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[Mick Avoidant]

Jimi Watson wrote:

I think you’re right. I need to tweak. I know I can have it on a separate output and gate it but it’s not really the same thing. It won’t change what bleeds into the OHs, and gates can wreck the front of a drum hit as well.

I will have to look elsewhere.

Thanks for your input!

I’ve gated a kick without losing the start of the hit. All it needs is the right threshold and release settings.

[Mick Avoidant]

Jimi Watson wrote:

Yes I’ve done that and that is good. I’m just used to BFD 3 (which is quite old now) and that has damping on each kit piece, as well as an envelope shaper in the mixer section, so I’m finding it hard, missing these things now.

EZD is meant for a songwriter needing drums on a demo. You need Superior Drummer.

 

Try this: Each mixer channel has ‘Out 1/2’ at the bottom and which you change by clicking on it. You can assign it to a channel in your DAW. I don’t know how Pro Tools does it.

 

Even simpler is putting a gate on the drum track in Pro Tools.

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[Mick Avoidant]

Jimi Watson wrote:

I use Pro Tools and I have a transient shaper in Neutron 4 I can use. It’s not great though. And as I said, you can’t do that on the OHs as it will make the cymbals weird.

Is there another way you know of?

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What’s wrong with loading a kick from one of the other rooms? It’s no hassle and will give you what you want.

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[Mick Avoidant]

Jimi Watson wrote:

Yes I listened to them. I’ve only just bought EZ drummer and I’m flabbergasted there is no damping or decay parameter. It’s absolutely essential. Imagine if you asked a drummer in real life to damp his toms or snare and he said, “Sorry, that’s not possible!”

I am shocked and will be getting a refund. Probably.

It’s a shame because I think the sounds are great and the interface is really nice.

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• This post was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Jimi Watson.

Did you try loading a kick from one of the EZD rooms?

Superior Drummer 3 will give you the control you want. Thank you for setting thinking about how to cut off the long ringing.

There’s a way to do it in EZD, but you will need a DAW for it.

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[Mick Avoidant]

I’ve seen kick drums with pillows inside them, but there isn’t a setting for that in EZD. That ringing comes with the big bang you get from the kick and can easily become lost in the mix. If you can’t live with it at all, you can load any of the kicks from the three EZD rooms.

Click on the kick in the Drums tab. A box opens top left.

Click on the menu that says ‘Kick’. A menu saying ‘Big Rock Drums’ will show.

Click that and choose one of the listed rooms. You will get a list of the room’s kicks.

Left click on a kick to hear it and at the same time load it into your kit.

Tapping the Down arrow will let you hear the kicks without loading them.

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[Mick Avoidant]

You need to load drums that are sampled with mallets

[Mick Avoidant]

FLORGOROTH wrote:

Intel i7 version 3

32gb ram

That’s more than enough. Go for it.

[Mick Avoidant]

FLORGOROTH wrote:

Once all this downloads I’m excited to press the add instrument button!

How much RAM have you got? Area 33 needs at least 8Gb, with 16Gb recommended.

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