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[Henrik Ekblom]

In the top right corner of EZdrummer 2’s Song Track, there’s a button with an icon (3 lines and a small arrow). Press that, and there you’ll find the Track sub menu.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Cubase 10 introduced drag and drop, but prior version doesn’t support this. Unfortunately, other large DAWs like Logic and Pro Tools doesn’t support to drag MIDI from them.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

alligatorlizard wrote:

btw, I’m presuming we’re talking about SD3 here

Yes, this seems like a SD3 feature 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Steve Gazay wrote:

I cannot get setting to save as default.  set drum kit and pedal,saved as project, then saved as default. exit, come back and its back to midi mappings = none.  so aggravating.

maybe I overwrote the default?  what folder should it be in and what is exact name of file?

Reply To: How to SAVE settings? version: 2.1.8
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Saving as Default Preset doesn’t seem to save the e-drums, as you say.

This is a workaround:

1. Set up EZdrummer 2 the way you want to have it, including the MIDI In e-drum preset.
2. Save an EZdrummer 2 project (Menu/Save as…)
3. Find the folder where the Default Project is saved
   1. You can go the Presets menu, and in the bottom in User Presets, select Manage in Finder/Explorer
   2. The DefaultProject file is one folder above that
4. Take the EZdrummer 2 project file you saved in step 2, rename it to DefaultProject and replace the file in step 3.2

By doing this, you manually save a Default Project, that will be loaded each time you start a new session of EZdrummer 2.

 

I will write it up as a bug, that the MIDI IN preset isn’t currently being saved with Default Presets.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

As written above, it works when you detach the Grid Editor window – and then close the Edit Play Style popup in the main window.

I will write a feature request about this, to make it possible to record straight into the Grid Editor – without having to detach the window.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the ideas. We can’t comment on future products, but we promise that all EZX:s hasn’t been created 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Hm, nothing gets attached 🙂

I’ll do a test here to see if uploads works as intended…

 

Edit: we seem to have a bug, it didn’t work for me either. I’ll get back to you when have fixed this bug!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can you zip the file and try to attach that instead? Might be some issues with the file format…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

sroebuck3 wrote:

the resultant noise through the headphones is still considerably less than the 127 mouse initiated hit, and the kick is barely audible at all?

It shouldn’t be any different from clicking in the interface vs. hittin the e-drum on the same articulation, with the same velocity.

• Check that you are previewing the same articulation as you are hitting on your e-drum
• Open the articulation list in the top right corner of the drums tab and click an articulation to preview it.
  • Hit the e-drum and the played articulation will light up.

You can see more detailed info about the MIDI that goes into SD3 on the MIDI In Settings page, in the Analyzer area.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the request, I have taken a note of it as feature request. I agree on that it would be useful 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The MIDI Learn system is listening to CC data, and not MIDI notes (which I assume your tom is sending when you hit it).

To use MIDI learn on something, you need to either:

• Use a MIDI controller that sends CC data
  • Like a drum pad that has knobs, which when turned will send CC data
• Use some software that can transform MIDI notes to CC
  • In Logic, for example, you can write custom scripts that can send some CC data when it receives a certain MIDI note.

Some instruments send CC data when used, like a hi-hat, where the CC is used to indicate if it’s opened or closed. This is however probably a tricky route to take, to try to match an instruments CC position with a state in the mixer…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

EZdrummer 2 can’t be resized or scaled by the software itself (like Superior Drummer 3 can). This is because the platform that was used to build EZdrummer 2 didn’t support this. We have changed platform now from Superior Drummer 3, so that and all future products will have this feature.

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Lars wrote:

Is there anyway to change stick to brushes..?

You need to load instruments that was recorded with brushes. You’ll find it in different EZX:s, Jazz for example.

To get the full set of articulations, you should use the original library instead of loading an instrument with brushes to another library.

• For example: if you load a Jazz library brush snare on to a kit in the core Modern library, you’ll only get the same articulations that the core snare had, e.g. no swirls etc.
  • In this case, you should load a preset from the Jazz library instead, and work with that.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the feedback, it will be fixed for a coming update!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

One can always use a standard tuning plugin to try to find the tone of a drum. The problem is that most drums have a tone that changes over time. When you hit a drum the tone is usually higher, and then drops the longer the tone rings. So depending of how long the drum is audible (depending on the decay, other instruments that plays the same time, etc) you can hear one drum sound like different pitches.

So my advice is to start to try to find the tone (by ear, comparing to a sine tone, using a tuner, etc). Then listen to the drum in context to where it’s used, since you may find that it sounds different there!

Kicks are often best tuned with a tuning software, since they can have a low fundamental frequency, which is hard to hear by ear. But having a tuned kick to your song can make a difference for the better.

I should also mention that many drums don’t have a distinct fundamental frequency, i.e. a clear tone. A snare, for example, can often be perceived as lots of tones, depending of its rich content of overtones. Two users may very well hear that snare to be in 2 different tones.

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