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[Henrik Ekblom]

@John said:
So the samples are not streaming from the drive when in use?!

Exactly 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

You need to route the kick out on its own channel in the mixer (using multi out mode), so that Pro Tools receives the kick on a separate channel. Use the kick channel audio to side chain trigger the compressor (I assume) on the bass channel.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Basically – almost everyone who sends in their mixes to pro mastering will get a better result than trying to add a master plugin at home on their DAW. However, it depends on what you want to pay, and it will not in all cases be better. Most mastering services offers some kind of try run, say you send your song and you can listen to 10 seconds of the finished master. If you like it you pay and get the full song.

Even if there are no try-before-buy: If you are serious in your music making, and can afford to master one song, do it. You will then have the answer to if you think it’s worth it or not by comparing that to your own mastered version. Remember to get a mastering service that has a good reputation, and preferably are used to mastering your kind of music!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

To be able to listen to your projects where you don’t have bounced your EZdrummer 2 tracks, he would need EZdrummer 2 and the same EZX:s that you have used. If he has EZdrummer 2 but not the correct EZX, another library will be used instead and it won’t sound the same for him as it does for you.

Regarding importing the wave files you have bounced – can you elaborate on what his system is? What software is he trying to open the wave files with?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@Stephan Krämer said:

The point is, if I’m looking for a groove, I want to have a visual feedback. So I can quickly see if a groove or a fill is useful or not.

Pre-Listen to a complete groove or drag the groove into the track and then open the grid editor kills the workflow.

For example, I think most fills are too complex or busy. A visual feedback would make it possible to skip these inappropriate grooves or fills.
It would be a big time saver.

I hardly dare to point out, but addictive drums has such an indicator on the beat tab.  

Thanks for the explanation. This was one of the reasons why we implemented the Complexity column in the Grooves tab, but it doesn’t show all. I will take a note of your request!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The electronic drums that are included in that pack are kicks and snares. The following libraries contains electronic hi-hats:
Dream Pop EZX
Electronic EZX
Hip-hop! EZX
Number 1 Hits EZX

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@chereewolf said:
Thank you! That worked! I also accidentally clicked ‘Delete channel strip’ on my guitar effects and it deleted the amp stack from the library completely. It won’t let me undo the delete. Is there a way to fix that?  

Unfortunately – when deleting a track in Logic and undoing, it recreates the track and puts back all inserts and buses – but all the inserts are reset to default settings.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the feedback! They are great ideas, and I’ll take a note of them. If we had unlimited time and resources they would already be implemented 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@shaynekaurin said:
AI Drum Programming
1) …ask EZ Drummer to listen to transients of guitar riff and move kicks and snare to more closely align…

2) … Also a way to click in the groove within the plugin and edit the midi would be great.  

Thanks for the feedback! We are always happy to hear what our customers want

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The drawback of having a slower hard drive is that it takes longer to load libraries, presets and drums. When it has completed the loading, the drums will kept in RAM.

The audio quality will suffer if you have too little RAM installed, say 2GB, and you load a 4GB preset. In that case will your operating system place stuff that can’t be placed in the RAM on your hard drive instead as swap files, and it will slow things up.

64GB RAM should be more than enough to keep the Superior stuff in RAM 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Yes, you can add your own MIDI grooves to EZdrummer 2, and they can be included in the Search tab so they can be used with Tap2Find. The biggest difference is that you can’t add tags to your own MIDI, so you can’t for example say that they are in the Blues genre. But aside from that, it should work like the MIDI that comes from Toontrack.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can you post some screenshots from your DAW (tracks, mixer and other stuff that is relevant) so we can have a look on how you have routed the audio?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Not automatically – you have to select all the notes and move them manually (with Snap to Grid disabled), or adjust them individually. I will note this as a feature request!

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