Topic: Piano Roll

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Replied May 7, 2014 at 20:47 #1970320

Erik Phersson
Moderator

Hi and thank you for your praise!

It’s a difficult thing to design something that should be easy to use but still can perform complex operations. Our goal with EZdrummer was to make things that are difficult or time consuming to perform in your host easy. I think we achieved that. I can understand that there sometime is need to make that final tweak but adding a piano roll would add a complexity that would go against the nature of EZdrummer. Not saying that it never will happen (we thought about it a number of times) but we like to focus on giving creativity back to the users rather than consuming for the sake of detail… seeking. We think of it in terms of you being in the rehearsal room with your band mates. You give your drummer general instructions on how you want him to perform (if you are the song writer) but you seldom go in and tell him exactly how to play each note. In this environment the songs and ideas can flourish since there’s no focus on details, only on the general feel and energy. Once you are finished creating your song you can go into the studio and focus on the details. That’s not EZdrummer though…

Erik Phersson - Toontrack
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Replied May 8, 2014 at 14:04 #1970427

Drew Hallenbeck
Participant

That is a fair assessment as to why you did not add the further “complexity”. As I said, the fact that you can get the song 90% there is still amazing. Taking it into the DAW for the extra tweaks is not a big deal at all really. All and all without overthinking a wish list that is out of scope with the “EZ” part of EZDrummer… you guys did an amazing job! Thanks again.

Replied May 9, 2014 at 09:15 #1970522

Harald.Beckedorf
Participant

Hi Drew,
Have you tried tap2find? Drag the pattern you want to change to the area below “tap2find” and click that button.
You can clear the part(s) of the kit you want to alter and make a new recording.
When you click “Show Results” the new pattern stays in the area below the “tap2find” button when you switch to the browser window and can be dragged into the user midi folder.

Replied May 11, 2016 at 21:35 #1988181

PatRat_2
Participant

@Erik said:
You give your drummer general instructions on how you want him to perform (if you are the song writer) but you seldom go in and tell him exactly how to play each note. . .

Yes but even with a couple of the EZX plugins I find this is like having a drummer who cannot play what you ask them to..
I have yet to have Tap2Find get a drum pattern close enough to be useable.

If you don’t know what you want, close with work, If you know what you want, close doesn’t cut it.

I can play multiple instruments with some skill, drums is something I cannot play at all.
even using a midi trigger at a slow tempo I have a hard time tapping out exactly what I want.
I’ll miss an off time hit that is only off by a small amount but enough that quantize won’t fix it…
Those times when I’m only a couple beats off, a piano roll even if it just for placement (or moving or deleting a beat)
would be an incredible feature.
Don’t take anything away from what the program is or does!!
We are just asking that you just add another feature to an already awesome program!
Since when does adding a new feature take away from a program?

Every usable program at some point couldn’t do what it does now…

We LOVE your program! It Kicks @$$!!
But we know what would make it better and what would make it more versatile and user friendly!!

I remember once calling an engineering program’s development team because their software
wouldn’t run in windows (This was some time ago! – I’m old!)
They whined and complained about recompiling their software for windows…
Well, all their competitors moved to windows. They didn’t.
They’re probably writing FL plugins now….

Replied June 6, 2016 at 21:20 #1988562

Robert
Participant

Was thinking about this today.
I feel like the next update for EZ2 would rock to the moon and back if a plug-in or some other mode of communication was developed to allow for full editing capabilities to be shared automatically between EZdrummer and whatever DAW is being used – so no dragging midi from EZ to the DAW ever. I want to be able to drop midi patterns into EZdrummer from the EZBrowser and see that midi automatically come up in my Logic piano roll editor – and vice versa of course. Then being able to edit from either place (EZdrummer or Logic/DAW) and have those edits register in both places – whether it’s rhythmic, velocity, or whatever else.
That would be the dealio! Yeah? Can you guys do that??

Replied May 3, 2018 at 10:21 #2004222

Leith Gow
Participant

I would love to see this make its way into the product. It really is the only downfall. As a user I like the ability to tweak snares etc to create accents to my riffs. In my current workflow I have to edit the loops in a DAW which kind of defeats the purpose of using the blocks and song creator. The ability to double click a song block and make a quick edit would be a godsend. Please consider it.

Replied January 29, 2021 at 13:29 #2700478

Katmama
Participant

Hi, I too think that EZD is absolutely amazing, but I am missing the ability to tweak in a piano roll. The devil is in the details, right? There is a trade-off of having an skilled drummer provide patterns and subtleties that I may never have thought of for actually being able to simply tell him or her to “I need a cymbal crash right here” or “add a tom on the second beat of that measure”. Maybe I just haven’t found the workaround yet.
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