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[Henrik Ekblom]

Romain Daste wrote:

what’s the short cut for ‘return’ or reset the scrolling bar to the beginning of the drum player in the editor?

Are you using EZdrummer 2 in a DAW?

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The EZkeys software is optimised for being used to a track where the chord changes are placed on bars, or sub division of bars. This doesn’t mean that you have to have a static tempo though, you can have a tempo map in your DAW that follows the drum tempo (for example). When you enable Follow Host in EZkeys, it will follow the tempo changes of the DAW.

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The EZkeys software is optimised for being used to a track where the chord changes are placed on bars, or sub division of bars. This doesn’t mean that you have to have a static tempo though, you can have a tempo map in your DAW that follows the drum tempo (for example). When you enable Follow Host in EZkeys, it will follow the tempo changes of the DAW.

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In the Drums and Mixer presets menu, enable the option to keep output routing on preset change.

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In the Drums and Mixer presets menu, enable the option to keep output routing on preset change.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Would you use only the OH channel in the mix if you could separate the instruments easily, or mix the instruments separately on this OH channel, but use all other mics too?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wo_w9b3LbQ&feature=youtu.be

Is this how you did it? Using Mapped Instrument and the Environment.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wo_w9b3LbQ&feature=youtu.be

Is this how you did it? Using Mapped Instrument and the Environment.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

More specific: in the Envelope property box (right of the drum kit):

• Select the Release node
• Set it so it has the fade out you want (100 ms for example)
• Set the release to trigger to either Aftertouch or Note Off (length of the note)
  • if you want to control the audio cut off with the note length, you should right click the cymbal header in the Grid Editor and select “Show Note Length” so you can set the length of the note you want.

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Henrik Ekblom wrote:

so your request is noted!

I took a note of the request, since I don’t think we have made everything right. I can of course leave out the explanation of why we made the current design decisions, but I think it may help people to see why it is like it is now, and maybe use the design in a better way.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the idea, it’s noted! A tip for users who wants this feature now is that you can disable all the articulations you don’t want (in this case, the articulations that that the e-kit can’t play) and save a Drums and Mixer user preset.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The back arrow will be enabled when you click a filter. It means that you can now go back to the state that the Grooves tab had before you clicked the filter (which was no filter activated). When you press select a filter, or select a MIDI file in groove, and you want to go back to the previous selection you had, then you press the back button.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

On the top left corner of Grooves there are two arrows, left and right. Those work like the buttons in a web browser; you can back to the previous “setup” with filters etc. you had (almost like an undo), and the right pointing arrow does the opposite.

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delboy007 wrote:

I would expect to be able to go to each tab until I find what I want but that is not possible because as soon as I select anywhere on the tab it closes.

The blue boxes you refer to as “tabs” are really filters. All the filters you have clicked on in the area above are gathered in one row to show what you have filtered out. If you for example click “4/4” and “Straight”, you’ll see those two filter tags selected in the lists, but also lined up (where you thought they were tabs).

Having two filters means that you are searching for all grooves that have these properties. In the above example, you would see all grooves that are both “4/4” and “Straight”.

This design is to clearly show what you have filtered. Without this line users missed that had filtered certain things, for example when the filter was scrolled to a not visible place in the list.

This design is also to gather all filters in one place, so they easily can be removed (by clicking on them).

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• This post was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Henrik Ekblom.

delboy007 wrote:

I would expect to be able to go to each tab until I find what I want but that is not possible because as soon as I select anywhere on the tab it closes.

The blue boxes you refer to as “tabs” are really filters. All the filters you have clicked on in the area above are gathered in one row to show what you have filtered out. If you for example click “4/4” and “Straight”, you’ll see those two filter tags selected in the lists, but also lined up (where you thought they were tabs).

Having two filters means that you are searching for all grooves that have these properties. In the above example, you would see all grooves that are both “4/4” and “Straight”.

This design is to clearly show what you have filtered. Without this line users missed that had filtered certain things, for example when the filter was scrolled to a not visible place in the list.

This design is also to gather all filters in one place, so they easily can be removed (by clicking on them).

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• This post was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Henrik Ekblom.

[Henrik Ekblom]

The chords are fixed, but I understand that it would be useful if they were dynamic, e.g. show Bb or A# depending on the key of the song, or by setting an option. I’ll write this down as a feature request!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Yes, they aren’t recorded with the same amount of microphones as SDX:s, so all overhead channels won’t get bleed controls for the cymbals! They have probably been routed to another OH channel in the mixer.

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