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[John]

Hi,

saving a User Instrument saves properties on the Drum page (like level, tuning, envelope, etc) and if you have made any stacking and/or importing of samples.

If I load a User Instrument that e.g. is a Stack with a Toontrack Library Snare, a user sample Snare and a user sample Clap and have saved this with a particular library, room and mic setup it doesn’t necessarily load as saved in another scenario. An example: I create above User Stack and clear all routings of the Snare’s microphones except Top and Bottom; I route the Clap to the AMB mic and create a new User X-Channel for the user sample Snare, then save my User Instrument.

The next time I recall the User Instrument, I must be aware that the currently loaded Library and preset “sets the stage”, so to speak. My User Instrument Snare Stack will most likely sound right when it comes to the Top and Bottom mics and probably the AMB mic too but the User created X-channel does not yet exist in the new setup, so I have to either route my User Snare sample Stack Layer’s mic to an existing mic or create a new one. This kind of scenario, that a loaded instrument does not produce sound because of missing routing, can actually happen outside of the User Instruments’ one. But I digress. The Microphone Routing page is also your friend when it comes to e.g. splitting out Cymbals from a Stereo OH microphone; you simply create a new microphone/mixer channel for the Close signal.

If you want to save more than properties on the Drums page for an instrument, you will have to save a User Library Preset or Project. You can save Mixer channel Presets as well.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

do you mean the ‘Fusion Grooves’ MIDI Pack? No, Pete Riley is the drummer behind the grooves in the Fusion EZX and Luke Oswald has recorded the Fusion Grooves, Linear Fusion, etc.

BR,
John

 

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[John]

Hi Nils,

I am sorry to hear that you feel this way but the solution then would be to stop developing new products, which is not a viable option for neither company nor customers in the long run.

The EZdrummer 3 plug-in/application has so much more features and options than EZdrummer 2 that it had to be a new piece of software.

Nils wrote:

Generally I liked my Toontrack tools, but that there is no way to just exchange EZD2 to EZD3 in a project including keeping of the arrangement is almost inacceptable.

You can Import EZdrummer 2 Projects, so Toontrack is not abandoning you, au contraire. You can have both software installed, so while you migrate to the newer, you save your songs as EZdrummer 2 Projects and Import them to EZdrummer 3, which will import library, kit and MIDI. EZD3 also reads User Presets.

In a DAW, I would simply create a new EZD3 track right next to the EZD2 one and use the EZD2 Save/EZD3 Import function to get the Project over to EZD3, then check that it sounds as expected before deleting the EZD2 Track. If the MIDI is on the DAW Track and you are using a Preset in EZD2, you just select the same Preset in EZD3 and put the MIDI on the EZD3 track.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

I presume you have inserted EZdrummer 3 on a Stereo Instrument Track?

Is your MIDI controller visible in the Instrument Track’s MIDI Devices Input list at the top of the Mixer Channel (not visible by Default)?

Is the Track in Input Monitoring/Rec Enabled?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

do you have a separate audio interface or is the DM7 your audio interface as well?

How low can you go with the Buffer size and at which sample rate?

BR;
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

If you have the MIDI on the SD3 Song Track, you can select a range of/all notes/regions and Ramp Up/Down velocity with the Fade Tools in the Grid Editor’s Velocity Lane.
This would gradually increase/decrease the notes with relative relationships intact.

The other option is what Mark suggested; control the output Volume of SD3.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

do you get sound when clicking the drums in the EZD3 interface?

Does your MIDI device have a check mark in the MIDI device list in EZD3 Audio/MIDI Settings?

Which MIDI Preset are you using?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

bpjacobsen wrote:

If I put the user instruments into folders now, will it cause the existing assigned instruments to stop working? Or does that just simply give you categories to pull from when going to user instruments? Don’t want to put them into folders now if it will mess up what I have in the slots now. Thanks

Hi,

AFAIK the only thing that prompts SD3 to launch Search for something missing is when the used sample and/or library it came from has been moved or removed. I.e. if you categorise your User Instrument presets or rename them, saved Projects should recall them, since the path to the User Instrument is included in the properties text file.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

I can’t speak for what’s in development but this should be on the wish list of things.
Jack is right about the User Instrument name being saved inside the text file that stipulates the properties for the User Instrument.
You can right-click an Instrument and go to Manage in Finder/Explorer to jump directly to the User Instrument presets and if you have e.g. a Kick that you originally named ‘Kick_1’, then want to name it ‘Awesome Kick’, you open the text file and enter/paste the name you wish it to display in SD3 between the very first quotation marks in the beginning of the text file.
It’s at least a work around.
BTW, don’t forget you can organise your User Instrument Presets in folders. SD3 will not display the folders when you use the ‘Add Instrument’ drop-down in the top left but if you know you’re going to add a certain Instrument in a certain slot, it can be helpful, like in my attached screen shot.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

well… there’s an ‘h’ too many in there…

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hej Claes,

har du kontaktat Support som Rickard beskrev? Jag skulle verkligen rekommendera det.
Annars är det enda jag kan föreslå just nu att starta programmet Toontrack Product Manager, gå till produkten ‘EZdrummer 3 Core Library’ (alltså inte ‘EZdrummer 3 – Regular’) och klicka på ‘Show Details’.
Ladda ned ‘Core MIDI update for Windows’ och Installera den. Starta sedan EZdrummer 3 Standalone och se om det fungerar.

Mvh,
John

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Hi Claes,

have you contacted Support as Rickard described? I would really recommend it.
Otherwise, the only thing I can suggest right now is to start the Toontrack Product Manager program, go to the product ‘EZdrummer 3 Core Library’ (not ‘EZdrummer 3 – Regular’) and click ‘Show Details’.
Download the ‘Core MIDI update for Windows’ and install it. Then start EZdrummer 3 Standalone and see if it works.

Regards,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

1. how do you know it is EZdrummer 3 crashing Pro Tools?
2. What kind of crash is it and do you get any error messages? You can screen grab and post here.
3. Do you have a crash log/report? If so, please zip archive it and attach to a post here.
4. Is it existing Sessions, new ones or both?
5. Have you tried thrashing the Pro Tools Preferences?

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,
if any of the Factory Alesis Presets doesn’t serve as a starting point, maybe this Strata Prime preset I started on for an EZdrummer 3 user might?
Strata-Prime-WIP
I do not own this kit, though. I just entered the note data I had available.

BR,
John

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