[James Sunny Jim White]

Here is another track I worked on tonight. Dragged from the 70 BPM mid tempo push library, strung together for 111 measures. I have the host set at 7bpm and the tempo in EZ drummer at 76. Seems straight forward to export the track as a midi file to my desktop, import it into my Digital performer and have it line up all nice and neat. No such luck. there are almost a full measure at the beginning of each “variation”. Please, somebody import this into your program and have a look.

I also just grabbed and dragged the midi track into an open midi track in DP, with the exact same result.

What gives? Any ideas?

Thanks! James

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[James Sunny Jim White]

I’ve uploaded a MIDI file that was exported from EZ Drums. When I open it in my DAW (Digital Performer) after about 10 bars the drift is noticeable. If someone could also open this in their DAW and just have a look, I would appreciate it. Let me know if it’s doing the same thing in your set up.

Thanks for any response. And, this is just an example file. I found a MIDI file on line of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and was messing with putting reggae drums (EZ DRUMS) to it instead of the straight ahead ballad rock. The tempo of the found midi track is 126bpm.

 

I also noticed that my late night typing skills sucked at the title of my thread. Should read “Export Track As MIDI File”.. It was late, running on little sleep, and the dog ate my homework.

[James Sunny Jim White]

I haven’t tried the drag and drop method, but only exported the track as a MIDI file. I think your insight about tick vs sample-based may be hat the issue is, and I’ll look into that today. But having said that, I would think that matching the EZ drummer clock to the host should set that and keep drift from happening. “Should” being the operative word.  Also, there were no tempo changes in the song(s).

 

Thanks for your reply! It’s getting my brain working on the issue in another direction.

 

James

[James Sunny Jim White]

Thanks for your reply. I am using Digital Performer, and if I were to quantize individual drum tracks, late in the song things would be off by as much as a quarter note, and it just gets weird. lol I also want to keep the feel of the original EZ tracks. Thanks!

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