2025-04-22

EZdrummer 3.1.0 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.1.0 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q2 2025).

CHANGES

General

• Minimum OS requirements have been raised to macOS 10.13 and Windows 10.
• Added accessibility (screen reader) support.
• Plug-in parameters are now named like the mixer knobs that they control.
• Not installed core libraries are now shown under a header “Core Libraries – Not Installed” in the menu.
• Mouse wheel step sizes have been changed for most knobs and sliders (though this does not affect “smooth mouse wheels,” such as trackpads). If Shift is pressed, the step/change will be smaller.
• “50%” has been added to the available GUI scales.
• 125% scale should look sharper now (on “low-resolution” screens).
• Pitch and volume for each instrument are now saved in the kit presets. Old kit presets also reset volume and pitch.
• Main tab graphics/colors have been slightly changed.
• The loading bar now flashes when sounds finish loading instead of when they start loading.
• After importing an EZdrummer 2 project, saving will now suggest using the name of the project that was imported (instead of Untitled).

VST 3

• In REAPER 7.34 (after clearing its VST cache) and Cubase/Nuendo 12.0.52 and later (and any other hosts supporting “IPluginCompatibility” added in VST SDK 3.7.5), EZdrummer 3 can now be loaded in DAW projects created on “the other OS” (macOS or Windows). For other hosts, an option has been added in Settings > Advanced, allowing you to select if the VST 3 should use its Mac ID or its Windows ID.

Song Track

• “Paste on Selected Groove” now repeats the copied MIDI to fill the entire length of the selected groove.
• The tempo button is now disabled when Follow Host is active.
• Unmapped notes are now drawn above mapped ones instead of not at all.
• The audio export dialog now allows for adding a name prefix. For example “My Song” will generate files like “My Song_Out_1+2.wav.”

Edit Play Style

• If you change articulation for a snare from Center to Rimshot, any ghost notes are now kept playing Center.

Grooves Tab

• Clicking in empty space below folders will now deselect everything in that column.
• Added a “Select/Deselect” menu option for folders.
• “Show MIDI Files from Subfolders” option is now global instead of being saved per project.
• Changes within user folders in the OS will now be detected so that the “unsynced files” icon pops up on affected folders.
• New design in the result view for when an empty User MIDI folder is selected.
• Unmapped notes are now drawn above mapped ones and with a lower opacity instead of not at all.
• You can now use Cmd/Ctrl-C shortcut to copy a groove from the result list.
• Filter selection logic has been updated. Mainly, clicking (without keyboard modifiers) on an already selected filter will now deselect it if it is the only selected filter in the column, but if there are multiple, the clicked filter will become the only selected filter.

Tap2Find

• The Tap2Find step sequencer now has different mouse cursors and hover effects.
• When MIDI from the Song Track is used with Tap2Find, the time signature from the Song Track is used now instead of from the original MIDI file.

Grid Editor

• On Mac, the default keyboard shortcuts for vertical zoom in/out are now Alt-Plus/Minus instead of Shift-Plus/Minus.
• When notes become selected, if all selected notes with Humanize active use the same Velocity Style (i.e., there is no mix of styles), that style becomes the default (to be used the next time Humanize is turned on for any notes).
• The Auto function of Swing Resolution has been improved to analyze the overall resolution of the selection instead of always using the smallest resolution.
• The state of expanded rows is now saved in projects and will also be retained when switching presets within the same library.

Mixer

• On/off macro controls are now buttons instead of knobs (for example in the Signature EZXs).

Bandmate

• In certain EZXs with melodic instruments, notes for those instruments are excluded from the Bandmate results.

E-Drums

• Added presets: Alesis Strata Core, Alesis Strata Prime, ddrum DDTi, DWe, EFNOTE 3, EFNOTE 5, EFNOTE 7, Roland SPD-SX PRO, Roland TD-02, Roland TD-07, Roland TM-2, Roland V71, Simmons Titan 70.

Settings

• If a new sound path is selected in Settings, it is immediately applied – a restart is no longer needed.

Standalone

• Bluetooth MIDI devices are now supported by the Mac standalone.

Installation

• On Mac, deleting a plug-in or the standalone from disk and running the software installer will no longer deselect it by default on the Customize page. To stop installing a certain plug-in format, you will now need to run the uninstaller first, then deselect the format in the installer.

BUG FIXES

General

• In Studio One on Mac with the “graphics hardware acceleration” option enabled, the GUI should no longer be slow and choppy.
• In Logic Pro on Apple silicon Macs, MIDI Out should no longer cause crashes.
• In Apple hosts on Apple silicon Macs, the mouse cursor could in some cases become stuck being the wrong kind of cursor, for example in the Grid Editor after duplicating notes using Alt-drag.
• Added workarounds for ACID Pro so that the VST 3 would produce sound there and be able to receive MIDI from the host.
• “Save a Copy” did not work correctly – any subsequent normal “Save” would write to the copy instead of to the original file (or instead of showing a save dialog if the project had not been normally saved yet).
• Changing presets no longer briefly adds an asterisk after the old preset name.
• In Pro Tools, setting a new default project in EZdrummer 3 and adding a new instance (in the same session) would not use the new default project.
• In Pro Tools, trying to switch to a larger GUI scale could in some cases cause a crash.
• On Mac, opening the plug-in window in certain hosts could cause a crash if the window size had previously been set very, very large.
• Having the metronome routed to an output channel where no other audio got routed could cause a crash.
• Loading a project containing user audio samples could in some cases cause a crash.
• When a project is opened and a user audio file that was loaded on an instrument is missing, if you skip it and load something else on the instrument, now the dialog about the missing file won’t be shown if you save the project and load it again.
• Several bug fixes for Undo History.
• The host was in many cases not notified when something changed inside the plug-in.
• Using Program Change or Bank Select to change libraries or presets could cause a crash, if done when the plug-in window was closed.
• Controls controlled by MIDI Learn while the plug-in window was closed did not always show the correct values when the window was opened again.
• Loading presets and projects in a certain order in Modern Metal EZX would give unexpectedly high output volumes.
• Importing MIDI files containing MIDI events using note 0 no longer causes crashes.
• Loading a project while playing in the Grooves browser and also having a Tap2Find groove loaded could cause a crash.
• Quitting a DAW with certain EZD3 dialogs open would cause a crash.
• On Mac in scales other than 100%, text did not have exactly the intended width (kerning), in some cases causing for example button texts to not fit.

Audio Engine

• For some unusual block sizes at 44.1 kHz sample rate, MIDI events were not rendered at the correct time.
• Certain MIDI sequences caused the choking of sounds through Channel Aftertouch not to work.
• Soloing a cymbal caused the choke notes not to play.
• Using a host that can send negative sample positions (like Cubase) no longer causes cracks and pops when playback is started at such negative times.

Song Track

• If a repeat resize (with Alt modifier on Mac, Ctrl on Windows) had been done previously, dragging from the Grooves browser to the song track could cause a crash.
• A repeat resize on a deselected block would repeat selected block(s) (if such existed) instead of the one clicked on.
• Dragging from right to left with the Pencil Tool to add a MIDI block would set the end position of the new block one “snap length” too far to the right.
• Resizing the left side of a block could in some rare cases mute some of the first hits in that block.
• The standalone would crash if audio was exported with more than one pair of stereo channels selected as output in Audio/MIDI Setup.
• While recording in a loop in a DAW, SD3 could incorrectly show a Similar MIDI alert when looping back.
• During recording, all pre-existing CC changes on the track were ignored. Now this is only done for controllers that have got new values.
• Certain microphones not directly related to specific instruments would not get included in audio exports.
• “Select Containing Folder in Grooves” should now work properly even after opening a project on a different computer or after performing “Restore MIDI Database” in Settings. It will also work on grooves dragged from the Song Creator drop zone or from the Bandmate output track.
• Moving the playhead using keyboard shortcuts now properly takes time signature changes into account.
• In the time signature editor, the right-click menu option for removing selected time signatures is now enabled/disabled in the correct scenarios.
• Duplicating more than one loop at a time on the song track could in some cases cause a crash.

Edit Play Style

• Increasing Amount and pressing play could silence the groove until a newly added note was passed.
• Amount didn’t always use the correct time signature when adding notes.
• Moving Power Hand from a ride to a crash cymbal could make the notes play on articulation “Bow” although the Power Hand sign said “Crash.”
• In some cases, it did not work to press the power button on a percussion pad to turn it off.
• Trying to open the Opening Hit menu for a MIDI block with no mapped notes would cause a crash.

Drums Tab

• Previewing certain instruments (e.g. cymbals in Claustrophobic EZX or instruments with different number of articulations) in the instrument selection list could cause a crash.
• The articulation preview sometimes didn’t make any sound for a user sample that was not the currently loaded one.
• Using Preset Stack on “Original Snare Only” wouldn’t work if you changed the snare/kit via the “Drum Kits” menu.
• Replacing an instrument using alternating hit patterns with a different one could make unexpected articulations be used.
• In some libraries, replacing instruments with a certain kind of instruments from other libraries didn’t properly route some mics from the imported drum to mixer channels in the library.
• Using the instrument right-click menu to change an instrument back to the default from one in a different library did not update available articulations for the instrument.
• When an instrument from a different library is loaded, the header in the instrument right-click menu now shows the correct position name for that instrument.
• Clicking on an instrument with no sound loaded would show the “instrument not loaded” icon both when the mouse was pressed and when it was released – now only when pressed.

Grooves Tab

• Using arrow keys to navigate could in some cases cause a crash.
• Using File > New will now properly update the grooves browser result list.
• Loading a project will now properly update the active/inactive states of folders based on active filters.
• Excluding a folder will no longer disable all filters.
• Clicking the favorite button while connecting to Webshop MIDI could cause a crash.
• Performing “Restore MIDI Database” in the Advanced tab in Settings now properly turns off Webshop MIDI.
• Changing the GUI scale no longer removes the “Selected folder is empty” dialog if it is shown. Also, the dialog will be removed as soon as a new search is performed.
• The list of suggested words when writing in the search field is no longer reversed with every letter typed.
• Previewing MIDI files will now properly set CC values that were activated before the current playhead time.

Tap2Find

• Click-dragging to remove notes in Tap2Find now properly removes all notes dragged over.
• Changing libraries while playing the Tap2Find groove would not continue playback properly.
• Dragging unsupported files will no longer highlight the Tap2Find drop zone as a valid drop target.

Grid Editor

• Removing notes could in certain cases cause a crash.
• Turning on Humanize would make the program freeze in some cases.
• Loading a project with the grid editor set to triplet snap did not result in the correct grid line resolution.
• Playing in the DAW with Follow Host on so that the song track length was extended did not graphically update and expand the Grid Editor.
• Moving the left edge of a MIDI block to the right and then adding a note in the grid in that area so that the block was expanded back to the left would make old notes in that part reappear.
• Adjacent MIDI blocks are no longer merged when a note is added and the new note does not actually overlap both blocks.
• Using Humanize will now properly extend the MIDI block to the left if notes are moved outside the block.
• Manually changing note velocity or timing would not graphically turn off Humanize even though it was internally turned off.
• After copying notes using Cmd/Ctrl-drag, the wrong set of notes was selected.
• Changing note selection with keyboard shortcut would discard any timing modifications added to previous selection and would instead apply them to the newly selected note.
• The Exclude feature in the Select menu should now work properly.
• Fixed a potential crash when Future Hit notes were added.
• Pasting Future Hit notes in the grid would always paste them as immediate hits.
• Pasting Future Hit notes would sometimes paste them offset from the playhead, making the new notes play out of time.
• When percussion notes from a non-expanded percussion row were moved or copy-dragged to another non-expanded percussion row, all articulations were set to the first articulation of the new instrument.
• Moving notes between Future Hit articulations and non-Future Hit articulations/instruments could alter the velocities.
• It was not always possible to move a percussion note with velocity 127 from articulation Shake to Accent.
• It was not possible to add a Future Hit note at the position where the previous note would make its sound.
• Clicking on a choke row in the grid editor did not choke the cymbal.
• Sometimes, notes would not be graphically updated when sliders in the velocity editor were used.
• Loading a project now properly updates the CC editor to the saved state.
• In CC editors, tooltips would stop working after a mouse press on a node with a tooltip (until the mouse was moved out from the view).
• Removing a MIDI block from the song track did not graphically remove contained AT blocks from the Channel AT editor.
• Inserting a new AT block that would increase the length of the MIDI block could incorrectly make a preceding AT block longer.

Mixer

• The percussion pad mics were not routed properly when Multichannel was selected from the Mixer menu.
• The Solo states for buses were not saved in projects.
• Macro controls that are assigned to master bus effects are now disabled in the GUI, with an info sign covering the controls, when multi-out mode is used. The effects were previously only disabled in the engine.
• The macro control area now has a scrollbar when needed.

Bandmate

• The waveform was not drawn correctly in Bandmate if zoomed in enough.
• Input audio/MIDI no longer jumps back and forth when being resized towards the edge of the track with Snap off.
• Fixed a case where the time bar could become displaced.
• Clicking on filters or saving the project while a search was being done could cause a crash.
• Dropping a MIDI file with only unmapped notes on the Bandmate output track would cause a crash.
• Having the MIDI libraries installed on a case-sensitive file system would cause Bandmate to never give any results from Grooves, only “generated” ones.

Settings

• “Reset to Default Path” was never enabled in the User Presets path menu.
• Conflicts in keyboard shortcuts were not shown on all involved shortcuts.

E-Drums

• Note Ons were not registered in the e-drums velocity editor if they came just after a CC event.

Standalone

• In the standalone, switching between certain GUI scales with the window at minimum width or height could make thin lines appear in various buttons and other GUI elements.
• Improved fullscreen support on Mac, for example, it now works better to change the scale while in fullscreen mode.
• Trying to open a project file from Finder/Explorer while a native file/folder selection dialog was open in the standalone could cause a crash.

2023-02-09

EZdrummer 3.0.6 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.0.6 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q1 2023).

CHANGES

General

• The Mac AAX now has native Apple silicon support.
• High-resolution graphics have been added to more GUI elements.
• Trial mode support has been added.

E-Drums

• A GEWA preset has been added.
• Positional sensing has been added to the snare in the DTX-PROX preset.

BUG FIXES

General

• Loading certain projects could cause a crash – projects where an instrument had been replaced with one with more articulations and an e-drum mapping had been added for some of those articulations.
• In Twisted Kit EZX, the body graphics did not look right.
• The hi-hat pedal in In the Pocket EZX no longer graphically overlaps a snare stand.

Song Track

• In the time signature editor, it is now possible to move several time signatures at a time.
• The numerator in the time signature editor is now limited to 127 instead of 32.

Drums Tab

• Turning and releasing the pitch knob did not properly repitch stacked sounds.

Grid Editor

• It was not possible to drag-insert choke notes (except by starting on a different row).
• When drag-inserting and moving to a choke row, the choke notes were not displayed with the choke symbol (until the mouse button was released).
• Moving a regular note to a choke row or moving a choke note would make a horizontal line appear on the original note.
• In the Channel Aftertouch editor, for each block that was inserted, the other blocks got smaller.

Bandmate

• Fixed a potential crash when mouse wheel was used in Bandmate.

E-Drums

• Alesis Surge and Nitro preset fixes (affecting note numbers for hats, ride and crash).

MIDI Mapping Layout Window

• Right-clicking an instrument (so the selection changes without playing the instrument) no longer triggers Highlight Played Instrument in the layout window.
• Selecting “Show MIDI Mapping Layout” from an instrument context menu would under certain conditions increase the layout window width.

2022-11-01

EZdrummer 3.0.5 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.0.5 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q4 2022).

CHANGES

General

• Added high-resolution graphics for several menu icons and buttons, etc.
• Improved readability of the main tab labels and improved color cohesiveness with tab content below selected tab.

Grid Editor

• A new articulation row called “Choke (Stop Playing)” has been added for each instrument that responds to aftertouch. The poly-aftertouch editors have been removed.
• Moving the playhead in the song track now scrolls the Grid Editor to show the playhead, unless the Auto-Scroll option is off.

E-Drums

• The hi-hat splash feature has been improved in order to remove unwanted hi-hat splashes. The hi-hat now has a time window, within which the pedal needs to have been raised after a “Pedal Closed” hit in order to generate a splash.

Settings

• On Windows, there is now a setting to invert the horizontal scroll direction when shift+wheel is used.

BUG FIXES

General

• Some (few) EZX presets would for some instruments cause a high-pitched noise at low buffer sizes.
• The current library preset was not marked with an asterisk if a mixer knob was turned.
• Printing the MIDI layout with the plug-in scale being other than 100% would cause some texts to be incorrectly positioned and sometimes truncated.
• Quitting certain hosts when the VST 3 plug-in had been used could cause a crash.
• The setting “Keep on Preset Change: Output Routing” was never saved in preferences.
• Loading a project at the same time as the host was changing the plug-in parameters could potentially cause a crash.
• Changing libraries or loading a preset did not make the host get properly notified that parameter values (mixer knob values) had changed.

Drums Tab

• Trying to load an audio file on a cymbal or a tom would crash the program.
• Importing an audio file to an instrument with “Keep on Preset Change: Output Routing” active would make the instrument silent.
• It was not possible to switch to the Drums tab while dragging an audio file (by hovering on the tab).

Grooves Tab

• Fixed some cases where the “Clear All” button wasn’t hidden when no filters were active.
• Setting the velocity slider to something other than 0 and selecting a different groove would make the filter always say “+127 Velocity.”

Mixer Tab

• Setting a channel output to None, saving and loading the project would cause the channel to completely disappear.

Song Track

• Recording onto a song block with a user-defined Song Part (a custom color) could cause a crash.
• While recording, notes did not graphically appear on the red block.
• While recording, moving the playhead before the beginning of the red block would graphically start a new block instead of extending the existing one.
• The time signature editor did not support keyboard shortcuts for copy/paste.
• After dragging a groove from User MIDI, “Remove Groove Part” did not work on the block.
• The Auto-Scroll setting was never saved in preferences.
• The Count-In setting was never saved, it is now saved in the project (like Metronome on/off).

Edit Play Style

• Pasting notes on the tambourine or shaker pad should no longer cause a crash.

Audio Export

• On Windows, the disk space check could not correctly handle more than 4 GB free, so you could “randomly” get a false not-enough-disk-space error.
• Channels routed to “None” are no longer shown in the stem selection list.
• Deselecting stems to be exported did not work correctly.

E-Drums

• Changing libraries with an e-drum preset active could in some cases result in incorrect mapping for some notes/instruments.
• Floor toms in Hard Rock EZX and Rock Solid EZX were not mapped correctly with some e-drum presets, for example TD-50.

Standalone

• On Windows, the splash screen no longer has a drop shadow because it didn’t look good with the rounded corners.

2022-08-23

EZdrummer 3.0.4 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.0.4 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q3 2022).

CHANGES

General

• A print function has been added to the MIDI Mapping Layout window.

BUG FIXES

General

• Loading a Drums and Mixer Preset from the EZdrummer 3 core libraries or Big Stage EZX did not properly set the values of the mixer effect knobs.
• Loading cymbals or toms from the other side of the stereo field did not automatically flip their stereo position like EZdrummer 2 did. Importing EZdrummer 2 projects or loading user presets could also have this issue.
• On Windows, loading an auto-save would incorrectly treat it as a normal project and it would be added to the Open Recent menu.

Song Track

• In Steinberg hosts when host playback was started and the plug-in window had not yet been opened, MIDI on the song track would not always be played at the beginning, depending on the playhead position and where it had last been stopped. Performing an Audio Mixdown would also result in silence from the song track before the position was reached where playback had last been stopped.
• In Steinberg hosts, starting playback of the song track inside the plug-in (with the host still paused) not would not work properly if the SD3 playhead had been moved to an earlier position than the host playhead (with the Follow Host setting on).
• Exporting the track as audio having a sample rate other than 44100 Hz could in some cases lead to a crash.
• On Windows, it did not work to export as audio to a folder whose path contained non-ASCII characters. If instead the filenames (the chosen prefix) contained such characters, the export would work but some extra empty files would be created.
• The time signature editor would in some case contain the wrong Options menu – the one for the tempo editor.

E-Drums/MIDI In

• When Add or Learn Note/CC was used, the new line in the mapping list was sometimes not immediately visible.
• Editing the hi-hat CC control did not enable/disable the hi-hat calibration slider when needed.

2022-06-28

EZdrummer 3.0.3 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.0.3 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q2 2022).

CHANGES

General

• Added a MIDI Mapping Layout window which can be opened through the Help menu or from instrument right-click menus.
• It is now possible to save your own Drum Kit presets.
• Mixer-only presets in some older EZXs can now be loaded – a “Mixers” submenu has been added.
• A splash screen is shown at startup of the standalone (to earlier show that something is happening). In a DAW, the same image is shown in the plug-in window the first time it is opened in a session (only for as long as the normal interface is being prepared to be shown, so this does not add any time but the window appears sooner).
• The error dialog for when an audio file could not be read has been redesigned.

Song Track

• “Add Groove” has been renamed to “Add Standard Groove.”
• A menu has been added to the right of the displayed time signature and tempo. The time signature and tempo editors can be opened from this menu.
• In the tempo editor, it is now possible to multi-select nodes with cmd-click on Mac and ctrl-click on Windows, as well as with shift-click.
• Duplicating a song track now uses a letter within parentheses instead of a number to distinguish the copy.
• The progress dialog for exporting audio has been redesigned.
• Audio export error messages have been improved.
• When exporting stems, the filenames now contain the mixer channel names instead of channel numbers.

Edit Play Style

• The Options menu now contains the same Quantize submenu as the instrument right-click menus.

Drums Tab

• Specific articulations can now be previewed in the instrument selection view.
• The Use Preset Stack menu has been modified to be easier to understand.

Grooves Tab

• Web Shop MIDI libraries are now separated by headers, so you can easily see if a library is from an EZX, an SDX or a MIDI pack.

Grid Editor

• It is now possible to mute or solo a range of instruments: press the mouse on a mute or solo button and drag over the other instruments.

Mixer Tab

• The scrollbars are slightly thicker now.

Bandmate

• When a generated Bandmate groove is selected (as opposed to a groove taken from the Grooves tab), “Generated Groove” is written in parentheses on the drum groove block.
• Moving audio or switching between All Notes and Tonal Notes now shows a progress indicator next to “Amount” while the MIDI is being generated.
• When the Velocity and Swing knobs are working, an animation is shown.

E-Drums/MIDI In

• The “E-Drums” view has been renamed to “E-Drums/MIDI In.”
• Added support for Bank Select and Program Change.
• Added a setting for MIDI In Channel.
• Added an option to the instrument menu to automatically select the played instrument.
• Added an option to show notes and keys at the same time in the mapping view.
• Changing the hi-hat pedal range now shows a “tooltip” with the value.
• Editing the velocity curve now applies to all selected instruments.
• The velocity editor is now disabled when its power button is off.

Settings

• “Restore MIDI Database” will now preserve user-added MIDI libraries and favorites (in libraries that are still available).

Standalone

• The current project name (and on Mac the project file icon) is now shown in the title bar (unless no project has been saved or loaded).
• Launching the standalone on Windows on a display with a scale other than 100% is now faster because the window uses the correct size and scale at once.

BUG FIXES

General

• On Windows, the VST 3 plug-in can now correctly be scaled by hosts in HiDPI mode and dragging, for example to the song track, should now work without any offsets.
• On Windows, “Reset to Default Size and Scale” in the View menu did not always work as intended.
• On Windows, if the host window was minimized and unminimized, the external windows (detached tabs) could in some cases pop up again, be blank and refuse to be closed.
• Many menu options and shortcuts that should have been disabled whenever recording was active were not disabled.
• Locating the sounds (the folder with EZXs and MIDI) at startup did not make the Grooves tab (and anything else needing the MIDI database) work.
• If two notes with the same key overlap, the note off from the first note is no longer played, so that not both notes are stopped.

Song Track

• Stopping when count-in is active no longer rewinds the track.
• Adding a new song track did not create it with the tempo and time signature of the current track.

Edit Play Style

• Adding hits with Amount on the Power Hand instrument and then moving the Power Hand sign to a different instrument would make the new Power Hand instrument play only the hits that were added with Amount, not the original hits.
• Some of the quantize menu options did not quantize with correct note lengths/positions.
• Various fixes for editing percussion instruments with Future Hit capabilities.
• Clicking the on/off button on the tambourine or shaker pad in 6/8 did not work and made the Amount knob stop working too.
• The Opening Hit and Power Hand signs were badly positioned for certain smaller instruments.

Song Creator

• Right-clicking a block on the song track and selecting “Use with Song Creator” would always search with the whole original block even if it had been resized or edited in other ways.
• Modified velocities in the source groove were not honored by the Song Creator.
• Saving an arrangement containing a custom song part could cause a crash.

Drums Tab

• Audio was not possible to drag from Cubase and Studio One to the audio drop zone in the instrument selection view.
• The library menu in the instrument selection view was incorrectly positioned at scales other than 100%.
• Clicking at certain places in the instrument selection view would incorrectly close it.

Grooves Tab

• In Groove Parts, previewing Sidestick did not play the correct snare articulation.

Grid Editor

• Certain grid editor changes were not preserved when a project was saved and loaded if changes had been made in Edit Play Style earlier.
• Pasted notes were humanized although the Humanize setting was off.
• Switching to the Pencil tool when notes were selected did not update the active Humanize style.
• Various fixes and improvements for editing percussion instruments with Future Hit capabilities.
• Changing an instrument (in the Drums tab) to one with a different number of articulations did not properly update the grid editor rows.
• Zooming with mouse wheel did not work below the last instrument in the left part of the grid editor.
• Clicking on a velocity bar would make tooltips in the velocity editor no longer work until the mouse was moved out from the velocity editor.

Mixer Tab

• Clicking overlapping toms shown in a mixer channel could trigger the wrong one.
• Selecting multiple channels and MIDI-learning some control in them (for example the volume slider) would only highlight the control in one of the channels.

Bandmate

• Several fixes and improvements to the internal algorithms used by the Bandmate.
• The Bandmate view did not always get focus when MIDI or audio was dropped there.
• A scrollbar would sometimes inadvertently appear below the source groove.
• It was not possible to set a tempo with decimals.
• Names and images of Amount knobs were not updated correctly in all cases when using certain EZXs.
• The menus opened by menu buttons in Matching Grooves would appear too far down if the list had been scrolled down.

E-Drums/MIDI In

• Fixed hi-hat positional sensing in Roland TD-50X.
• Fixes to cymbal choking in Pearl Mimic Pro, Alesis Strike and Alesis Strike Pro presets.
• When there was no hi-hat pedal control in the selected e-drum preset, the calibration slider could become poorly positioned. It is now disabled with such presets.
• The hi-hat transitions menu in e-drums is now disabled if the loaded EZX does not contain any hi-hat that is affected by that setting.
• It was not possible to undo changes in the velocity editor.
• In the velocity editor, it was possible to add nodes to the right of the rightmost node, resulting in invalid velocity curves.

Standalone

• On Windows, rescaling sometimes made the entire window grey/empty for a moment.
• On Windows, the “Adjust Scale” dialog (shown when the main window was dragged to a display with a different scale) had several graphical issues that have been fixed.

2022-05-24

EZdrummer 3.0.2 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.0.2 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q2 2022).

BUG FIXES

General

• Adding or removing the plug-in in Cakewalk should no longer cause a crash.

Grooves Tab

• The Bandmate button in Replace MIDI is now correctly disabled when the Bandmate is not active (has no input).

Bandmate

• It was possible to play in the Bandmate after the source had been deleted.
• The Swing knob value was not updated when a new groove was selected.

2022-05-18

EZdrummer 3.0.1 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.0.1 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q2 2022).

CHANGES

General

• In the File menu, “Import EZdrummer 2 Project…” has been moved up to just below “Open Recent.”
• Added high-resolution graphics for more buttons, etc.

Grooves Tab

• In Tap2Find, “Quantize” has been renamed to “Resolution” and a “Swing/Triplets” header has been added in the menu.

Bandmate

• The text has changed in the main Bandmate drop zone to emphasize that audio files with distortion, for example, may not produce optimal results.
• “Swing/Triplet” was changed to “Swing/Triplets” in the Filters menu.

BUG FIXES

General

• Loading the plug-in in Cakewalk could cause a crash. Loading the plug-in in Cakewalk is now less likely to cause a crash.
• Pop/Rock EZX was not shown with the new graphics with larger background.
• The ride in Americana EZX did not look right at 70% scale.
• When an EZX is loaded and is missing drum graphics, an alert is now shown to inform that the EZX needs to be updated or reinstalled.
• In REAPER on Windows, it should now be possible to drag MIDI from DAW tracks (by holding ctrl+alt) directly to the plug-in.
• In Studio One, it was not always possible to drag audio (of supported formats) from DAW tracks to the plug-in. (PreSonus Audioloop/Musicloop is still not supported.)
• Trying to load an EZX (or a project that uses that EZX) which has no drum graphics (and thus needs to be updated or reinstalled) should no longer cause a crash.

Song Track

• Recording MIDI while having the grid editor open caused a crash.

Drums Tab

• When previewing an instrument, the first hit would sometimes get the wrong pitch.
• Previewing hi-hats from another library would sometimes cause a crash.

Grooves Tab

• The e-drum preset indicator was never shown on third-party MIDI folders (those that have been installed in the same location as Toontrack MIDI libraries).

Grid Editor

• The Humanize on/off state was not saved in projects.
• The Humanize on/off state was reset when a different EZX was loaded.
• When Humanize is off, the previous bar is no longer used as template for velocities when notes are inserted.

Bandmate

• Trying to load broken/empty/unsupported audio files should no longer cause crashes.
• Custom song parts are now handled better in the Bandmate.
• Using the Bandmate with Latin Percussion EZX loaded could cause crashes.
• Dropping a new groove on the Drums track while the browser was searching could cause crashes.
• Changing the playhead position with keyboard shortcuts only changed it graphically.
• Dragging the Bandmate output groove out from EZD3 (to the desktop, e.g.) and then trying to load another groove in the browser could cause the text “Loading groove…” to become stuck.

E-Drum Settings

• CC values were not shown unless explicitly specified in the presets. Now all mapped CC values are shown.
• CC values could be written as keys when they had been edited.
• Opening the menu for an articulation under Mapping and then clicking on a different drum or switching between Key and Note Number could cause a crash.

Standalone

• When the standalone is started, if the main window with its previous position and dimensions doesn’t fit on the screen, it is now moved and resized as necessary.
• On Windows on a display with a scale larger than 100%, parts of the window contents could be cut off and menus would open at wrong positions.
• On Windows, it was possible to launch more than one instance of the standalone.

Installer

• On Windows, the standalone was installed in an unexpected directory on some localized systems in some circumstances.
• On Windows, the installer will now detect that the core library is not yet installed and display a reminder.