Does EZdrummer 3 Work Well With Electronic Drums? 

I appreciate the fast preset changes with same drum fill at the beginning of the video. Makes it easy for my little brain to compare tonalities.

This review is the best I've seen. The tips for setup are easy to follow and make sense. Thanks Justin for this top shelf video!

Really really nice to have a full explanation of every step to get everything working, and we can see exactly where to click to get to the same menu Keep doing those videos, they really are the best in the electronic drums field

Dude thank you for explaining the velocity and high hat settings! Ive been looking everywhere for that info. You rock

One of the best videos on this subject I've seen to date.

Justin, awesome video! Really happy to see you getting better and better with videos/production over all the years. Rock on! 😎👍🏼

This was the review I was waiting for. Thanks Justin.

This is legitimately THE BEST overview of ED3 and how to use it. You're the man!

Awesome video, and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Glad you're back, brother!

Great video Justin!…This is perfect video, I have been re-searching this online for awhile, trying to figure out which drum sample software to buy for my money and for my TD-30. You’ve made up my mind EZdrummer 3 is it. I have a small studio I built, Interface PreSonus Studio1824c and for drums Behringer Interface.. Seriously appreciate all your hard working you put into making these videos, plus your honesty about the product and keeping us drummer’s informed. Keep up the excellent work. Thank you again 🥁✌🏻

Thank you very much for this video. Explained a lot. Looks like they've fixed most of the problems I've faced. Probably going to buy it soon :)

As a guitarist I LOLed. Love your videos Justin! You’ve helped me settle on a Roland TD17KVX for my studio and I’m super grateful for that. The technology has come so far from my last Yamaha kit from 2010. Thank you for all you do!

I really appreciated this tutorial and learned a lot. I've been using EZ and Superior 3 Drums since they first came out and have been into electronic drums from the beginning. You helped me with the latency problem that I've always had. My computers were very fast and had gobs of RAM so I thought that this lag was the nature of the beast. When I first started using EZ Drums, I got such a bad latency that I worked around it by monitoring the outs of my VDrum module that was triggered by Pintech pads and cymbals. I recently I've replaced the VDrum module and most of the pads and cymbals with Alesis Strike Pro gear. When tracking my performance, I would listen via the VDrum out, while recording the EZ sounds. I did a test by recording the VDrum audio along side the EZ Drums and did find a slight latency, with the audio lagging behind the MIDI but not enough to affect my playing. The MIDI signal is always in sync. Now, I only use Superior 3, also BFD, High School Drum Corp, Studio Drummer and other percussion libraries. My DAW is Nuendo 12, running Win 10-64 on a 8-Core XEON with 128 Gb's of RAM and all SSD's. FYI, in Superior 3 the latency control looks different from in your example in EZ, at least on my PC. My buffer choice is not configured in the program but in the audio control panel for my I/O device, a MOTU 2408 PCI, which had been set at 512. I lowered it to 32 , giving me an output latency of 1.1ms and a buffer latency of .7ms. I'll move it down to 16 if there are no glitches. Another thing that you hipped me to was choosing the hardware input. Once I set it to Alesis Strike Pro, the response was perfect with negligible latency. Also, I was able to better tweak the HI Hat open/close and cymbal zone responses. Just when you think you know it all, there's more to learn! I thank you so much.

Awesome video thanks Justin! 👍

This is gold, Justin. Thank you!

Your videos are really awesome - thanks for the info!

Justin, man I am such a fan of your work. I was looking for an Alesis kit, but all the similar models were confusing. You helped me save money by picking the right kit. Now I'm having the same issue with Toontrack and these packages. You have great content, your preso skills are as strong as anybody I've ever seen in the corporate world. I truly appreciate the work you do, it's impressive.

Awesome video! The grid editor is a game changer for me

Really great video - thanks! I am using SD3 through a TD25 with a MacBook Pro, but started out with EZ2. Looks like a nice upgrade.

Great setup and getting started guide!

Justin, I'm not a drummer but I own an Alesis Strike kit for my live band. Your videos are complete, well organized, and live in the real world.Many thanks.

This is one of the best reviews on EZD3 I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing!

Using EZd3 for out and about laptop easyness. At home the TD-27/506 and SD3 do the heavy lifting for jamming and recording with my son ( who is a bass player) he has chosen to study music in further education...how proud can a Dad get? Every father and son should Jam, it's an awesome way to connect. Love your channel Justin, I see you growing HUGE in the coming years, the hard work will pay off, stick at it! things are going to get VERY exciting for e-drummers soon, mark my words!

great video mate. keep up the the good work

Man, I've been trying to get superior drummer to work well with my TD50 for like 3 months. Thank god I watched this. Might be time for another try

Thank you Justin, awesome video!!

Thanks for the video brother 🤗🥁🎶

Great channel Justin. Thanks

Great review, thank you.

great review Justin

Damn bro I just watched your old video about Ezdrummer2 4years ago and wondering when will you release a new video and there we go. Big appreciate from your Taiwanese viewer

Longtime e-drummer (Roland) + subscriber (65 Drums) but new EZD3 user - just what I was looking for to unlock its full potential w/ my V-Drums! Thanks for putting together your review 🙌

Great video, cheers!

Dude, you're such a savior!

Great video. Thank you!

Good to see another video! I have EZD and AD ver 2 on both...I think. No need for me to upgrade. Thank you for the info though. Best Regards and Best Wishes!

Great video. Can you do a video about routing the channels into your DAW for more processing control over each channel?

I loved EZD2 and am loving the EZD3 upgrade a lot. I find this is all you need. I’ve spent a ton of money on expansion packs and most suck overall except for a few kicks or cymbals. I don’t do nearly anyyy of what you discussed but will be fiddling around with some of those functions today!!

That was awesome thank you so much for that! I’m getting ready to connect my VAD506 drums up to the newest MacBook Pro 16

Thanks for this perfect video!

I didn't realize that I could get the latency low enough on my TD25 ASIO driver to use EZD3 as a sound module. I'm figuring out how to use this with my DAW as well. Thanks for the fantastic video.

Finally just upgraded from EZD2 and more than stoked with how awesome it is!

Awesome review, Justin. Nothing left out here and I do agree on your verdict. They significantly upgraded the whole software while still left enough distance between EZD3 and Superior Drummer 3. I also think that for the majority of e-drummers EZD3 will do the job.

Thanks man, this was really helpful to decide wether or not to use it with a roland TD-07

Another great video, thanks Justin. As a TD30 player I'm definitely going to buy v3 but would welcome a steer regarding spec for the purchase of a dedicated Windows laptop solely for use with my edrums. Thanks

Thank you Justin for this super helpful video! I have EZ2 and was wondering about the custom midi mapping capabilities since EZ2 basically has none. Toontrack had originally said if you wanted custom midi mapping and velocity control, you would have to buy Superior Drummer and it would not be available in an EZ product. I'm super happy they changed their minds (probably due to enough negative feedback from people like me lol). I will definitely be upgrading to EZ3 in the coming months, thanks Toontrack!

Well that settles it for me ezd3 it is, purchasing tomorow hopefully woks well with the simmons sd 1250 module ... thanks for the awesome video Justin

Great review!! EZ3 looks great waiting for my Apple air to arrive!

Great video

Hey Justin! Is there any chance you can make a video one day in which you explain how to make the choke function of cymbals make work with EZ Drummer! This would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot for your videos they are so helpfull! Regards from Germany!

I just got the Gospel EZX and I'm super happy! Bet the ez3 would be great!

I’m tempted to buy this now thanks to this video Justin. I run Ezdrummer 2 as a stand alone (no daw) with audio through my td17 and I love it except for the high hat which really does bug so I was: A: glad to hear you had the same opinion and I wasn’t alone. And B: glad to hear that ez3 has fixed this issue.

I recently started using the Luke Holland drum library with my DTX 522K on my windows PC. Buffer size is usually at 512 on my Focusrite 2i4. My Daw of choice Is Ableton

Amazing video.

Excellent!

10/10 thank you so much, you rock

Hey, Justin! Fantastic video! Could you cover GGD Invasion or other GGD libraries with an e-kit?

great video

Great video, thanks! I'm able to go down to 32 samples (0,7 ms delay) on iMac 27" 5K, 2019 with Scarlett Solo

I still use the first ez drummer, with expansions of course, and it does a great job for what it is. I use it with my old Alesis e-drums, but because of the latency of my setup, i only use it for studio purposes. The built in sounds of the e-drums are okay for writing, and practicing anyway, the sounds should pop on the recording, and they do (if my mixing and mastering is on the spot of course)

Justin you're awesome❤

I got it last week and the bright room kit and presets are definitely good.

Good one 💪

hi justin , i really like your videos on edrums ! did you make one on how to use ezdrummer3 in a live gig ? i'm thinking on going this route for live ...

I am using a TD17KVX kit with a MSI GS65 gaming laptop. It works perfectly, zero latency, I just leave my drums plugged into it and turn on spotify or youtube to play along with whatever I want while its running. I put it on the ASIO setting and everything just works exactly how its supposed to work.

Cool man! 👌

Thanks for the vid. Im about to spring for a TD17-KVX and was looking to run Addictive Drums. up to this point ive only used it for programming beats to my guitars and bass. im a control freak :)

Hey Justin awesome vid I might have to end up buying this one! I use addictive drums 2 my DAW is waveform 11. I have a MSI Delta 15 laptop I use both ASIO and my Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen as my audio devices. Because of that I am not sure what is my audio buffer size since its set at 256 samples 5.8ms yet there is no latency at all probably thanks to asio.

Thanks again.

so close to 100 K man.

Would have a liked some more I depth testing of sample layers and round Robin. Has it improved since ez2? How many times was each drum recorded at different velocities? Etc

Thanks for the food for thought. I do hate the sounds that are in my TD-50X module!

I got it for my edrums. Massive difference on the user end with connecting them together. I feel that sounds are the same, which isn't bad.

"let's face it" haha. I definitely have some good generalizations about drummers too and $180 is a bargain to stay away. Great video!

Great vid Justin. Silly question. If you use ED3 through say a TD50, can you still record internally through the TD50 head using the ED3 samples? IE I am playing a song as base internally through TD50 that I want to add drums over that have the sounds generated by the ED3.

Thank you, Justin. You videos are awesome and really helpful. I just got Alesis Surge and Easy Drummer 3. It's super cool stuff to play and practice. I tried to use it with my students during online lessons, but it didn't work .... Did you have some issues like this? Is it possible to use this software with teaching ? Thank you .

Hi Justin. I'm running a Dell System Latitude 7390 2-in-1 laptop. It has an i7-8650 quad core cpu with 16GB ram and a 512GB SSD drive. I'm using an Audient iD14 interface with BFD3 and Steven Slate Drums using a 64 sample buffer. My drum setup is a Yamaha DTX Multi12 with the kick tower. I'm about to buy a Gretsch Mighty Mini 10" snare and convert it to electronic. I like the uber-compact size. I hope to add a few more Gibraltar clamps and get everything mounted to a single cymbal stand.

I may add that with the lemon hibhat controller and 14 inch cymbal and a TD9 controller, the hi hat had a lot of detail. More then any other software out there.

thank you Justin for your videos, great explanation! Do you consider EZD3 better than GGD?

EZD3 works straight out of the box for the mimic, td-50 & td-30 with the presets included, however updating SD3 to 3.3.0 the hi-hats just for the mimic are all over the place!! gonna go back to 3.2.8

Liked before even watching

Running a Roland td17kvx into a MSI gaming laptop... Core i7 pc with 32 gig of ram with an internal and external SSD. I feed the Roland into a focusrite scarlett 18i20. Standalone app i can get it to 16 samples with no crackles or distortion. Runs smooth as butter in Reaper as well. I am extremely happy with this set up.

Great video! I'm curious what electric kit you're playing in this video?

Thank you.

Hey Justin. Just upgraded from EZ2 to EZ3. Getting ready to add an eDrum kit (Alesis Strike Pro SE?) and I'm in a carpeted room. If I were to buy a 4x8 sheet of plywood to set the kit up on (with a rug on top of course), will 4x8 be room enough for that kit, or should I look at 2 4x8 sheets? Also, how thick should the plywood be? Great video too BTW. Love your stuff.

I'm running a Win laptop, gen11 i5 processor, presonus quantum interface. I can run lighter projects below 1ms output latency but usually I set it to 1.7ms to make sure it's always glitch free.

Hi Justine, I have M1 Macbook Air (16Gb Ram, 512 HD) and Roland TD 17KV. I am currently using EZDrummer 3 using the setting to the very lowest 16 samples (0.6 ms) and it works fine without any audio interface. However, I do have Scarlett Solo 3rd Generation. But I guess Roland TD 17KV users don't need any interface to use EZDrummer 3 for play-along recordings.

Great video, can you use two drum modules simoutaniously with EZdrummer 3 for example if you have a frankestein kit, and also is the mapping working if that setup is used.

Roland TD-20 module, a desktop PC (Core i5-4570 - quite old, 8GB RAM, SSD), Behringer UMC 404HD audio interface; I use latency 128 at 48KHZ. Software Superior Drummer 3 (currently), few years ago EZdrummer 2. I use this configuration live at my church in Romania and it works flawlessly. No built-in sounds can match the quality of these libraries. P.S. Few years ago I used Roland TD-4 module which had issues with latency. With the same audio settings in software and interface all latency issues went away by simply switching to Roland TD-20 module.

all around, very well made video. only comment i have is that the volume of the talking portions is much higher than the volume of the drumming examples. i kept having to turn the volume up while you were playing, then back down when you started talking. it's not a small difference in volume either - this video would be perfect if the volumes were closer together.

Greetings from Missouri! I use a millennium 850 as my e drums. An 2015 iMac 27” i5 with 16g of ram. And for software I’m using 3 different GGD libraries in the Omni configuration and I use different drums and cymbals from each library to get a custom sound. Routing is crucial when combining libraries, but I’m very curious about maybe trying out Ez drummer 3….

Hi Sr. Thank you for taking Time for explaining all this. I use EZdrummer 3 and Cakewalk as DAW in Win10. My e-drum is a Alesis nitro. Everything ok until Now, but I want to play in live at Church. Now, I have to buy a sound interface, I am looking to M-audio Duo for plugging in on a Console. Do you think that everything Is gonna be alright? The latency, drivers of sound interface, etc ? Thank you!

Layering with AD, SD, BFD, and some 808 stuff is fun.

Great review, Justin! I wonder how EZDrummer 3 compares to Addictive Drums 2?

Hello Justin and congratulations for all your good advice and your superb videos... Do I have a question to ask you? How do you get your module to give you the sound from the headphones and also the left and right outputs at the back of the module? I use a Roland TD-50x and I connect USB to my computer and it works well but I have no control over my TD-50X. I imagine that we need to make small changes in the programming module and in the video, this is how you proceed, I think for you personally. Thank you, still waiting for a suggestion. PIerre

Thanks for this video, man! 🙂 I watch your channel pretty regularly. Own a Roland TD25K set that I've used for years now, and have gotten a lot of mileage from. Within the past 6 months, _"upgraded"_ (IMO) the older TD25 module to the TD17. Not that the preset sounds on either of those are bad, they're not, but... I think it's time to explore other options. Seems like this will be the ticket, for me. _-Cheers!_ 🍻

Hi Justin! This is a neccessary review. Many guys just reviewing from the DAW drum sampler song writing point of view. If I had the EZD3 available 3 years ago, I thing I wouldn't have purchased SD3 one year ago, I guess. Now you get an awesome remapping tool. Velocity remapping curves ... Nice! AND - did you mention that: You now can "tune" the drums. It's no longer just pitch. I think they throw their retuning algorithm into the package. I mean I really love the velocity remapping of the PER ARTICULATION in SD3 and the mixer (adjusting surgical like bleeding things), adding more kit parts. Some more articulations like hihat, cymbal bell, bow etc. And of course the stunning SDX' . The snare positional sensing feature... I mean I got it a crossgrade for 270€/300$. And I thing, it was worth it. Latency, audio buffer settings: about 3ms output latency at 64 samples buffer setting, 44.1kHz, 24bit. I got here a PC that I build in 2013 (Win10). Really. I mean, I put in 16 GB RAM, INTEL i7, and this days with several SSD for SD3 samples and other VSTs, and 2 years ago a nvidia GTX 960 graphics card for the 3 4K displays. USB interface is a jurassic M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8x8 (Released in 2007 ?). I grabbed it used in 2011 and it's still totally fine. I testet a new MOTU M4 but in terms of latency in my config it actually performs worse that the M-Audio. So I didn't replaced it. The problem will be the drivers some time .. but, we will see. So, that's fine for playing the edrums alone or playing along to songs. I get some crackles when using several VST instruments, so I have to bounce out the other VST tracks or need to rise the buffer size to 256 samples but... that seems to be fine. Thank you, for your content. Greetings from Germany! This is my setup tinyurl.com/my-edrum-setup

Good video, I’ll try EZ Drummer 3 on my set. I used asio4all for years, but the last few times I tried to use it everything went to crap. Had the right versions, checked everything, so I don’t use it.

Thanks! My TD1 control is a bit limited. I'm thinking of upgrading it. Suggestions?