Thank you for that link to piano-loops dot com Bryan.
It was very helpful for TWO reasons:
1) They supply some very nice contemporary piano ‘grooves’.
2) It seems to indicate that Toontrack DO licence the internal format of the MIDI Pack libraries to 3rd parties.
I can see Erix point, but I would express it in a different way: How can I create a MIDI Pack for EZkeys?
I have examined the MIDI Pack files with Notepad in Windows (e.g. 000500@EZKEYS_MIDI) in which there appears a large quantity of ASCII Text data at the beginning of the file which appears to be a Table of Contents and corresponds very closely with the text displayed in the EZkeys GUI Browser.
There are obviously file offsets (binary code) which point into the various subsequents of the file which appear to contain the MIDI data (I use Midi2Mtx to decode MIDI data – however I can quite get the bytes to sync up to predictable boundaries).
Why would I like to create my own “in-house” MIDI Packs?
1) Toontrack (or EZkeys creator(s)) have created a very intuitive GUI which provides me with a very productive workflow.
2) I do studio work in an geographical area where there are a large number of talented and highly skilled keyboard players with styles that I would like to use, without having to bring them into the studio, or journey out to their homes with my portable studio every time I want to flesh out song ideas.
3) I want to take the style of their playing (using Celemony Melodyne poly mode) to create the MIDI representation of their style “personality”, and then plug it into the GUI browser structure of EZkeys.
Further more, there now appears to be a RED Record button in the Transport bar – with no explanation in the PDF as to its purpose or use. Very frustrating.
So, I’m going to do two separate posts, one asking “How can I create my own MIDI pack(s) for EZkeys?” and “What does the Record button do?”.
Many thanks to Bryan for his original post in this topic. I’ve been meaning to ask this for years now, but lacked the cohones. Bryan’s broken the ice on this one, so I am going for it 