Simple EZD2 and expansion pack question

[Obsessed]

Now that I have the incredible EZD2 and a noobie to the whole DAW thing, I want to know if the Latin Expansion pack instruments can be used anywhere in the EZD2 drum set? IOWs, can I replace a snare drum with a conga drum from the expansion pack?
Thank you.

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[Bryan Block]

Welcome!

You cannot replace just any drum with any other drum, unfortunately. You can replace a snare with any other “snare” from any other kit, but you can’t replace a snare with a floor tom or high hat or something.

What you CAN do is put TWO instances of EZD2 into your project on two separate MIDI tracks, one for the drum set and one for Latin Percussion.

Once you drag the MIDI over to your DAW from EZD, you can highlight all of the snare hits on the drum track and copy and paste them to the second MIDI track, and transpose them to the appropriate MIDI note to hit the drum you want to hit. Then delete those same snare hits from your drum set track.

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[Obsessed]

Ahh, thanks Bryan. Got it and makes sense for a work around. Great explanation especially for a noobie like me too.

[Bryan Block]

Glad to be of help. One more detail, if you want to know what note to transpose your MIDI notes to – if you RIGHT CLICK on any drum or percussion instrument (in the Latin Kit for example) and then click the “DETAILS” button, it will show you exactly which notes trigger which articulations or sounds on that instrument.

So, for example, let’s say you copied and pasted the snare drum hits into a new MIDI track as suggested above, but those hits are all on MIDI note “D1” and you are looking to hit the CONGA drum. So you RIGHT CLICK on the Conga Drum (or use the little arrow button to show the drop down menu) and you click the DETAILS button. Here, you see that the “Right Open” Articulation is note “G6” so you select all of your hits and transpose them all to G6. Conga!

But then you decide you don’t really like that idea after all, so you decide that maybe a Cajon hit might be a better choice. Just right click on the Cajon and click the DETAILS button again. Now you can click through all of the articulations for the Cajon. Say you settle on the “Left Slap Mid” because it sounds “snare like” but also has some depth and ethnic flavor. That articulation is F#1 – just transpose all of your hits on the Latin track to F#1.

Cheers,
b

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