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[travis]

I’m looking back at this problem with Ezdrummer 2, and it does look like the same problem going on with Ezdrummer 3.  It would by nice to see Toontrack fix this, which shouldn’t take a real programmer much time.  I’m not a programmer at all, and I managed to learn enough in a few days to program a workaround in Reaper’s js language, which was a chore for a non-programmer.

 

If anyone wants to test why this isn’t working in Ezdrummer 3, I’ll provide the means here.  First, just enough background info for anyone not familiar with MIDI, so that you can understand how to test the problem, possibly use a workaround, and request to have it fixed.  When you hit an e-drum hi-hat, a MIDI note value is sent out of your module.  A MIDI control change value is also sent out according to the position of your hi-hat pedal.  MIDI control change messages have an identifying number, along with a value for the change.  For our Roland hi-hats, the control change number is 4, or in other words, cc4.  For some Roland modules the cc4 values range from 0 to 127, fully open to fully closed.  Some Roland modules have cc4 values of 0 to 90, fully open to fully closed.  And some Roland modules have an internal setting to switch the cc4 value range from 0-127 to 0-90.  /End background info.

 

Ezdrummer is expecting cc4 values 0-127.  So for those Roland modules putting out cc4 values 0-90, such as the TD-17, the max cc4 value is 90, but it is being treated as if the incoming range is 0-127, where it should be treated as 0-90, which means we only get 3/4 of the range we need to go from fully open to fully closed.

 

Maybe there is a VST MIDI plugin to use as a workaround for this problem, but I am not aware of one.  I wrote a Reaper plugin some years back as a workaround for Ezdrummer 2, which should work just as well for Ezdrummer 3.  You can get it here:  https://app.box.com/s/dd4yvn500d4xr8wdcjgc73d51iv7kd1b  You’ll need to have the Reaper daw installed to use it, of course.  It’s just a text file with some js code, and on Windows you save it to:  C:\Users\\Appdata\Roaming\Reaper\effects\ using whatever name you like.  I called it ‘cc4_expander’.  It has not gui because it didn’t need one, and I didn’t want to learn gui programming to write one anyway, but you load it just the same as any other plugin.  Just don’t expect any controls to show up.  All it does it takes in MIDI cc4 values 0-90 and puts out in their place values 0-127.

 

Also, Jeffos on the Reaper forum wrote a more complex but better plugin to provide settings for the ranges of  hi-hat openness (post #24):  https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=37580&page=3

 

But it would be nice to see Toontrack fix this issue in Ezdrummer 3, so that I can upgrade from Ezdrummer 2, and not have to use a home-made plugin to make it work as it should.  And it would be nice of Toontrack to also fix this same problem in Ezdrummer 2 to support those users just as well.

• This post was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by travis.

[travis]

Ezdrummer is a great product for musicians and songwriters, and I would love to see linux support for it. There are a growing number of us out here who are turned off by the current direction of windows, and linux is a good alternative for daw users. Yes, it has it’s issues, the same as any other os, but other than dropping alot of money on a mac (which isn’t a practical option for many musicians), linux is the only other option. And when discussing this around varous daw related forums, I get the impression that more users would be interested in using linux if there were more native linux commercial plugins available.

So Toontrack! What’s up with linux?

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