Cubase & EZ Drummer problems

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huh???
I'm using Cubase Essential 4 and EZ Drummer.

I have created an instrument track for EZ Drummer. When I drag the MIDI groove from EZ Drummer to my instrument track a new track is created and the MIDI file goes to that newly created track. I then have to drag the MIDI notes up to my EZ Drummer track.

What the heck is going on? And how do I make the MIDI grooves stay on the EZ Drummer track? I've went through all of the Preferences, but can't find anything.

Help...........


Thanks
 
EZD creates a new midi track only if you drag the groove onto your project, NOT onto an existing midi track. If you drag a groove onto an existing midi track, it goes exactly where you drop it. ?? Are you saying if you drag a groove onto your midi track, it creates another new midi track anyway?
 
suprstar said:
EZD creates a new midi track only if you drag the groove onto your project, NOT onto an existing midi track. If you drag a groove onto an existing midi track, it goes exactly where you drop it. ?? Are you saying if you drag a groove onto your midi track, it creates another new midi track anyway?
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Yep. It creates a new midi track each time I drag a groove into the project. Here's what I do.

1. Create an Instrument Track.
2. Select EZD as my instrument.
3. Open the EZD plugin and drag a groove to the Instrument track that I just created.

Every time that I do this, it creates a new track. Actually it creates two tracks. One is a MIDI track and the other has some strange name. I'm at work now so I don't know exactly what it's called.

Once the groove is on the in the project I can drag it to my instrument track and it stays put.
 
Hi, you should create a MIDI track, not an Instrument Track, and select the output as EZ Drummer. That's all. And there you can drag and drop the Midi from the Groove.

Cheers.
 
There are some versions of Cubase that do exactly as you described. Somewhere on the Toontrack website there's a chart that shows which versions of Cubase work well and which don't.

I would have thought that 4 is new enough to have that fixed, but apparently not. I have SE3 and it creates a new track everytime. Once you dragged the file into Cubase, you just have to drag it to where you want, then copy and paste to duplicate.... or hold the Alt key and drag.


cheers,
 
zero00 said:
Hi, you should create a MIDI track, not an Instrument Track, and select the output as EZ Drummer. That's all. And there you can drag and drop the Midi from the Groove.

Cheers.
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I thought an instrument track was a midi track? What's the difference? :confused:
 
Chili said:
There are some versions of Cubase that do exactly as you described. Somewhere on the Toontrack website there's a chart that shows which versions of Cubase work well and which don't.

I would have thought that 4 is new enough to have that fixed, but apparently not. I have SE3 and it creates a new track everytime. Once you dragged the file into Cubase, you just have to drag it to where you want, then copy and paste to duplicate.... or hold the Alt key and drag.


cheers,
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Alt+drag....that's good to know. :D
 
Yeah. I'm liking that snap. :p

The song that I'm working on now is the first one that I've done that's synced with the project tempo. All of my other recordings have been live. It makes editing a LOT easier & faster.:D
 
dastrick said:
I thought an instrument track was a midi track? What's the difference? :confused:
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I don't know really, i found this explanation on the web:

"The latest version of Cubase, version 4, adds a new track called the “Instrument Track” which is a hybrid of both a MIDI and VST channel. While it supposedly sacrifices a few items of flexibility, it more than makes up for it with ease of use. Adding any type of track is as easy as right-clicking into the timeline’s track name column to the left. Choose from traditional MIDI tracks, new Instrument tracks, Audio tracks for analog recording or input data, even video tracks and many more. Once a track is added, loading up its MIDI instrumentation is fairly easy. Either do it at the time the track is created, or later using the track’s “Inspector” panel along the far left."

I think the "Instrument Track" is for load a midi track from a file, or something like that.

:drunk:
 
I read the manual and it just confuses me. :eek:

Next time I'm going to drag them to a midi track and see what happens. I was going to do it today, but ran out of time.
 
zero00 said:
I don't know really, i found this explanation on the web:



I think the "Instrument Track" is for load a midi track from a file, or something like that.

:drunk:
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And the manual said something about the instrument track could be panned & automated like an audio track. I guess a midi track can't.
 
I'm using Cubase 4 on a Mac. On mine, in the "Devices" pull down menu up top, if I select "Mixer 3" then a mixer will come up that contains all the MIDI tracks and there they can be automated and panned like audio tracks can.

I'm not sure if your version has that exactly, but I do know that the 1989 version of Cubase I started out on had the ability to automate and pan MIDI tracks so I imagine yours can do it too.
 
No matter what I do it creates a seperate midi track every time I drag a groove to the project. Frustration is setting in. :mad::mad:
 
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