[Buck Snelson]

Thanks again for your help, Ron. I worked with EZD and DP most of the weekend. Split Notes does exactly what I wanted to do, as you explained. I also worked with the Drum Editor and figured out many of the features available there. I can do most of what I might need to do – add a hit, delete a hit, change a velocity, or nudge a hit – right in Drum Editor without the need to use Split Notes at all. It took me a while to discover the Snap Information window and the settings needed to be able to nudge a hit, but once I got that, I was a happy camper. I’ve still got lots to learn about using the many MIDI features of DP, but you have given me a good start. Thanks again.

Buck

[Buck Snelson]

Ron:

Thank you very much for this information. Split Notes does exactly what I want to do in splitting out EZD grooves into separate tracks. I’m sure I would never have discovered that feature on my own. I’m still amazed at the things DP will do and I have been using it for audio recording for 6 years. I’ll experiment with your suggestion to use the Drum Editor to do the same thing when I have a bit more time. It may be even more useful once I get the hang of it. I’ll report back in a few days.

Thanks again.

Buck

[Buck Snelson]

Hi Ron

Thanks for getting back on this. First, I am new to MIDI, although I am up to speed on audio recording in DP. So bear with me if my MIDI ignorance shows. Second, I am not a drummer. I’m a guitar picker/singer trying to add some drum tracks to my recordings. I’m thinking there are two things I would like to do that might simplify my life.

Idea 1. I would like to be able to drag EZD drum grooves over to DP and have the notes broken out into different tracks, rather than all the notes going into one stereo track by default. For example, I would have the kick hits go into track 1, the snare hits go into track 2, etc. It seems to me that this would make editing notes, say for the kick drum only, much easier. EZD seems to offer this option if you select Multichannel output, but I don’t know how to make it work with DP. For example, if I select Multichannel in the Pop/Rock library of EZD, it assigns the different drum mics to 7 different tracks. How do I take advantage of that within DP? Can I feed the hits into 7 different tracks in DP?

Idea 2. If I plug in my MIDI keyboard and I want to record a simple kick/snare pattern by direct entry, how can I set up EZD and DP so that when I key the kick note I can have it recorded in track 1, when I key the snare note, the hit will be recorded in track 2. etc.? I see that EZD makes it possible for me to make custom assignments of drums to different output tracks, but I don’t know how to take advantage of that in DP.

So I guess my main idea in both cases is to have the drum kit hits spread out over several different tracks in DP simply to make editing or overdubbing easier. Right now, with all the drum kit hits in one stereo track, I have to spend lots of time scrolling up and down to find what I am looking, make sure I am on the right MIDI note, etc. Maybe this is a bad idea for one reason or another. If so, please set me straight. But if this is not the idea behind the Multichannel output option in EZD, what exactly does Multichannel do for me? The manual for EZD is very vague on this – only that it can be done and “your host has to be set up accordingly to capture these outputs”.

Thanks for any insight you can offer.

Buck

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