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[Jay Coover]

$12 and just what you’re looking for. Not sure how long this coupon code is good for, but makes it $7.20.

cyber40

http://www.oddgrooves.com/loop-shop/new-orleans-drum-loops/

Works great out of the box for EZD or Superior. I own it.

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[Jay Coover]

What’s “this application”? Odd meters? I don’t think it was advertised as such, but as always, you’ll have to get in there and do some of your own editing to make things fit.

If you refuse to edit MIDI at all, your options will always be extremely limited. Neither the DAW, nor the MIDI kit drummer can read your mind. Impose your will on the MIDI.

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[Jay Coover]

Oddgrooves has some Reggae MIDI mapped for TT. There are some audio clips and if you look around a free sampler MIDI pack.
http://www.oddgrooves.com/loop-shop/reggae-drum-loops/

The pieces and especially the ringy snares in Roots are good for Reggae. You know, Roots Rock Reggae…Listen reggae music…

There are so many different types of reggae drum sounds though. Depends on what you want. Like when you say “rock” drums. So many different things come to mind.

For reggae, I think fairly small kit, tight kick and ringy snare, prominent hihat.

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[Jay Coover]

I think I commented on it, so please don’t take this as official word from Toontrack.

Bass is going to be more complex to apply the EZKeys model to because bass is not a polyphonic (chordal) instrument. It supports the chords of course, but let’s say you have a measure of bass where there is an E note followed by a C followed by a B.

How do you analyze that in the way that you would with EZKeys midi?

It could be:
1. Em C Bm
2. E7 C B7
3. E C Bm
3. Em C B7…and so on

Then let’s say you’ve got an E note followed by a B note followed by a G note.

Is that:
1. All Em? Just covering one chord.
2. A weird way of covering a G6 chord starting on the 6.
3. E7 Bm G
4. E E/B G

See my point?

I suppose it’s possible to provide bass parts with already-defined chords, not analyzed on the fly, and go from there. It’s possible, it’s just not going to be a simple rewrite of EZKeys.

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[Jay Coover]

Hey, noob, let’s not pile on here.

Carry on.

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[Jay Coover]

@optofonik – Well, you can laugh, but EZMix was already a step in this direction to begin with.

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Most hosts will allow you to create song templates. You’d still have to add EZMix in all the right places, choose the right preset in EZMix, tweak a bit, then save that as a template, but then you’d essentially have what you are talking about.

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[Jay Coover]

We’re seeing a lot of this type of projecting since the election. Sour grapes. Yawn.

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[Jay Coover]

Looks like two SDX’s with accompanying MIDI coming up in the next two weeks, based on the black box shapes on the Metal Month announcement page.

I’ll have to start saving. I was thinking metal was pretty well covered so far. Was hoping for an Ethnic Percussion SDX or early Vintage SDX soon. Still, I do like rock drums. 😉

Cubase 7 was just announced too. Looks like my kids get coal in their stockings for Christmas this year.

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[Jay Coover]

I do want to, probably will, but not until the price normalizes. 😉

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[Jay Coover]

I may bite eventually, but not until the price goes to normal (same as other EZX’s) at all the online retailers.

I no longer need to have stuff on day one, but apparently many do, so thus the policy to maximize revenue.

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[Jay Coover]

Thanks for explaining all that.

I had no idea any of that was possible. It completely nullifies everything I said.

Toontrack demo videos do need to play on your iThingy.

Carry on.

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[Jay Coover]

Your bias has not slipped under anyone’s radar.

From a PC user’s perspective, Quicktime acts much like a virus. Just try and make it not take over all the media playback when you install it. Then try to give them back after you uninstall it. I go to great lengths never to have Quicktime on any of my computers, and religiously avoid any application that requires it.

I also love it when one Apple application gets installed on a PC and every time an update is pushed out, you have to opt out of all the other Apple crapware. More malware-like behavior.

Both of my non-Apple smartphones play Flash just fine.

I’m sure my bias has not gone unnoticed as well.

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[Jay Coover]

Well, I’m not going to comment other than to say that a lot of the “metal” stuff translates well to hard rock, rock, whatever. I think you agree as well. Interesting to see what comes tomorrow.

I’m not into the super-busy, 16th note kick, fake vocal, sonic assault stuff either. It’s been done to the extreme where there are no more notes to fit into that measure.

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[Jay Coover]

The defaults are pretty good. Listen to a Zep recording and cycle through the other choices. I’d say the crashes are the most immediate candidates for switching out.

Bonham also played a Ludwig Vistalite which is also one of the kits in Metal Foundry. I think that was more of a live kit, but may have been on some recordings. I don’t know for sure.

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