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[Donna]

EXD2 shows it as 1.5.1
Yes Windows 10

[Donna]

its not installed on the default drive, but its on the same drive and in the same location as the other EZxs that are working.

[Donna]

Thanks John
SD3 says 1.0.0 but product manager thinks its updated to 1.1.0
wierd.. any ideas?

[Donna]

ohh that would be so nice. SD3 really does seem to combine the main feature sets of each. As an owner of both, it looks like there would be little to no use for EZD2 after upgrading SD2 (unless I’m missing something).

[Donna]

Thanks Scott

Kind folks on the Reaper forum straightened me out.

So turns out right click on the button in the fx window that has the outputs (top right, mine says 2/32) Reaper has midi out options. By default it is set to “replace midi” but by changing to “merge with midi bus” I get the desired effect.. now the piano roll works.. along with the EZD songtrack etc and I can collapse everything else into a folder track and have it nice and tidy.

This also makes it easier to stack multiple instances of EZD2 for time sig changes. I know many folks are talking about that.

Thanks

[Donna]

Thanks for the reply.

I had tried this, and i tried again step by step.

This does allow me to use the song track and edit play style, but that’s not the problem.

I cant compose an entire song in the song track because of not being change time sigs, also I often need to move some hits around. So what I would want is to get song sections created and drag em out to the reaper track to finish in the piano roll. If i drag the clip out to the track, and remove it from the EZD2 song track, when I play the clip in reaper it doesn’t play.

It seems like EZD is not passing the midi from the track (midi clip) on to superior drummer

[Donna]

Why couldn’t it be handled the way Jamstix does it where you have to manually set the time sig change in both the host and plugin.

[Donna]

You would want to edit them in a DAW sequencer. An example is REAPER http://www.reaper.fm

You can drag the midi block from EXkeys into the DAW track to edit in the “piano roll” screen where you can edit each event for timing, pitch, velocity etc.. Then you could drag it back into ezkeys song timeline if you want.

If you are just using the EZkeys standalone, you can only edit the midi blocks with the built in tools.. transpose, tempo, use browser midi style etc..

[Donna]

I’m surprised you got the time of day from support.

Scott has a lot of patience

Your music, videos and attitude all share the same space.

[Donna]

Odd, I am using ezmix 2 fine.. and I think Ive had superior drummer since before windows 7 was released.. im certain superior drummer didnt always require win 7

Do you mean that the latest updated versions havent been tested on <windows 7

Its not a huge deal breaker i guess, Im going to update to a new DAW soon anyway, but it seems like all the sudden the products are listing the windows 7 requirement. I know that some people tried installing superior drummer 2 and the installer wont even install it. It just kicks out the message that it needs windows 7. Im just wondering if I would get the same with EZkeys or would it be more like EZmix 2 and Superior drummer where its just not technically supported but it may work.

thanks

[Donna]

I suggest a free account with http://www.soundcloud.com
Upload an mp3 and put a link in this forum

[Donna]

Post a clip of what you have and I’ll try to help. A few things to point out that might be different from the videos
1.your guitar, pickups, strings
2. Playing technique and style
3. Previously mentioned levels into the plugin
4. Recording tactic (I.e. double track and pan tracks)
5.post ampsim fx chain

Lastly and probably most important, is the performance level

There is no such thing as an amp or an amp Sim that will make you sound good. I am not saying this is your issue. It is just one of the common misconceptions.

I’d be glad to try to help if you post a clip

[Donna]

@Olle said:

SD2 users that buy EZD2 would probably do that mostly to
get the new song writing MIDI functionality but EZD2 comes
with two excellent new sound libraries that are not 16 bit.

I won’t be one of them. The songwriting tools look cool but not enough to buy the entire ezd2 product for. That’s like buying a ford mustang but then having to buy a focus just to get the air conditioner

[Donna]

@kmanick said:

@reaperGG said:

Toontrack should create a way for superior owners to get the songwriting features even if its a purchase plug like ezplayer 2 or something. Those song features are great but it is not a rational path to also buy ezd when you have superior

this is where I am now as well. I have Superior but not EZ. I’d love the the new song features/tapping etc but I would think tht at some point we’d have those available to us in superior. I mean isn’t Superior the “flagship” product? or am I mistaken

Right. Now I can understand that these features took a lot of time and money to develop, and may be more than a S2 update. This might be a great opportunity for Toontrack to come up with a new product. Along the basic lines of EZplayer (being a midi tool only not a sampler), except with the melodic songwriting features of Ezkeys and the Drum featuers of Ezdrummer 2.

Maybe toontrack wants us to buy EZD2 also.. but I cant go that direction. I bought superior to have the best they have to offer. I don’t want to supplement that with EZD for just some of the features..

I would probably pay a reasonable price for a S2 update that gets these features or for a seperate plug like I described.

[Donna]

Toontrack should create a way for superior owners to get the songwriting features even if its a purchase plug like ezplayer 2 or something. Those song features are great but it is not a rational path to also buy ezd when you have superior

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