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Going solo and EZDrummer

#21
socialleper said:
Do any of you use a midi controller of some kind to tap out the beats? Or just the mouse in the time graph?
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I use a usb midi controller. Fun as heck. Easy as pie. I’m on a Mac. Not sure if PC is plug and play and not sure which you’re using. Additionally, if you are on a Mac, you could map out your beats for free in GarageBand with its Drummer. It’s really quite intuitive. Then you could export the wav files to Cubase if you’re more comfortable there. (Ignore if you’ve already purchased EZD.)

Edit: Never mind. I see I’m late to your thread party.
 
#22
Bodeanly said:
I use a usb midi controller. Fun as heck. Easy as pie. I’m on a Mac. Not sure if PC is plug and play and not sure which you’re using. Additionally, if you are on a Mac, you could map out your beats for free in GarageBand with its Drummer. It’s really quite intuitive. Then you could export the wav files to Cubase if you’re more comfortable there. (Ignore if you’ve already purchased EZD.)

Edit: Never mind. I see I’m late to your thread party.
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I haven't settled on a DAW yet, or a usb controller. I did go ahead and buy EZD2 along with the jazz and prog expansions. I am still working out the kinks. Any and all input is welcome.
 
#23
BigBasserino said:
You mean like all the drums end up going rapid fire and sounding like a machine when you try to approximate them?

If that's the case I'd try to leave them alone until they end up in DAW (unless of course you're programing your own beats). I use FL and stretch mine out as needed to doubles or halves, depending what I'm after.

Generally a lot of "default" patterns at 120 are throwing in all the bells and whistles that can get lost in translation at any other speed because they're designed to showcase the features. My opinion is focus on scoring before using any discretion. It's much like waiting until you've written a paper before you decide wing dings might look funny.
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It took me little bit to figure out what was going on. I didn't realize you had to use the check box to sample the clip at the original play speed. I am very surprised that they don't just play at their native speed. Why wouldn't they?
However, this did illustrate something that I hope is just something I can fix in the interface. If you are building a song from midi clips in the EZD2 timeline, there seems to be only one tempo available for the whole track. I hope there is a way around this, because only having one tempo is completely worthless. No one write a whole song at one tempo. Is there a way to have the EZD2 interface build songs with multiple tempos?
 
#26
fatNfunky said:
I have played drums for 40+ years, I like what you did here, drums are 'splashy' and 'loose' and yet tight ( I LOVE those super fast double kicks) sounds like a human to me .. who can play ! a cross between Akira jimbo and Simon Philips..
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I can't take too much credit for the beat. It is a Soul loop from the standard EZD library that I accidently left on 120bpm rather than it's native tempo because I didn't know any better. The result was a very splashy, jazzy sort of groove. It was a happy accident.
 

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