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[jazzmandan]

Grid map like EZdrums or EZBass?  No such thing in EZkeys.  Just the chord line otherwise you have edit in your DAW.  Things like this have been on the EZKeys v2.0 wishlist for years.

[jazzmandan]

OK, good for you. But I was working on this – I suspect I still don’t fully understand what you are doing but glad you figured it out.  EZKeys and Reaper are the perfect 1 – 2 punch for working with midi

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kyf55HZ_AipA1hq-oFKpeuijOcj8_oLg

• This post was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by jazzmandan.

[jazzmandan]

In order to move midi between Reaper and EZKeys you simply select the content then hold down the Ctrl and Alt key at the same time and drag.  This key sequence will also let you drag midi fragments into notation software (Musescore 3.0).  No need to bounce or record.  Is that what you are looking for?

• This post was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by jazzmandan.

[jazzmandan]

“About once a year someone comes on and asks, “hey, are you going to update EZKeys?”

Hey I resemble that remark!

 

[jazzmandan]

Enlarging the GUI for EZKeys has been on the wishlist for years.  Unfortunately, it is a no go.  Development of EZKeys never got beyond version 1.

A Toontrack developer for EZDrummer 2… (which has a similar issue) confirmed that even in version 2 there is, inherently, no way to resize.

https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/is-it-seriously-not-possible-to-resize-ezdrummers-window/page/2/#reply-posts

[jazzmandan]

There is a bit of a trick to dragging and dropping the midi files from Reaper to EZkeys and then back again.  You have to hold down the Ctrl\Alt keys at the same time.  Took a long while to learn that.

[jazzmandan]

Funny, just saw this post for the first time. All these years I have dealt with this bar count mismatch and never thought it was a problem. Just the way things had to be done.  But it appears this should have, could have, been done in a more EZ way.  Just an example of a great program (heck we have all been using this for years) which has not gotten any love from the developers to move it beyond version 1.

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[jazzmandan]

Henrik Ekblom wrote:

I assure you that we haven’t abandoned the EZkeys software line. If we could we would constantly update all our software, but the problem is that we aren’t a huge company that can put those resources to both update all older software and come up with new ones simultaneously. We have to prioritize some, and during some parts of time, some software will have to wait to get the next big version released. But, as I said, we haven’t abandoned our keys users!

And regarding all feedback we get, we gather everything and evaluate it, and take it into consideration for coming versions, so you aren’t speaking out to noone 🙂

Well I am surprised.  I did not realize the size of the company.  Your product line seems to indicate a much larger company.  So this explains a lot to me regarding why we have never seen EZKeys 2.0.   Obviously the EZdrum line has been the flagship.

Here is a bit of company background from the website:

What began as an experiment ended up as Drumkit From Hell – a collection of drum sounds that would come to change the face of the industry. “We just wanted great sounding drums for our own songwriting. We had no aspirations of even selling it in the first place”, says Mattias Eklund, Toontrack’s co-founder.  That was some fifteen years ago. But instead of being a two-man operation and having an “office” in the bedroom of Mattias’ apartment, Toontrack now employs almost 30 people in four countries and continues to spearhead innovation of creative tools for songwriters around the world.

[jazzmandan]

+1, I have been an advocate for EZKeys 2.0 for years.  Still waiting, but I am not getting any younger.

[jazzmandan]

You have confirmed that this is only occurring with Digital Performer 9, right?  Cause what you described ain’t happening in Reaper.

Hope this off-comment helps.

[jazzmandan]

Over three (3) years and still no EZkeys 2.  Guys, I am not a young man and don’t have an infinite amount of time to enjoy what you are working on in development.  So can you please get to it.

[jazzmandan]

Unusual comment. You do know EZkeys are “keys” right?  Wouldn’t expect to hear orchestral instruments?  What library add-on are you listening to

[jazzmandan]

I have been asking for version 2 of EZKeys for over a year now.  While I am a big fan of this product it really does need to  mature and advance in feature set.

[jazzmandan]

gabe wrote:

jazzmandan wrote:

Why does it seem like we are all growing older and more mature, but EZkeys has never aged (Still version 1.2.5)! Come on guys lets grow up. Certainly I am not the only one who has ideas for how this program can mature along with us.

I’m just curious, do you have a Soundcloud page with stuff you’ve done with EZKeys.

I’d like to hear what you’ve done so far with it.

Well, since you asked.  Lots of EZKeys in here: https://soundcloud.com/dan-hoch-784636941/in-a-latin-mood

• This post was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by jazzmandan.

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[jazzmandan]

You mentioned you are having issued within your DAW. So try the program in standalone mode to see if it behaves better.  There are some minor differences regarding working on a project in a DAW versus in the Standalone mode.

 

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