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[Henrik Ekblom]

The positions in EZd2 are designed to load similar instruments from other expansions. This means that the snare position in EZdrummer 2 Modern library can only load snares, etc.

If you want to have multiple snares, rides, etc., you’ll need to load another instance of EZdrummer 2 in a DAW, and make some MIDI mapping so the instruments gets different MIDI notes.

In the big brother Superior Drummer 3, you do all of these changed directly.

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• In the Search tab, open the menu (an icon with 3 horizontal lines) in the top right corner, click Visible Filter Columns, and enable Resolution. 
  • If you now click 1/16 in the Resolution filter column, EZdrummer 2 will show grooves with 16ths.
  • If you also select Hi-hat Closed in the filter Power Hand column , you’ll only see grooves with that power hand.

But very specific patterns are easiest to program yourself in a DAW, like Cubase, Logic, Reaper, etc. You can use a groove from EZd2 that’s close to what you want to achieve, drag it to the DAW and edit the notes that you want to customize. If you create a complete pattern by hand from start, it may sound a bit stale and “robot-ish”.

When this is done, you can record enable EZd2 and press play in the DAW, and the MIDI will be recorded back to EZd2 so you can continue to edit the MIDI in EZd2, with Edit Play Style, etc.

• Side note – you can create a hi-hat pattern from scratch in the DAW, to use with Tap2Find. This may result grooves that plays the way you want.

I hope this helps you on your way to the perfect beat!

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WGN5150 wrote:

The midi note numbers are different (change) after dragging into the DAW.

There’s a green dot on the MIDI menu (on the bottom right edge) of SD3. This means that you have an enabled MIDI In/E-drums preset. This will change the incoming MIDI – but not the MIDI on the song track of SD3. Can this be the cause of changed MIDI note numbers?

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Scott Richards wrote:

I love your products but please address this. This would save your Support Team alot of unnecessary wasted time on follow ups and with customer frustration and dissatisfaction.

Thanks for the feedback, your thoughts are noted!

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Jason Serrano wrote:

What might be nice though is to allow the user to swap not only kit piece sounds but also graphics (irrespective of the sound).

Thanks for the idea, it’s noted 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

ctrl + scroll is a shortcut for zooming, which you also can do by clicking the + or – on the right edge of the song track. The more you zoom in, the finer the resolution will be, and you can cut on smaller parts of each bar!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

It’s a good idea. In the meantime, you can try to follow the guitar rhythm while tapping into Tap2Find, which usually gives pretty good results.

Thanks for the feedback!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

sherloc987 wrote:

just the midi device which reads TD1K

The presets in the MIDI In Settings page is the option you have re-map the kit. Other than that, you can use a DAW where you can re-map the MIDI, or remap it directly on your e-drums (it’s usually editable, but I haven’t tried your e-kit, the TD1-Kx)

sherloc987 wrote:

I expect that has to do with the ASIO4all driver being in use

That’s correct. You need to use a ASIO multi client version, something like this, described in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IRditxhkk8

 

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1. Do you have EZdrummer or Superior Drummer?
   1. If not, you need one of those softwares to use the expansion pack you bought
2. All installation and updates are best handled with the Product Manager

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If the EZdrummer 2 plays the MIDI differently, if the MIDI is placed in a DAW vs. the MIDI being placed on the song track of EZdrummer 2, it’s in most cases because there’s a e-drum preset selected in EZdrummer 2 – which changes the MIDI mapping for incoming MIDI.

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The structure of your User MIDI folder can be arranged in Explorer (Windows)/Finder (Mac). You can add folders and subfolders, rename them, move the files to where you want them, etc.

You can access this by in Grooves right clicking the User MIDI folder, and select Open in Explorer/Finder

After you have made changes outside SD3, you need to sync the folder so SD3 shows the correct folders and files. This is done by again right clicking User MIDI, and select Sync File Changes.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

• Start by checking the buffer size in Sonar, which decides the latency.
  • Lower buffer size = lower latency, but more  strain on the CPU.
• Are you using ASIO drivers when recording? Those are in most of the cases the best alternative.

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Note that if you just add another song track tab instead of deleting the MIDI, you can keep all the MIDI in SD3 which has its advantages!

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