Ezdrummer help?

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Hi all.

I have just got used to using Ezdrummer and have a question that someone out there might be able to help me with.

When I am programming a new beat into the piano roll to trigger each drum at a certain point, I want to know if I can put an effect on each bit of the kit as I trig them in the piano roll.

E.g. How can I put only reverb on the snare I am using, or a chorus effect on a cowbell(even though that's a bit mad).

How can I use an effects slot on just one part of the pattern I have in the piano roll?

How can I apply EQ solely to a kick drum seeing as all the drums are just one instrument? Do you get what I mean?

The mixer onboard Ezdrummer does not seem to have that much scope for different effects. It's just pan, volume, mute, solo.

All help would be appreciated, cheers, Ste. :0)
 
What DAW are you using? That is where you would put the effects, not in the midi data. In EZD, open the mixer , click on the Track Number for one of the channels and select Multichannel. Then in your DAW's mixer section, you'll see the track for the snare. You can add or send reverb there.

Another tip I like to do is set all the faders in the ezd mixer to zero and save it as a User Preset. I then use the DAW's faders and pan to control the track.
 
Chili said:
What DAW are you using? That is where you would put the effects, not in the midi data. In EZD, open the mixer , click on the Track Number for one of the channels and select Multichannel. Then in your DAW's mixer section, you'll see the track for the snare. You can add or send reverb there.

Another tip I like to do is set all the faders in the ezd mixer to zero and save it as a User Preset. I then use the DAW's faders and pan to control the track.
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This is exactly what I would do. If you want to save cpu power, I would bounce all of the tracks dry and then add the effects to the bounced tracks. This way you wont have to even have EZDrummer active when you do your mixing. This is just what I do in my workflow anyway.
 
Cheers for getting back guys.

Thanks to you I found that you can send the 8 pieces of the kit out using multichannel and then assaign each of them to an individual track in the mixer in FL9. It's not the whole kit(cymbols etc) but it does the job with the most important pieces(Kick, snare, toms).

Can I ask you's, is there a way that you can use multichannel but choose what is in each of the mixer tracks. I mean say, if I wanted to swap the kick coming through mixer1 track in ez and have a cymbol in that track instead?

I've messed around but can't find a way how to do this.

Thanks again for getting back to me, take it easy, Ste.
 
The cymbals will be in the OverHead tracks. Are you not getting the overhead tracks in FL? I didn't even know FL could run ezd. Anymore these days, I just use the Kick, Snare and Overhead tracks and mute everything else. Kind of like the recorderman style.
 
I'm more familiar with Superior Drummer, but I think EZDrummer has a room mic as well. The room mic will sound more real than adding your own reverb.
 
Yeah EZ works as a FL VST no problem. I think that I can get a good sound using the room mic and overheads. Have just gotten use to the program now.

I wonder which you two guys like the best, EZ or Superior?

I'm thinking of getting Sup as I have read that you can use EZdrummers drum kits in it.

If you look just at purchase costs then you'd have to assume superior is way better. Do you think that that is the case?
 
ste20man said:
Yeah EZ works as a FL VST no problem. I think that I can get a good sound using the room mic and overheads. Have just gotten use to the program now.

I wonder which you two guys like the best, EZ or Superior?

I'm thinking of getting Sup as I have read that you can use EZdrummers drum kits in it.

If you look just at purchase costs then you'd have to assume superior is way better. Do you think that that is the case?
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I don't have any experience with Superior drummer.

I usually leave the room mic turned down as it puts the drums in a different space than the rest of the instruments. Makes it feel like they are not in the same room.
 
I kinda like the room mic. But thst just me.

However. It is one of the more trickier things to mix as i find it eats up some other freq's. It's gotta be just right. I usually add it in last so i can compliment it in the rest of the mix.

And the overheads have a bleed option...


if you want to use the room mic... turn the bleed option off of the overheads, casue the really really sounds like shit together. Use one or the other. Not both.

If you like a dryer mix with a bit of room in it i would suggest using the overheads bleed.

IF you like a nice roomy wet sound, turn the Overhead bleed off and just use the room.
 
Atom Bomb said:
if you want to use the room mic... turn the bleed option off of the overheads, casue the really really sounds like shit together. Use one or the other. Not both...
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Good tip, I'll try that next time.
 
ste20man said:
I wonder which you two guys like the best, EZ or Superior?
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I definitely like Superior Drummer 2.0 better because of all the different parameters you can adjust. I really only use it for the cymbals and toms, IMO the SD2.0 kicks, and snares sound like shit. I like the sound of the Steven Slate drums much better.
 
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