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[Henrik Ekblom]

The other thing that can change the tempo of the MIDI in EZkeys is if “Follow Host” is disabled in EZkeys. If you are using the host, you should have Follow Host enabled to make sure it uses the host’s tempo. But this shouldn’t (as John said) create a difference in tempo when previewing the MIDI with Use Browser MIDI vs when pressing “Replace” to make it end up on the song track…

Does this happen with all MIDI in Pop/Rock? Or only with some? Which ones in the latter case?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you have MIDI both on EZdrummer 2 song track and in your DAW you can either delete the MIDI in EZdrummer 2 (or in your host) to avoid double MIDI being triggered. But most of the times it’s easiest just to unable Follow Host (the button next to the tempo, beneath the song track).

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[Henrik Ekblom]

To see if the MIDI notes gets through to EZdrummer 2, open up a drum property on any drum (klick the arrow beneath the snare for example). If you there open the Details pane, on the lower right corner you’ll see the latest “MIDI in” note received by EZdrummer 2.

I haven’t used Live so much that I can help you with the settings there unfortunately.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

On page 30 in the manual, it says how to edit a MIDI note to a controller on your Akai keyboard (http://6be54c364949b623a3c0-4409a68c214f3a9eeca8d0265e9266c0.r0.cf2.rackcdn.com/987/documents/Advance61-UserGuide-v1.0.pdf)

Is that how you have done it? If you, for example, setup a pad on you keyboard to play note 38, that should trigger the snare center.
The reason for some drums to have have different notes for the same articulation is that some midi files uses different note numbers than the standard numbers.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

You can record your own MIDI files in (directly in EZkeys or in a DAW like Cubase, logic etc.) These files can then be placed on the track of EZkeys, or in a Favorite folder.
EZkeys will try to figure out what chords you have played and where the chord changes are. You can edit these with the Chord Correction tool – the one on the bottom of the tools to the left of the song track.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can it be a start to use a file from the Snare Rolls folder in EZdrummer 2 core library and combine it with some manually entered snare/kick hits to get a grove? This should be done in a DAW (Cubase or similar) since they are good at editing individual hits…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you have a MIDI file in the Drop Zone of the Song Creator, the song structures should be possible to drag and drop onto the track.
If you don’t have anything in the Song Creator’s Drop Zone you can’t drag and drop song structures onto the track, nor won’t the song creator have any suggestions loaded to the verse, pre chorus etc. slots.
Does this help you?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

This site has a few DAWs compared: http://ehomerecordingstudio.com/best-daw-software/

The pros and cons for each DAW is based on that website author’s personal preferences (not mine or Toontracks recommendations), but it can be a start to see what each DAW can offer you. Remember to check the compatibility for EZdrummer 2 to ensure that it will work with the DAW you chose.

Maybe some of our forum users has some advice for you?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

“Best” is impossible to answer, they are all better (or worse) on different areas 🙂 Are you using a Mac or a PC?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the input – it is noted, as all ideas we get from you guys! 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

In the latest version of EZdrummer 2 we have put in an arrow on the orange Library/Preset selection button to emphasize that it’s a drop down arrow. You weren’t the only one who missed that 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

In Edit Play style: right click any instrument and choose Quantize – that will quantize only the selected instrument 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for your input! We have noted your requests – as we do with all feedback we get 🙂 We can’t comment on future releases, but we are grateful for thoughts from our users!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Are you using any DAW software like Cubase or Logic? I think Cubase and Logic can show a sheet instead of MIDI notes, I bet other DAWs can as well.

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