KEVORKIAN wrote:I believe it. DFH EZX is still one of my favorite packs especially when the snare is blended with one from the Nashville EZX. However, Metal Foundry is now my go to set. Have you checked out EZPlayer? That would give you a pattern player.
Well, the full-on EZ Drummer has a pattern player, plus a humanization control (which may or may not also work for any MIDI piped into it; I usually turn it off when using it as a sound module), it's just that you can't load a MIDI pattern into the player and have it triggered by MIDI beat clocks like a drum machine. In order to have EZ Drummer play the pattern inside of DP on sequence start and stop, you have to either drag the loop from the player or from the pattern browser into a DP MIDI track and loop it. Seems a little counter-intuitive, when you should just be able to trigger the player via sequence Start and Stop, but just using the patterns as loops inside of DP does actually work better than triggering my hardware drum machine (which, as I've detailed in other forum posts, somehow can't keep the beat straight inside DP unless I'm starting on Measure 1), so it's a bit of a trade-off.
cbergm7210 wrote:Ya'll have any snare fav's from that kit you'd like to share?
I usually either go with the Default Kit, which has the best-sounding kit overall, or "Metal 1", which has a bit more ambience and sounds a bit more scooped out. The trick with any EZ Drummer snare, as I've discovered, is to only use between 1-105 on velocity. For some reason, the snare isn't set up like a typical drum module snare; it actually changes characteristics the harder you hit it, rather than just simply velocity. From 105-127 you actually get three different snare sounds, and depending on what kind of sound you're looking for, you can actually set your total snare velocity to, say, 110 and get a consistently harder and more compressed hit. At 127, the hit is completely compressed and chops through the mix like a Coheed & Cambria or a death metal snare hit. I wasn't aware of this fact until I started examining the MIDI loops and noticed that the "regular" snares were hitting at around 100 on the velocity range. I loaded up a song that I'd done the drums using the "Black Kit" in MOR, put the drum track through EZ Drummer and got alarmed when it sounded like the snares were completely overdone, no matter which EZ drum kit I loaded, until I pulled down the velocity to around 105 and everything sounded "normal". Like I said, it's actually a nice feature, because you can either choose to sound "normal", and just bring up the velocity a bit on your fills to make the snare sound more vicious, or you can keep the average velocity higher and have a snare that consistently cuts through a mix without compression. From 1-105, the snare sounds natural and you can use it on anything.
