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[Scott Eshleman]

and at what cost would you think an individual kit piece should be priced?
would a crash cymbal or a kick drum be priced higher than a rack tom?

just wonderin’…

[Scott Eshleman]

The “Show Web Shop MIDI” option is available on the [SEARCH] tab of the EZDrummer2 interface as shown in the image posted above.
You don’t need an actual open web browser window but you will of course need an active internet connection
so that EZD2 can access the Toontrack Webshop for the previews of the MIDI you have not purchased.

[Scott Eshleman]

Please don’t forget that EZDrummer2 allows you to preview any and all MIDI that is available through the Toontrack MIDI Web Shop
by clicking the “Show Web Shop MIDI” button atop the filter window on the SEARCH tab.

[Scott Eshleman]

Instrumentally, I play guitar.
As a tracking engineer, I love the quality and quantity of sounds that Toontrack has captured in each of the EZX’s.
But I also love the variety of MIDI grooves and find them inspiring as well.
You don’t have to be Sherlock to deduce from your signature that you’re a keyboardist.

Except for the Songwriter’s MIDI Packs, the style for the entirety of the MIDI included with each EZX expansion
is pretty well stated in the name of the EZX expansion.
The loops & patterns are broken out in most as they are for the grooves provided with the EZD2 Modern/Vintage libraries
similarly described as Verse, Chorus, pre-Chorus, Fills, Intros, etc.

[Scott Eshleman]

I have bought plenty of both…
and would agree that the Expansion Sale prices are hard to resist
and harder still to justify purchasing only a MIDI pack where an EZX expansion is also available.

[Scott Eshleman]

@monsterjazzlicks said:
I need to work out whether it is the EZX’s I would be most suited to or the MIDI packs?

Well, Paul…
In terms of the products that Toontrack offers currently (and again, to clarify, I do not speak for Toontrack),
MIDI pack add-ons are NOT sound samples libraries. They are NOT drum kit confgurations.
They are NOT mixer presets. http://www.toontrack.com/midi-packs/
MIDI pack add-ons are some of the best drum grooves & performances played by some of the best players in the world.

The EZX expansions are collections of sound sample libraries recorded on the best drum kits in the best studios around the world.
They represent the style, essence and ambiance of that studio hosting an appropriate selection of drum kit pieces
sampled at a sometimes remarkable series of velocities with that studio’s characteristic microphones and preamps/consoles.
The EZX expansions also include a stylistic collection of MIDI grooves and fills.

[Scott Eshleman]

I can’t speak specifically to what Toontrack means on their website or ads, but I’ve bought a lot of their products…
In my experience, Webshop refers to Toontrack‘s online store
and Retail would refer other 3rd-party owned stores; online, brick-and-mortar, etc. from whom Toontrack is only a supplier,
like GuitarCenter or Amazon.

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