[madsteffen]

Thanks, Brad & sorry, Scott,

somehow I missed the Mikaelsson swirls patterns – in fact there is some stuff I was looking for and I guess I can use. So I will give it some time and check out if can can use it – as it is or edited.

And perhaps there will be a more vintage and Swing related EZX edition coming in the future because I’m sure there are a lot of users looking for this kind of stuff.

Cheers, Steffen

Reply To: Just a basic relaxed brushes beat in Swing feel … version: 2.2.1
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[madsteffen]

Scott,

thanks for your input. I did what you suggested but when you mute the ride cymbal you can hear the snare drum and honestly – this sounds poor. That’s exactly the problem. There’s no brushes work on snare drum that could stand for itself (as in the example I’d attached). Perhaps it’s a Midi problem (as I haven’t heard convincing Midi reeds so far). A good Jazz drummer can play with brushes on a snare drum only. Kick, cymbals, Hi-Hat is just the icing on the cake. In your examples, the snare is hiding behind the ride cymbal, just giving some kind of jazzy flavor. But this I already achieved in Logic.

I was hoping for some really good Jazz drums with brushes. Sorry, I don’t see this in EZD. So here is my next question: Is there an uninstaller, to completely clean my Mac from all EZD data (or could you list which parts I’ll have to delete)? And how can I sell a download software? When having sold it would an email be enough to transfer my license?

Thanks for your help.

Steffen

[madsteffen]

Scott, I’d do if you tell from which file to start. I couldn’t find any sweeping brushes swinging relaxed  through a 4/4 beat. I don’t mind a ride cymbal or something else that I can remove. But I need a basic pattern on snare drum.

[madsteffen]

Joe, I’m not looking for a metronome. For this I wouldn’t need EZD, I could do this directly in Logic as well. The point is, that programming convincing brushes sweeps isn’t easy (I added a sound file that I shortened from a “metronome” loop my drummer recorded for me. Even this simple metronome loop wouldn’t be easy to program). Especially with some variations, different accents and so on. I have the feeling that the Jazz EZX expansion is strictly Hard Bop. All 3 drummers play with sticks and follow a similar conception. It would be ok, if it was labeled “Hard Bop EZX” but Jazz has a lot more styles than this. The provided tracks are quite useless for Swing (not rocking Neo-Swing) or Vocal Jazz or Jazz ballads. I was hoping to have a quick and easy (!) way to get good sounding brushes drum tracks for these styles too.

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