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[John]

Hi,

the left lever is Sostenuto and the right is Sustain.

The rest should be cosmetic, no hidden stuff.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

please post a request in the ‘Requests & Feedback’ section.

Yes,  the Search at the top right of the site, searches site-wide, including the Forums. Click ‘View all results’ and filter Forum posts.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

I can see HQ cleared your inactive Auths, so you’re good to go.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

how are you adding the Shaker and how are you searching for MIDI for it?

If you Add the Shaker via the ‘Add Instrument > Future Hit Instrument > Shaker’ menu, it is added as a Future Hit Shaker Pad.
This type of Instrument cannot be triggered as a regular Instrument. If you Search for Grooves for this Instrument, you will have to Filter the Power Hand column for ‘Shaker Pad’ grooves.
If you have Groove Block on the song Track, you can select the Shaker Pad in the Edit Play Style page and turn the ‘Amount’ knob to get hits added.
If you Edit in the Grid Editor, the Future Hit Shaker Pad would be named ‘Shaker’ not Instrument 1. If you expand the ‘Shaker’ Row in the Grid Editor, you see all the different articulations.

If you have added the Shaker as a regular Instrument (Alt/Option+R), it would be called ‘Instrument 1’ in the Grid Editor. This Instrument would be triggered as a regular Instrument but can’t be expected to get the same “realistic” results if you add hits in the Edit Play Style page as with a Future Hit Instrument.
If you Search for Grooves, it’s not guaranteed you will hear this Shaker played back as intended, since it depends on the assigned MIDI notes.
E.g. if I load the Latin Cuban Percussion EZX in SD3 and Search for a ‘Shaker’ Power Hand grooves, I can find grooves that sound as expected. Now, when I add a Shaker from the  same EZX to my already loaded Hansa SDX kit, the MIDI assignments are already in place and the added Shaker doesn’t “steal” the main note assignments for the drum kit but gets suggested notes outside of the core range. Hence Shaker MIDI grooves will most likely trigger drums instead. These Shaker grooves can of course be dragged to the Song Track anyway and you can transpose the notes in the Grid Editor.

In my example with a Shaker from the LCP EZX that has got many articulations, I can still assign it to a Future Hit Stack note number (7) to utilise all the articulations the same way but then it would be better to just add it as Future Hit Shaker Pad in the first place.

Does this clarify somewhat?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

have you already tried the 1.3.4 installer?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

if you have both EZkeys 2 and EZbass windows open at the same time and they are slightly overlapping, you can drag MID from the EZkeys 2 Song Track to both the EZbass Song Track (which will then ask you if you wish to Import Tempo and Time Signature) and the ‘Drums & Keys’ page.

You can also drag from EZkeys 2 or EZbass to EZdrummer 3 in the same manner. All of them can Import Tempo from MIDI files and EZbass can also read Chords from an EZkeys 2 Project.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

EZdrummer 3 has got MIDI Presets for EFNOTE 3/5/7 and the Mini has a few less Trigger inputs, so using any of the other EFNOTE Presets as a starting point should suffice.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

have you created a Support Ticket with Toontrack Support directly via the FAQ pages?

BR,
John

Hej,

har du kontaktat Toontrack Support och skapat en Support Ticket via FAQ-sidorna?

MVH,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

I removed all Forum Subscriptions from your Profile.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi Martin,

I really hope I don’t come across as rude, that’s not my intention; but I hope you see that when you bought the original EZdrummer (1) in 2011, there was nothing in the offer and/or EULA that guaranteed you could either get free upgrades to newer iterations of the software for life or that Toontrack would continue to support that product for new hardware and OS’es unimagined at the time. You can still use the software you have bought 14 years ago but you can’t use it with the newest hardware (your M4 Mac Mini) and OS (Sequoia). This is not something unique to Toontrack products. You do still have access to the EZX’s and MIDI you have bought but they can’t be used without a working copy of EZdrummer, so if you had EZdrummer 2/3, you still could be using your EZdrummer EZX expansions and the MIDI pack.

Anyways, we Technical Advisors here on the Forum cannot aid with compensation, discounts or the like, so I would have to direct you to contact Toontrack Support directly for that.
All FAQ pages have a ‘Contact Support’ button found at the bottom.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi Martin,

sorry about the confusion here but I presumed you were on at least a semi-current version of EZdrummer, not the original version that was discontinued more than 10 years ago.

EZdrummer 3 is of course Silicon Native and fully compatible with Sequoia, I can also run EZdrummer 2 in Logic 11.1 in Sequoia but getting the original EZdrummer 1 to work includes sorcery above my pay grade, I guess.
If you have migrated your system and the actual EZdrummer files have been moved to the new system, starting Logic in Rosetta mode might give you a slim chance but I wouldn’t bet any money on it.

Anyways, the Blues MIDI files and the Blues EZX are not OS dependent (only their old package installers), since they are extensions for EZdrummer but they require a working installation of EZdrummer to be utilised and on a Silicon Native Mac (your M4 Mac mini) with Sequoia, that means upgrading to EZdrummer 3, I’m afraid.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi Martin,

what Olof means is that you haven’t confirmed that you are actually using the Toontrack Product Manager application to run the Installer.

Since you have posted images above showing the disk images of your separate product installers from the Finder, it’s easy to assume you haven’t. The Toontrack Product Manager application circumvenes the (sometimes outdated) installer included in the product packages and lets you install old products.

I am also on Sequoia and have no problems downloading and running the Blues EZX Installer from within the Toontrack Product Manager application.
This applies to other old products as well.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

BEST ANSWER

Hi,

as Victor suggests, please visit the Grid Editor and inspect your notes. E.g. if all notes are overlapping and have been treated as joined legato notes. If so, just click the small legato button above the grid to separate them.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Hi,

as Victor suggests, please visit the Grid Editor and inspect your notes. E.g. if all notes are overlapping and have been treated as joined legato notes. If so, just click the small legato button above the grid to separate them.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

I would say yes and no. I haven’t used this myself but as I understand it, the Tempo change can be sent to MIDI recipients but the Audio slow down/speed up wouldn’t work, so ‘Varispeed and MIDI‘ mode, I guess.

BR,
John

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[John]

BEST ANSWER

Hi Kim,

first off: CC is Continuous Controller data, like what is used for determining the openness of the Hi-Hat or where on a Snare you are hitting it. What triggers a Kick or Snare hit, is a Note Number. The Default Note # for the Kick is indeed 36.
Second: if you stack Sounds, the different Stack Members can absolutely have their own channels in the SD3 Mixer.

E.g. if you have stacked a sub-kick on the Kick, you right-click the sub-kick Stack Member and go to ‘Route Instrument Microphones…’.
Then click the ‘Close’ signal mic assignment drop-down and scroll down to ‘Create New Channel’. If the Stack Member has been auto-assigned any other channels you don’t wish it to be routed to (unlikely if it’s a User sample), remove those assignments.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Hi Kim,

first off: CC is Continuous Controller data, like what is used for determining the openness of the Hi-Hat or where on a Snare you are hitting it. What triggers a Kick or Snare hit, is a Note Number. The Default Note # for the Kick is indeed 36.
Second: if you stack Sounds, the different Stack Members can absolutely have their own channels in the SD3 Mixer.

E.g. if you have stacked a sub-kick on the Kick, you right-click the sub-kick Stack Member and go to ‘Route Instrument Microphones…’.
Then click the ‘Close’ signal mic assignment drop-down and scroll down to ‘Create New Channel’. If the Stack Member has been auto-assigned any other channels you don’t wish it to be routed to (unlikely if it’s a User sample), remove those assignments.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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