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[Erik]

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Hey jbsalo,

If your MIDI/Instrument track is empty in your DAW, but EZdrummer still plays when you press play, it means there is MIDI in the song track within the plugin. When you save your DAW project, the state of EZdrummer is also saved (together with the rest of all the other loaded plugins), and the MIDI in the song track is a part of that state.

You can keep the MIDI in the song track of EZdrummer or drag it out into your DAW, either works fine. The “Follow Host” button next to the transport controls controls whether or not the MIDI in the song track should play when activating playback in your DAW.

The upside to keeping MIDI in the song track is that you can save your EZdrummer session into a project file which can be opened in the standalone application, or imported into other projects. If you use MIDI from your browser, you can also show similar grooves or variations of a MIDI block. Putting the MIDI in your DAW has the upside of letting you edit the MIDI note by note, where EZdrummer only allows that to an extent with the Edit Playstyle view.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

Hey jbsalo,

If your MIDI/Instrument track is empty in your DAW, but EZdrummer still plays when you press play, it means there is MIDI in the song track within the plugin. When you save your DAW project, the state of EZdrummer is also saved (together with the rest of all the other loaded plugins), and the MIDI in the song track is a part of that state.

You can keep the MIDI in the song track of EZdrummer or drag it out into your DAW, either works fine. The “Follow Host” button next to the transport controls controls whether or not the MIDI in the song track should play when activating playback in your DAW.

The upside to keeping MIDI in the song track is that you can save your EZdrummer session into a project file which can be opened in the standalone application, or imported into other projects. If you use MIDI from your browser, you can also show similar grooves or variations of a MIDI block. Putting the MIDI in your DAW has the upside of letting you edit the MIDI note by note, where EZdrummer only allows that to an extent with the Edit Playstyle view.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

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[Erik]

Thanks Steve,

I’ve forwarded your feedback to our designers, let’s see what the future holds : )

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

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[Erik]

Sight-reading is really good rhythm practice, so you should ask your drum teacher if you should.

If he can provide MIDI for you Superior Drummer can read that just fine, although you may want to create a preset in SD3 with custom mappings to match his MIDI files.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Hey Steve,

There’s no functionality like that at this moment.

If you find notes that are played too low, you can either use the chord wheel to move all notes in a block one octave up, or you can open the grid editor, select all notes below E and transpose them one octave up (keyboard shortcut Cmd+Shift+Arrow Up).

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Hey Robr,

If you set the tempo track to match Cubase, do you get the same issue? If you track the audio in the standalone application (and set the tempo to 72 BPM in the tempo map), is the delay issue still there? I’d be grateful if you could try that before I start asking for you to send stuff.

Looking at your screenshots, even though the tracker is supposed to insert the MIDI as 72 BPM, it looks more like 80 BPM comparing the tracks.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

If you use the “Octave -” button on your keyboard you can access it. Note that the tambourine and shaker are so called “future hit” instruments and aren’t easily playable live.

MIDI has 127 assignable keys, while the largest keyboards only have 88 (going from MIDI key 21 through 108), so in order to access the notes in the periphery, you need to transpose your MIDI keyboard.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Hi E,

There’s no capo in EZbass, but depending on how your write music you can use the tuning controls to help you.

If you normally use chord names (i.e. calling the “C shape” chord D major when you have a capo on the second fret), then you should use proper chords in the song track and try to move away from visual playing.

If you’re used to what many sites on the internet do and want to emulate that in EZbass (naming chords based on their shape, rather than actual tone), simply tune up in the Tuning box and play as if you were playing without capo. E.g. to emulate a capo on the second fret, tune up two semitones and think of the open string as the capo “zero fret”. This will let you play with shapes instead of names.

I hope that wasn’t as confusing to read as it was to type!

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

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[Erik]

Hey Caebo,

It’s not quite as simple as counting an average of samples per layer (fortunately..!) and you’re probably doing yourself a disservice by thinking that way. The important thing is whether playback sounds artificial or not.

I don’t think anyone would have a problem putting an EZX in a busy mix, but if you want the drums front and center, the increased range of sounds from a Superior Line product makes it less likely the listener will find anything uncanny about them.

One thing Olof didn’t mention is that the number of samples loaded are actually limited in many SDX libraries (SD3 core to a lesser extent) to keep the memory usage down. For instance, the default Death SDX kit loads 2.6 GB into memory, but removing the layer limits brings that up to 4.1 GB. Does that higher number really make a difference, though? My personal answer to that is that my favorite EZX loads 350 MB into memory and sounds great.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Hey Gerry,

Could you save a project from the standalone application and attach it here? You will probably need to put it in a zip file first. (Right click the file and select “Send to… / Compressed (zipped) folder”)

Thanks

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

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Within the Chord wheel you have option to change which octave the chord is played on. Simply drag that up one octave up. You can select multiple chord blocks and change octave on all of them from the “Add/Edit Chords” button in the song track header bar.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

Within the Chord wheel you have option to change which octave the chord is played on. Simply drag that up one octave up. You can select multiple chord blocks and change octave on all of them from the “Add/Edit Chords” button in the song track header bar.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

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[Erik]

Hey Robr,

Most likely it’s because the tracker tempo did not match your audio source. Make sure that the tempo map settings match whatever tempo was set in your song. E.g. if you recorded your song in 180 BPM but have tracker set to 120 BPM, while the notes will be put in the correct place in relation to the song audio, they will be aligned to a different tempo in the MIDI, which was recorded thinking the tempo was another than it actually is.

A good way to make sure you don’t forget setting the tempo is always having the metronome active in the tracker.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

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