How to play EZdrummer 2 standalone with computer keyboard?

[bassShaker]

My problem is that I couldn’t figure out how to play EZdrummer 2 standalone using the computer keyboard.

Here’s what I’ve tried:
I’ve opened EZdrummer 2 standalone and then I mouse click on the different drums
and hi-hats they interact and you can hear sound output. The problem is: Doing this by
mouse clicking is very restrictive and uncomfortable. I’d like to do it with my computer keyboard.
I’ve seen YouTube videos of people playing EZdrummer 1 & 2 with a computer
keyboard, so it is possible somehow. The question is how. Under each of said videos you’ll find
at least one person asking ‘how to play EZdrummer with computer keyboard?’, sadly without
anyone answering it.
Just typing on some keys of the pc keyboard in hope they’re pre-attached to the drums and
hi-hats won’t do the trick.
Went to settings/midi-input, but the pc keyboard is not a midi input and consequently
wasn’t listed. Pushing the re-scan button doesn’t change a thing.

I have no midi device like a midi pad or midi keyboard, and that won’t change
in the short term, because I’m totally broke. So, please don’t suggest me
to buy a midi device instead of trying to play drums on my computer keyboard.
It’s not of an option for me.

And I don’t want to use the template drum patterns. I want to create my
own individual drum tracks. Hit by hit, easy and intuitively.

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[Scott]

Welcome to the Toontrack Forum.

Please read this post below.

http://www.toontrack.com/forum/important-please-read/welcome-to-the-toontrack-forum/

I don’t see EZD2 registered to your account. Please register it and post your question in the EZdrummer Support Forum. If it’s registered to another account, please use the link in the above link and contact Toontrack directly to merge accounts.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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[deadphenix]

@Scott said:
Welcome to the Toontrack Forum.

Please read this post below.

http://www.toontrack.com/forum/important-please-read/welcome-to-the-toontrack-forum/

I don’t see EZD2 registered to your account. Please register it and post your question in the EZdrummer Support Forum. If it’s registered to another account, please use the link in the above link and contact Toontrack directly to merge accounts.  

I believe I’m logged in and registered, I have the same question. Sorry to revive and old post, but this is my exact question as well.

[Scott]

@deadphenix said:

I believe I’m logged in and registered, I have the same question. Sorry to revive and old post, but this is my exact question as well.  

Standalone version of EZD2 can’t be MIDI triggered via a qwerty keyboard.

Some DAWs (Reaper and Cubase are twin that I have experience with) allow for MIDI input via qwerty keyboard.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Scott Eshleman]

Asked & Answered (somewhat) last month in another thread…
https://www.toontrack.com/forum/requests-and-feedback/using-pc-keyboard-in-tap-to-find-how/

[Luke M]

I figured it out so made a video:

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[joseph_pie]

For me this is a fatal flaw and I probably wont be buying full version EZ drummer just because of this. I want to be able to assign a (qwerty keyboard) key to drum in ‘tap to find’, otherwise how am I going to tap and find anything?

• This post was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by joseph_pie.

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[Luke M]

joseph_pie wrote:

For me this is a fatal flaw and I probably wont be buying full version EZ drummer just because of this. I want to be able to assign a (qwerty keyboard) key to drum in ‘tap to find’, otherwise how am I going to tap and find anything?

did you see my post immediately above yours? Depending on your DAW you may have to tweak my solution but I’d be surprised if it didn’t work for you.

[karimba45]

Thanks Luke but where is the bass drum key?

[UlisB]

Hey, any chance this is possible within Garageband? My garageband 10.3.2 won’t even recognize EZdrummer 2 in the AU instruments tab. I’m broke and I can’t afford a MIDI controller, so this is pretty important for me.

[Djgriz]

To echo the above, does anyone know how you get the kick drum to work with QWERTY keyboard. I’ve got the keyboard up and running but there is no key for the kick drum. How do you remap this?

• This post was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Djgriz.

[KevinJames]

Yes, please, I have the same question about the kick drum, which is oddly absent from the QWERTY key triggers. Any help?

[JML]

I agree. It is a flaw. Even though there is a workaround per above, that’s a long way to go for something that should be a standard function.

One should be able to “Tap out” beats like the old Boss DR Rhythm units. “Point and click” has a natural/human latency that makes it very difficult to find the beats you’re looking for.

• This post was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by JML.

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