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[Henrik Ekblom]

Your MIDI controller is able to play the kick, you’ll probably need to transpose it so you can access the right note to play the kick.

If you look at the first image I attached, it shows what note the kick is played on. This information is found in the instrument properties – right click the kick in the main drum view.

On the bottom right corner it shows the last played MIDI note from your keyboard, so if you hit the G1 note on your keyboard (as I did on the screenshot) you’ll know that the kick key is further left on your keyboard, since the kick is found on C1.

Keys on a keyboard can either be named by their key name or its note number. You can press the Key button on the top right corner to show note numbers (seen on the second attached image). The last pressed key was note number 43 and the kick is found on 36, meaning the kick is found 7 notes to the left of the last pressed key.

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There is also a slide out page that tells you what notes the selected instrument is using:

You can click the articulations in the note list to preview them.

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Humanize is an option that makes the sound engine sound more realistic, and it consists of a couple of settings to achieve this. For example, it makes alterations to the hits so a snare roll doesn’t sound like a drum machine with machine gun effect. All these individual settings can be accessed in Superior Drummer 2 for a more detailed setup.

Some EZXs doesn’t have all the Humanize features turned on by default. If you select “EZX Optimized” it will use the settings that are set up by default for the selected EZX. The other options are pretty self explaining – “All On” forces all Humanize settings to be on, on vice versa for off

Choosing between “Always On” and “EZX Optimized” is a change few will need to do, but it’s there to support some special cases. Setting it to “All Off” will however make a clearly audible difference since it will sound more static and drum machine-ish.

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You can use EZdrummer 2 with PreSonus Studio One Producer or Professional, version 1.5 or higher.

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If you click on the dB value you can enter 0 with your num pad. This is pretty much as fast as cmd + click to set it to 0 once you get used to it

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I attached a MIDI file which you can drag and drop to your tap2find MIDI drop zone. That file should give you some 100% matches.
(You should first rename the file to tap2find.mid since I had to rename it to tap2find.wav to be able to post it on this forum.)

Let us know how that goes

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@pulinsjm said:

I just purchased and installed EZ Drummer 2 yesterday. The install went fine. Today I purchased EZX Metal Machine. The install was successful but Metal Machine doesn’t show up under the Drum kit selection. Only Modern and Vintage are there. The Pop/Rock kit that I downloaded and installed also doesn’t show up. Under the browser tab, Metal Machine is listed under EZX Libraries. Under the Search tab, it is listed under Library. How do I get me Metal Machine kit? I’m running Windows 7, 64 bit PC.
Thanks.

So your new libraries aren’t showing up in the EZX list (the orange list on the top right corner of the EZdrummer 2 window)?

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Can you upload the MIDI file here so we can take a look at it?

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David Levy – did you know that you can enable MIDI out in EZdrummer 2, and doing so makes it possible to route the MIDI directly to Superior Drummer 2? With this setup there’s no need to move the MIDI to the Superior track when the MIDI editing is done – the Superior sounds will be used directly with the MIDI edit features from EZdrummer 2

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Not all hosts support drag and drop directly to desktop, plugins etc. But if you can drag MIDI from the host to the desktop etc. then you can drag it to EZdrummer 2 too.

By unsuccessful – do you mean that you don’t get a MIDI block on the song track at all? If you have a MIDI file on you hard drive, you can just drag and drop it onto the track in EZdrummer 2.

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Drag the file down to the song track, right click the file and chose “Change Tempo/Half Tempo”. In EZdrummer 2, all changes made to files are made on the song track.

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Great to hear! Keep up the good work. And thanks for the kind words

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If you use multi out from EZdrummer 2 to your host, you can route the toms to a separate track and use mixing tricks to shorten the decay, for example add a gate to cut the volume when it goes under a threshold value.

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You need to install the 32 bit version of EZdrummer 2 if you are running Reaper in 32 bit. The bit depth (32 or 64 bit) on the operative system doesn’t have anything to do with the bit depth of EZdrummer 2 – it’s the host’s bit depth that decides that. The easiest test for you is to try to install the 32 bit version of EZdrummer 2. If that doesn’t work – please reply on this thread

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In version 2.0.2 we included a view of the mapping. Right click on a drum, in the bottom right corner of the popup there’s a Details button. There you can both preview each articulation and see on what key (or note) it’s placed.

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