Using reaper, reason, pro tools. Must have drag and drop midi capability with lots of rock/metal grooves. I've had lots of success with ez drummer but it's time to. In order to successfully drag and drop MIDI files from your EZDrummer software into your DAW. See more on Microsoft Docs. SweetCare® 24/7 Tech Support. Pro Tools Resources.
I am brand new to the world of recording. Trying to do a one man band thing. The problem I'm having is with EZDRUMMER.
I do not, I repeat, do not have a midi controller. I'm merely trying to drag and drop right now, for a demo's sake, to see how I might want things to sound. The problem is, when I drag and drop into protools, I get no sound. Standalone ezdrummer also has no sound.
The drums act like they're being pressed, but they're lying. My question: is it my hardware?
Maybe my sound card? Do I not have a sound card that can process midi? I know its midi PLAYBACK enabled, but maybe not ASIO (I'm just now finding out about this stuff)? If its not hardware, what are other possible problems?
I don't know if I'll have enough time to look back and see if you respond tomorrow due to school tests I'm studying for, but I'd ask what soundcard you have. If you have a recording soundcard, you'd need to go into Protools and make sure and select that as the source for input. I don't have Protools, myself, but as an example of what it might be similar to, in Cubasis I click on options towards the top of the screen, go to audio setup and then audio system and setup. It gives different options, but because I have an EMU-0404 card I choose EMU-ASIO.
If you don't have a specific soundcard for recording you'll want to get asio drivers. They're free at asio4all.
Using asio will help a lot with latency. As for midi, if you throw a midi file into your daw/protools, to hear it play back it sounds like you already have the right idea with the wavetable. I don't know how it's done in protools, but in Cubasis you'd select the output for each track, i.e. The wavetable, a vst instrument, etc.
One thing that sucks about my setup is that I can't get the wave table in sync with vst instruments such as ez drummer, so I have to choose other vst instruments to do the midi parts. There may also be other volume controls to look for in protools, as well. Also, although I don't think this is the case to hear midi, perhaps you have to arm the recording track similar to arming a track to hear live instruments in Reaper.
Again, I think that's unlikely, though. Hopefully any of this helps. If not, as well as looking to see if you get other responses and post back here, it may be worth looking for a forum for protools, as well. The sound card is a RealTek HD.really cheap. Hadn't really planned on doing this till very recently. I've had lots of compatability issues with it since I purchased this laptop. Might be a factor.
Going to download the ASIO drivers, see if that helps at all. And hopefully figure out if I'm lining up the track properly.
Rush, I take it you're going to TU? I'm from Tulsa. Bit of an aside there, just couldn't help but notice. Thanks for the feedback so far guys. Hey, I just noticed this thread again. I'm actually taking OU courses at TCC this year but used to live right down the street for TU.
At the toontrack forums ( ), I found this info for protools: The first few prints of EZdrummer did not include all formats. RTAS, required for ProTools users, is available as a download from the support page. Creation of a customer account is all that is required to access the update. If you have the latest version installed, please make sure you are trying to instantiate EZdrummer on a stereo track (an Instrument track is recommended). On choosing the ProTools 'New Track' command ensure that you change the default track settings from Mono to Stereo. EZdrummer will not appear as an insert on a Mono track.
Hopefully that'll be any help, though I'm kind of thinking not since you can actually see the drums being hit but have no sound even manually clicking them. Just going in and choosing any ASIO drivers might help if you DL'd ASIO4all. IF there's more than one ASIO driver listed in Protools then you may have to try more than one unless asio4all is clearly listed. Maybe you'll have to check the track itself and make sure it's got ezdrummer listed as an instrument and that the output is asio.
If it's still a problem, it might also be worth a try asking on some other forums here like the amp forum (where I waste a lot of time at ) or checking out a protools or ezdrummer forum. One more suggestion that's probably a bit more to go through would be to download reaper for free (You can try it free for 30 days and then it's $50 to keep it). You can just get it to see if it works with it to know if it's more of a problem with ezdrummer itself or if it's a problem figuring out protools. Here's where you can DL Reaper: And here's a really cool thread about how to use ezdrummer with Reaper: Maybe looking at that can still give an idea of what's going on with the protools setup, as well.
I have Ez drummer connected through pro tools and when i hit the drums in Ez Drummer or the notes in pro tools a sound is made and the recording bar in pro tools reacts to the sound. But when i go to record nothing happens. To record the MIDI in real time you might need a controller. The EZ Drummer interface might just be a preview that doesn't actually 'send out' any MIDI. The Protools notes work the same way, I think.
You should be able to draw in MIDI notes with the pencil tool, though. Not easy to record with any feel that way though. The Korg NanoPad is $60. I have one and it works great for drum VI's.
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In fact, it comes with the demo version of EZ Drummer. You might also try searching for a shareware program that allows your computer keyboard to act as a MIDI controller. You'll have to search this out for yourself, I'm not sure where they might be available from dr166006 06:39 PM.
Well i just bought the korg nanopad, i think that route kinda suits me best so thanks for that idea. Could u possibly tell me about how i would go from assigning beats from something like ez drummer into the nano pad then too pro tools to record? I'm not sure you understand the relationships between the different parts here: The NanoPad (or a keyboard) acts as a MIDI controller. It only sends out MIDI instructions. MIDI is not Audio. There is no sound. Protools receives the MIDI and can record it in a MIDI or Inst track.
ProTools can also just pass the MIDI on to a MIDI instrument, which could be a hardware synth or drum machine, or it could be a VI (Virtual instrument) which is a software synth that runs inside ProTools. There are different ways that you can set up your tracks in ProTools depending on what you are trying to accomplish.
The easiest thing to do is to create a new instrument track. Insert EZDrummer.
If your NanoPad is working OK, then if you click on the record enable button, then playing the pads will trigger EZDrummer to make sounds. If you hit record, then anything you play should get recorded, as MIDI, into the inst track. You should then be able to playback what you just recorded.
You can also drag MIDI files into the inst track if you have MIDI drum loops. Some drum programs also have loops built in. I have BFD which lets you set up like 30 loops that can each be played just by holding down a single key on a keyboard.
I don't know if EZDrummer does this. If it does, then you can either draw in the notes that will trigger a loop, or you can program one of the scenes on the Nano Pad to trigger the correct MIDI notes, depending on how EZDrummer works. What exactly do you mean by 'assigning beats'?
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