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@Henrik said:
It has always worked to choke cymbals with aftertouch, the difference in the update is that it can be recorded to a MIDI block on the song track. In the next version we will also add the option to edit Aftertouch in the Grid Editor.

Do you want to use the aftertouch feature with electronic drums or by editing MIDI manually?  

Manually would be great… if it’s not in the manual, please tell. I will look for it.

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Your velocity might be set to max, which for the tambourine/shaker means Mute. Velocities under 124 should do it, and velocities under 42 should do it without the futurehit feature.

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@Lukeman said:

Hello,

So, I’ve got a song on the go. I open up EZD2 and am clicking the shaker with my mouse, & find a nice simple part I want to add. This turns out to be impossible, it seems.

The pattern is on [2 &] and [4]. Very simple. I discover that I can’t play it in realtime with a MIDI controller, even though it shows D-2 as the MIDI trigger, in the shaker details box. I tried painting the noted into a midi track, but again no dice. EZD2 just doesn’t allow it.

With further search, I understand it’s due to the nature of the sounds starting to make noise before the main “beat” part happens. (I read it here – http://www.toontrack.com/faq/how-do-i-trigger-the-ezdrummer-2-percussion/), but it would be nice to have the option to at least have a sound I can play/record, as well as this fantastic “futurehit” technology.

The article suggests to use a premade groove, so I went searching, but found nothing like the very simple groove I wanted.

It’s frustrating to be able to play it with my mouse, but not trigger it via midi, or even paint it in a midi track, & have it play of that.

Further I think this software is great, but this particular percussion bit just doesn’t work for me. I hope there can be an update that makes this more accessable – unless I’m missing some way of making this happen, of course.

Anyone else have any thoughts or experience with the percussion (shaker & tambourine specifically).

p.s. – I do have the Percussion addon so I’m going to try that instead, although staring at the shaker not being able to use it is annoying.
cheers,
Luke

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If anyone is interested that comes across this thread, here’s an in depth view on how to program the Tambourine and Shaker…

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I appreciate the explanation and your time. Is there any other documentation besides what’s in the EZ2 manual and this page http://www.toontrack.com/faq/how-do-i-trigger-the-ezdrummer-2-percussion/ that I can reference to utilize the tambourine and shaker?

Thanks!

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If I program the tambourine to play 16th notes constantly. The first hit is muted, and the next few hits ramp up in volume. I just want the tambourine to play right away, no ramping… or no futurehit. Is it possible? Is that the ‘futurehit’ that I’m experiencing?

Thanks!

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Thanks for the reply. Is there no way to modify the Tambourine. Or as it’s referred to as ‘futurehit’?

How is ‘futurehit’ pronounced? Future Hit?

Thanks
Shawn

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That helped me find it in the manual, thank you!

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Thanks for the reply, that allowed e to find the instruments. But when I click on the new X-Drum, it doesn’t make any noise. I see the Memory/Status has raised. It visual acts as though it’s working, but no sound. The rest of the regular kit is working. I noticed there was no midi note assigned, even after assigning one, I hear no sound from any of the Producer/Percussion instruments.

Do you know what I’m doing wrong?

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I uninstalled and reinstalled everything I could find. Works now. I may have installed the PowerPC update by accident, not sure if that would have given me the above error or not.

Is Pop/Rock EZX kit not a part of Superior or EZ drummer 2? It’s in my drop down of kits/packs to select. If not can I remove it?

And in the Library, there are paths for “Drummer, Cocktail and Percussionist”, these don’t exist, right?

Would be great if all that stuff wasn’t there on future releases if it’s not included with the product.

Thanks for your help.

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I am using the Add Path to Library button. I tried both the Avatar and Sounds folder. Same error message.

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Thanks for the reply. Your post made sense to me. When I add that path it says “This is not a sound library”. I’ve installed every update for Superior. Can you predict what I’m doing wrong?

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