It was basically a more affordable (and maybe even more reliable) replacement of your drummer.įirst off, the plugin itself requires around 4 GB of space on your drive. Made by Toontrack a while ago, it was designed to be a convincing replication of an actual drum set and a drum player, with no obstacles to your creative ideas. With this in mind, we’ve decided to look more into the EZdrummer 2, do a brief review of it, and see if it’s good enough of a plugin for your needs. Luckily for all the music producing enthusiasts and professionals these days, there are some great virtual drums worth checking out.ĮZdrummer is one of the most popular drum plugins out there. Just imagine – every single component needs to be miked up and then processed and mixed individually. What was usually done with large robust machines and racks is now literally summed up in one small computer program.įor instance, just take any of the old tape delays and you’ll see that same exact warm and “swirly” saturated tones of these effects can be replicated digitally.īut one thing that was always excruciatingly complicated was recording actual drum sets in the studio. The more I look at EZD2's MIDI maps, the more I think I can probably get this done in a relatively short amount of time.Just what kind of advantages modern technology has given us can be seen in music production. The hi-hat openness-to-articulation ID part is already done from when I did the script for SSD4 hihat to DKD. So, I'm definitely going to get to work on this.
Therefore you're not going to be using, say, the Latin Percussion EZX or its corresponding MIDI to drive a DKD drum kit. Remember, the target is DKD, which is just several different drum kits all mapped the same. I guess my point here is that a Default EZD2-to-DKD mapping should work for MOST situations. There of course exceptions to this - as mentioned about, if you play a MIDI file that came with the Rock expansion pack in the Latin Percussion expansion, it probably won't sound like very typical. Otherwise the entire concept behind EZD2's way of finding your beat wouldn't make any sense. Also, you must consider the fact that Toontrack's MIDI files are made to work universally with all their EZX expansion kits. Many kits have many more cymbals than others, but the additional cymbals are handled with MIDI notes that are not used with the main "standard" 3 cymbals (2 crashes and a ride). But for most of the EZX's, the mappings are relatively consistent with respect to kick, bass, toms, hats, and cymbals. While there are some subtle differences in MIDI notes across the EZX expansion packs, for the most part, these pertain mainly to the packs that are what I would call "non-typical" drum kits - such as the Latin Percussion kit, the Twisted Kit, etc. I own every EZX expansion and yes I am aware of how MIDI notes can differ across the different expansion packs, and I also have been looking at their MIDI layout pdf's quite extensively as I figure this out.
So at least you can get the mapping from the DKD designer done, but you'd still need to mapping on the EZDrummer expansion kits as well. If you pursue this, there's already a Scriptor called Drum Kit Desinger Remapper that goes from DKD to GM. I was taking a look at that thru a Scriptor object but realized that you'd need a separate Scriptor for each EZDrummer kit and for the Superior Drummer 2 as well.
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The maps are in a PDF file for each EZDrummer expansion kit, but only if you purchase those kits. So you'd have to know where the EZDrummer MIDI is coming from and create a map for the EZDrummer expansion to DKD. I doubt anyone would write a map like this from EZDrummer to DKD because the MIDI supplied with the expansion kits can be different across those EZDrummer expansion kits. That's because those notes trigger different samples of the same drum kit pieces but don't follow any GM standard because there is no standard for those additional drum pieces that DKD and EZDrummer use. but other than that, the notes are all different.
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