How does EZdrummer work with DAW’s timeline?

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  • Shootie
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    FL Studio is unique and you may want to ask an FL Studio community this question. Toontrack is popular enough that someone at an FL Facebook community would have the sure shot answer if you’re patient for the right person to respond. FL users usually being beat makers, most of them do not use Toontrack software for all of the features it has to offer. They just drag a beat out and work with that, as most EDM/HipHop style producers do, using the FL studio tools instead.

    Myself, coming from many other typical DAWs, I came up with a workflow that is sensible to me in FL. I can’t tell you if it’s the best way or not.

     

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    KabukimanSanjo
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    Okay thank you a lot this video actually answers the biggest question I had, which is how to actually get EZdrummer’s track into FL Studio’s timeline so it will export with the drums. Now I just need to know the best way to automate tempo, you see I have a song that features tempo changes and I know I could just automate the tempo for the whole project in FL Studio, but I don’t want to automate the tempo of every instrument, because I don’t want it to sound artificial. I want to change the tempo on the guitar, bass, etc. manually as I play them. But as I don’t play drums, I want to automate the tempo of the drum track exclusively. I know that EZdrummer 3 lets you edit tempo, but you seem to need to disable “Follow Host” to do so. Yet, when I disable “Follow Host”, the track no longer plays along with FL Studio’s timeline, so I assume that the project won’t export with the drums included. Am I wrong, and I don’t need Follow Host to be enabled for the drums to be included, or am I correct and I have to find some other way to automate the tempo? Is my only solution to disable follow host, automate the tempo in EZdrummer, and then export it as an audio file and put the audio file in FL’s timeline?

    Shootie
    Participant

    No prob.

    Follow Host must be enabled to play along in FL. EZD is the guest, it only takes commands from the host.

    It’s a particular and unique thing you’re going for, I could only guess at what you should do if FL is not in charge of the Tempo or a Tempo Map.

    EZD Humanizes by default, unless you purposefully gridlock it’s performance or importing gridlocked midi files. That seems to work for the high majority. I personally only tempo map in a DAW, if I feel the need and have the time, and then perform to that metronome from the Tempo Map and the midi instruments simply follow it as well. That’s just me though.

     

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