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[Nathan]

I’d always like to see more percussion, ethnic instruments, different drums, etc…

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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.

[Nathan]

I was with you until the last sentence. What do you mean by “ambient” in this case?

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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.

[Nathan]

Because EZD kits are sessions -a kit recorded in a space with OH and room mics -you get whatever drums were recorded in that session.

EZD comes with two kits as standard, “Pop/Rock” and the “Cocktail Kit”. The former is a standard 5-piece (K, S, 3 toms) kit; extra kits (sessions) are available for different styles of music as EZX libraries, some of these have extra toms (and some are 4-piece).

A lot of what makes a drum recording sound great is the room it is recorded in -this is why room or “ambient” mics are recorded with these sessions -your reverberent sound. Libraries for different styles of music are recorded in studio rooms that suit the particular intended genre of music, and as such these EZX libraries are recorded in different studios, often with different mic and processing methods by drummers and producers/engineers specialising in those styles. Because of this, the EZD drums don’t really suit the grab the drums off a shelf and build a kit from scratch mentality (to do this would have needed all the drums and cymbals from all libraries recorded in all studios by all concerned -not feasable). You can mix and match drums from different sessions, but it’s not “EZ”, and TT chose to provide the tools to achieve this in EZD’s sibling package “Superior Drummer” which is aimed more at producers, professional engineers, etc (x-drums, tuning, envelope shaping, advanced mic bleed control, mic assignment…).

You can achieve kit expansion by running multiple instances of EZD in your DAW, and for an extra tom, this and some pitch manipulation is your best bet, but if you regularly want to push the boundaries you probably want to be considering SD for its functionality and flexibility anyway. Superior Drummer can use all of the EZX libraires in addition to its own mind-bogglingly oversampled SDX ones (30GB kits?) and you can add instruments from any and all libraries, tune, shape, gate, compress, mix and route them and their room sounds just how you like.

Hope that helps, happy to answer Qs on SD if you have any…

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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.

[Nathan]

Yes, if you use a library with it that has four toms included. The included kit is a basic 5-piece, but some kits are larger (DFH, Metal MC, Metal! & Metalheads all five toms, Claustrophobic & Rock Solid four toms).

You may have to set the MIDI outs on your TD-11 brain to match the EZD mapping. EZD’s bigger brother Superior Drummer allows configurable mapping within the plugin, but I modify the e-drum brain as a matter of choice with it.

Hope this helps…

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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.

[Nathan]

How far have you got?

What is working and what isn’t?

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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.

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