Adding sound from different kit to existing groove

[DaveSetchfield]

I have saved a groove made on one kit. I want to call up that groove, open up a different kit and add in a new percussion instrument. When I do that, the whole groove changes (despite being saved) to the sounds of the different kit. What am I doing wrong?

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[Scott]

How are you “saving” the groove? Are you adding it to User MIDI in the Groove browser? Or are you rendering the Song Track as a wav file? If you are just saving as User MIDI, the sounds of the kit won’t be saved and doesn’t matter. MIDI contains no sound info, it’s just MIDI data. It will play whatever sound library you give it.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[DaveSetchfield]

Thanks for your reply. I’m clicking File & save as then saving it as a file on my computer.

[Scott]

So you’re saving the EZD2 project file with MIDI grooves on the Song Track? Like I say, unless you render your MIDI with the sound library loaded, your Song Track MIDI will play with whatever sounds library you load even from the save file.

If you want to keep the drum sound you have and then add other parts with a different kit, you need to either render the drums as a wav audio file, then import it into your DAW on an audio track, then you can load other kit sounds into EZD2, or, load 2 instances of EZD2 into your DAW and have 2 different kits loaded.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[DaveSetchfield]

Thank you – I was experimenting with that. It’s good to have it clarified.

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