[jerry234]

Add my vote! I definitely want this function back and miss it from EZD1. PLEASE!!!

[jerry234]

@upislouder said:

I need a Global half and double time solution not an individual loop one.
I do not want to use the song track window.
I want to hit play and click through many loops to audition them without stopping while it is synced to the song.
I do not want to choose a loop then pull lit down to the song track window at the right bar location then go to the menu and choose half time for that one loop.-My client would run out of the room screaming after a few times!
In EZ 1 I could preview 30 loops with the song without even stopping the DAW.
WithEZ 2 this is now impossible-you have to do them one at a time- which is slow and tedious.
And if i change the tempo of my song the whole song will play at the wrong tempo. I need to hear the loops playing with my song in the correct tempo.
Are you going to change this in the future?
If not how do I downgrade to EZ 1?
I apologize for whining but this is very important to me.

I have to add my strong vote to this also. Upislouder’s description is exactly how I work. It’s a very quick and efficient approach and I, too, am frustrated by having lost a feature that I used a lot. Please re-instate it and release the fix soon so we can be more efficient. Thanks!

[jerry234]

@Michael said:

You can not drag and drop a file from the desktop to the pro tools plugin but you can drag and drop a file from the desktop to EZDrummer 2 stand alone. You can then save the EZdrummer 2 project (menu > Project > Save project). Finally you would open this project in EZDrummer 2 launched in pro tools (menu > Project > Load project)

That’s more of a pain because, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, I never work on a song with just the groove. For me, I think in melodies, so I always add the groove after I’ve fleshed out much of the song. Therefore, it’s harder to go back and forth on the groove using saving and loading in standalone. I need to do this in PT11 so I can keep listening to the groove and groove changes against the song components I’ve already created. But I do appreciate your info — thanks again!

[jerry234]

@Michael said:

No, Pro tools AAX plugins do not allow dragging back into EZdurmmer 2.

Well, at least that explains the very behavior I experience — thanks for clarifying!

[jerry234]

@Patrik said:

If you have “Follow Host” active and click the record button inside EZdrummer2, starting playback in ProTools will record any MIDI sent to EZdrummer2, so you can just copy the MIDI that way. Hope that helps

Thanks, Patrik! I’ll try that. I did try to drag a MIDI file from the desktop into EZD2, but could not get it to work. The file would not move from the desktop into the app. It could be some Windows 7 setting or some such.

[jerry234]

@Markus Wagner said:

It is possible to put the midi file from the desktop and set it into ezd2. You can also simply playback from your daw and push the record button of ezd2. To create that midi file on the desktop you sometimes must use the DAW export function depending on its functionality.

That’s true. In fact, I’m embarrased that I’d not thought of that considering that I export MIDI tracks to files all the time; I’m just not one to place them on the desktop, which I obviously can do. I was thinking in drag and drop mode because that’s fast and efficient, and therefore, my preference. Hopefully, Toontracks will comment on this today and let us know what faster options exist and when we might expect to be able to directly drag MIDI tracks from PT11 directly into EZD2.

[jerry234]

That’s interesting! I wonder if it’s possible to drag a MIDI file out of PT11 onto the desktop and then drag it into EZD2. I’ll try that tomorrow when I’m in the studio. Perhaps someone from Toontracks can weigh in tomorrow about that and whether or not there’s some other workaround that does the trick.

[jerry234]

Well, that’s interesting. I’m using Pro Tools 11. Any idea whether or not this DAW allos said behavior? Thanks!

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