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ORIGINAL: Airhead

hey man.. the tune sounds sweet.
nice balance on the guitars.
i do feel the drums where a bit week and could need to be lifted higher in the mix and ad a bit depth/punch on the Kick.
/Airhead

Yeah, I had a number of mixes where I was doing a balancing act with both those things. One mix in particular the snare was way to loud and I think it scared me off. Haha. But I do think it though it sounds good, it is slightly buried. At least some of it’s sound is. Kicks I’m always wary of. I usually hate too much kick, I wanna feel it and slightly hear it, but too much and my ears zero in on it too much. But I’ll definitely take your suggestions.

I am a guitarist first and foremost so I’m not surprised the guitars turned out the best. They were fighting me a lot, but I finally got the rhythm guitars to sit nice and present themselves pretty well.

Thanks for the input! I’ve been playing music for over 20 years, but my recording engineer hat has always been a part time thing and I’ve only recently decided to try to actually record well, and not just play and write well.

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ORIGINAL: Scott
My guess is Toontrack picked the most popular DAWs to have the arrangements for.

Any chance of ever adding Studio One to your “most popular” list? It’s not as if it’s some rogue fly-by-night DAW. It’s certainly not a household name like Pro Tools or Cubase, but it’s pretty popular at this point.

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When you go to the EZmix 2 page. And click download demo. Under where you download the demo, there is a section…

“Download Demo arrangements to your host”

There is Pop, Rock, and Metal arrangementss for Cubase, Pro Tools, Garageband, Reaper, Logic, and Sonar. But not for Studio One.

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ORIGINAL: jerjabs

Somebody said this elsewhere that they think the library is limited so expansion packs will be offered. I’m all for that. I rather concentrate on the kind of music I do being put in the preset library than have a ton of presets I wouldn’t use. At the same time… somebody tell Toontrack to hurry up with those things!! (with the expansion packs I mean).

I really hope someone over at Toontrack steps up and decides to beef up EZ Key’s current library to something worthy of $179.00.

If we have to shell out another $89.00 (on top of the original price) for an expansion that only then brings it up to snuff, I’m gonna be disappointed in their company goals. Especially in todays current economy.

If they pull what they did with the EZmix preset expansions, you can be sure any expansion material for EZkeys will NOT come without a beefy price tag. I hope they prove me wrong on that, but seeing as EZmix version 1 preset packs are 50 bucks, I can easily see EZkeys expansions dropping around 80 bucks. If so, I’ll be content with the stock sounds and library that come with EZkeys.

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I think the problem with Beatststion is some people don’t really get what it’s for or how it’s useful.
Myself included. I’ve toyed with the demo a couple times, I made it play some fancy dancy groovy beats, but I don’t understand it’s usefulness. Maybe it’s cause I’m a rock guy and it just isn’t for me? I’m not sure.

It’s probably for the best though, as Toontrack has gotten their share of my money in the past month as it is. 🙂

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Fortunately, the easy workaround in Studio One is to create a MIDI Dump folder in the S1 Browser. Make a tab for it so it’s always there. Then drag your MIDI from the timeline into the MIDI Dump folder, then drag it right back out into EZkeys. Two drags instead of one, but it’s seamless. Tried it out tonight and it worked a treat.

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Thanks. I’ll start nagging them over in the Studio One forum then!

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So are you saying that it’s not possible to implement this in Studio One until PreSonus works further with you to get it working?

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Is drag n drop supposed to be working in Studio One? Cause it’s not working for me. Huge bummer, especially considering what a drag n drop centric DAW Studio One is.

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A lot of good moments in there. Good job. Is the piano all from the included MIDI library, or did you tweak them in your DAW, or was it played by you?

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Thanks for clarifying. I think I know how that’s done in Studio One. In fact, Studio One shows the controller data in the Arranger when you drag MIDI in from EZkeys. I’m pretty sure that’s the pedal on/off data. I’ll just take a look at one of the grooves in my MIDI editor and that should tell me how to do it.

I posted this earlier in the day under Pre-Sales, but I obviously bought it. This is a pretty darned good tool. I have barely scratched the surface, but using a little creativity you can really make some cool stuff happen. Layering the Dream Pad over the Studio Grand Piano that comes with Studio One is pretty, well, dreamy… (though Presence in Studio One is quite the CPU hog, not so with EZkeys, I can’t believe how easy on the CPU this thing is).

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Thank you. I’m not that familiar with Control Change numbers and all that. Thru most DAW MIDI sequencers, should I be able to send this control number by way of manual programming (rather than using a physical controller of some sort)?

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ORIGINAL: chrisharbin

Certainly won’t be me 😉

+1 from me of course. I’ve actually not been using EZmix 2 as much as I thought I might. In fact, 99% of the time, there’s always some aspect of a preset I want to control and I can’t, and I end up getting much better results (and pretty quickly too) with my other plugins. Hopefully it will prove it’s worth soon. Any preset expansions are definitely out of the question though. lol.

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ORIGINAL: ronnieg

Downloading as i type. But agree with Skiltrip, How many Frikin’ drums do i need!!!!!

lol…..

Oh so true. But I really am thrilled with Americana. I’m glad I didn’t hesitate. I also picked up Metal Machine a day or so before, and for rock/punk/whatever that EZX is awesome too.

The only drum purchase regret I have over the past few months is Steven Slate Drums 4.0. Don’t get me wrong, the drums themselves sound awesome, and most of the time, they instantly sit in a mix even better than the Toontrack EZX stuff. But I’m not crazy about the cymbals. And there isn’t any sampled choked cymbals. They use MIDI note-off to simulate chokes, and that just sounds horrendous. The biggest shiv in the side about Slate Drums is there is no license transfer aloud. So once you got it, you got it. The new Slate 4.0 player has been crazy unstable as well, though the newer version 1.086 seems a little more solid. Nowhere near the stability you get with EZdrummer or Superior Drummer though.

Let’s face it, it’s an addiction. The next wave of Toontrack EZX’s will probably suck me in yet again. Resistance is futile.

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I’m actually surprised that there hasn’t been any comment on the pack, as most new Toontrack releases generate a lot of feedback from end users. Surely someone out there has to have picked this up.

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