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[Henrik Ekblom]

It’s hard to answer that because that depends on your operative system, soundcard etc. so I think Google is your friend here. There are several forums where ASIO driver issues are discussed. Google for asio driver no output and you should find many of them.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

You can create your custom MIDI and import it into EZdrummer 2 (even drag and drop if your host supports drag and drop).

You can put that MIDI file in tap2find’s Drop Zone to find similar MIDI, and use the Song Creator.
You can’t (at the moment) make it searchable, meaning that it won’t show up in amongst the results. This is, however, something we are looking into.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Glad that you enjoy it and thanks for the kind words 😎

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[Henrik Ekblom]

It is absolutely possible to leave the drum MIDI blocks in EZdrummer 2. This will make it easier for you if you in the future would like to edit your MIDI, for example, add a shaker to your second verse or change the power hand in your choruses. If you leave them inside EZdrummer 2, you won’t have to drag them back and forth between your host and EZdrummer 2.

If you in the future need to alter the MIDI blocks in a detailed way, for example, increase the velocity of the second kick in the verse, you can always then just drag it into your host and keep on working with the MIDI from there, or just put it back into EZdrummer 2 when you are done editing it in Sonar.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I am sure that you can raise the overall velocity in Sonar X3 to an entire block. In Cubase you can do it by double clicking the block, selecting all notes and just drag up the velocity points (all velocities will move with a drag when all notes are selected).

You can also do this in EZdrummer 2. Select the block(s) you want to alter, right click one of the selected blocks, select Edit Play Style. In the “Selected” drop down menu on the lower left side, select “All Playing Drums” and then adjust the velocity with the velocity knob on the lower right side in Edit Play Style

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[Henrik Ekblom]

We will include a fix for this in the next update. It’s currently being tested and we will release it as soon as possible.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Stellan – What version of EZkeys are you running? Try “Check for updates” in the main menu, top right of the user interface.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I’ll let the development team know about this issue so that we can check it up again.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can you post the exact error message you get from ProTools? What version of ProTools are you using?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you check Audio Device in your settings menu, what are the latency numbers? If they are high (above 50-100 ms) I think that you need another sound card, or if you have a decent one, you need to use the correct drivers. If you are using a PC you could try ASIO drivers if the original drivers won’t work.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The problem is that velocity and volume is two different things.
– Volume is the volume for the channel where the drum’s microphone(s) are being sent. So raising the volume is the same as raising the volume on a real mixer when recording a drum.
– Velocity, on the other hand, is an emulation of how hard the drummer is hitting on the drum

You can right click an individual drum (on the main drum view) and lower it’s volume, or lower it’s microphone channels in the mixer, if it’s too loud throughout the entire song.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you are working within a host, that host might offer a way to use your keyboard as a MIDI controller. For example, Logic offers this (https://discussions.apple.com/message/7756177)

The problem with implementing this into EZdrummer 2 (and other plugins) is that a press from a key on your keyboard won’t be sent into EZdrummer – the host will capture it but it won’t forward it into the plugin (a bit technical description). But essentially – we can’t use the keyboard to control EZdrummer 2 in most cases.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the thoughts. I will send the request to our sound department

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for your words. This feature is something we have discussed, but we felt at the time of designing that it would add complexity into the user interface of EZdrummer 2, and since it’s possible to set time signatures and tempo in the DAW (which EZdrummer 2 will follow) we decided to design it the way it’s designed now.

We are, however, constantly updating the software to include customers requests and your ideas are noted!

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