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[Henrik Ekblom]

Since Superior Drummer 2 doesn’t have the MIDI and song writing features that EZdrummer 2 has, you can search your SDX MIDI with Tap 2 Find inside EZdrummer 2, and then use it as described in my post above.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Where do you copy the ride and where do you try to paste it? Is it all done on the song track of EZdrummer 2? If so, make sure you are using the latest version of EZdrummer 2 (in the main menu there’s an entry called “Check for Updates…”).

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Sounds like something is wrong in Reaper since EZdrummer isn’t receiving MIDI. Can you try to create a new track with EZdrummer 2 and put the MIDI there to see if that solves the problem? Does this problem occur on other tracks in that project?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I don’t know what product you are using, but have you checked out Tap 2 Find in EZdrummer 2?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

A side note – have you enabled “MIDI out” in EZdrummer 2? If so, that can potentially cause this behaviour if the output MIDI from EZdrummer 2 loops back into EZdrummer 2…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you right click on the block where you want to add the ride, and chose Paste/Ride – then the ride should be added. If you are using the song track menu (on the top right side of the song track), then the ride will be pasted and other instruments will be removed. This feature was implemented to give the user a choice on how to paste it, but it’s a problem that it’s not clear to the user that this is the case. We will look into this for coming updates!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Do you mean you want to use other instruments instead of the pads? For example, a tambourine from an EZX instead of the tambourine pad (on the top right area of EZdrummer 2)? With pads (clap, shaker, tambourine) I mean the pads on the attached image:

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Great!

We will look into what caused this!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

* Side note – if this doesn’t help, we would like to see what the Terminal output was *

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Put back the MIDI folder where it should be (/Library/Application Support/EZdrummer/) and then run this command in the Terminal (copy and paste all below):

defaults delete /Users/Shared/Toontrack/Preferences/com.toontrack.superior.auezdrummer MidiPath
defaults delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.toontrack.superior.auezdrummer MidiPath
defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.toontrack.superior.auezdrummer SourcePath
defaults read /Users/Shared/Toontrack/Preferences/com.toontrack.superior.auezdrummer SourcePath

If EZdrummer 2 now asks you where the sound files are, point it to the right location (/Library/Application Support/EZdrummer)

It’s always possible to reinstall EZdrummer 2 but this might help you avoid that…

Let us know if that solved the problem 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The problem is that EZdrummer 2 has (for some reason) started to look for the MIDI in the wrong folder. Where it says “EZdrummer/Midi” on screenshot 1 it should say the entire path (“/Library/Application Support/EZdrummer/Midi”). Did this problem just occur without you doing anything, like updating the software, moving folders on the disk, removing an external disk or similar? Can you see and change all presets as usual from the orange library menu in the top of EZdrummer 2?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the input! Your request has been noted

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thank for the feedback, it’s noticed. We can’t comment on when or if certain features will appear in our software.
It’s a nice feature to be able to use filters to exclude a certain tag. This is available in EZdrummer 2’s filter section (when searching for MIDI grooves), right clicking a tag open a menu where you can select “Exclude”.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Make sure that you are using the latest version of EZdrummer 2 (version 2.11). In EZdrummer 2’s menu, go to “Check for Updates…” and ezdrummer will tell you what you need to update.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you browse the library with “Preview In Original Tempo” checked and you find beat that you like (in that particular tempo as the preview), change the BPM of you host to the value that the MIDI file had. In the latter of your cases (the Rock/Pop MIDI), set the host tempo to 57 and it sounds the same as long as you have Follow Host enabled.

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