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[Henrik Ekblom]

TwoEleven wrote:

When you use a MIDI file with a scale other than MAJOR or Natural Minor .   EZKEYS will automatically round the scale off to either Major or Minor in the way it transposes. And therefore the Chords that you change will be changed based on the Intervals of either Major or Minor . and not Arabic or Phrygian or anything else. . . Thats the problem.

Have you tried disabling Keep MIDI In Chord Scale, in Menu/Song Track? This function does, as you say, force notes into the selected chord’s scale. There is also a Clean button on the Chord Selector (in the top right corner), which does the same thing – forces notes into the current chord’s scale.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

TwoEleven wrote:

The problem often lyes in the results you get when applying Browser Midi, that Extra note affects results as it changes the Number of Note EZKEYS uses to Calculate the Result of applying the groove/accompaniment.

Can you save a EZkeys project where this problem occurs, and post it here, so I can try it? I want to be sure where and how the problems occurs.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

It’s on our request list, but it’s all a matter of prioritization, since we can’t do all updates we would like to all software we have released!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

It’s noted in our request list. However, the initial idea of EZkeys was that the feeling of the original MIDI was to be kept, and changing chords should keep the feeling. It doesn’t mean it can’t change in the future, but this is the way it’s currently designed.

If you, for example, want a piano groove that plays in an Arabic scale, you should use a MIDI file that has that play style. Changing the chords in that case keeps the Arabic style, and you can use “Clean” to force the notes in to a more traditional chord scale.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

For example, if the MIDI file plays in 160 bpm in the browser, you would like the option to preview it in 40 bpm?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the feedback! In the meantime, I would suggest that you edit the MIDI in EZkeys as far as you can take it, and then do the final changes by dragging the MIDI to the DAW and using the Piano Roll!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The Foot Pedal isn’t a part of the clickable interface. We have thought abut this and I agree that it would be useful to have it as an interactable part of the drum kit. I’ll take a note of this.

In the meantime, if you want to preview a certain articulation from an instrument; select it and select the articulation you want to audition in the Articulations menu on the top right side of the Drums tab. Now when you click the instrument, it will play the last selected articulation.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

audiophil333 wrote:

I still see unexpected error in the search tap even if I re install …?

What exact error are you seeing?

Have you tried Restore Factory MIDI Database in top right Menu/Advanced?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Great to hear 😀 Rock on!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Have you checked the MIDI In/E-drums in Settings? There all the articulations and MIDI note numbers are shown.

You can also see this in the MIDI Mapping Keys in the drums tab. Click the Show button on top right corner to reveal it.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I tried this on my computer, however it’s a Mac, having samples on an external non SSD drive, so it differs from your setup.

• The load time for inserting SD3 and opening the interface was a bit quicker on Studio One 4 than Logic Pro X.
• To switch from SD3 Core Library to Metal Foundry took about 3 seconds on both Logic and Studio One.

These times don’t include the loading of the samples, just how fast the Preparing popup disappears.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Cool song, I got some punk vibes there 🙂 Maybe add some backing vocals on the last chorus lines to fatten it up a bit? I’m more of pop/rock dude so that might “de-punk” the vibe though!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the feedback and ideas!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I will write this up, since it’s something we need to fix! In the meantime, you can avoid this by recording the MIDI to a DAW track instead of using the Superior Drummer 3 track. They’ll behave in the way you want.

When done, to get the MIDI to Superior Drummer 3, you can record enabled SD3, having Follow Host enabled, and then press play in the DAW.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

CraigGardner wrote:

So, if for a song I need my hi-hat to sound like Bonham’s (add tamborine-stack), or in the middle of a song I need drums to be different (i.e. more compressed) just for the intro (U2 Elevation for example), need those kit and/or instrument switches to happen automated with a Ableton Live’s MIDI change signal.

Superior Drummer 3 can do mixing stuff using CC values. For example, lower the volume of a stack so that it disappears from the audible drums, change the mixed in audio in a compressor to make it more or less compressed. If you need a certain instrument to be swapped out completely, it may be enough to stack the articulation you want from the new instrument, and instead of changing the instrument you can decrease the stacked volume and increase the original articulation volume, again using CC.

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