There are so many more functions in the EZ drummer program. And remember, the pattern recorded in your Tap 2 Find session will be saved as a MIDI file too. Also, you can get creative by replacing any of the drum sounds found in the MIDI file with sounds of your own. You can use any of these drum sets in your own songs or music tracks. The library of the program features several MIDI drum sets that are prerecorded. When you use the “Tap 2 Find” feature, it searches the library for a prerecorded pattern which is similar to the pattern being played. If the sounds that you playback are not impressive, try using the quantizing function of EZdrummer by Toontrack to align the beats. Keep doing this and you can create some good music. Then, as you click each drum separately and play the sounds back, you can record the pattern of one drum and loop it repeatedly as you play the sounds of another drum. A metronome will be heard when this happens. A better idea is to choose the Search tab and select the button which reads “Tap 2 Find.” Your personalized drum rack will be brought up in a new window. You could try clicking each drum independently, but that won’t get you to play any decent sounding music. In addition, you can play the cowbell, claps, shakers, and tambourines. The drum rack includes the toms, cymbals, hi-hats, snare, and kick drum. Right-clicking will also let you alter the velocity, pitch, and volume. If you want to switch instruments, you just right-click on it. When you want to play a particular drum, you just left click on its image. This electronic instrument has a drum track that is photorealistic and customizable. There are also impressive standalone features that assist you in generating music bits too.
Then you would add the EZ drummer to it as a plugin, giving you access to a variety of drum sounds that can be used in music projects.
Basically, you need a digital audio workstation installed on your computer. It lets you use your computer to play drums. Toontrack EZdrummer is a special type of instrument called Virtual Studio Technology, or VST. Handy and Attractive Virtual Drum Technology Toontrack took on this challenge by developing EZdrummer. It is difficult to design a program that makes drumming sounds that seem lifelike. You’ll end up with electronic beats that sound wobbly, extra fast, heavy or distorted. Controls and articulations for the mapping of custom kits and pads with multiple zones and positional sensitivity are available as well.Natural sounding drugs are not so easy to create on the computer, despite all the advancements in music production software. It also offers quick access to the MIDI controls most frequently used, like hi-hat pedal and snare CC response. This makes it easy to combine your own playing with any MIDI files available from Toontrack. The e-drum settings tab is used to transform incoming MIDI to the standard of any loaded sound library without affecting the playback of your MIDI files.
Get started playing instantly with one of the the new e-drum presets, or customize the way the software responds to your playing with new, easy-to-use controls on the dedicated e-drum settings tab. Superior Drummer 3 was designed with you in mind, the demanding e-drummer.
Regularly published in professional journals and trade magazines world wide, George Massenburg received the Gold Medal from the Audio Engineering Society in 2008.īy combining smart software features with extreme sample detail and nuance, Superior Drummer 3īridges the gap between the “e” and the drums, making your electronic kit every bit as “real” and acoustic as it can be. In 1982, he founded George Massenburg Labs, an audio electronics company that has released an extensive range of innovative recording technologies, all based on his original designs. Further, George has designed, built and managed several recording studios as well as contributed to the acoustical and architectural design of many other studios, including George Lucas’ Skywalker Sound. In addition to numerous Mix Magazine TEC Awards, in 1988 he also won the Academy of Country Music Record of the Year Award for his production on the album “Trio” featuring Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. George’s work has gained him world wide recognition and four Grammy Awards, including the Grammy for Technical Achievement in 1998, at the time making him one of only seventeen individuals to ever receive this honor. His work includes milestone albums by Earth, Wind & Fire, Linda Ronstadt, Natasha Bedingfield, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, the Dixie Chicks and many, many more. Over the past four decades, George Massenburg has been involved in over four hundred records.