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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the kind words 🙂 Keep up the music creation!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

You can also right-click on any MIDI song block on the Song Track and you’ll get a menu with things you can do to that block. One of the options is Remove. We haven’t put in certain shortcut keys (like the delete button) because of some issues with using our software as plugins in hosts, such as Cubase etc, but we are aware of that people are used to using shortcut keys so it’s not just forgotten…

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

You can’t keep the chords without the MIDI on the song track. You can, however, replace the MIDI block without changing the chords. This is done with the “User Browser MIDI” function. This requires you to have the MIDI in the EZkeys browser. You can use MIDI from toontrack, save MIDI from the song track in your User MIDI folder, or add custom MIDI folders.

Select the MIDI on the song track you want to replace, press Use Browser MIDI, select the file you want to replace the MIDI on the song track with and then press Replace

You can also right click a block, and in the menu select Copy. Select another block, right click and “Paste Chords” to only paste the chords to that block.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

Logic does also have a virtual MIDI keyboard 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

In the bottom left of Edit Play Style, you have a list with label “Selected”. In that list – all instruments that are played in the selected MIDI block(s) have a green icon next to them. Is this the info you were looking for?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

“What I’ll have to play around with later today is the part about moving hits. I guess in this case the pattern calls for the cymbal that’s grayed out, but it’s being played on the cymbal that’s active, right?”

Yes, if you have an instrument with “none” loaded (represented with a grayed out image of the instrument) – all MIDI that is sent to that instrument will try to redirect to a suitable instrument. If you, for example, remove all cymbals and a cymbal receives a MIDI note, nothing will be played – since there are no “suitable” substitutions.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

When you go into “My Account/My Products” there is a link below the Product Manager info that takes you to the site with your downloadable products

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you have an unassigned instrument (like the crash in the red circle), it still has MIDI notes assigned to it. If the MIDI file you are playing plays MIDI notes that belongs to the unassigned instrument, the MIDI notes will be forwarded to an appropriate instrument – in your case, the other crash. This is because most of the times, it’s better to play something instead of nothing.

In EZdrummer 2 – you can see what instruments a MIDI block will play on. Double click a block on the song track to enter Edit Play Style. In there, the instruments that is used in the current MIDI block will be highlighted, and the instrument that aren’t used are dimmed down. You can also check the instrument list in the bottom left. Used instruments has a green icon next to them.

If you want to remove, or move the hits that are played on a certain instrument, in Edit Play Style you can right click the instrument and choose “Remove” from the menu.

Did this make it more clear? 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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