FL Studio to EZD 2 help

[Bucketfeet]

Hi,

If anyone is familiar with fl studios please help me.

I’m used to making full drum tracks using fl studios and trying to find how to export my pattern’s in midi.

I sort of figured it out but EVERY sound, ie. Bass drum, snare, hi hat exports as the same value as if each drum item is played on one drum.

Anyone know how to assign each sound to a drum on ezd2?

Thanks!

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[Peter Weldon]

Hello Bucketfeet … I am new to EZD2, and am also trying to do the same exact thing — export drums/patterns from FL studio to EZD2. I’m finding this necessary because of the lack of being able to edit individual hits in EZD2. Also, I don’t have a midi controller, and am finding that ‘tap to find’ using the mouse is not really going to cut-it. I am having the same experience when exporting to midi from FL Studio. Like you, I *thought* I figured it out, however, all the drums are exporting as one sound. What I noticed is that when you prepare the pattern or song for midi export, once they are set to midi, all the values are set to acoustic piano (in my case, anyway), and I can’t see a way to change that or to ensure the values for kick, snare, etc., stay the same. I also noticed when I imported the patterns as midi, that it is not one midi file, but a split file. I say this because if/when importing the exported midi track(s) into Reaper, it asks if I want to open in multiple tracks. One can then export from Reaper and combine them into one midi track, but it really doesn’t matter because of the aforementioned issues with the values.

It seems like this should work, because in my initial experimentation, I had downloaded some midi tracks from the web and opened them in FL Studio. I noticed the drums were all on one track/channel, and if/when I delete every other channel (bass, keys, etc.) and save the drums alone, I was/am able to export them into EZD2 and it works well and/or as expected. So I think we may be simply missing something about the export from FL, and it may possible be that the export needs to be one midi file that is not split, but it needs to retain the values. I see where you can merge the patterns in FL, but that does not do the trick. It would be really great if this could be possible. I am liking EZD2 fairly well so far … it sounds great, and is good for some things, but I think the combination of working with an external editor like FL Studio offers up some flexibility that EZD2 itself does not offer, sadly enough. To be honest, I am unsure if I would have purchased EZD2 had I known of the limitation of not being able to edit patterns. I did use the trial first, and that is when I imported a midi file I had downloaded, so I thought this was possible. Hopefully we can get this sorted out. Part of me is wondering if it’s just FL Studio and how it exports midi. I don’t have another editor to try, however.

Cheers!

-peter

[Peter Weldon]

Just wanted to report a follow-up to my earlier response. I downloaded a free drum machine called Hydrogen, and after a few minutes of getting acquainted, I was able to export a midi track that does what I believe we are both expecting … it retains the values of the individual drums, etc. In my experimentation, I opened the file in FL, and as expected, all the drums are on one channel, not multiple channels. If this free drum machine can do this, it seems that FL Studio should surely be able to do this. What can we be missing? I don’t know, but I guess I better get much more acquainted with Hydrogen.

I am now going to experiment with exporting from FL Studio, opening in Hydrogen and then see if I can export from Hydrogen to see what happens. I’ll report back with my findings.

Cheers!

-peter

[Bucketfeet]

Hi Peter,

First off, thanks for the input. What you explained in your first response is EXACTLY what I’m going through. When I open a midi file in Cubase that I exported through FL Studios each instrument is on a separate track, but all playing the same Grand Piano sound. This is very frustrating.

If we can figure out how to do this properly, I would absolutely LOVE EZdrummer. Programming the drums in FL Studios is so much easier for me then in Cubase. I’ll try your suggestion with Hydrogen and play around with it so thanks for that. I’ve been trying to search for an answer around the web but it doesn’t seem like anyone else is having the same issue.

Anyways, thanks again for your input. I’ll let you know if I figure anything out. I’ll keep checking back here for answers but my email is konyaku81@gmail.com if you want to discuss further offline.

Thanks!

[John]

Hi guys,

I *think* you are mixing some things up.
When you add a Channel with a Kick or Snare sample loaded, they will indeed have the same Key on a MIDI export. If you get another sound on Export, it’s because the routing is incorrect, i.e. the MIDI is routed to another instrument than e.g. EZdrummer.
Please start with checking my old FL-EZdrummer Template out, it may explain some things for you.

I couldn’t upload the ZIP, without renaming it, so please remove the .txt extension

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Bucketfeet]

Hi John,

Thanks for your response.

I don’t see a link to the file in your post if you did post it here. Could you re post it?

Thanks!

[John]

You don’t see the attachment below the text and above my signature?
I just clicked it and downloaded it, so it’s there..

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John]

Just in case, I drop-shipped it to you guys

https://ftpserver.toontrack.net/_4yVr3PURjip4AR

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Henrik]

I can’t see the attachment so I guess there are some access issues when posting files here…

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Peter Weldon]

Hi John … thanks much for the template. This will be very helpful.

Cheers!

-peter

[rubble]

This is really helpful.

Would anyone know of a workflow for getting MIDI out of FL Studio Mobile and into EZ Drummer?
I tried creating my own .instr (using FPC) but the mapping seems weird (for example the snare on the EZX map will fire off a tom, etc).

Thanks in advance

[Alek]

I see this thread is old but em wondering is any of you EZD2+FL Studio guys still around?

I have EZD2 and am interested in the same thing. I get a pro quality custom (midi) drum loops (EZD2) and it would be just perfect to bring them as midi drum into FLS (FLS-Mobile is what I was hoping to use, so I can work on my iPad or play them for practice off my iPhone). I can work with audio but you cannot speed up/down with audio (for practice). I have found a way to do it in a Garageband but that limits me in terms of anything but practice.

Wondering have any of you gone further with this issue or found a solution with a different DAW (different from FLS)?

Cheers.

[Duncan_11]

Hello

I too am enjoying the same experience with EZD. I.e. i can’t edit midi in the Piano roll. So, i thought i would program the drum patterns in FL (which i know how to use)and export into EZD2 – because it has better sounding drums.

Is this the way forward? And if so, is there any tutorials still floating around on how best to do this? I can understand if it comes from FL as one track. Maybe not the best result but a result nontheless.

OR how do you edit in EZD2 Piano roll? i.e. add/delete beats. Because my initial efforts have been rather unsuccessful.

[Duncan_11]

PS: I clicked on the template from John Rammelt but it has expired. Anyway to get that up again?

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