EZDrummer in Reaper

Chihlidog

Chihlidog

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I would be in good shape on this if I could get my EZdrummer and my controller figured out. As it stands, I do not think I will be participating.
 
Suhnton said:
What's up with your EZDrummer program? A few people here use it. Maybe we can help.
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I have EZdrummer sort of figured out, but I cant get it to work with a controller. I am totally new to PC recording. I could do an original OK, but I cannot figure out how to program it precisely enough to do a decent cover of anything.
 
Chihlidog said:
I have EZdrummer sort of figured out, but I cant get it to work with a controller. I am totally new to PC recording. I could do an original OK, but I cannot figure out how to program it precisely enough to do a decent cover of anything.
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When you say controller, I presume you mean midi keyboard controller.
So, it sounds like you can load the standard beat midi patterns from EZDrummer into a song, but you want to mess around with them and individualize them. The drums are loaded around the C2 - C3 area on the keyboard, so you may have to adjust the octave range on your keyboard controller to activate the drum samples. The other thing to check is you may have to arm the drum track for recording and set the input to "Midi Input: All Channels" (or something similar depending on your DAW). What DAW are you using as your recording software?

P.S: Don't mean to stick my nose into your business, but hopefully it will help get your problem sorted.
 
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Suhnton said:
When you say controller, I presume you mean midi keyboard controller.
So, it sounds like you can load the standard beat midi patterns from EZDrummer into a song, but you want to mess around with them and individualize them. The drums are loaded around the C2 - C3 area on the keyboard, so you may have to adjust the octave range on your keyboard controller to activate the drum samples. The other thing to check is you may have to arm the drum track for recording and set the input to "Midi Input: All Channels" (or something similar depending on your DAW). What DAW are you using as your recording software?

P.S: Don't mean to stick my nose into your business, but hopefully it will help get your problem sorted.
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No, I would be glad for any help man. I am extremely frustrated that I have all this equipment and havent been able to make any use of it yet. I really, really want the drumkit together. I have an akai MPD24, it isnt a keyboard, it is pretty much designed for drums.

I'm using Reaper, though I have Sonar LE too, just have never installed it.
 
Chihlidog said:
No, I would be glad for any help man. I am extremely frustrated that I have all this equipment and havent been able to make any use of it yet. I really, really want the drumkit together. I have an akai MPD24, it isnt a keyboard, it is pretty much designed for drums.

I'm using Reaper, though I have Sonar LE too, just have never installed it.
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I'm using Reaper too. How far can you get with EZDrummer?
 
Chihlidog said:
I can use it, meaning I can load it up, pick a groove, adjust the tempo, add fills, etc. But I dont know how to program it and I cant set it up with the midi controller. The stock grooves arent enough to do covers with. It's great for jamming with and MUCH faster than what I was using, but to do a cover I need it to do specific things, and I dont know how to tell it to do that.
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When you press on of the pads on the controller, you should see a small dark grey block flash in the track meter on the EZDrummer track. This means midi messages are being TX'd and RX'd OK by by the the controller and Reaper. If you can see that, and there's no activation of the EZDrummer samples i.e you don't hear any hits, you may have to program each pad on your controller to correspond to the specific drum units in EZDrummer. For example, EZDrummer has the following note assignments:

Kick = 36
Right Snare = 38
Closed HH = 42
Floor Tom = 43
Rack Tom = 45

I think they may be different depending on which kit you have. EZDrummer seems to be a bit weird in that respect, the assignments are all over the place.

Also, check here for the midi note names for the kits in EZDrummer.
http://stash.reaper.fm/tag/MIDI-Drum-Maps

Download the map for the kit you have and save it somewhere. To load it, double click on on of you grooves loaded in the transport window to open the midi editor. Click File/Load note names from file, then specify the downloaded file. All the names for each drum unit should now be displayed in the keyboard panel of the midi editor.
Speaking of the midi editor, that's how I edit all my drum parts. I just load a simple 4/4 groove, then mess with it manually by painting in extra parts in the editor. A bit of a Pain In The Anouse, but I don't have a keyboard controller yet.

Hope this helps.
 
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Chihlidog said:
I can use it, meaning I can load it up, pick a groove, adjust the tempo, add fills, etc. But I dont know how to program it and I cant set it up with the midi controller. The stock grooves arent enough to do covers with. It's great for jamming with and MUCH faster than what I was using, but to do a cover I need it to do specific things, and I dont know how to tell it to do that.
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Chihlidog, I started a new thread for this here:

[ame="http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4626"]http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4626[/ame]

Mark, is it possible to move the previous posts re: Chihlidog's EZDrummer problem to there as well, just to keep this SummerRecordfest thread clean?
 
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