EZ Drummer - Have you used it?

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Has anyone here had any experience with EZ Drummer?
Good?
Bad?
Useful?
Waste of money?
Let me know if you've used it and what experiences you might have had, please.
Thanks...
 
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i used it for a while and it does sounds ok. but if you want something that sounds good.. go with superior drummer. theres more control over tone and better samples in general.
 
EZDrummer gets a lot of mention at this site. Most everyone has had good results from it. I use ezdrummer in all my songs. The samples are great, the canned grooves are okay. I spend a lot of time editing to get a more real feel and I think it's worth it.
 
all iv ever used is ez drummer with Drumkit from hell, works great for metal. check out some of my Abdicator stuff if u want to hear a (amatuerish!) sample.
 
So, along with the canned grooves, you can also go in and create your own beats with this program, correct?

That's the main concern. I need to be able to create specific drum parts.
 
HomeNoiseRecord said:
all iv ever used is ez drummer with Drumkit from hell, works great for metal. check out some of my Abdicator stuff if u want to hear a (amatuerish!) sample.
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While not necessarily my cup of tea, I must admit that the drums don't sound half bad. Much better than the drum machines I have, for sure.

HomeNoiseRecord, Is that you playing guitar? I like. :) Again, it's not my thing...but I it's pretty good. So far, I like "Oceanic" the best.
 
loveofjazz said:
So, along with the canned grooves, you can also go in and create your own beats with this program, correct?

That's the main concern. I need to be able to create specific drum parts.
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Yeah, just use the editor in your DAW. Toontrack has drum maps for different DAW's (Cubase, sonar, etc) as free downloads. Helps a little.

For me, the canned grooves are a good starting point, then I edit. Love editing drum parts. :)
 
I used it on a the last couple of songs I wrote. I used mostly their canned beats with minimal tweaking (using Cakewalk). I like the variety of beats they provide. As I have only the demo "LITE" EZ version. I can only get about half the drums to play in the plug-in. I use the midi from EZ and play it through another player - in Cakewalk (TTS-1).

I recently got a fellow HR member - poeticintensity - to play real drums on my songs. Much better results but EZ is second best....:)
 
Ez Drummer is the best sounding drum machine/program I've heard. They sound real enough that you're average music listener can't tell it's not a real drummer.

It's cool for a need drums now situation and willing the make exceptions, but you may out grow it like me and want real drums.
 
I think that you should get Superior Drummer. It's called that for a reason!
 
loveofjazz said:
While not necessarily my cup of tea, I must admit that the drums don't sound half bad. Much better than the drum machines I have, for sure.

HomeNoiseRecord, Is that you playing guitar? I like. :) Again, it's not my thing...but I it's pretty good. So far, I like "Oceanic" the best.
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Thanks mate, yeah everything under the Abdicator name is me, a little side project. Just bought a new interface so newer stuff should sound a lot better.

As for EZ Drummer, you can drag and drop their sampels with cubase sx3, and just double click on them, provided they are assigned to a drum roll and edit the beats as you see fit, or ust make your own.
 
I have superior drummer and it cool, but still isn't a real person. I don't have the mind of a drummer so my programing ends up being super simple. Spending 5 hours editing each note to try and get it more human doesn't seem fun to me. More annoying than anything else.
 
FoulPhil said:
but still isn't a real person. I don't have the mind of a drummer so my programing ends up being super simple.
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This is usually the problem. Most of these drum programs sound pretty good (though I can almost always tell those fake cymbals a mile away).

But the bigger problem is that non-drummers don't know how a drummer plays. I'm not talking about the obvious stuff like where the kik, snare and hi-hats fall during a beat. I'm talking about varying velocities on the hi-hat (or ride) during a beat. Programming accents into a roll, etc....Little subtle things that are not even easy to explain. Just like the subtleties of guitar playing that a synth can't re-produce no matter how close to a guitar it "sounds".

So, my post isn't about being anti-drum machine...It's about the fact that these programs always sound 100% better when they're programmed by someone that gets how a drummer plays.
 
I think I'll be looking into this more. Wish I had the funds for Superior Drummer, but it's just not in the cards right now.

Still, I might hook up with something else. Just depends on funding right now.
Thanks for the info, guys.
 
RAMI said:
So, my post isn't about being anti-drum machine...It's about the fact that these programs always sound 100% better when they're programmed by someone that gets how a drummer plays.
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Yeah, that's what I try to do, get inside a drummer's head. I spend a lot of time editing my drum tracks and I still think I fall short sometimes. Sometimes I'll leave a hi-hat hit in knowing that hand is already busy with a cymbal crash or something like that.

EZdrummer, and I guess other drum prgrams, have a humanize function, but I think it is too predictable. Always the same variation on the same part of the measure. I downloaded a boatload of drum tracks from someone here at HR (thanks Rami) and will study them to see if I can learn anything to incorporate into my drum programming. :cool:
 
I have a DVD I bought that shows you how to play drums. I can play a little now, but will hopefully learn more advanced stuff. Instead of wasting money on software I put a real nice drum set on lay-a-way at a local music store. I'll be beating on cardboard boxed till I get it paid off. :laughings:
 
im still suffering the learning curve with ezdrummer but so far im happy with it. No complaints.
 
FoulPhil said:
I have a DVD I bought that shows you how to play drums. I can play a little now, but will hopefully learn more advanced stuff. Instead of wasting money on software I put a real nice drum set on lay-a-way at a local music store. I'll be beating on cardboard boxed till I get it paid off. :laughings:
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Niiice. No real drums in my future. I do most of my work at night when the family is sleeping. However, eventually I would like to get some e-drums and run them through ezd.
 
EZDrummer has good sounds, the loops that come with it are kinda so-so.

You really need to buy the expansion packs to get what EZDrummer has to offer.

Oh, and you need the editor app too, EZPlayer Pro. It's another $50 or it comes included with Superior.

Superior looks really nice too but damn it's spendy by the time you buy the engine and the sample expansion packs.

But I guess all of them together are still cheaper than a drummer's pot habit.:D
 
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