[fcarosone]

So the info in the youtube was not correct.. I will check as soon as I have the software in front of me, thank you much again

[fcarosone]

Thanks a lot for replying immediately.

I didn’t mention in the first post, but there is one complication. In many bars I changed the patterns via Edit Play Style to give continuous variations. I recall that someone wrote or said in a youtube video, some time back, that these Edit Play Style edits are performed real time by EZD and not printed in the song track midi patterns, so the midi drag from the song track to the host does not capture these continuous variations (I didn’t verify if the midi export works on this particular feature).

As for tonight, I found a workaround.

In settings, I checked the MIDI Out option. Then in the DAW I created a MIDI track, set the input to EZD output, and put it into record mode. During the recording, I heard EZD performs all the edit play styles and prints them to midi in the DAW. After that, I move the midi file to the EZdrummer track and DISABLE “Follow Host” in EZD. Now EZD plays the midi file in the DAW with all the Edit Play Style variations and I can render the audio in the DAW as I do with all synths and samplers. After bouncing the audio, I go back to EZD settings and uncheck the midi out option, archive the midi track with the midi file, and remove the EZD VST instrument (my mix phase is done with audio only, I saved the project in case I need to return to the drums)

I consider the midi out as a workaround, in my opinion the export audio should work properly at least for tempo changes. If anybody has a faster solution is welcome

[fcarosone]

The capability of adding time signature and tempo changes in the EZDrummer Song Track has been added in EZD3 finally, so I purchased the odd-time MIDI packs

Yet, I still have some troubles in v3.

I did time signature changes in the DAW and introduced manually in the song track in EZD3: that worked fine. Just remember, if you insert new fresh measures in the DAW, the DAW might shift automatically the following signature changes, while EZD3 does not do it and you have to move the shifts in the song track yourself.

In another project I had many slight tempo changes to follow real players, and EZD3 as a VST followed nicely, but when I exported the Song Track as a wav, the wav does not follow those changes. I am in “Follow Host” mode. If a disable Follow Host , tempo in EZD3 goes back to 120bpm fixed and is even more wrong.

Is importing the tempo map from the DAW to EZD the only way to make it work in this case? Since it followed the tempo changes without doing anything I was illuded… Thanks

[fcarosone]

I’ve jumped on EZD 3 recently, and I think things have changed with this version. I’ve always ignored the song track when in v2, and drag the individual midi into my DAW. In v3, all EZD tools have been improved to cohoperate with the song track, which is always visibile in every tab. Finding a groove with Bandmate magics or the new Tap-2-Find, producing copies in the song track and then editing each one either with Edit Play Style or the Grid Editor Humanize function or the new Power Hand options or by injecting an individual hi hat pattern from another Groove and customizing with the grid editor, all this work is ridicously easy and fast. Everywhere in the program a right-mouse proposes the song creator, with a sketch of templates and saveable structures. Then the grid editor allows you to specialise as much as you like every beat.

I find staying in EZdrummer until the midi work has been done more convenient in v3. But I need to change my operative way, everything must be within EZdrummer 3 song track for the whole time of song composition, then bounce to audio wav and mix it in the daw. This is a big change for me, but I think is worthwhile.

Generally, this is an open discussion among computer aided musicians, that the Toontrack example has spread among developers (for instance MusicLab Real Guitar, or some Kontakt instruments): having a DAW with powerful midi capability for all our vst instruments, or having specialised vst sampled instruments that develop internal midi tools that work knowing their articulations, their control change numbers and provide a midi pattern library and a way to edit it manually.

• This post was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by fcarosone.

[fcarosone]

Thank you. Easy!!!! Done and works

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