[confundido]

Yeah I’ve got the Hip-hop expansion and that allows me to do the characteristic tuned 808 kick and the 808 electronic hihats which are pretty much the cue that it’s rap (along with those funny little bursts of hihat or snare).  I thought Toontracks had some specific Rap expansion and I thought I recalled listening to the demo for it. Maybe it was something else tho.

[confundido]

Thanks. I made the same assumption as soundsgood. Turns out my recent question about the clap was asked before several times.

Dennis

[confundido]

Yeah and my Launchkey Mini just has a 2 octave keyboard and no UI to figure out where it’s transposed to. Man I know I spent an hour looking for how to trigger those extra percussion elements. I guess it’s like when I look in the fridge and can’t find something and then my wife comes in and it’s right there in front of me.

Dennis

[confundido]

Wow I was sure I’d exhaustively been thru the Piano Roll view but this morning I went back and sure enough clap, shaker, and tambourine are accessible down on C# 0, D 0, and D# 0.  The basics are up 3 octaves: kick is C3, snare is D3, and rimshot is E3. Duh. Thanks for causing me to reexamine.

Oh and WRT Mick’s suggestion yeah I looked at the MIDI options on EZD. It apparently just can’t be a MIDI source as I never see it as an input on the track.

Dennis

 

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[confundido]

Thanks for the responses. I don’t own Pop Punk or Fusion.

Regarding the DAW supporting “stacking”, lemme make sure I’ve got it right. I add a 2nd ezDrummer and set the source as the same MIDI track. I select a different kit (or at least a different snare) and only assign the snare output from the second instance. And then ta-dah  I have two snare tracks and I can pan them individually.  Doesn’t give me note-level control and I can’t do stereo flams but automation can bring it in and out. That could work. Thanks for the idea.

Dennis aka confundido

[confundido]

It looks like that left most pad group allows me to do chromatic kicks.  So I’m gonna mess with that a bit.  The pad on the bottom right of that group looks like it’ll do the trick and I can access from a higher octave of my MIDI keyboard.

[confundido]

It just occurred to me, I can insert a whole new EZ Drummer track and set up the kit differently with the desired tuning.  Any way to do this short of having an entire track for every note?

Reply To: tuned 808 kick version: 2.2.3
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[confundido]

No, I have an older copy of Ez Drummer 2. I didn’t spend a lot of time researching Bandmate but I don’t see how that would do it either.

I’d be happy to just be able to assign an arbitrary sound to one of the pads and then I could edit that pad.  But I only get a very limited selections of instruments to choose from.

I only do this very occasionally and would therefore prefer not to spend any more money if at all possible.

Thanks,

Dennis

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