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notstewart,
Thank you for reviewing my music! I have a tune named “Down the Avenue”. Anyway: “Down the Road”: this mix does not suck at all! Audio quality is very good! Guitar playing & riffs sound very good also. Singing & vocal melodies are excellent! All of the layered vocal tracks help a lot, I’m sure. Very nice song! Since you listened to more than one song of mine I will review: “Pull the Trigger on It”: I don’t like it quite as much (overall) as the previous song, though it is still quite good. I do like the guitars a lot: playing, audio quality/tone, and riffs. Vocals & vocal melodies are good. Drums are working well. Another very good mix in my opinion. Another nice tune! 🙂

Since you are good at reviewing first, I invite you here:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=51

Most likely you will get more reviews than here if you’re good about reviewing others first (especially the C4C threads: critique for critique), though it may take a while to build a good reputation about returning the favor, as a lot of people flake out.

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Not sure on that album, but Alex used Simmons drum sounds triggered through his acoustic set more than a lot of people are aware of.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/ok-drummers-examine-alex-van-halen.292270/page-2

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juicy,
Thank you for the reply! If you want me to review your music, leave me a link.

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In my experience, a MIDI drum pattern that works with EZDrummer will work with Superior Drummer.

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Thank you for replying again. I’m just using Cubase LE4, so I can’t have each piece of drum kit going to a separate aux track in a feasible manner. I figure SD3 is just a matter of time. It seems odd to me EZD2 has features that SD2 does not.

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David,
Thank you for replying. The audio demo for The Warehouse did not sound very different than Rock Solid EZX for me. I have never owned any SDX’s.

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sar,
Were you able to get authorization on your EZDrummer? If a toontrack guy doesn’t help you on this thread, you should start a new thread on the EZDrummer Help forum, but you have to prove you bought a toontrack product before you get past these pre-sale forums. I don’t believe you have to un-install Superior Drummer to make EZDrummer work, but I’m not sure. I’m 99% sure you don’t use the Superior Drummer discs unless you payed for Superior Drummer (I have never seen it less than about $150 at Guitar Center). Have you found a manual for EZDrummer on this website yet? I don’t know what you mean by “save the ezdrummer or run”. You download most or all of EZDrummer off the internet (I think), and then it saves itself automatically in particular files in your computer. I have never used Ableton, I use Cubase LE4. If recording stuff, I would typically open Cubase, then open a track that starts up EZDrummer & go from there. I can’t remember all the steps, because I haven’t done it much & I’m often fumbling around trying to figure things out.

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sar,
I would try this link:

https://www.toontrack.com/index.asp

and click on GET STARTED (red virtual button)

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sar2547,
Is this the first time you bought a toontrack product?

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I’m not saying yours won’t work, but in my experience, the people at Guitar Center don’t always know what they are talking about. When I bought Superior Drummer 2 (several months ago), Guitar Center said the actual Superior Drummer 2 program came 100% from the internet. But it came with 7 discs! It came with an EZDrummer disk & I wasted a lot of time downloading it because I thought it needed to be downloaded for Superior Drummer 2 to work. If you didn’t pay for Superior Drummer, most likely the discs are useless unless you pay more money to toontrack. I was confused by this for days. When I bought EZDrummer for $30 yesterday, Guitar Center gave me a single disc (it said EZDrummer on the disc). I’m glad they didn’t give me more disks because I would have been confused once again.

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