Richard Viola
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Richard ViolaI assumed those MIDI pad controllers were just a device to trigger the sounds, like a keyboard controller. I’ll look.
Richard ViolaI thought that was not working the other day. I click on a choke in the Cakewalk piano roll for triggering EZD2 and it played the cymbal and not the choke, #54, even on the virtual keyboard. Then by accident I set the velocity for that hit all the way up, then it worked.
Richard ViolaI battled that for days in the Modern EZX. Finally I had success with putting a gate set short on the toms (using Cakewalk) and doing the same for the snare since that mic picks up the toms, then turning down both mic bleeds. I have a separate channel in CW for each EZD output and insert the gates there. Now the toms are bop-bop-bop instead of boooooop….. boooooop….. for 2 seconds long.
Richard ViolaJust the kick. The SR-16 punch kick was amazing in the mix. I keep it around to just play that kick. EZD Collector’s Maple was close but less of a punch/thud.
I think the only toms I know of in EZD that don’t ring for 2 seconds long is in the Nashville one with the tom sustain control. I don’t have many EZX to compare and most on youtube reviews don’t even hit the toms for some reason. But I use Modern and had to fix with a gate on both the toms and snare and turn off the bleeds and ambient to kill the ring. Now it is useable but it took a while to figure out by effectively disabling features in EZD. Otherwise on a drum fill with say, 3 toms, it is a mess of wooooooow.
However I do miss tapping out patterns in a real time loop on a drum machine pattern mode, writing down the number on a list or chart on paper stringing those together in song mode instead of creating the whole thing on the Cakewalk piano roll click by click. That is taking days rather than a couple hours in the old days. I’m sure people have their tricky ways or a similar feature in EZD itself. Midi patterns, grooves, phooey!
Richard ViolaI made a drum track on EZD2 to re-do a song that was originally on 4-track using a drum machine as drums.
It is a muddy mess of toms ringing. Using a gate, turning off reverb, mic bleads and ambience helps, but a lot of trouble.
Also, there is no good punchy kick like the Alesis SR-16 had.
Richard ViolaNever mind, wrong forum (I could not find the right one at first)
and this worked: (quote from other thread)
Hi,
please try the following:
you need to remove some files in the ‘AppDataRoaming’ folder. This is a hidden folder but you can open the Windows Explorer and type in ‘C:UsersyourComputerUserNameHereAppData’ to access it, or click Start > Computer > Hold ALT + T to get the tools menu open > Folder Options > View > Enable “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and Untick “Hide protected operating system files”. I would prefer the first way myself.
Then please remove the following files:
MidiDB, MidiDB_fav, MidiDB-shm, MidiDB-wal (if they exist) from
“C:/Users/”CurrentUser”/AppData/Roaming/Toontrack/EZdrummer”
and
“C:/Users/”CurrentUser”/AppData/Roaming/Toontrack/EZdrummer/OnlineMIDI”
Richard ViolaNever mind, this worked from other thread:
Hi,
please try the following:
you need to remove some files in the ‘AppDataRoaming’ folder. This is a hidden folder but you can open the Windows Explorer and type in ‘C:UsersyourComputerUserNameHereAppData’ to access it, or click Start > Computer > Hold ALT + T to get the tools menu open > Folder Options > View > Enable “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and Untick “Hide protected operating system files”. I would prefer the first way myself.
Then please remove the following files:
MidiDB, MidiDB_fav, MidiDB-shm, MidiDB-wal (if they exist) from
“C:/Users/”CurrentUser”/AppData/Roaming/Toontrack/EZdrummer”
and
“C:/Users/”CurrentUser”/AppData/Roaming/Toontrack/EZdrummer/OnlineMIDI”
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