Topic: Drum Controller with EZ Drummer

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Replied May 16, 2011 at 21:39 #1948815

mpisani
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Does anyone know if a good drum controller that works well with EZDrummer?

Replied May 17, 2011 at 14:35 #1948832

mikespike
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I have both an old R-70 Rythm Composer and an AKAI MPD32. I am beginner with the AKAI and the knobs and features are great for this product, but the pads suck. They are very stiff and very insensitive compared to the R-70. It is night and day. I can program all day on the R-70 pounding it with varying velosity and it’s fantastic. 15 min on the Akai and I want to throw it out. I am a 20+ years bass player and have pretty strong fingers. There is a youtube video of a guy that removed the pads and modified the sensors onder the pads with electrical tape and …. from what it shows in the video, it looks like he got the machine to work the way it truly was intended. THAT SAID….I would definately go try one out at the store if possible!!

In SD2 you can easily assign external midi pads to drums, I am not sure about EZD.

Replied May 20, 2011 at 00:46 #1948886

mikespike
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Ok…can I take that back??

I apoligize for slamming this controller. Yes, I am still learning the Akai. Now that I have adjusted the pads to my liking,.. it will be fairly easy to control Toontrack products.

Once the Global settings are changed, (pad-sence/pad-curve/pad-thresh) and have been tweaked,.. it seems to be pretty good. Very good actually, I still may open it up and add something to the underpad but it works good for now. That, plus all the other gadgets and ability to save under numorous presets by itself it can probably save about 120 16-peice drumkits and then save that to a file on computer…and make 120 more…plus (mpd32) has sliders and knobs to control other vsti’s. Wow …I think I really need to read up on this stuff.

Mike
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Drum Controller with EZ Drummer

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