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I use a free program called Hydrogen to build my drum routines, and you can easily do what you want to do in Hydrogen.  After getting your kicks the way you want them in Hydrogen, you can import them into Easydrummer.  Sometimes the notes move to a different instrument in Easydrummer, but when that happens you can cut and paste the midi from the wrong instrument to the right one in Easydrummer.  I’ve been working this way between Hydrogen and Easydrummer for years, building drum routines in Hyrdrogen and exporting the midi to Easy drummer to do final editing, somtimes going back and forth to fix things I don’t like.  I’ve learned a lot of techniques over the years of doing this, and I’ve become adept at creating and editing entire drum routines or parts of routines.  It would be nice if Easydrummer had the creation and editing features of Hydrogen so one would not have to move back and forth between programs.  I have been unimpressed with “tap to find” in Easydrummer.  Don’t worry too much about the computer generated drum sounds in Hydrogen as you will eventually change them to the better sounding drums in Easydrummer.  If you pursue this keep in touch.  I can talk you through all kinds of techniques of building and editing in one program, exporting it to the other, even going back and forth to make adjustments, and using some parts of Easydrummer libraries to build a custom drum routine.

Operating system: Windows 10

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I use another method to build by EasyDrummer patterns.  I find Tap to Find awkward.  I use Hydrogen, a freeware drum program, to build my drum routines.  It’s computer generated drum sounds, but don’t get hung up on that as you’re going to export you Hydrogen MIDI into EasyDrummer and make a lot of adjustments.  Hydrogen has a lot of good features, it’s fairly simplistic, and I continue to learn tricks with regard to building drum patterns regularly.  Keep in mind that this can be time consuming.  So, I work out the drum beats, different kinds of drums, beats per minute, rests… in Hydrogen over weeks working off and on.  When I am ready to test it in EasyDrummer, I export the MIDI file to a file location, open EasyDrummer starting from scratch, import the MIDI file I created in Hydrogen onto the EasyDrummer song track.  You can even drag that MIDI block from the song track to the Search box in Easydrummer to see if it can find similar routines.  One thing I’ve noticed is that you have to keep your beats per minute the same if you’re going to import several MIDIs from Hydrogen to EasyDrummer.  Also, the import isn’t always a one for one regarding the instruments.  That is, a beat on one instrument in Hydrogen can show up in another instrument in EasyDrummer.  A simple fix is to just copy or cut and paste the MIDI for that instrument to the correct instrument.  I’ve been working with Hydrogen and EasyDrummer for years, and with more and more experience I have developed a lot of flexibility with both programs.  I can really produce custom drum tracks.  I wish Easydrummer had this capability.

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@Henrik said:

Tempo and time signature changes in a song is done by setting that up in your host and EZdrummer 2 will follow the changes. EZdrummer 2 won’t show the changes visually on the track though – this is because of different technical reasons. We are, however, aware of this issue and we’ll see if we can do something about this in the future…

I’d like to see the capability to change tempo as well. I have two MIDIs on the song track. The Intro is at a slow Tempo and the Verse is supposed to be almost double. Of course whichever tempo I set, both MIDIs play at that same tempo.

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