166

[Henrik Ekblom]

Is the Tempo set to “1X” in the browser? If it is, the MIDI should sound the same – as long as the EZdrummer you drag MIDI from is placed in the same project and DAW.

Is it possible that there’s a tempo change track that changes the tempo from where you listen to EZdrummer to where it actually plays when you play the MIDI from the track?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

This is strange because no setting in EZdrummer is changing how it plays MIDI that comes from the DAW. The multiplier (1/2x, 1x, and 2x) only affects the MIDI that is played from the EZdrummer browser.

If you preview a MIDI file in EZdrummer’s browser and then drag that MIDI to the DAW’s MIDI track, it should sound the same. It sounds like something has changed the tempo to the MIDI in your DAW, but that sounds strange too…

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

A side note – you can also import MIDI to EZdrummer 2’s track by dragging it there (from your hard drive or from your DAW, as long as you have a DAW that supports dragging out MIDI).

If your DAW doesn’t support dragging out MIDI, you can record enable EZdrummer 2 and start playback of the MIDI from the DAW. In this scenario, EZDrummer 2 will record the incoming MIDI and turn it into a MIDI block on it’s song track

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for sharing your problems and wishlist. Here is some feedback to it:

– Id also like to be able to drag a midi block at an accelerated pace as described in Hate issue # 1
That is something we will look into. However, you can while you drag around your clip on the track use your mouse wheel to zoom out, move the block to it’s place and zoom in again or just release it where it should be. This often works in zoomed out modes because the fill will snap to ends of blocks or bars. You can even use your mouse wheel and pressing Shift at the same time to fast scroll back and forth on your track.

– Id also like to drag that midi block anywhere I want WITHOUT it being destructive , meaning whatever lied beneath it remains untouched , so I can jiggle my fill around to various places “on the fly” until I have found the best place that works
This is a bit of a problem if you put a block that’s as big or bigger than the one that’s there to start with. If you place a fill at the end of a block it will often just shorten the original block, which means that you can drag it out again to its former length.

– Id like to be able to paste to anywhere I want without using the scizzor tool to cut in an opening , and as above be able to jiggle/shuffle the block if need be.
You can paste things either from the right click menu on the track (which selects the block that you hover), leading to the fill ending up in the beginning. You can also use the track menu (3 horizontal bars on the top right part of the track). If you use paste from that menu, the content will pasted where your time marker is placed.

Drag and drop to/from EZdrummer 2
EZdrummer 2 has full drag and drop support, both from and to EZdrummer 2. Some DAW:s doesn’t support this, so it’s unfortunately beyond our control to fix that. You can, for example, drag MIDI to your desktop, and directly from your desktop to EZdrummer 2’s track. Correct me if I am wrong, but you should be able to drag MIDI to ProTools from EZdrummer 2. Pro Tools 11 has removed the possibility to drag MIDI out from the DAW – however, I think it was possible in Pro Tools 10 and earlier.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

I don’t think it’s a bad idea, because when you mix into sub groups you have the option to glue the parts of the bus together (with compressors and other plugins). What you also could try is to create parallell compression with any of your buses to create more punch and attitude to the track.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

No, that’s not possible in EZdrummer 2. To keep EZdrummer 2 “EZ” that’s one limitation. Superior Drummer 2 is capable of that kind of routing inside the plugin though.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

This can be done, but the effects has to be used in your DAW (Cubase, Logic, Garageband or similar). Use Multi Out mode in EZdrummer (1 or 2) to route the channels separately to your DAW, and then put the effects to the channels in the DAW.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

I wonder if Sxandy’s answer ended up on the wrong thread?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

That feature is not implemented (due to some interaction design reasons). So for now, you have to copy paste your loops to duplicate them. It’s a fairly quick process to alt+drag on Mac or (or ctrl+drag on PC) do duplicate selected blocks.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

Song Creator is a feature that only EZdrummer 2 has.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

There is no need for you to uninstall EZdrummer 1, specially since the MIDI and core sound library from EZdrummer 1 (Pop/Rock) can be used with EZdrummer 2.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

See this video on how to transpose your keyboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaSk57pn_Y

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

Your MIDI controller is able to play the kick, you’ll probably need to transpose it so you can access the right note to play the kick.

If you look at the first image I attached, it shows what note the kick is played on. This information is found in the instrument properties – right click the kick in the main drum view.

On the bottom right corner it shows the last played MIDI note from your keyboard, so if you hit the G1 note on your keyboard (as I did on the screenshot) you’ll know that the kick key is further left on your keyboard, since the kick is found on C1.

Keys on a keyboard can either be named by their key name or its note number. You can press the Key button on the top right corner to show note numbers (seen on the second attached image). The last pressed key was note number 43 and the kick is found on 36, meaning the kick is found 7 notes to the left of the last pressed key.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

There is also a slide out page that tells you what notes the selected instrument is using:

You can click the articulations in the note list to preview them.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik Ekblom]

Humanize is an option that makes the sound engine sound more realistic, and it consists of a couple of settings to achieve this. For example, it makes alterations to the hits so a snare roll doesn’t sound like a drum machine with machine gun effect. All these individual settings can be accessed in Superior Drummer 2 for a more detailed setup.

Some EZXs doesn’t have all the Humanize features turned on by default. If you select “EZX Optimized” it will use the settings that are set up by default for the selected EZX. The other options are pretty self explaining – “All On” forces all Humanize settings to be on, on vice versa for off

Choosing between “Always On” and “EZX Optimized” is a change few will need to do, but it’s there to support some special cases. Setting it to “All Off” will however make a clearly audible difference since it will sound more static and drum machine-ish.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Author]

Replies