[ddots-l] Think I Can Get EZ Drummer 2 Going With HotSpotClicker
- From: "Phil Muir" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:12:46 -0000
Hi all!
Looks like I will be able to make EZ Drummer 2 somewhat accessible. First,
the bad news.
There will be some limitations and unfortunately at this time there is no
way around these. For example, when loading in a drum, you first left click
a pad in order to open the menu. However, this is a non standard type of
Windows menu E.G. although you have opened the menu in question, you would
then need to arrow down to a location on screen for the drum that you want
to load. The good news is that when you click on the drum that you want to
load, it sounds so you no that you have for example chosen a snare. Can get
around the issue of drums at specific locations on screen however, the next
one is unavoidable.
Because the pad locations change very slightly on screen between EZX's,
sometimes a right click will work where a left click wont. There is no way
around this because the colour use on the arrow over the pad is not uniform
from drum set to drum set so we can't do a colour search to work around that
particular issue and there is no classic view in EZ Drummer 2.
Now for the good news. Unlike the original EZ Drummer, you can use
different EZX's in EZ Drummer 2. Looks like we will also be able to use
drums from different EZX's together in EZ Drummer 2 as well. E.G. a snare
from 1 EZX, kick from another and cymbals from another etc.
Note: would still personally go for Superior Drummer 2 as it's a bit less
fiddly to use than EZ Drummer 2 due to Superior Drummer's use of standard
menus and the classic view which when used as it is with the HSC sets,
places all of the drum pads at set locations on screen.
Also, with the EZ Drummer 2 modern set, all of the toms are unfortunately
sent out on a single stereo pare so you can't EQ and compress them
separately in your DAW.
The EZ Drummer 2 Vintage set isn't much better either as you can not send
out toms separately either. This seems to be a limitation with EZ Drummer
2's drums specifically. Meaning that if you use EZ Drummer with other EZX's
such as Nashville or, the original EZ Drummer pop set that ships with EZ
Drummer then, you can indeed get individual Toms out on to separate outputs.
I think this is probably intentional as EZ Drummer 2 is more of a song
writing tool, E.G. you can choose different sounding mixes with affects
already applied and send those to separate outputs in your DAW which do
sound good and punchy or, you can choose a basic mix which, just sends out
the drums with nothing on them to separate outputs in your DAW. However,
you can only get drums out of EZ Drummer 2 into a stereo wav file. Note: we
don't have that feature in the sets yet and not sure whether we will be able
to get that going.
Where as Superior Drummer 2 is a full on drum suite of products where you
can send separate outputs with or, without affects to individual outputs in
your DAW or, go a lot further than that and split out mics to close, bleed
mono, bullet etc with or, without affects and get all of those out into
individual stereo and mono wave files. Then, load those wave files back into
your DAW and apply affects in your DAW to the wave files.
However, if you are on a lower budget then, EZ Drummer 2 could be another
option worth considering.
Regards, Phil Muir
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