[Enrique Rodriguez]

@Rogue said:

you will find those notes right at the bottom of the note range, but they are not meant to be programmed by hand. Well, you can try but they are not intended to be – and will behave in ways that will be puzzling… they are instead intended to be MIDI controlled by the files included with EZdrummer 2.

This is correct. I just bought EZD2 last night and I discovered the same thing. My M-Audio Axiom 49 I have to drop down 3 octaves to find those percussion MIDI notes, but they place them “out of the way” for a reason I guess (they are useless trying to play on keyboard.) It’s too bad EZD2 did this.

Yes, you must pick from one of the grooves in the percussion selections.

HOWEVER, when it comes to shaker and tambourine, I ALWAYS play them live, in to a mic. If you play and apply it right, you can really make your music more dramatic, as opposed to those instruments just broken in 8th, 16th, 32nd MIDI notes. Play those instruments like gypsies would, or what you would hear in Greek or Spanish or even East Indian music. Yes, you CAN use this approach to pop music!

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