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[Scott Eshleman]

How do non-customers download the EZD2 demo in a different format than the requesting computer’s OS?
example: how to download MAC version of the demo from a PC?
The demo page seems to pre-determine which format is delivered automatically.

[Scott Eshleman]

@celloman said:

Thanks, is that for each one?
Scott

No. That is the total installed disk space used by that group of EZX’s.

Download files sizes are:

EZDrummer2: (3.1 GB)
updates: 95.32 MB & 43.53 MB

Latin Percussion EZX: (578 MB)
updates: 8.13 MB & 6.95 MB

Blues EZX: (474 MB)
updates: 17.73 MB & 6.13 MB

Rock! EZX: (1.2 GB)
updates: 18.5 MB & 6.09 MB

various MIDI expansion packs run 6-10MB each

[Scott Eshleman]

you’re lookin’ at about 6.56 GB for the EZX’s you’ve listed.

[Scott Eshleman]

EZDrummer2 installs as both a plugin and a standalone application.
You will not need Solo to use EZDrummer2 negating the ‘issues’ about saving tracks in Solo (whatever they may be?).
Creating, saving & recalling programmed sequences or songs is core to EZDrummer2’s fundamental new features.

Regarding use of your alphanumeric kybd as a controller, you don’t mention whether you’re using a PC or a MAC.
Almost any MIDI controller is preferable to using the mouse as a trigger.

[Scott Eshleman]

I can’t imagine that Steps 2-5 aren’t the same for both.

[Scott Eshleman]

In a word, “No”.

If you are going to install the demo on an iMac, you must download the MAC installer.

For detailed instructions:
https://www.toontrack.com/faq/installing-ezdrummer-2-mac/

[Scott Eshleman]

@DivideByZero said:

Eh, I get that both products have their place and intended consumer, but had I known an SDX would be coming in the future I would not have bought the EZX. In fact, I’m probably going to steer clear of EZXs from now on for this reason.

EDIT:

@baraka said:Should i wait for the colin richardson SDX NeXT november?

Yeah, this. A surprise SDX makes the EZX basically useless, or at best redundant, so I’m not going to risk buying any more EZXs that could potentially be expanded months later. I already had “Metal Foundry” so I didn’t buy “Metalheads EZX”, but those products make sense the way they were released; Metal Foundry came out, and later, a cut-down version for folks who didn’t want to go balls-deep on a whole SDX package. But Metal Machinery’s genesis is ass-backwards, and I regret buying Colin’s Made of Metal EZX too, now that I know how this works.

@baraka said:

Exactly my point, Toontrack are just milking people for Money, atleast now we know the drill, i won`t touch a EZX ever when eventually an SDX comes out with the same samples, just better.

Don`t give me the 2 product path bs, we all know that, what i asked why Toontrack did`nt let us know that they had an SDX of the same seesion coming?

Can you answer me that?

And, will the Made For Metal EZX come as a SDX too at some point?

Frankly, I find value in having both the EZX’s and the SDX’s.
Toontrack certainly doesn’t need me to defend them but I can’t tell if you guys are being serious or sarcastic….
The Metal Machine EZX was released 3 years ago (11/1/2011).
That kind of seems like quite a long time to wait if Toontrack just intended to release Metal Machinery as some sort of “money grab”.
It’s quite possible that at the time, and until recently, they never intended to release the SDX at all…by popular demand.

PS. There are very few, if any, companies that will comment on future releases, or the possibility of future releases.

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