EZdrummer's song arranging tools are incredibly useful and easy to work with. On top of that, each EZX comes with tons of style-specific MIDI patterns that can be easily arranged to create the exact drum track you want. Soundwise, EZdrummer with all its EZX expansions offers a huge sonic palette of high quality drum options that can't be beat. I've used the Reason Drums refill and the A-List Drummer REs, but IMHO they don't hold a candle to EZdrummer (or Superior Drummer). I'm curious however, compared to Toontrack, what Reason RE's or Refills do you put in your top 5 acoustic drum libraries?
I've wishlisted everything Toontrack now (because of Reason 9.5) as I have not heard anything better. It works great, and you can still modify the MIDI file as desired. In the above scenario, the EZdrummer MIDI file simply goes on one track in Reason, and then you create new mix channels for each of the EZdrummer outputs and route the audio to these mix channels. So if the kick drum channel is assigned to output 1 (the default), it's actually outputs 1 and 2 that contain the kick drum signal. Keep in mind that even though the EZdrummer mixer may show a channel as mono (the kick drum channel, for example), it's still treated as a stereo pair in terms of outputs. The only gotcha is that Reason only supports 8 stereo outputs for VSTs at the moment, so you won't be able to take advantage of all 16 stereo pairs provided by EZdrummer (I posted a question about this recently), but the 8 stereo outs should be enough in most cases. Use the multichannel mode in the EZdrummer mixer to assign the mixer channels to different outputs, then route each of the outputs to Individusl mix channels in Reason. So it might appear soon, but in the meantime, you'll have to drag the clip manually to the EZ Drummer track. Others say: you should only create new tracks when the MIDI file has MORE than one channel, and place it on an existing track when it only has one I don't want to waste two clicks to do that.įrom a recent discussion in the beta forum, it appears PH considered altering that behavior for 9.5, but they were short on time and had to scrap it for the time being. If you dropped a multi-channel file onto a track, what would you expect to happen? PH's answer is: no matter how many channel the file has, let's create as many new tracks as necessary (with ID8 devices, as tracks have to be attached to a device) users can then dispatch the clips wherever they want.
The thing is, MIDI files can be multi-channel. There's some debate about that, and it's quite a complex problem. Another question.why is it that whenever I drag in an EZ Drummer midi block, it creates a new piano midi track rather than dropping in the EZ Drummer track I just created?