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[Henrik Ekblom]

You can transpose up to +6 or down to -5. With combination of the transpose functionality (found in the same properties box) you can transpose the block to all notes.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the kind words! Toontrack never discusses the plans for the future, so we can’t say anything about coming releases etc. We do, however, listen to our customers ideas and requests – so keep ’em coming 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

Great! Happy songwriting 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

The general idea is that you transpose a certain part of the song from the other. Say the chorus is going to be 2 notes higher than the verse. You have the main Key set to C, and your verse and chorus is therefore in C to start with. You select the chorus blocks and raise them +2 (they will now be in D).
If you now change the project key to E for example, the chorus will maintain the state that it should be raised +2 from the rest of the song, and will now be set to F#.

Does that answer your question?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

Go to the main Menu (top right of EZdrummer 2) -> Advanced -> Restore Factory MIDI Database…

Let us know if it solved your problem!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the feedback, the ideas are noted! 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

Yes. As long as you have a piano with MIDI out, you can play EZkeys with it. MIDI out is something that pretty much all digital pianos have.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

What you can do is to have the song to be in dm, but the chord blocks can be transposed to gm. Select all chord blocks, select Properties… and Transpose the blocks to the wanted key. If you decide to change the entire song (on the main Key selector below the track), say to E minor, the entire song will be transposed, and the chorus will be changed to A minor.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can one way be to drag a part that you like to the Song Creator, and use parts from that? For example, take a fill you like, drag it to the Song Track, shorten it if you want to and place it where it should be.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

No, that’s not possible. What DAW are you using? Many of the modern DAW:s have features that can detect hits on the tracks.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

Do you see the entire MIDI block in your DAW, but EZdrummer 2 doesn’t play the MIDI notes in the end of it? No sound, not graphics moving and the MIDI IN light in the bottom end doesn’t light up?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

Make sure that you use mono plugins on mono tracks, and stereo plugins on stereo track. This is a common way of loosing the panning of sounds 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

why when i apply the browser midi it is shorter that the actual browser midi and I cant pull out right edge to make it as long.

The MIDI from the browser adjusts its length to match the length of the MIDI on the track. If you want 4 bars of MIDI to be placed on the track with “Use Browser MIDI” you have to have 4 bars of MIDI on the track to start with. If the block you are working on is to short you can add more blocks with the “Add Block” button on the left of “Use Browser MIDI”.

You have more options if you right click a MIDI block in the browser and choose Copy. If you right click on one (or multiple selected MIDI blocks), you can choose to paste the entire copied block, or just the chords – or the MIDI (the play style).

also, why cant i disengage the EZkeys “Key” feature and just set the key changes in the timeline. e.g. if i have the key in Dm and the song chages to another key EZkeys cant change keys so becomes useless….better to be able to turn off Key feature as needed

If you double click a block – there’s a transpose menu that lets you transpose the entire block to a wanted key. Will that solve your problem?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

Sure, just make sure that they both listen to the same MIDI device (your e-kit). If you load a full kit on both VST:s, hitting the snare on your e-kit will produce 2 snare sounds, one from each VST. If you only load the toms on one VST, and the rest of the kit in the other VST – it should work!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

Enable the “Show Web Shop MIDI” in the Search tab – with that enabled you can search and preview all MIDI packs released by Toontrack. You can further refine the search by only search for “11/8” and “fills” for example. On the far left of each MIDI file (that’s from a pack that you don’t own) there’s a link that shows what pack they come from and a link to the web shop 🙂

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