[Ginridge]

Thanks very much.  I’ll dig deeper.  It’s certainly a challenge to get all the ducks in a proper row for a major upgrade!  I also have a second MacBook pro from 2015 which I can use as back up until the M-1 becomes compatible.

Reply To: Easy Newbie Question version: 2.2.2
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

[Ginridge]

Thanks very much!  yes, that’s exactly what I was looking for.

I see you are running Big Sur.  I’m about to take possession of the latest Macbook Pro with the M1 Max chip and am hoping to be able to run Pro Tools on it.  So far, the sales rep thinks it will ship with Big Sur.  Are you running PT?  Any issues?

Thanks!

 

Chris Vallillo

Gin Ridge Music

Reply To: Easy Newbie Question version: 2.2.2
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

[Ginridge]

Thanks!  Is that documented somewhere I didn’t see? Is there additional detailed information about EZ Drummer 2 online that I am not aware of?  I’ve viewed the tutorials on the site and looked for others on you tube, but I feel like I’m still missing a lot.  The tracks do sound good though!

Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

 

[Ginridge]

John wrote:

if you have double-clicked a Song part and have ‘All playing Drums’ selected to the far left of the Velocity knob and then lower the Velocity by turning the knob to the left, you should definitely hear a difference in how loud the drums play (or rather are virtually struck). You can also select individual drums and turn the Velocity up or down in a Song part (or all selected parts).

Thanks, I was able to get that to work somewhat following your directions.  I’ll play with it some more to get a feel for it’s capabilities.

Superior Drummer 3 offers total control over every drum, articulation and microphone. It also has a Grid Editor for advanced editing. EZdrummer 2 is meant to be easy, which is why the editing functions are more simplistic in the ways of selecting a part and drum and turning the Amount of hits knob.

That’s probably above my skill set at the moment but it sounds interesting. I imagine you could get some pretty sophisticated results with that.

You have discovered that you can right-click and Remove a certain drum’s notes. You can also right-click a part where you e.g. like the Hi-Hat and ‘Copy’, then right-click another part where you have removed the Hi-Hat and select to Paste just the Hi-Hat.

Ah that sounds like a good trick.  I hadn’t figured that out yet.

RE an earlier question I had, is there a master list or a way to identify the loops I’m using on any given song after I’ve put them in the song track?  I’ve managed to go back and identify what I used on this track by going the the list and listening but I wonder if there is some other way to do this shy of writing them down longhand as I go.

Thanks!

 

 

[Ginridge]

Bluesdelux: Thanks for the reply.

Re the Crash cymbal, I essentially did what you are suggesting in reverse.  I cut the section where I wanted the crash down to one measure, then pasted the crash only onto that measure.

RE  volume, In this instance, I was looking to simply lower the level of a short series of loops in a specific part of the song, not the entire song.  I did try the velocity knob, but was unable to detect any difference.  For what it’s worth, another post on this forum had a similar question about the velocity knob.  Ultimately, I just used another loop, though it sees like there should be a way to do what I wanted to.

The plug in sounds great and I am continuing to make headway using it, but I wish there was more specific information on how to use it.  Just out of curiosity, does EZ drummer 3 address any of these issues?

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[Ginridge]

I’d like to lower the volume of a section of the track a few DB to reflect the emotion of the song but I don’t see a master volume pot on the Mixer section.

Shy of manually lowering each channel is there a simpler more effective way to do this?

 

[Ginridge]

Is there any place to see exactly which loops I have used in each section?

[Ginridge]

OK, the next basic question…  I want to write parts.  I’m a singer songwriter/roots musician using lots of finger style and bottleneck slide guitar.  This is very dense rhythmically, think Mississippi John Hurt style playing with the ongoing double thumb on the bass notes to set the rhythm.  Drums need to be fairly simple, but interesting.  Think Jim Keltner or Ringo Starr… drummers who used their playing to support the song rather than just keep a beat.   Most of the groves and fills are much to busy to effectively work with what I’m doing, though I’m finding ways to use them.

For the song I’m working on right now, essentially a rockabilly beat on electric slide guitar, I’m using Modern Drummer, Straight 4/4, Verse, Variation 2 and removing the opening crash for most of the clip.  I tried to find an appropriate ending, but nothing came close (all way too busy and too long).  I was able to create a rough idea of what I wanted in the Tap to Find, quantize it and come up with a fairly good idea of what I was looking for, a triplet followed by three straight beats.  Nothing matched it or even came up. On a whim I tried dragging that out of the Midi Drop Zone and it ended up as a usable loop though I never did find a reference to this in the manual (yes, I read it!).  That’s the ending fill of the track now.

Is that the only way to create loops entirely from scratch?  I’d like to add in some simple drum responses to some of the lyric and some different fills but don’t see much details in the manual just how to do that.

Thanks very much!

Operating system: OS X El Capitan (10.11)

[Ginridge]

Ah, That worked!  I was missing the right click o get it to accept the change.  Thanks!

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