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[Henrik]

To be able to edit MIDI by using the built in features you have to have the MIDI inside EZdrummer 2, since it’s impossible for a plugin to edit/access the MIDI that’s placed on a hosts time line. So the easiest way is to (if your host allows it) drag it to EZdrummer 2’s time line, edit it, then drag it back.

If you can’t drag and drop MIDI from your host, there’s a trick to get MIDI from the host into EZdrummer 2.
Remove all MIDI from the song track in EZdrummer, then press the record button (below the track) in EZdrummer.
As soon as you start playback in your host (with MIDI on the EZdrummer 2 track), EZdrummer 2 will record the notes being played from the hosts MIDI.
Now you have the MIDI inside EZdrummer 2. Edit it and then drag it back to your host.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik]

There are basically 3 ways of how you can get the MIDI out from EZdrummer 2 to your host:
1. Drag and drop from EZdrummer 2’s song track in to your host. This is the easiest and recommended way.
2. From the track menu, you can export the MIDI to a MIDI file which you import to your host.
3. You can record arm your track in your host while playing back the MIDI from EZdrummer 2 – which will make your host record the MIDI.

All these ways of getting MIDI out from EZdrummer 2 will create one resulting MIDI file/block, even if it’s separated into song parts (chorus, verse etc.) in EZdrummer 2, since we unfortunately can’t control how the resulting MIDI will be split up.

Does this answer your question?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Henrik]

There is a problem for plugins regarding keyboard shortcuts. Hosts normally don’t send the keyboard actions to the plugin – meaning that if you press “ctrl + z” on a PC to undo an action, the actual undo will be done in the host and not in the plugin – even if the plugin is in focus. We are aware of this issue, and the standalone could use keyboard shortcuts. It can however be confusing if shortcuts works in standalone and suddenly not when used in a host…

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

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