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You must change the velocity settings on your octopad…
https://youtu.be/lP0na1BP8rk

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mailfriso wrote:

Thanks for this reply, since I was wondering why I can trigger all drums with midi input (from an iPad) except these two didn’t work/respond.

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If you can set your velocity manually you can trigger them easily. Here’s a vid for it if you’re interested… https://youtu.be/lP0na1BP8rk

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[Shootie]

EZ Drummer can be taken to an advanced level, try to be patient with yourself and you will learn that on your own.

My own opinion here… Try to think of the included files as rough or solid ideas that you will produce into your own custom beats when you’re done tweaking them. As you start to get use to all of the features, after your drag and drop honeymoon phase, you will start hearing these included (or bought) midi files as a foundation that you have yet to build on.

When you get to the point where EZ Drummer can not finish a beat idea for you after exhausting all of it’s features, then it’s time to bring your midi into a DAW for editing. But at that point, you’ll be ready for that next step.

Have fun, good luck.

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[Shootie]

I’ll throw a few workflows at you, hopefully one will inspire or solve your issue.

Do you use Song Creator? If not, try it. Here is a detailed video if you don’t know how to use it. It will look through the fills of you entire midi collection, not just the song folder you’re working in. https://youtu.be/TYGFExJq2_w

Do you use the velocity features in EZD2? If not, take a look at the top of the Browser or Search Tab and adjust the Velocity Slider  ‘before’ dragging the Midi File to the Song Track. That may address your second comment.

Do you use the Edit Play Styles Tab? If not right click and select Edit Play Style on any file ‘already’ in your Song Track. Here you can adjust Velocity on individual instruments, not the entire beat at once as mentioned above with the Velocity Slider. You could also select a specific instrument (toms for example) and turn the amount knob down to rewrite the toms to be less busy. In other words, only finding aggressive fills for your ballad?… try playing with this amount knob in the Edit Playstyle Feature to help tame these fills.

This is how you can alter EZD2 beats within the program. You could also buy more EZD2 Midi Packs based on fills to get more options. Lastly, you will need a DAW or an upgrade to Superior to get more control over manually manipulating EZD2 midi files otherwise.

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[Shootie]

Do write back with what you discover, I am curious.

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To try and answer your question I’d like to know what you think a drum midi file is compared to a regular midi file.

Maybe your issue is with MuseScore and how it interprets regular midi and not with EZD2.

The two first results Googling “MuseScore drum midi file”

https://musescore.org/en/node/271030

https://musescore.org/en/node/286537

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[Shootie]

Great to hear!

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Landrum, firstly you should update EZD2. 2.0.2 is old and may have bugs.

Your first issue: When you change an instrument in EZD2, your drumkit still plays the same sound before the change? Hopefully updating EZD2 will fix this. When you use EZD2 in standalone mode, not in Reaper, do you have the same problems?

Your second issue: You hit the drum pad and the dynamics/velocity are not the same as when you audition the sound directly from EZD2? Have you gone into the Roland head unit and adjusted settings such as Sensitivity?

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[Shootie]

Good to hear!

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BEST ANSWER

Do you have a playback loop or in & out points set in your Cubase timeline? Maybe a certain region somewhere in your timeline has been selected. In EZD2 you could right click on the Song Track ruler and make sure Set Track Length is at a value as long or longer than your song. Do you have a Loop point set in EZD2?

A workaround could be…

You could drag your midi from Cubase to the EZD2 Song Track and export audio from EZD2.

Export midi from Cubase, import into EZD2 Standalone and then export from there, if you think it’s a Cubase issue.

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Do you have a playback loop or in & out points set in your Cubase timeline? Maybe a certain region somewhere in your timeline has been selected. In EZD2 you could right click on the Song Track ruler and make sure Set Track Length is at a value as long or longer than your song. Do you have a Loop point set in EZD2?

A workaround could be…

You could drag your midi from Cubase to the EZD2 Song Track and export audio from EZD2.

Export midi from Cubase, import into EZD2 Standalone and then export from there, if you think it’s a Cubase issue.

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[Shootie]

Rob, I don’t use Digital Performer. But in a DAW, you have to set up a new Auxiliary channel for each output of EZD2. For me in Pro Tools, I now go to each new Auxiliary channel’s input, and see the outputs of my active plugin’s in which I’d select the appropriate one from EZD2.

In Digital Performer there’s a term or something called Bundles you should research if you’re not familiar.

Hopefully that’s enough to get you in the right direction, I don’t have Digital Performer to figure it out.

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Thanked by: Rob Bocchino

[Shootie]

You can not fix this with EZ Drummer. Crosstalk is the best place to start. After that, other settings in the Roland TD25. You need to get it right from the source.

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[Shootie]

Where are you editing your Velocity from?

On the drums Tab, the velocity on the instrument properties panels is for auditioning only (just a preview). In the Browser Tab, at the top, you can adjust Velocity for an entire midi file before dragging it to the Song Track (timeline). If you use the Edit Play Style feature, you can adjust velocity on which ever instrument in the kit you want, this edits a Midi Block that is currently in your Song Track. Simply right click on a midi file in your Song Track and select Edit Play Style. If you’re using a DAW, consult Velocity in the Piano Roll in your DAWs manual.

Where exactly are you having your issues?

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[Shootie]

Glad you found a workaround.

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[Shootie]

There might be many ways to do this. I don’t have that EZX installed to confirm. I assume the Edit Play Style feature is not putting it where you want it in your beat by using the Amount knob. You could try dragging the Opening Hit to the Vibraslap.  Or…

Can you open up Tap2Find in the Search Tab and record a single hit of Vibraslap to the first beat as you want? If so, grab ‘that’ recording you just made from the Tap2Find’s Midi Drop Zone and drag it to the Song Track. Right click this new Midi Block and copy it. Now right click on the other Midi Block’s you want to have the Vibraslap, and select Paste All.

Superior should be able to do this in it’s Piano Roll-style editor. I just don’t have that EZX installed at the moment to confirm there’s no issues.

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