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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

The fact that it shows “View all results” is rather obvious. Not to mention that if there are people that can necromance 8 year old threads, it is pretty much proof that it works. Nothing poor about that. jord

Thank you. Your helpfulness is exceeded only by your lack thereof.

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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

Yes… they are. Brad and I have already illustrated it to you.

Your replies there have not addressed my specific issue. You’ve addressed a similar issue, but not mine.

Thanks anyway.

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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

Considering you double posted on the Superior Drummer forum, your answers are there.

The answers there have not addressed the issue. But thanks.

Also, you seem to be implying that “double-posting” is some sort of infraction. Although I originally did a Google search specifically for EZDrummer 3, Google showed me the thread for Superior Drummer 3, which was not immediately apparent, as the title of the forum is in tiny text at the top of the page. It didn’t occur to me, at first, that I needed to check that. So, I posted my question there. Then, I came here to post the question in the correct forum.

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Brad wrote:

Works great, I do it all the time. Drag and drop from one instance to an empty track in the target instance and copy and paste the one instrument to the desired track.

From the Grid Editor?

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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

Yes… there is.

No, there is not.

Please read my original posts carefully!

The feature you’re describing only works within one instance! If I copy the kick track from one instance, then switch to another instance, the paste commands do not work. SD3 and EZD3 both say that the clipboard is empty! The clipboard is not shared between instances.

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Brad wrote:

On your target instance, open a new track (the little plus sign) on the left of the track, drag and drop to the new track and then you should be able to cut and paste to your desired track. Let us know if that works….

Thanks, but it does not work. After copying from one instance, when I go to the second instance, the paste command says “Clipboard is empty.”

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Brad wrote:

Overlap the 2 instances. You pin the first one, like the blue tack in the upper right of the screen print. ( I assume you are working in a DAW)

I appreciate your reply. Took me a bit to figure out what you were suggesting—and yes, your suggestion does work for the song track.

But I’m attempting to copy only the kick part from one instance and then paste it to the kick track of another instance. When I select all of the kick events, I can choose Copy, but then, when I switch to the second instance, the Paste command is grayed out. Also, when I attempt to drag the kick part from one instance to the other, nothing gets dragged at all. (But when I drag from the song track, as you suggested, an outline of the MIDI immediately appears, allowing me to drop it wherever.)

Unfortunately, I need to do it the way I’m describing because the destination instance already has some MIDI that I need to preserve. So, I can’t just overwrite that MIDI with the MIDI from the song track of instance 1.

Sadly, it appears Toontrack has not enabled drag-and-drop of a single MIDI element. Although there are powerful ways to copy just the kick part (or any other element) and then paste them elsewhere in the same instance, there appears to be no way to do this between two instances.

Thanks again for your reply.

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Mick Avoidant wrote:

What have you tried?

If you know how to do this, kindly just tell me. Thanks. 😊

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Mick Avoidant wrote:

I’ve never known that to happen. Are you working in a DAW? Do you have EZD running in two DAW tracks? Can you give us a copy of the MIDI? Which EZD expansion (if any) and which room are you working in?

Hello, and thanks for the reply.

Yes, I’m working in a DAW, but all of my MIDI is in the Grid Editor.

While I truly appreciate your questions, the issue is not what caused this to happen. That’s water under the bridge. The issue is now how to fix it. 😊

I gather there’s no de-flam command in EZD3?

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Shootie wrote:

Black search box searches all. Try it.

Thanks. I had indeed tried it, but because the window shows “No products were found,” it’s not at all obvious that despite that message, one can still click “View all results.” It’s poor web design, but yes, it does work. Thanks.

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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

the AU standard in MacOS will allow you to drag your midi regions from one instance’s timeline to another.

I found this thread because this is precisely what I’m attempting to do—except it’s not working. I need to copy the kick part from one instance of EZD3 to another instance of EZD3. (NOTE: I realize this is an SD3 forum. Although I did a Google search for this topic in EZD3, it brought me here. I do own both products, but I’m currently working in EZD3. I’m assuming that MIDI drag-and-drop should work similarly in both.)

Exactly how would one drag a MIDI region from one instance of SD3 to another? When I attempt to do so, the second instance is not “seeing” or recognizing the dragged MIDI. Is there a special trick?

Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

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[YIKES: Apologies in advance, as I just noticed, before submitting this post, that despite my Google search for a solution re: “EZdrummer,” this thread is instead in the Superior Drummer 3 thread. That was not apparent. As an owner of both instruments, I’m fully aware that their features differ. So, please let me know if what I’m describing below exists in SD3—and if anyone happens to know if it also exists in EZD3, I’d appreciate knowing that, as well.]

I appreciate the fact that the discussion, above, was steered toward settings in an electronic kit. That said, is there no way—within EZdrummer 3—to remove duplicate notes?

I have a fully fleshed-out song in which I’ve discovered that a lot of the kick notes are doubled. I don’t know when or how that happened. I’m skilled (Thanks, @Shootie for your videos!) and careful, but something went awry at some point without my noticing until now.

Would sure love a way to select all notes and simply apply a “deflam” command, but there doesn’t seem to be one. Please correct me if I’ve overlooked it. (Interestingly, EZbass does have similar commands.)

Thanks!

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Olof Hermansson wrote:

Yes, I meant plug-ins inserted in sequence – or that other tracks in the DAW have much latency (which means that the DAW must keep the EZD/EZB track in sync with those). Latency makes the sound come out later than when it is processed/produced. The GUI in EZD/EZB shows the “processing state” in those plug-ins, so it is natural that the GUI is earlier than the sound coming out. In some plug-in formats it is possible for the plug to ask the host what the latency before and after the plug is, so that it may delay its GUI (playhead, etc.) accordingly. This is not something we have implemented but it could explain why some other plugs look more synced.

Thanks for your detailed reply.

I hope you’ll consider implementing the feature you described in which the plug-ins ask the host for the latency amounts, so that they can delay (or advance) their playheads accordingly.

After previously sequencing MIDI in my DAW for many years, I’m now using the internal Grid Editors for the first time—and I love the features—but I cannot accurately tell where I’m located, which is making it very difficult to work in the Grid Editors (especially with drums), because the wiper never matches the hits that are playing.

Thank you.

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John wrote:

Hi, one way to work around it ( in the case of adding an intro of e.g. 4 Bars) is to go to Edit Time Signature, Select All, Copy, then put the Playhead 4 Bars in and Paste at Playhead. BR, John

Thanks for this info. While copy and paste do work for simple edits, they’re not practical for more complicated ones.

My bridge has several time-signature (meter) changes in sequence (6|4, 4|4, 2|4, etc.), and now I need to lengthen a preceding verse by 12 bars. So, the meter changes in the bridge now need to happen 12 bars later. Although I can in fact select the existing meter events, copy them, and then paste them 12 bars later (thanks for the tip!), the problem is that the original meter changes remain, creating havoc, and requiring a lot of deleting and trial and error to make everything line up properly.

Toontrack, please, please let us select existing meter events and then simply drag them left or right at will (or option-drag to copy them), just as we can with notes in the Grid Editor. The copy and paste commands are too simplistic for meter changes, because they don’t take into account the preexisting time-signature data that’s left behind.

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Olof Hermansson wrote:

This can happen if there is much latency in the processing chain. See if it helps to disable other plug-ins.

Thanks for your reply. When you refer to the “processing chain,” do you mean plug-ins inserted in sequence? Because I have no plug-ins in sequence. The EZD and EZB audio-unit plug-ins are instantiated, and there are no other plug-ins inserted after them on those tracks whatsoever.

Also, latency tends to make things late. But in this case, EZD’s and EZB’s wipers are actually early, not late. Also, my buffer is set to 128, which is low. Does any of this add significance?

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