[Jan skovmand]

@Mr. Icelander said:
Basically a Jazz kit (including brushes!) but with a handful of percussions added in _one_ set, congas being the absolute must there.
It would open up a whole new world of drum styles, from Ballroom (Rhumba, _proper_ Bossa/Samba, Cha-Cha et al) to Santana of the 70’s, and It would add a whole new flavour to the swung genres as well. TT’s intense focus on Rock & Metal is nice and all as such, but also quite limited. There is something to be said for those “sophisticated” and “elegant” drum styles of old as well 😉

p.s. Yes, I’m sure this too has been requested before…so shoot me.  

What a great idea.

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Thanked by: Mr. Icelander

[Jan skovmand]

I am having the same problem. Extrem slow dwl and a very long dwl time. At best I am having a 8 mb/s dwl speed. worst speed is 0.0 and I have FTH 100/100….

What seem to be the problem????

[Jan skovmand]

@Easy G said:
Once I have dragged individual blocks into the composition window in EZD2, can I drag the entire composition into the DAW at the same time (keeping the sequence) or do I have to drag the midi blocks one at the time?  

Yep No problem. Right click in the “composer” area (a blank area that is “select all) or mark the blocks you want to drag to you DAW. Then left click and drag`em to your DAW 🙂 Best of luck to you.

[Jan skovmand]

I hope it was of any help Scottfelsen. When one is in a creative mode one should not go down on crappy software and lack of ways of work around 😀 Best of luck to you.

[Jan skovmand]

Hi Scottfelsen. (First sorry for my broken English i hope you`ll be able to understand my post anyway)

This is how I do.. Fist I open my DAW (in my case Pro tools LE 8.05…) I`ll ad an Instrument track and load the EZ drummer on to that.. Then I open my MIDI editor.. In my version of a MIDI editor I`ve got a piano role this will correspond with my EZ drummer I hit a key and I`ve got the snare drum sound I hit another key I`ve got the tom sound etc etc etc… (you could use a MIDI keyboard as well, as any key will correspond a drum sound! the layout of the individual drum sounds will be in the help menu of your EZ drummer, so far so good ;)) Now This is how I do things, properly all wrong and backwards… I do stuff without reading the manual as I find it totally misguiding, wrong and totally stupid……… (this of course is not true I am just a dumb ass of reading manuals and guides I do the ol`trail and error thingy as I have no patience and want the freaking SW to do what I want it to do without reading pages up and down..So the darn thing better listen when I swear at it )
So far I`ve been doing this: Load pro tools open my project add an Instrument track and load my version of EZ drummer… Depending of how deep I am into the project I start out with a guitar track and play my rytm git… and then my drum track (in pro tools i load an instrument track and onto that my EZ) First I use the TAP TO FIND to kinda manually program the beat..bass and snare drum… The TAP TO FIND beat I`ve made I then drag onto the Play Role (the one that says “drag MIDI song block here”) and from the play role I drag it onto my Instrument track, open my MIDI editor and then I start tweaking using both the DAW`s Piano role, and my MIDI keyboard.. This I know is very time consuming but this is the way I do it… I`ll bet my furry ass that some one at Toontrack will laugh there butt of reading this way of doing drum programming 😀

I could wish for a video course made by toontrack on how the heck one does a custom drum track step by step using nothing but EZ Drummer… Meaning 100% individual drum beats not using ANY of the pre made drum beats or a DAW MIDI editor.. Is it possible??? Have you tried to do a drum role… Hits on the High hat as in “smoke on the Water”…..

[Jan skovmand]

@Henrik said:

Basically – MIDI is to a computer what sheet music is for a musician. EZkeys expansions (EZKs) are to a computer what instruments are for a musician. You can write sheet music to a musician and ask him to play those notes on a piano, an organ or something else. In the same manner – you can edit MIDI and tell EZkeys to play that MIDI with a piano, a mellotron etc.

Just to sum up. The midi pack eg the keys and string is “only” the MIDI string part (no sound) and the piano part is the (heard) sound. When using it in my DAW like pro tools the midi part will play any musical instrument as it is only the “sheet” like you can play a piano part on a guitar… I get it now… LOL it took awhile though..

I need the mellotoone… And the brass midi/ keys (uh not ready yet….? )

[Jan skovmand]

Well Scott I did that ol` manual reading thingy is`t that just amazing what you can get of info from such a thing 😳 strings eg Session string pro…

[Jan skovmand]

@Scott said:

Really don’t need Mellotoon?!?! Of course you do!!!!

No, seriously, you can use the MIDI out feature in EZkeys to output the Song Track in EZkeys to any other string plugin instrument if you want to create your part in EZkeys and hear a different string sound from a different plugin (like Session string pro, or Kontact, etc).

See the EZkeys manual, 3.7 Using other Sound Generators, for more details.

Well don`t we all need Mellotoon

[Jan skovmand]

@Scott said:

String sounds are available in the Mellotoon EZkeys expansion library.

So the expansion pack “Keys & Strings EZkeys MIDI” need” EZkeys Mellotoon” either as a sound expansion or as “Regular” to work? I can not make it work as an expansion pack in The EZkeys Upright piano??

[Jan skovmand]

@Scott said:

I’m not sure I follow you. If you want two different EZkeys patches (whatever those choices may be) you need to load two instances of EZkeys and select the library and sound accordingly for each instance.

My problem is I get no strings when loading EZkeys upright piano and Keys & Strings EZkeys MIDI loaded inside of my DAW (Pro tools) I`ve got lots og piano sound but no strings.

[Jan skovmand]

@Scott said:

If you want a MelloToon string sound, you would load it in your DAW and select a string patch. If you then want a keys sound, you would load another EZkeys Mellotoon and select a different patch.

Well?? Eh?? I read your reply this way: I`ll need to load my EZKeys piano in my DAW eg pro tools and then load the piano sound on one track and on a track 2 load EZkeys extension pack eg strings??????

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