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[Jay Coover]

I do agree…Roots is definitely a light hitter’s library. There’s a place for that, but it won’t fit a lot of music.

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[Jay Coover]

Add whatever hats in Roots you like to Funkmasters as an xDrum replacing the hihats there.

Choose “steal default” instead of “steal current” under “MIDI”. This will expose the Roots hihat mappings that you want.

Map the Ambient Far or Chamber mic to Plate (whichever you like best) and the AMB Mid to Room. If you mix either of these up, make sure to go in and enable the x version of the hihat because it will be disabled by default as opposed to the rest of the natural kit ambience microphones.

Leave vinyl/drum trash unmapped and don’t use the vinyl channel. There’s no equivalent between the two.

Dig down and mix.

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[Jay Coover]

That’s odd. I’m pretty sure they are both supposed to look in the same folder for those MIDI files. And especially odd that just that one folder is missing.

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[Jay Coover]

ORIGINAL: Scott
I’m trying to grasp what folk consider an ‘outro’.

Well, for the purposes of a Toontrack MIDI package, I think you can rule out “fade out”. You’ve got that covered.

Seriously though, you could probably release an entire pack of endings and still have room.

An outro for the purposes of coming up with something that isn’t tied to one of the other releases could be a combination of flurishes and accented hits both crescendo and decrescendo on the hits, depending on the style. Not really hard to imagine all that has been done so far on button endings across the board.

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[Jay Coover]

Good news! I can make an xDrum patch out of that in SD right?

Will try tonight.

Also, your suggestion on tuning up the woodblocks works pretty well. Did some transient and compression stuff and spiked it on an EQ up around 3k or so and it sounds very close.

fizbin

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[Jay Coover]

On a PC the factory MIDI would be at C:Program Files (x86)XLN AudioAddictive DrumsFactory Midi FilesAD

…while I think all the add-on MIDI is in the proprietary single file format.

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[Jay Coover]

Yeah, I just picked up NY 2, C&V, and Metal Foundry SDX’s on that same deal for ~$190, which at $63 apiece is $17 less than their normal discounted price and $87 apiece less than list. Would have cost $450 total at TT.

I wish audiodeluxe would sell the Superior presets. I hate paying much for knob tweaking. On the other hand, I’ve gotten pretty decent at doing it myself.

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[Jay Coover]

It’s nice to have a drum map when you’re programming the MIDI with the mouse. It let’s you see the drum names rather than a piano roll.

Other than that, if you’re familiar with programming MIDI already, just get started. If not, spend some time and learn how to program MIDI.

Not really many short cuts available. Just do it. Oh, yeah, cut and paste.

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[Jay Coover]

Get some crowd effects and run them from a different track. Crowd noises aren’t triggered by drum samples. Imagine the crowd cheering only when the drummer hit each note. Nice idea for the drummer I guess 😉

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[Jay Coover]

I’d settle for some analog saturation emulation and a reverb.

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[Jay Coover]

Hmmm…I suspect the latter.

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[Jay Coover]

Thanks for the tip. Will try that.

If that was the reasoning, then I think it was clearly flawed. Everything else sounds authentic enough. Just missing that clave.

It would have been a very simple, obvious addition to a Latin percussion set. Every other major piece is represented, so I don’t get “contemporary” here. Woodblocks, for instance, aren’t more or less contemporary than any other piece in the set. And with the ample quantity of Marvin Gaye grooves in the MIDI, again, not contemporary, though certainly fantastic. Love ’em.

Best,
fizbin

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[Jay Coover]

Superior and EZDrummer are missing some search and filtering functions that will hopefully be added.

One of them would be the ability to find the original file in the browser based on the name the MIDI file is given when it is dragged into the host.

I do a similar method to what Scott has suggested. Every track in Cubase has a notepad area where you can make notes. I note the long path to the MIDI files I use.

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[Jay Coover]

How do you intend to use EZDrummer? That is, as a drum machine in Cubase, Sonar, Pro Tools, etc, or do you intend to use it as the sounds for an electronic drum kit?

The former requires that the EZ Drummer vst dll (Windows) is in the VST path your host (Cubase, Pro Tools, whatever) is configured for. Mac is similar but I don’t have details. The latter requires and electronic drum kit with a MIDI connection to your computer and Toontrack Solo. You could also instantiate it in your host as well, but Solo is more lightweight.

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[Jay Coover]

Not hearing anything but swinging 16ths here. There’s no hybridization of groove here to my ears.

I can look at the MIDI and see that no offbeat 16ths are landing anywhere but late.

It didn’ ruin my day or anything. I’d just be less likely to find grooves that are mis-categorized like this.

It’s tough enough anyway…for instance, say I want a hip-hop beat (this is close to a swung hip-hop even though it’s funk). I have to go through swung 8ths (not hip-hop) and swung 16ths not knowing which is which.

The next rev of SD/EZD needs a search and filter function.

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