[David Casas]

Sorry to revive this thread, but I’d like to join the request of this feature. The ability to manually select which samples are loaded into the pool.

There’s a snare I really like, but there’s one sample that I’d like to remove as it stands out from the other samples (same articulation and velocity), but there’s no way to exclude this sample. Disabling “Randomize Hits” is out of the question as it would introduce machine-gunning, and disabling “Use Adjacent Layers” doesn’t help in this case. Adjusting the layer limits in the “Voice and Layers” box also doesn’t work in this case as it seems to be the first sample of the layer. Funnily enough, I found out that increasing the layer limits sometimes introduces other undesired samples.

To be fair, in my case this sample barely stands out in a raw kit without processing. But after heavy processing with compressors, eq, exciters, and reverb, this particular sample stands out from the rest quite a bit. It doesn’t really sound bad, just too different, and I wish I could exclude it.

Being able to customize the sample pool for each drum is a feature that would be much appreciated. Maybe we’ll get it in Superior Drummer 4? 🙏

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[David Casas]

ventriz wrote:

which triggers the drum being played in a loop for sound checking/mixing purposes etc.

Just play a midi from the grooves tab (they’ll play on loop) and solo the desired drums.  That’s what I do when I’m setting up effects in the mixer.

[David Casas]

Actually I’m annoyed by the fact that mouse clicks on the UI drums are not exactly 127 velocity but some value slightly below 127. You can check this if you disable randomize hits and adjacent layers for a drum, then click on it, then click the preview pad on max velocity, at the top. You will notice that the sample played back is not the same. I understand that this is intended as 127 would probably be too much to preview for most drums and cymbals when clicking on them.

But yeah, it would be nice to have an option to set the mouse click velocity.

Also ability to have multiple preview pads on screen would be useful.

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[David Casas]

This SDX sounds really interesting along with the The Eigthies EBX (which releases next week).

However I’m going to wait and see what do they surprise us with in Rocktober and Metal Month.

[David Casas]

So far I found many usable presets in the core library. These drums are well recorded. Good job Toontrack!

Reply To: EZDrummer 3 version: 3.0.0
Operating system: Windows 10

[David Casas]

Is not about the waveforms looking good or not, but if their peaks are offset like this they will clip much earlier when limiting the track, leaving wasted headroom. Yes, the software is supposed to mimic a drummer but the presets should also be mix ready. I’m really happy with other EZXs though.

[David Casas]

Hi,

I recorded this in Audacity using my interface’s loopback, I was just clicking in the kick drum in standalone EZdrummer, I clicked various times for each preset to get the diffrent hit variations, that’s why it looks like the midi was double triggered.

I find it strange that these kicks come with such peak offset. I tried other kicks from other EZX and they are more balanced. I know a little offset is natural and acceptable but this offset looks too big

[David Casas]

Hi Swathe, I’ve been using EZDrummer 2 for a couple months, I don’t think there’s a fix for that hiss. However, that’s a problem only for the default kits. I’ve purchased some EZ Expansions and none of them had that problem, it’s just the way the default kits were recorded.

For anyone into rock, I’m particullary happy with the “Rock Solid!” and “Pop/Rock” EZXs

[David Casas]

Just activated my EZD2 demo yesterday, everything was fine on the speakers, the presets sounded really good, I loved it, thought it was really what I needed… Then today I put on my headphones loud and… I noticed the insane ammount of noise/hiss tail that some of the drums have! Specially the kick. Load the “Prog Rock”* preset, and without changing any setting, try to do a blast beat on the kick with your mouse, then stop, you’ll notice all the noise from each hit stacking up to huge ammounts. I guess this can be tamed with a gate, and some other presets, such as the “Tight”, doesn’t suffer from this, the noise is barely noticeable there. However I think this a very bad design of samples for a 150€ product, I understand that these samples are pre-processed, but then the noise should have been tamed too… I tried the AD2 demo aswell and their drums don’t do that, however I still think that EZD2 drums sound better, specially for my genre, but the noise thing is a major turn off… I don’t really know what drum library to get anymore since all of them seem to have major pros and cons. I have NI’s Studio Drummer but their presets suck and they don’t have any kick or snare sound I like, however they have a hold and decay knob for each drum that let you tame the tails of the hits.

In short, I’d insta-buy EZD2 if it weren’t because I noticed the noise thing today… now I really have to think about it. Anyway, thanks for the demo

*edit: the “Power Batter” preset has even more noticeable noise tail

Update: I just noticed a fun thing, changing the pitch of the drum inside of EZD2 does NOT change the pitch of its hiss/noise. But if you solo that drum’s channel, the hiss is still there! So maybe the samples are fine and the noise thing is related to the internal sound engine… I hope they look into it

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