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[Mark Styles]

Back in the 80s, six companies worked together to make the MIDI specs. MIDI has survived and prospered. Something like this needs to be done again with music software, DAW’s etc.  There are way too many musicians for this NOT to be done.  I can’t believe Apple put out Logic with this makeshift way to make a chord track.  My composing, producing, and songwriting friends use a handful of programs to do their work now. The current situation is just indicative of how far companies will go to force you to only use their family of programs and plug-ins.

I am fed up with it. It seems like I spend 1/3 of my time talking, emailing, and typing in those stupid little ‘chat’ boxes to get a simple process to work.

This is akin to an expensive car manufacturer. just to be special, decides to put a ‘brake button’ on the steering wheel, just so they are unique.  As each company wants to be more special, they make up their own different techniques.

• This post was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by Mark Styles.

[Mark Styles]

11/24/2025

I am not able to save the EZ Keys project.  I save it with 3 or 4 tracks.  It opens up empty, no chord track, no MIDI patterns, using Mac Studio, OS 15.7, EZ Keys 2, Logic Pro 11.

Auto saves work, but are named by the date and time.  APITA.

• This post was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by Mark Styles.

[Mark Styles]

You will notice a lot of questions are dated 2 years ago, NOT a good sign..  I own all EZ keys, drums, and bass, and Superior drums also. Toontracks products are excellent.  Having a fair amount of crashes using EZ keys/bass/drums with Logic Pro 11.  The lack of information is disheartening. It is a complex piece of programming.  I haven’t figured out  everything yet, so maybe the problem is my understanding of it.

I certainly don’t like the idea of locking non-owners out of forums.  That raises a LOT of read flags.  I bought another AI-type system for choosing chords, making parts.  I posted a message about how inadequate the explanation of how to do processes was, and I had to go through 3 companies to purchase, download, register, and find tutorials to learn it, cause the main company just has one guy showing you all the amazing things it does, without showing you how. The message was deleted in one day.

To their credit, they made purchasing, installing, and tutorials available.  Other people are making clearer and detailed instructions.  I have given up on it for now, because their progress in making it understandable is moving too slow.  I think they will catch up in time.

I’m feeling the same way about the EZ line.  It is brilliant, but too many issues.  I’ve spent hours working on the keys, bass, and drums before importing them into Logic. EZ bass will crash, forcing Logic to reload all plug-ins.  Most of my EZ line individual ‘project’ saves are not loadable. “Recent audio saves” are much more helpful, but I still lose changes I made.  Sometimes the bass plays the chords along with its bass part.  Still haven’t figured out what I am doing wrong, or if it is a bug.  The EZ Bass definitely needs to be brought up to the standard with which the EZ keys work.  Although the articulations you can put into EZ bass are tasty.

It could be a fantastic tool, and I read posts that claim that, but I have come across too many online companies now that have fake posts and mislead you to make a sale. I’ll keep plugging at it, in for a penny – in for a pound

[Mark Styles]

Do you have a ‘dry’ drum kit.   a week or two back, I thought I got an email about new Superior drum kits.  It was a ‘dry drumkit’..  The picture had towels on some of the drums.  The audio examples were great, very dry. I went back to your site but couldn’t find it.   Maybe I had a senior moment.

Do you have such a drum kit?   Thanks… Mark Styles

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