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[John]

Kirtland Peterson wrote:

Are Toontrack products (SD3, EZKeys, EZBass) not Silicon adapted? Do macOS updates make dragging grooves to Logic midi tracks problematic? Is Toontrack working on this?

Hi, all current Toontrack products (as in not discontinued) are indeed silicon Native and have been for some time, which means you do not need to run your host in Rosetta mode.
I have not seen this myself and seen no other reports of this, so it seems to happen locally on your computer.

Can you open the SD3 standalone and drag MIDI to the Desktop/Finder?

You can always try Reset & Rescan in the Logic Plug-In Manager and/or clearing your Audio Units cache.

Since you can open the plug-ins in Logic and the crash happens when you drag MIDI from plug-in to Logic, I would guess it has something to do with damaged permissions.
Perhaps First Aid on your drive?

Can you salvage any crash reports/logs?

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

in a broad sense, you add an EQ in one of the Effects slots in the SD3 Mixer and then you add EQ nodes by double-clicking in the graph. Set a Shape for your node (notch, bell, shelving, etc), set a frequency, Q (width), Slope, etc and add or subtract Gain for that node.


If you are looking for more specific guidance for EQing certain drums, it totally depends on instrument and context.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi David,

if the MIDI is on the SD3 Song Track, you can just open the Grid Editor and click the ‘Snare’ label on the Snare notation lane (make sure no specific part is selected). This selects all Snare notes.

If your MIDI is on a track in your DAW, it depends on your DAW but e.g. in Pro Tools, I can click a note on my keyboard layout in the Note view and this selects all notes on that key/note.

BR,
John

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[John]

Yes, it kind of works this way and the same in Logic as well; Analyze Chords first, then Apply Region Chords to Chord track. The more complex the Chords and Progression, the more is up to manual editing, it seems.
I don’t think there’s an industry standard for DAW internal Chord/Meter Tracks, so making something work directly from EZkeys 2 would need special catering for every DAW (if even possible).

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

no violin-specific presets but there are a few ‘Strings’ presets in the Core package and a few in the Peter Henderson Pack and Songwriter’s Tools Pack.

BR,
John

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[John]

LeanderL wrote:

Thank you! For mastering the entire song (and I have an album with e.g. 6 songs), should I put them all in the same DAW, project, pick the loudest part of these 6 songs, then apply the mastering plugin OR should I have one song only, let EZ Mix listen to it, export it…open the next song, let EZ Mix listen to it, export it etc.?

I am not sure how I can have an entire album with the exact same or very similar boost, sound etc.

I guess both would work equally well but myself, I would prefer having the songs in separate Projects and then start with the same AI assisted Preset. If you have mixed the songs with similar tone and energy, they should end up sounding very similar that way but of course, your ears will judge if there are any fine tunings that need to be made.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

https://www.toontrack.com/faq/how-do-i-move-my-sound-libraries-expansions-to-an-external-drive/

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

there are some slap grooves and articulations already in the EZbass library for you to check out; e.g. Funk Fusion EBX, The Eighties EBX, Modern Funk MIDI & Fusion MIDI.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,
from the product page:

Two distinct Studio A environments were captured: the spacious main room and the tighter, damped iso booth.

BR,
John

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