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[John]

Hi,

if you go to the Grid Editor and select the notes you want to use for your build-up, you use the two Slope tools (to the right of the ‘Randomise’ slider to lower or raise the left or right side of your selection of notes. This keeps the relative distance in velocity but creates a ¨ramp’ or ‘slope’.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

I am pretty sure that the 9×12″ Tom is a Rack Tom. My guess is that when the Custom Shop EZX was created, the majority of the kits were RT1, FT1 and FT2.
The 9×12″ Fibes Maple has an extra “- Rack Tom” in its name, to clarify that it’s a Rack Tom that loads “natively”, so to speak, in the FT1 position but it is a Rack Tom.
To have this Rack Tom load as a RT2 would have meant different graphics for this EZX where all other kits would have had an empty slot for the RT2 position.
It does get a bit confusing when you Search for it in SD3 and the picture that shows up is a generic Floor Tom but I guess that’s because it fetches the basic position for it in the EZX config. You can load a Rack Tom in a Floor Tom position and vice versa in both EZD3 and SD3.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Good to hear!

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

importing Time Signature changes from a MIDI file is currently not possible but has been requested by users and I suggest you add your voice to this over at the ‘Requests & Feedback’ section of the Forum.

If you have Edited Time Signature changes on a Song Track and wish to create a new Song Track to try out other MIDI grooves but the same Time Sig changes, you can always start out with Duplicating the first Song Track. Removing the MIDI will not remove the Time Sig changes.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

you have the option to create/edit an Input MIDI Mapping and save as your own User Preset. This mapping can then be applied to a folder with your BFD grooves. Perhaps not the easiest thing to start with if you are learning how to operate EZdrummer 3 😉

To elaborate: Input mapping Presets are something mainly used for E-drumming or external controllers where a different mapping is used than the Toontrack Extended GM mapping. The Presets makes it possible to have an Input transforming happen, which lets you use the external mapping on your controller while still being able to use your Toontrack MIDI. Should you alter the actual MIDI notes on the ‘Drums’ page, you will lose compatibility with the Toontrack grooves libraries.

The Input MIDI Mapping Presets can also be applied to folders in the User MIDI Folder. As an example; if you have a folder with your BFD MIDI, you can add this folder (with sub folders) to your User MIDI folder. Scroll down to find it on the ‘Grooves’ page, right-click and ‘Open in Explorer’. Copy/Move your BFD MIDI here and then right-click the User MIDI folder in EZD3 again and ‘Sync File Changes’.
Now your added folder should show up in the ‘Grooves’ browser. If you right-click this folder (or click the small drop-down arrow to open the menu), you see the option to select an Input MIDI Mapping.
A while ago, I started on a BFD MIDI Preset for another user but I am unsure of how well it went, since I don’t have BFD, only prints of the mapping.
You can try it out as a starting point and then edit it and save as your own if you want to.
To try it out, download the ‘BFD_3.zip’ attached to this post.
Next, click the small “hamburger” menu in the bottom right corner of EZD3, right next to ‘MIDI’ to open ‘Edit Mapping in E-Drums/MIDI In’.
Click the Preset drop-down at the top of the page and then ‘Manage in Explorer’. This will open up an Explorer window for the location of User Presets.
Un-zip the ‘BFD_3.zip’ and put the extracted file in this folder.
Click the Preset drop-down again in EZD3 and ‘Rescan User Presets’.

Now this MIDI Preset should be in your User Presets list and can be applied to your BFD3 MIDI folder inside your User MIDI folder.

This means that (if the MIDI Preset is correctly mapped) you can audition and then drag those MIDI files to your Song Track and mix-n-match them with MIDI you create inside EZD3 or MIDI from your Toontrack libraries.

All of this is can be further read about in the manual: https://www.toontrack.com/manual/ezdrummer-3/

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

the “MIDI” column was added 2,5 years ago, so you would have to roll back to version 3.2.8 if you wish to use a version where it is not present. It was an addition for the users who wished for some kind of visual representation of a groove structure.
An alternative to roll back to v3.2.8 is to un-check the ‘MIDI’ column and then Save your Current Project as Default. This opens the Default state without it. Any saved Project where it is visible, will still open that way until saved with it hidden.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

Pro Tools user here. Which exact PT version are you using? How is your SD3 track set up? If you play back MIDI from the Pro Tools Timeline and that MIDI triggers the SD3 plug-in, it should get recorded when you hit rec before you play back the PT Timeline.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

‘Enable multi-threaded soft synth playback’ shouldn’t make any difference in this matter but ‘Enable Real-Time MIDI’ could.

Which audio interface and driver are you using?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

did you try deleting the AU cache file and then reboot before launching Logic again? If you do not know how and where to find it, please see this FAQ:
https://www.toontrack.com/faq/my-toontrack-plug-in-is-missing-from-logic-garageband/

Just to rule stuff out, could you please navigate to your ‘{Mac HD}/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/’ folder and move all but the ‘EZdrummer 3.component’ to a temporary location outside of that folder, then launch Logic and insert the EZdrummer 3 plug-in?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

I am not familiar with ACID Pro but I would check for settings that has to do with ‘releasing the audio driver’, ‘plug-in napping’ or something similar. You don’t want the host to save up on power resources by releasing the audio driver or putting the plug-ins “to sleep”. Normally, having MIDI on the host track and playing it back should remove that warning and the plug-in should produce sound.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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[John]

Hi,

please contact Toontrack Support directly via the ‘Contact Support’ button found at the bottom of every FAQ page.

https://www.toontrack.com/faq/how-do-i-contact-support/

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

when I check by just modifying the first pretty straight beat I can find in the Grid Editor, then drop it on Tap2Find, I get pretty many results: The Classic, The Americana, The Stories, The Nashville, The POP!, The UK Pop, The EZD3 Core,  etc.

Try it yourself and click the ‘Shop Web Shop MIDI’ button to see what’s available to buy. Fills at the end of grooves can just be cut and you can paste the end Beat(s) from an earlier Bar.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

LJG_1 wrote:

Hi guys,

I am writing to ask about a reinstall.

I had a smaller… (memory),  PC , which ran all my audio work quite fine.

The only problem there was the size of  the memory which began to slow everything down.

So, Bought a newer, more powerful laptop, but now find I can’t load or install EZ Drummer at all… !!

Some message , which essentially tells me you can’t download the app , despite the library having being previously being downloaded without a problem.

ok, that’s it. what’s going on, hopefully we can fix this.

Cheers guys.

Best regards

Leo

Hi Leo,

please start a new thread. This one is regarding something different on another OS.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

mark wrote:

Will this step affect other plugins that are installed i.e. Melodyne, Izotope, EZ Drummer, etc., that may or may not agree with Rosetta?

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I can’t imagine there’s any current plug-in that wouldn’t work under Rosetta, it’s the other way around; older plug-ins do not run in silicon native mode.

The manufacturers you listed, as well as all my other ones, show up when I launch Pro Tools in Rosetta mode. Bottom line is, if you want to be able to run EZdrummer 2 in Pro Tools 2024.10 on Monterey, you must run Pro Tools in Rosetta mode.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Hi,

if EZdrummer 2 isn’t showing up when launching Pro Tools 2024.10 under Monterey, my initial though would be that you’re running Pro Tools in silicon native mode and since the discontinued EZdrummer 2 plug-in is not silicon native, you need to start Pro Tools in Rosetta mode.

BR,
John

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