[RabidRabbit]

I am really perplexed by this major insufficiency in the product. I am truly blown away by the quality of drums and the processing done to them in Toontracks  EZDrummer 2. It’s such a killer virtual instrument app in so many ways. All of the drums and cymbals sound so fantastic  and respond so well through MIDI. However, this is a glaring flaw, especially considering that there are so many spaces of repeated cymbals and toms and other instruments up and down the range of an 88 note keyboard. It’s surprising that among all of the spaces between 88 keys, that Toontracks engineers couldn’t come up with a few spaces for the tambourine, shakers, claps and cowbell within that 88 note range in ANY of the drum kits that come with the program. I have tried to program parts using the external to normal keyboard range of EZDrummer 2’s percussion instruments but as “Rogue Marechal” notes in his comments above, they “behave in ways that are puzzling” – meaning “they don’t work”. As “tzilla” stated above – “boo hiss”. I would add, plainly not very smart and not very well thought out. I am one of those people who don’t believe in syncing. If possible, I don’t want to sync anything and prefer to play and program the drums through my DAW. The less stuff that has to be synchronized, the less headaches. That’s not to say anything about the sequencer that’s built into EZDrummer 2, which, I am sure, is a fantastic and highly capable sequencer. I just don’t care to synchronize the EZDrummer 2 sequencer, with the sequencer that I’m already using or any other sequencers or digital recorders or what have you. I was hoping to keep every percussion sound in my sequences within the computer, but I’m going to have to use external MIDI instruments to play the percussion parts, because Toontracks thinks it’s more important to have high hats, crash and ride cymbals, tom toms and snare drums in several locations within EZDrummer 2’s 88 note keyboard range, rather than mixing those percussion instruments in, in some of the places where there are repeat iterations of instruments that are already available in other places within the standard 88-note keyboard range of the drum kit programs that are offered. Thank you for what you have created – it’s a truly revolutionary product (and I’d be lying if I said otherwise) but, please, listen to the users of this program who may have different ways of using it and try to incorporate the use of the additional percussion instruments into MIDI note locations where they’re accessible to be played from keyboard or drum controller, alike.

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