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[alexis]

Scott wrote:

Yes. Edit manually on the Song Track and/or import from a MIDI file.

Thanks for your reply!

Just to clarify: Currently (EZDrummer 2), it doesn’t recognize the time sig has changed, and so the drummer/notation is one measure off for the rest of the song.

TThat has changed in EZDrummer 3?

Thanks!

[alexis]

@John said:
Hi,

there is no built-in Crescendo or Cymbal Wash function in Superior 2 but e.g. the Custom & Vintage SDX has pre-recorded ones.
EZdrummer 2 has got a lot of MIDI Cymbals swells. Some MIDI controllers, like e.g. the KORG padKONTROL, have a function for creating rolls via an X/Y pad.  

Sorry to dig up this old thread, but it was the most recent one that came up in search.

What is the best way to search for cymbal rolls in EZD2 please?

Thanks!

[alexis]

Ah yes, thanks. But not in the mixer, just checking?

[alexis]

@Henrik said:
You can search for any MIDI by dragging it to Tap2Find, even MIDI files that comes from Toontrack, to locate what pack they come from.

If you have a daw that lets you drag and drop the MIDI from the DAW straight to Tap2Find, that’s the easiest way to do it.
Some DAW:s won’t, however, let you drag the MIDI from the DAW’s MIDI tracks to anywhere else – the desktop, nor into EZdrummer 2’s time line.

In that case: record arm EZdrummer 2 (press the record button beside play and stop below the song track). start your host to record 1 or 2 bars of the MIDI you want to locate. Once that is done, drag the MIDI (on the EZdrummer 2 song track) you just recorded to Tap2Find. You should see the original MIDI in the top of the results – as long as you haven’t edited the original MIDI too much.

Ask again if my instructions wasn’t clear enough 🙂  

Wonderful! I believe my DAW (Cubase) allows me to Drag and Drop, if not I’ll try your other way.

Thank you so much!

[alexis]

@fredneck said:

I have Pro Tools 10, and plan to purchase EZD2, along with EZX expansions before the sale ends…My music often encounters mixed meters. Even Pop/Modern Country uses bars of 2/4 occasionally. Anyways, I like to create a Nashville Number Chart for my simpler songs. This lays outs the form. We are concerned with Tempo, Key, Time Signature. Anyone of these factors can change at any point in a single session. I like to then prepare the session with markers, but particularly important is when there is a Time Signature change, a new measure is created and possibly the next measure returns to the initial Time Signature (measure of 2/4…)
Will EZD2’s Song Creator (as a plugin) reflect the Time Signature change and correctly bar the measures in my above example, or will my drums now be displaced by 2 quarter notes in the plugin’s Song Creator midi lane? Pro Tools can do anything with time, but I’m trying to avoid the piano roll for the songs that don’t just use 1 time signature throughout.  

Maybe I can help, new purchaser of EZD2.

For changing time sigs, I drag the MIDI blocks from EZD2 into a MIDI track on my DAW, and make it work there. For example, if my song is mainly in 4/4, and that is what I told EZD2 the sig is, but there is a single 5/4 bar: I just drag the 4/4 MIDI block from EZD2 to my DAW, which leaves the 5th beat “empty”. I then fill in the extra beat in the DAW one of several ways:

1) I duplicate/drag the MIDI in the previous 4-beat bar (in the DAW) to cover the 5th beat of the 5/4 measure, then just snip off the end that “sticks out” into the next measure.
2) More often than not, a fill would sound just great there, so I drag a 4-beat fill over to the single empty bar in the DAW, slide it to the left so the last bit of the fill covers the empty space, then snip off the first 3 beats.
3) Multiple other ways to get it done!

I recommend editing in the DAW – it’s a whole lot easier and more powerful than doing it in EZD2, IMO.

Hope that gives you some ideas!

[alexis]

@Scott said:
Sorry, you must have edited your post to add that last part. It wasn’t there when I started my reply.

.drm files are drum map files that can be loaded into Cubase.

When I clicked on the link, it took me to a page with a bunch of .drm files. They can then be browsed and loaded as described in the Cubase manual.  

Great, thanks much.

Sort of a conceptual question here: Having tried the Cubase Drum Map, I’ve realized it’s so much easier just to edit the Jamstix MIDI key out assignments to match what Nashville is expecting, and that’s how I wound up doing it.

Does anyone think I’m losing some great advantage by doing it that way instead of using the Cubase Drum Maps? I’d go back to them if I were, but otherwise, it’s a whole lot easier to just edit/resave the MIDI key out assignments in Jamstix.

Thanks for any thoughts!

[alexis]

@Scott said:
1) In the Nashville EZX, there is a kit that is played with the hands and bit sticks. When using that kit, those articulations would be those indicated in the Hands Selection section. When using a kit with sticks or brushes, the regular articulations would be referenced.

2) Aliases are useful when you are playing a MIDI keyboard so there aren’t ‘dead keys’. Each key triggers an articulation.  

OK for both of those, thanks.

@Scott said:

The pdf MIDI layouts can be accessed in EZD2 from:

Menu-About Sound Libraries-(Select library in question)-MIDI Layout.

It looks like there is a printing error on the Nashville “Piano View” – Cymbal 1 Crash/Mute are switched in position from Cymbal 2 Crash/Mute, when comparing with the information listed in the drop downs in the actual drum kit. No biggie, just something for you to pass along to the printer for the next version!

(Please check me on that – I’ve been doing this for several hours now, my eyes are bleary!)

[alexis]

@Scott said:
EZD2 included a percussion library of sounds in addition to percussion MIDI. The One Shot Pad in the EZD2 interface includes a cowbell. See the EZD2 manual for more details.  

Thanks! I was in there, I just didn’t scroll down far enough!!

So there’s cowbell. Life is good!

[alexis]

OK, thanks for answering. Just to confirm … If I wanted a cowbell in Nashville (EZD2) – I am out of luck?

[alexis]

Thanks for the reply!

@Scott said:
1) What library are you asking about?

Looking at Nashville, EZD2 now, thanks.

@Scott said:
2) Aliases are keys that are duplicately mapped i.e. the same mapping on multiple keys.  

Can you explain that a little more please? How do they come in handy, how do I use them?

Thanks!

[alexis]

@Scott said:
The pdf MIDI layouts can be accessed in EZD2 from:

Menu-About Sound Libraries-(Select library in question)-MIDI Layout.  

Thanks for that, Scott!

2 questions please:

1) Some of the keys have two articulations assigned to a single key (e.g., 37-40, and 66-71, the “Hand Selection” and “Finger Selection” sections).

What does that mean, to have one key assigned to two articulations? I’m confused about how to put that in my drum map.

2) Also – some of the descriptions are in black, and some are in gray (the latter labelled, “Alias”). What is the significance of that?

Thanks for any help!

[alexis]

@Scott said:
There are links to user created drum maps for Cubase further up in this thread.  

Thanks Scott, yes I read the thread. 🙂

The question I asked in my post about how to use those links was:

“If … Jim B.’s very kind work in providing drum maps is the best “unofficial” thing – how does that work? Should I just cut and paste it into a Wordpad document on my desktop, and then load into Cubase as described in the manual?”

Thanks –

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