[Peter Weldon]

Hi John … thanks much for the template. This will be very helpful.

Cheers!

-peter

[Peter Weldon]

Just wanted to report a follow-up to my earlier response. I downloaded a free drum machine called Hydrogen, and after a few minutes of getting acquainted, I was able to export a midi track that does what I believe we are both expecting … it retains the values of the individual drums, etc. In my experimentation, I opened the file in FL, and as expected, all the drums are on one channel, not multiple channels. If this free drum machine can do this, it seems that FL Studio should surely be able to do this. What can we be missing? I don’t know, but I guess I better get much more acquainted with Hydrogen.

I am now going to experiment with exporting from FL Studio, opening in Hydrogen and then see if I can export from Hydrogen to see what happens. I’ll report back with my findings.

Cheers!

-peter

[Peter Weldon]

Hello Bucketfeet … I am new to EZD2, and am also trying to do the same exact thing — export drums/patterns from FL studio to EZD2. I’m finding this necessary because of the lack of being able to edit individual hits in EZD2. Also, I don’t have a midi controller, and am finding that ‘tap to find’ using the mouse is not really going to cut-it. I am having the same experience when exporting to midi from FL Studio. Like you, I *thought* I figured it out, however, all the drums are exporting as one sound. What I noticed is that when you prepare the pattern or song for midi export, once they are set to midi, all the values are set to acoustic piano (in my case, anyway), and I can’t see a way to change that or to ensure the values for kick, snare, etc., stay the same. I also noticed when I imported the patterns as midi, that it is not one midi file, but a split file. I say this because if/when importing the exported midi track(s) into Reaper, it asks if I want to open in multiple tracks. One can then export from Reaper and combine them into one midi track, but it really doesn’t matter because of the aforementioned issues with the values.

It seems like this should work, because in my initial experimentation, I had downloaded some midi tracks from the web and opened them in FL Studio. I noticed the drums were all on one track/channel, and if/when I delete every other channel (bass, keys, etc.) and save the drums alone, I was/am able to export them into EZD2 and it works well and/or as expected. So I think we may be simply missing something about the export from FL, and it may possible be that the export needs to be one midi file that is not split, but it needs to retain the values. I see where you can merge the patterns in FL, but that does not do the trick. It would be really great if this could be possible. I am liking EZD2 fairly well so far … it sounds great, and is good for some things, but I think the combination of working with an external editor like FL Studio offers up some flexibility that EZD2 itself does not offer, sadly enough. To be honest, I am unsure if I would have purchased EZD2 had I known of the limitation of not being able to edit patterns. I did use the trial first, and that is when I imported a midi file I had downloaded, so I thought this was possible. Hopefully we can get this sorted out. Part of me is wondering if it’s just FL Studio and how it exports midi. I don’t have another editor to try, however.

Cheers!

-peter

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