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[mrdrums]

Yeah, which btw, is NOT in the demo.

The problem really arises in that if you have more than 2 chords in a measure, and they happen to be needed to accent on the off beat, it’s virtually useless. And you would need
thousands of playing styles, just to possibly find one that will fit your song. I dont know why everybody was so exciting about this, it’s extremely basic, but for 179 bucks,

It’s fine for Mary Had A little Lamb, and simple songs, but not when you got more than a few chords to play.

The INTANGIBLE nature of the product? Many companies will refund or allow an exchange even on software, such as Best Buy,
it;s not my fault that you requre it to be authorized and registered just to use it. you do that so the person is locked into the sale.

I could potential buy a thousand dollar worth of product or more down the road, but when you stick it to me like this, I wont

[mrdrums]

but what if you get a new pc, how will it work?

[mrdrums]

No Seriously, will they?

[mrdrums]

Well, will they plan on telling us before we upgrade?

[mrdrums]

Im talking about drum parts. Like, some drum parts contained in the ezdrummer packages contain fills, contain beats, rolls, but I have not seen cymbal swells or rolls in anything yet. Swells are this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZIgy91Inos Naturally, it will be a midi file, as every performance part is a midi file. This is one reason that real drums are prefarable to software.

[mrdrums]

no, seriously will it?

[mrdrums]

I think any thing you use designed for home recording people, is not going to compete with pro recordings. If it could nobody would
pay thousands of dollars on recordings if they could do it all with ez mix

What to shoot for is to make the best recording you can make with home gear

[mrdrums]

For me, it would come down to how much can be changed/edited in midi. in the demo i couldnt get into midi and see how much I could play with it.

Without editibility it’s just band in a box, and only one instrument, for a hefty price.

From what I understand, even the demos used to showcase ezkeys were played by a piano player, using his own creativity and chops, not showcasing what
the piano would play if left on it’s on

A real piano player doesnt need this, so Im not sure why the demo would showcase what a real piano player can do, I want to hear songs that were using exactly the
parts you hear in the demo, that way you could hear the benefit

[mrdrums]

Good question, I was thinking the same exact thing. I havent bought ez keys yet, but the demo version was very limiting.

I’m guessing that the midi will have some variations, but probably not going to work great, if you want a quality arrangement for your music.

Im not even impressed by the expansio packs for ez drummer, I think the original one is the best one as far as getting a good performance, there is enough variations, and the ability to alter midi can get almost everything you need.

Piano? I doubt it, I think it’s more for people who just want A piano in their mix, as opposed to THE piano part for their music.

I think Ez drummer orginal and ez mix are by far their best products, very good products.

[mrdrums]

ok I bought it, not happy with how the fills from regular ez drummer sound machine gun like in the rock expansion pack,
also how what was a crash cymbal in regualr is a ride or a tom in the expansion.

Love how the kits sound, but I sure as hell dont want to put the hours upon hours in to convenrting these drums into a useable form for the expansion pack

[mrdrums]

Yes, but if I was logged in, as I see about ten people logged in, and I knew an answer, I would type an answer

Some threads havent been responded to in months. yet there are always people logged in

You dont even need to be logged in to read, so Im not sure what they are doing.

Perhaps a home recording forum would be better for me

[mrdrums]

I heard those, good recordings, but the demos should show how the sequences fit into a song.

It seems like drums are the only thing that can be altered for changes in the canned beats in midi.

If I had a melody i wanted the ezkeys to play I couldnt do it unless I played it mysekf right? Could the notes be cut and pasted
into the editor so that it plays the notes like u might move a snare drum played from the software, to a tom or using
2 meausres of one beat and using two measures of the other? Cause we are dealing with melody, it;s different

[mrdrums]

Yes im seeing now where I can take say a drum roll from the fills, and put it in the ride cymbals slot and
it will play somewhat of a roll.

But Id prefer to have ones that are professionally played for that purpose, and id like to avoid trying to do a swell on my keyboard, if you can find the midi packs with the swells in it id appreciate it thanks

I also dont like the way the fills are kind of all or nothing as far as sensitivity and feel, a few fills have the dynamics bult in but not many, thats one way to give away you are using software is when the fills are different volumes and when a big fill kind of blasts across the mix. any solutions to that?

[mrdrums]

Checked yout site, didnt hear any

[mrdrums]

That is what I have been doing, I also edit beats in midi editor, But it’s alot of extra work, its called EZ drummer remember. I simply go with the simple fills provided, but you find that you run out pretty quickly.

There is also the issue of velocity. The busier the fill the louder it seems to get, I mean your coasting along with a nice
steady beat, then all of a sudden a 4 measure fill comes in and sounds louder than the rest of the mix. And lower the toms doesnt always do it cause the snare is in the fills too, which would drop the snare for regular playing.

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