virtual drums impossible mixing?

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So guys i purshased ez drummer lite but when i record the virtual set there is just one track recording the whole set. No way to mix each part of the set separatedly (snare, kick, cymbals) . Is there any way to mix it? In fact, it would be just like recording the whole set with just one mic.
 
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So guys i purshased ez drummer lite but when i record the virtual set there is just one track recording the whole set. No way to mix each part of the set separatedly (snare, kick, cymbals) . Is there any way to mix it? In fact, it would be just like recording the whole set with just one mic.
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Have u set the tracks on different channel....? its done in the ez drummers mixer

-einar-
 
What Seeking said plus be sure your DAW can fully support EZDrummer. There is a table on the ToonTrack website listing all compatible DAW's.
 
There are two ways you can do this - I'm going off memory here so this may not be 100% perfect, but...

1.) EzDrummer has a built-in mixer. Click on that, and then in the mixer panel you can adjust the level and pan of each part of the drums, as well as (and it's been a while since I've used EZ, I bought the Superior crossgrade a year or two ago, but I THINK you can do this in EZ as well) insert FX into the individual drum tracks from the ones included in EzDrummer. The downside is this means you can't use 3rd party plugins - the upside is you can pretty quickly create a "stock" starting point that you just open in each project you work on, if you like working that way.
2.) You should also have some sort of multi-channel output option - right click on the master send area of the mixer, and you should have the option to automatically pull up a routing setup where each part of the kit goes to its own channel. Then, just set up channels in your DAW to receive those sends.

Personally, I use a hybrid approach, where for the album I'm working on I have a "standard" kit where I've already done a bunch of level and EQ/Compression tweaks, but then I feed them out to their own tracks and make adjustments for each song there.
 
The OP started 2 threads on this. EZD Lite does not have multiple-out capability and his DAW does not support it.
Check out Sweetwater's deals on full EZD right now - $79.99 and expansion packs are $39.99.
 
EZDrummer is a really good VSTi, and a deal like that is hard to pass up if you're doing serious work. I upgraded within a couple months of receiving lite.
 
Do whatever you need to do to split the MIDI out to a separate track per drum. Render each of these through EZDLite, one at a time, with the rest muted. You'll now have a separate audio track for each drum, and at least a bit more control over the final mix.

EDIT -
...except that the Toontrack website seems to indicate that this version does have the in-built mixer, which is probably just easier. What I mentioned above will work in any situation where you can't get the individual sounds on separate tracks, though.
 
The built-in mixer in EZD is very limited - it's only controls are volume and bleed for the snare. Of course, you CAN mute the terrible room mic in the mixer ...
 
Yes but you can still unload all but one of the kitpieces to perform the procedure ashcat_it described.
 
Oh! That's even easier than splitting the MIDI tracks. IF the Lite version allows you to select the sound for each drum AND "none" is one of those options. Choose "none" for all but one drum, render, now the next one...

Haven't looked that far into this version though. I think it's only got the one kit, don't know if it has that option.
 
Yes, you can unload any of the kitpieces you wish in order to conserve RAM, although there is only one item to load on each kitpiece and all the toms and cymbals are excluded. It's easy to see why I upgraded. ;)
 
GUYS

He has lite, not the full version. There is no mixer in the lite version apparently.

He really should just up to the full version of ez drummer. :)
 
Oh yeah, but thankfully that still won't stop him from unloading kitpieces. :)
 
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