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[Leevious]

Hey Vincenizzzle
Thanks for the offer – I believe I have the multi-outs figured out now. Regarding using the velocity knob, I do find that it still doesn’t entirely help out with the gravity blasts and blasts in general, although it does make a difference. Fast grooves/fills still don’t sound as natural as they do with the DFH EZX – some drum hits still don’t sound powerful enough. Not really sure if there is a way around this, but on a different note, the new LOTE MIDI pack is amazing.
Thanks again!

[Leevious]

Thanks Zaz – I agree with you, the amount of help and speed that it comes via this forum is outstanding.
Looking forward to the next two releases… again, thanks to all for the input!

[Leevious]

…any chance of there being a patch later on to assist with this?

[Leevious]

Hey Again
Not to keep kicking at this issue, but I am able to import any Toontrack MIDI (DFH, Library of the Extreme, Rock etc) into any other kit (DFH, Rock and Pop, even the Jazz and Nashville kit at my brother’s), and have the beats sound terrific – even the blasts sound good on the Jazz kit! Everything sounds consistant and life-like. It is only when I try and use MIDI other than what is supplied with Metalheads on the two Metalheads kits that I have problems. I understand that differently recorded hits (velocity-wise) will translate differently (as pointed out in an earlier post), but wouldn’t this then affect (for example) the Jazz MIDI, which I’m assuming was played at a different ‘velocity’ than say the DFH/Rock beats? I can’t seem to get my head around why I would need to make such dramatic adjustments only for this EZX/kits – everything else works so seemlessly and effortlessly. Even when I do make adjustments, it is not comparable to the other kits. For a relative beginner like myself, going in and changing individual hits in the editor (especially considering how much work that would be) is not possible. Again, if anyone has any input on this, please post.
Thanks again, looking forward to the upcoming releases.

[Leevious]

After playing around with the velocities using the Metalheads kits with Library of the Extreme MIDI, I’m not able to get proper sounding passages either. As I had stated in an earlier post, some of the more straight-forward beats seemed to sound okay (after turning up the velocity), but the gravity blasts and especially fills are still lacking. I tried using some compression afterwards, but it wasn’t able to bring out the weaker sounding hits (as illustrated in the MP3 above). Increasing the velocity in the editor after the fact made it sound worse. Again, any more help would be appreciated…

[Leevious]

Hey Again
Zazelsodo, from what I can tell, to use the Metalheads kit with other MIDI (for me it’s the Library of the Extreme MIDI that I base most of my songs on), you would have to re-do all the drum parts, and adjust the velocity accordingly. I am pretty new to this type of recording, but when I tried to adjust the velocity through my editing program (Reaper), it didn’t really do too much. Adjusting the velocity through EZDrummer seemed to fix the problem for the most part, which obviously won’t help tunes that are already recorded/mapped out. As Michael had previously posted, it can only read what it is ‘fed’, so if the player had used softer hits (in the case of gravity and fast blast beats), that’s all the program will pick up, unless it is adjusted at the source (via EZDrummer). Having said all that, if anyone has any other suggestions other than what has already been posted, I’d love to hear them. The Metalheads kits sound great, it would be amazing to hear how my older songs would sound through those two kits. By the way Zazelsodo, thanks for posting that clip, it’s exactly what I was trying to ‘illustrate’ through text.

[Leevious]

Hey Again
For my tastes, using the Metalheads kits with Library of the Extreme MIDI, turning the velocity knob up to around 35-40 seemed to work the best (still able to get dynamic/human sounding playing without it sounding too mechanical). I have about a dozen songs completed using the DFH kit and mostly LOTE MIDI. I loaded a song up in Reaper, switched the DFH kit to the Metalheads kit, and then tried to adjust the velocity controls in Reaper. All it did was make the louder, stronger hits louder, and didn’t really do anything for the lighter, quieter hits. I’m fairly new to this type of editing – I have no idea how to send different drums to different channels in Reaper – I downloaded a guide and still was not able to do it. Any idea where there is a basic tutorial for someone like me… you’ll have to excuse my ignorance on this matter. I’ll keep plugging away at this…
Thanks again!

[Leevious]

Thanks again for the coments guys – I’ll give those a try.
Can’t wait to see what the rest of the month brings…

[Leevious]

Hey Again
Thanks for the quick and informative reply – I did try using the velocity knob with a song I already have mapped out with existing Library of the Extreme and DFH MIDI, and it didn’t change the ‘intensity’ of the hits. I am under the asumption that once you have laid out the MIDI passages, you aren’t able to adjust the intensity using the velocity knob, correct? Other than that, I guess the trick would be to re-do all the drums, and adjust the velocity prior to putting the MIDI into my editing program (Reaper)?
Thanks again, take care!

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