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[Scott Eshleman]

@half_tone said:

@gseshleman said:

I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a sale on MIDI for any of the Toontrack products a they’re fairly inexpensive to start.
I HAVE special pricing on bundles of MIDI packs or MIDI & sound library bundles.

Your questions regarding choice of library or MIDI style packs,
I’m afraid I’d have to direct you to the samples on the Toontrack’s products pages or to YouTube.
The “Classic Electrics” library and the “Retro” library might be good fits depending upon your songs.

Thank you for your reply. There are no toontrack sample tracks for Country or Pop/Rock midi packs! There is for Keys and Strings.

I do wonder what you mean by your having special prices on bundles. Can you point me in that direction?

sorry. typo. meant to say,
“I HAVE seen special pricing on bundles of MIDI packs or MIDI & sound library bundles.”
in the Toontrack webshop and at retailers (online and brick&mortar).

[Scott Eshleman]

Technically, EZKeys sound library expansions (like the Mellotoon or Classic Electrics) themselves do not include any MIDI.
When you purchase a sound library with the EZKeys base software, the ‘basic’ core EZKeys MIDI is included.
MIDI style expansions like the ‘Keys & Strings’ & ‘RnB’ extend the core EZKeys MIDI.

[Scott Eshleman]

@stprodigy said:

Hello,

I purchased EZKeys Mellotoon. The description for the product says “• Each EZkeys comes loaded with an individual sound library.” Does the MIDI library that comes with Mellotoon already contain all the content in the ‘Keys & Strings EZkeys MIDI’ expansion?

Thanks

No. ‘Keys & Strings EZkeys MIDI’ is an expansion pack of the core EZKeys MIDI.
It’s the same type of expansion as the Funk, the Blues, Latin or Ballad MIDI expansion packs.
Maybe it’s confusing that they released it at the same time as the Mellotoon sound library.

[Scott Eshleman]

I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a sale on MIDI for any of the Toontrack products a they’re fairly inexpensive to start.
I HAVE special pricing on bundles of MIDI packs or MIDI & sound library bundles.

Your questions regarding choice of library or MIDI style packs,
I’m afraid I’d have to direct you to the samples on the Toontrack’s products pages or to YouTube.
The “Classic Electrics” library and the “Retro” library might be good fits depending upon your songs.

[Scott Eshleman]

To your 1st question/scenario, in my experience, when presented with a MIDI song containing multiple instrumental parts,
EZKeys will prompt you with a dialog asking which parts you’d like to import – one or more parts can be imported simultaneously (shown below).
It will attempt to analyze the harmonic structure of the MIDI presented to it but no individual notes.
It also currently has no lead sheet, piano roll or print capability in & of itself.

To your 2nd issue, please fully extract the ZIP file to your hard drive before attempting the install of the DEMO.

[Scott Eshleman]

Your Toontrack account should still reflect the EZMix2 preset packs that you selected and downloaded previously.

[Scott Eshleman]

@bigalz said:
Just out of curiosity what db do you have your volume set at on the volume wheel?

Sorry to report similar results on the Upright as well.
I had the Volume Wheel cranked up to 12db for both tests.

Have you possibly tried changing to a different preset for either of the expansions and then back again?
How ’bout resetting the Dynamics and Velocity control (under Dynamics)?

[Scott Eshleman]

I’m wondering if you’re expecting to find EZDrummer installed amongst the included Logic library of instruments. It’s not.
I expect that you’ll find EZDrummer (and most likely every other 3rd-party virtual instrument) among your choices of AU plug-ins (shown below).

[Scott Eshleman]

I cranked up the volume on my monitors and played the examples that you listed on the EZ Grand expansion.
I didn’t hear anything like you’re describing (and I’m pretty sure that I have retained a fair amount of my high-frequency response).
and certainly nothing different from other associated patterns.
I’d be interested to hear other user responses as well.

[Scott Eshleman]

@RossH123 said:
When I use Tap to Find, the action of clicking the mouse does not trigger the sample immediately causing the mapped note to not be on the click. It takes a milli second to react putting the note a little behind the beat. The note is then auto quantized out of time. So one of my most favorite and desired features in EZD doesn’t work. If I load it in Pro Tools, the feature works as expected so it appears to be in Reaper.

You’re going to want to use some type of a MIDI controller for the best performance of most virtual instruments,
including EZDrummer and its songwriting functions. Using a mouse, clicking on the drum graphic and the software
converting those actions to a MIDI event will inherently cause latency.

[Scott Eshleman]

@Drew said:
For having almost $1000 in your product, I should have speed dial access!

@micwalt said:
What I’d like is a phone number.
My issues aren’t covered in the FAQs, and I’d prefer to talk to a human being.

I’ll bet that if you can’t find your issue covered in the FAQs, you’ll find it by using the [Search] function of the forum.
There seems to be so many posts repeating so few of the same issues.
Sadly, some of them are covered in the Operation Manual as well.

Plus, forget the phone number (unnecessary) … I’d like a cap & T-shirt.

[Scott Eshleman]

Though it is Toontrack’s policy not to comment on product roadmaps or development,
there are those on the internet (even those within this forum!!) who speculate that we may soon see, (wait for it!!)….

EZ_Singer!!!

Seriously, I like what you’ve posted.
As you have a song title, do you have lyrics too?

[Scott Eshleman]

I suppose that you’re aware that it’s not supported (see the attached chart),
and you not only have to consider your architecture & OS, but your DAW as well.
but why not download the demo and check it out for yourself?

http://www.toontrack.com/product/ezdrummer-2/

[Scott Eshleman]

Too late for this purchase, I know,
but the Toontrack webshop is not the only place to buy Toontrack products.

[Scott Eshleman]

Sounds like ‘Stevet26’ is selecting the EZX Electronic MIDI grooves on the Browser tab,
possibly thinking that this will also load the Electronic library to play them.
Or perhaps he thinks that this is how libraries are selected rather then by using the Library/Preset dropdown
(shown here in Fig. 1)

or by using the ‘Kit’ selection dropdown on a Kit Piece selection window
(shown in Fig. 2)

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