More good news: There should be an EZD version of Country (and Metal) by the end of this week. Check the 'Preview Files' folder in the GM mapped/Single Track folder. Good news: all of our libraries ship with Session Drummer files! It's been that way from day one. If you haven't already started to think about it, you might consider stringing your loops out in a Session drummer format. And I do incorporate their suggestions – the style packs (like Groove Monkee Country) have 8 bar loops and song segments (intro, bridge, endings) because customers asked for them. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the subject - I always appreciate hearing from users. When my wife comes in the studio and comments how real the drums sound then there's a noticable difference. This product might end my audio drum loop buying days. It's a shame the BFD boys didn't get a BFD lite or a DR009 out sooner because I would have probably gone that direction. I've got a hunch this product is going to take off. My first impression of EZdrummer is very good. This will help me to identify drum beats without having to auditioning each one sequentially. Then I can print the staff view and see the notation of the drum tracks. Basically what I'm going to do is import the session drum midi files into SONAR and open them in the Staff view. To me, file organization and file naming conventions are a big selling point to me. I've only bought one collection from you so far (Country drums) but you have a nice collection from what I've seen so far. I just installed EZ drummer tonight and I've already started organizing and renaming Smart loops midi files to use in EZ drummer. If you can get a handle on those variations and incorporate them in a musical way you'll be ahead of the wave. The major thing that is desireable for me is the variation in high hat tones and cymbal tones. If you want to have the same drum maps included in your projects, you can load these into the template.It is possible.I'm trying to figure out what it is that users want as far as styles, features, etc. When you want to try your drum pattern on another instrument, you simply switch to the corresponding drum map, and your snare drum sound remains a snare drum sound. The map determines which MIDI note number is sent out for each drum sound and which sound is played on the receiving MIDI device. When you play back a MIDI track for which you have selected a drum map, the MIDI notes are filtered through the drum map before they are sent to the MIDI instrument.
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A drum map is a list of drum sounds with a number of settings for each sound. To solve this problem and to simplify several aspects of MIDI drum kits, such as using drum sounds from different instruments in the same drum kit, Nuendo features drum maps. When you switch devices, it is very likely that your snare drum becomes a ride cymbal or your hi-hat becomes a tom, etc., because the drum sounds are distributed differently in the instruments. This can be troublesome if you have made a drum pattern using one MIDI device and then want to try it on another. One key plays a bass drum sound, another a snare, and so on.ĭifferent MIDI instruments often use different key assignments. For example, the different sounds are assigned to different MIDI note numbers. A drum kit in a MIDI instrument is most often a set of different drum sounds with each sound placed on a separate key.