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[Whitten]

I agree, a new Americana, perhaps also African percussion library would be great.

[Whitten]

EZdrummer is a virtual drum instrument. A multi-sampled drum collection you can play over midi.
You get a midi library with each EZdrummer product (EZX’s).
So as far as ‘style’ goes, you get drum sounds and drum grooves.

[Whitten]

Sadly, the fact you felt the need to include two paragraphs explaining the product probably means it wouldn’t be a best seller.
Best sellers are products lots and lots of people know they need.
Still….. I thought the modern gospel product was not a bad idea (as it could cross into pop, funk and RnB).

[Whitten]

Are you talking about drum sounds or midi?
Drum sound-wise you have a decent choice…
EZX Americana springs to mind.
EZX The Classic, EZX Vintage Rock, EZX Jazz.

[Whitten]

Probably my most unhappy registration experience was with NI.

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ORIGINAL: VOLiTiAN

Godprobe, all I can say is a huge thank you, seriously and genuinely, that was incredibly helpful

Yeah, nice going.

[Whitten]

ORIGINAL: swgeorge

I’m just looking now in the C&V SDX and for the cymbals there are only 2 articulations. Crash and Mute.

When you say cymbals you mean crashes.
Because the rides all have bells and light ‘pings’. (Many of the crashes have light pings too, they are just labeled ‘crash’ in the articulations list).

Both rides and crashes are cymbals of course.

[Whitten]

You’re just never going to be able to match the timing between the songwriters original recording, your iPod playback, and your recording (drums).
It’s a sync nightmare, nothing to do with your obvious skill on the drums.

There is even evidence an mp3 dropped into a DAW like pro tools isn’t accurate timing-wise.
To successfully do remote* drumming, you need to all work to a click (strict tempo from a drum machine or loop), the songwriters need to tell you what tempo the song is in BPM.
Then you need to set up your drum recording (in something like Reaper or pro Tools) so that you play in time with the click.

*’Remote’, as in you aren’t in the same space as the other musicians recording the song.
Remote recording of drums is un-natural. Unless everyone recording their parts on the song record to a strict tempo guide, it’s going to sound exactly as it was constructed – four or five guys all playing on their own. Not a good result.

[Whitten]

For proper timing you should load the basic backing tracks from the songwriters into a DAW (you have Pro Tools?), create a click track, make sure the click and the backing track are in sync, then play your drums to that (recording the drums as midifiles, not audio).
This will yield the best results.

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ORIGINAL: orange

chris, are you saying that the sounds in the the Vintage Rock EZX are the different from those in the CV SDX ?

Yes, they were processed by Peter Henderson and Mattias at Toon headquarters in Umea.
Some multiple mics were mixed down to a single mixer channel, and obviously the full bleed options were reduced.

In short, if you stack up any drum from any EZX, to the same drum from it’s SDX, you add EQ (sometimes compression) processing to the EZX drum, and take away editable options (like mic choice and bleed) from the SDX version.
Two different products, two happy customer bases ….. just like the Focus and GT40.

[Whitten]

Yes, some drums are the same, but the ‘sounds’ (which is what music is based on) are different.
It’s like asking for an upgrade from a Ford Focus to a GT40.

[Whitten]

There are definitely light pings and bells in every cymbal I’ve sampled for Toontrack.
Maybe something isn’t right about your v-drum set up?

[Whitten]

No problems here.
I’ve looked at several pages on the main Toon site this morning.
iMac here. OS10.5.8

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