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[Veech]

Turns out this was very simple. I created a Toontrack folder on the D drive, loaded the NY Studios SDX to it and SD found them with no issues at all.

[Veech]

I have a bunch of expansion kits and a ton of midi as well. I think moving the two New York SDXes to a different drive will suffice for now but just to clarify, it’s ok to move the midi also?

Can I just create a single folder in the other drive and call it ‘EZdrummer’ and load all the EZD and SD expansion kits and midi files (even third party midi files) to it and point to it from EZD? Do I also need to point to it from SD or does one “point” do it all?

My final question would be, how do I tell EZDrummer to look in the D drive for the expansion kits and midi? I won’t be at my studio computer until tomorrow night so I’m not able to look at the PDFs or read-me’s at the moment.

Thank you Rogue for the follow-up.

[Veech]

John,

Excellent info, thank you so much. This covers everything I need to know.

I installed the New York Studios Vol 2 to the C drive Toontrack folder (default location) and it took quite a while to install so I’m glad to hear that I can move it to another drive and point to rather than have to uninstall and reinstall to the other drive. Likewise, when I install NYS Vol 3, I will install it to the other drive.

I can’t recall if NYS asked for an install location or if it auto-installed to the C drive. Either way. I will move/install the two NYS SDXes to a different drive and this should free up enough space on my C drive to comtinue normal operations.

Although it has been working basically without incident for seven years, eventually my XP machine will have to go away and I will need to get a 64-bit box. But by then I figure I will have 10+TB of HD space and this won’t be an issue.

Anyway, thanks again for a thorough and detailed answer!

Veech

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So S4 = straight 4/4 and S4W = swing 4/4? Good info, thanks!

Would love to see a key that includes all of this kind of info.

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thanks! If it were swing 4/4 instead of straight, what would it say?

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That would be great, thank you! That, or some kind of explanation of how to decrypt the file names.

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ORIGINAL: fizbin

Load up the Ludwig Silversparkle kit from Metal Foundry. That’s the Bonham kit right there. Slap a compressor on the stereo out and tweak. Also make sure appropriate ambience/room mics are added.

There are some Bonham grooves in Vintage EZX but if you get the kit right, a lot of the heavy grooves will start sounding Bonham-y.

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ok thanks for the rec on the SilverSparkle kit. What would you recommend for the snare, hats and cymbals?

I found a decent Bonham-y groove, one of Peter Fredlander’s halftime grooves

[Veech]

The OP stated:

I have heard that this is not possible with EZ Drummer but is with Superior drummer.

Is this true?

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cool, thanks! I don’t have Vintage EXZ, I wish there was a way to just get the midi, I don’t have a need for the sounds.

I have the Rock Songs and Blues midi packs along with the Songwriters series and Monster midi series. I may grab the Backbeats, Roots, Session Drums and Americana midi packs and see what kind of grooves they offer.

Looking for any other suggestions for where to start with grooves.

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I would be interested in how to use the DR-880 to trigger Toontrack EZ Drummer samples. I wrote a bunch of songs using the DR-880 as the drum machine but now that I have heard Toontracks great samples, the DR-880’s sound lame in comparison.

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It takes about one full minute for EZDrummer to load on my machine, but my box is an older dual-core unit and had always assumed that was why. 

I have a ton of add-on midi packs and I bet that’s a big part of it.

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That’s what I would think but McCartney played drums on that track and I don’t know if his style would be worthy of duplicating.  Not that it was bad, but it lacked style and technique.

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Yes, Thats giving you some SD like feature/control at an EZ price

I used to also load up a 3rd instance just for snare( or kick),even from the same EZx,then u could have super roomy snare without super roomy kick drum and still not affect my prefered cymbals and cymbal mix.

yep, good stuff, thanks!

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ORIGINAL: Markham

I’m pretty sure that’s because the “upgrade” is essentially upgrading you from Superior 1 to Superior 2, so it’s within the same product line. Whereas the crossgrade is taking you from EZDrummer to Superior 2, which is a different product line. At least, I think that’s what’s going on here.

That makes sense..  thanks!  Now to wait and see if it goes on sale for $149 again, then I’ll grab it.

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Dang….  the upgrade is $39 on Amazon, the Crossgrade (which I thought meant cross-platform) is a whole lot more!

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