version of EZD which was not the same version I had.  This is. SO. FRUSTRATING.  I feel it is Toontrack’s responsibility to make sure this product works in all the major DAWs, of which DP is one.

There is a clumsy workaround.  In EZKeys, you can drag the file from the arrange window into the Favorites window, and from there drag it into the DAW, and it seems to leave the midi intact.  Of course, EZDrummer does not have a Favorites window, so sometimes I’ll open up EZKeys merely to use the Favorites window:  I edit a pattern in EZD, then drag from there to the Favorites window in EZKeys, and from there drag it into DP.  It’s time consuming and annoying to have to open an instrument which uses up memory merely to shuttle midi to my DAW.

I’m a huge fan of Toontrack products and have been using them for a long time.  I would love to get into EZBass, but if the arrangement window is going to give me this same exasperating problem, I won’t purchase it.

Toontrack – please help.

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Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

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