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I’ve tried writing a slide and then writing another slide after it, transposed into harmony notes. Whenever I grab the harmony notes and move them into position directly above the first slide, it still messes up during the playback.

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Thanks for the reply. I’m still having trouble accomplishing that, though.

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I would think the wav files wouldn’t play in other players just to somewhat protect the company’s product. I don’t really know. It may be something to do with a code used by EZ itself. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me for a company to keep things to themselves in that way.
 
Also, as far as I know, you can only pull up other EZ directories on the EZ main construction page. There’s probably a way you could get your own sounds in there but that would be like hacking into the software in my opinion, which is something I’m not computer savvy enough to do. I wouldn’t consider that a good idea anyway and wouldn’t condone it.
 
So how’s it coming along though?
 
 

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I also go through a Delta 2496. I find it easiest to map the drum pads to the appropriate sounds and then record the full song (drum-wise) into Sonar. If I feel I need to fix things after that then I just pull up the piano roll in Sonar and move things around. That way, I’m not locked in to having an un-editable audio track if I keep the MIDI track to trigger EZ in real time.
 
You can still set up the song in Sonar to be 24bit, but the EZ sounds will be 16bit as you’ve noticed. That’s just how they were rendered. I had doubts as to the quality of 16bit until I really messed with it. There’s no way anybody (including you and me) would ever know the difference if we weren’t told.
 
I’m not sure exactly what you meant about wav, but the sound files in EZ are wav files.
 
Seems as if you have or almost have the hang of it. See, it’s no big deal once you mess with it. It won’t impede songwriting in any way.

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It’s about as simple as it gets, Goodrat. I use my Boss DR-770 to trigger the sounds in Sonar with absolutely NO problems. If you want to create your own beats by yourself in Sonar step by step, then yes, you’ll actually have to learn how to use the software first. The MIDI knowledge you’ll need to just do that (the easy way in my book) is at a kindergarten level And trust me, I’m no MIDI wiz. I can guarantee you that ! I can try to explain the simple setup to you if you really want to know how it’s done.

I know what you mean about the loops. They’re pointless to me too. I don’t write dance/dj nonsense either.

It just stands to reason that in order to use software that’s MIDI based in a drum machine fashion (as I do), you HAVE to have a bit of MIDI knowledge. There’s no way around it. And like I said, it’s SO simple to do. No need to get in a hissy.

Everybody here can help you if you want it. You only have to buy 1 thing to get the ball rolling. The rest is cake, my friend.

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NICE! grandaddy. Those things sound great! Good little tune too

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