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[Scott Eshleman]

Just guessing…It sounds as though you haven’t authorized the Nashville kit for use on this computer.
I find authorization easiest by selecting the newly-installed kit from the Orange Drumkit Selection button. (shown below)
The authorization window will pop up and prompt you for your Toontrack Account ID
as well as a prompt to pre-fill the Serial Number. (sorry, I don’t have a screenshot, but pages 8-9 of the Operation Manual document the process).

[Scott Eshleman]

1. log into your Toontrack account
2. find & click on EZDrummer among your purchases on the “My Products” page.
3. click on the “Updates” tab at the bottom of the pop-up window
4. locate the most current update appropriate for your hardware and OS
5. download, unzip (Windows-only) and install the update

[Scott Eshleman]

sorry to disagree, but it would appear to be your network….
As you can see, my download of 3.1 GB should complete in about 8 minutes.

[Scott Eshleman]

some DAWs do not support this action.
please do a search of the forum,
there’s is/was another thread already discussing this in more detail than I can remember offhand.

[Scott Eshleman]

pg 15-16 of the EZDrummer2 Operaton Manual talks briefly ’bout this,
but experience will tell you that saving a custom Song Structure that you’ve created in the Timeline
will only save the layout of the Song Parts (intro, verse, chorus, etc) as kind of a template for whatever groove you’ve dragged into the “MIDI Drop Zone”.

In other words, Song Structures do not save or contain any MIDI grooves.
If you want to save your customized MIDI as “User MIDI”, you can drag your EZD2 Timeline (in whole or just selected parts of it) to the User MIDI pane.
There are also “Save as…” menu options available from the menu immediately above on the right of Timeline.
Please note that just as dragging the Timeline into Pro Tools will not do so, saving User MIDI does not save the individual groove block divisions.

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[Scott Eshleman]

ok. now we’re onto something…

are you making any changes to the MIDI in the EZDrummer2’s SongTrack
after selecting a song structure from Song Structure choices there where your mouse is pointing?
If so, you’ll want to drag your MIDI from the Song Timeline at the bottom of the EZDrummer2 interface.

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[Scott Eshleman]

can you upload the .ptx file? (not the entire session folder, just the ptx file)

if i’m reading your post correctly, you’re saying that you are dragging the MIDI blocks from EZDrummer2’s timeline into a Pro Tools instrument track.

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[Scott Eshleman]

Are you using the same standalone drum kit and mixer settings in EZDrummer when triggering it from PT9 ??

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[Scott Eshleman]

try loading up the Modern kit and then replacing individual kit pieces in the Construct window with pieces from the Vintage kit.

[Scott Eshleman]

and at what cost would you think an individual kit piece should be priced?
would a crash cymbal or a kick drum be priced higher than a rack tom?

just wonderin’…

[Scott Eshleman]

The “Show Web Shop MIDI” option is available on the [SEARCH] tab of the EZDrummer2 interface as shown in the image posted above.
You don’t need an actual open web browser window but you will of course need an active internet connection
so that EZD2 can access the Toontrack Webshop for the previews of the MIDI you have not purchased.

[Scott Eshleman]

Please don’t forget that EZDrummer2 allows you to preview any and all MIDI that is available through the Toontrack MIDI Web Shop
by clicking the “Show Web Shop MIDI” button atop the filter window on the SEARCH tab.

[Scott Eshleman]

Instrumentally, I play guitar.
As a tracking engineer, I love the quality and quantity of sounds that Toontrack has captured in each of the EZX’s.
But I also love the variety of MIDI grooves and find them inspiring as well.
You don’t have to be Sherlock to deduce from your signature that you’re a keyboardist.

Except for the Songwriter’s MIDI Packs, the style for the entirety of the MIDI included with each EZX expansion
is pretty well stated in the name of the EZX expansion.
The loops & patterns are broken out in most as they are for the grooves provided with the EZD2 Modern/Vintage libraries
similarly described as Verse, Chorus, pre-Chorus, Fills, Intros, etc.

[Scott Eshleman]

I have bought plenty of both…
and would agree that the Expansion Sale prices are hard to resist
and harder still to justify purchasing only a MIDI pack where an EZX expansion is also available.

[Scott Eshleman]

@monsterjazzlicks said:
I need to work out whether it is the EZX’s I would be most suited to or the MIDI packs?

Well, Paul…
In terms of the products that Toontrack offers currently (and again, to clarify, I do not speak for Toontrack),
MIDI pack add-ons are NOT sound samples libraries. They are NOT drum kit confgurations.
They are NOT mixer presets. http://www.toontrack.com/midi-packs/
MIDI pack add-ons are some of the best drum grooves & performances played by some of the best players in the world.

The EZX expansions are collections of sound sample libraries recorded on the best drum kits in the best studios around the world.
They represent the style, essence and ambiance of that studio hosting an appropriate selection of drum kit pieces
sampled at a sometimes remarkable series of velocities with that studio’s characteristic microphones and preamps/consoles.
The EZX expansions also include a stylistic collection of MIDI grooves and fills.

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