Get EZDrummer 2 from Amazon : www.amazon.com/dp/B00JVQDQ5K/?... SUBSCRIBE: goo.gl/5zFZDY My Facebook page: / fearedse Links: www.toontrack.com This is a short tutorial showing the possibilities with Toontrack EZ Drummer 2.
thanks, man..i downloaded the demo and i'm using it now and it really is something, and i've not even gotten the whole thing yet -- only bad thing is you gotta pay to get extra loops to work with. but it's worth it to not have to deal with shitty drummers and big egos...lol
i can see that already..i've been working on this one song for months, never able to get the drum part through loops and i even took it to a drummer to proceeded to suck the life out of it...in just a few hours,I've been able to find the groove myself with this ezdrummer. hey from north carolina.....
With EZ Drummer 3 on the way, I'm really hoping Ola does an updated video! I've already got it pre-ordered through the discounted update (originally purchased EZD2 shortly after this vid was posted), but it's always fun and inspiring to watch Ola work with the tool!
As a progressive rock guitarist and singer, having dealt with so many loud mouth, hard headed drummers over the years, this software will help me not have to deal with them. And will expand making better drum tracks for recording. Great review. Thank you Ola.
But computer can't give you that feel of a guitarist because guitarists improvise every note with their current state of mind which obviously computer can't and computed guitar music will sound same all the time with a robotic feel.
Hey Ola---- I am not a heavy metal fan but your video really changed my whole mindset. I was looking for information about EZ Drummer and your video is totally excellent in demonstrating the options available to create really good drum tracks. Whether it's heavy metal or jazz or country------ You made me realize it's all about rhythm no matter what the style of music. Wow it's really an endless subject.
This workflow is freaking AWESOME! Thank you so much for sharing this Ola... For a single musician who basically just wants to get the drums out of the way - but still sounding kickass and unique - this is the perfect workflow.
Excellent tutorial, Thank you ! You just saved me countless hours with my new purchase of EZ Drummer 2. I don't even have to buy this drummer beer to come over and jam :) Thanks again !
I wish more tutorials would be like this, straight to the point of how to use in practise, not an hour long vids of what each button and function does. Well done.
Exactly what I have been looking for to begin home recording. I am going to fool around (far away from professional musician) and coming up with some pretty basic metal songs but had NO idea how to add drums. This is actually something even I could possibly figure out. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us Ola.
That was extremely helpful and I appreciate it!! I just bought the EZdrummer and Metal EZX addition pack and WOW, I am a humble guitarist, and not a drummer, so this takes out a lot of the stress on piece mailing it like I was with the non ezdrummer loops and samples. I have Studio One and it took some doing, but I have it now, and I just needed your guidance there!! Thanks!!
Ola, this is one of your best tutorials EVER!!! Toon Track is lucky to have you as their Salesman! I have Superior Drummer 2.0, but this new version of EZ Drummer looks, well... EZ!
I like that EZ has come along way since I used it…that ability to input your tempo and then finds compatible clips is really cool…may have inspired me to shell out the coin for the software
Between this and drummer from logic pro x, you can now have very useful drum patterns for projects, hell, even a whole album! I know the pain of programming manually midis, this is just amazing and useful!
hopefully i can get this downloaded. its so discouraging when you want to create music but have no drummer and making beats yourself is hard. Garageband drummer is so limiting but I cant get beats I want
I think it's time to upgrade my rig and get this plug-in! Really cool stuff and it will add some life to all my dull music cause I'm not a good drummer and all my songs have those boring repetitive stuff due to lack of good ideas on rhythm that will fit my riffs.
This is actually surprisingly nice, I couldn't imagine that there would be any actually interesting songwriting features, as I usually don't like that sort of thing. This seems like they've done a great job though, as it actually gives you control over the process rather than simply presenting a bunch of premade MIDI files that you just drag and drop. Cool!
Ola, how did each part magically end up to be 8 bars (the exact length) that you needed? Where and how to you set up bar lenghts for verse, chorus, etc. Do we have to work in song parts that are always 8 bars?
so dude, i know this has been posted for awhile but thank you a million times and then some i had a handfull of tracks left for a solo project ive been working on for ever now. Used ez drummer for the last of it annnnd shit was i suprised what it could do had to do very minimal edits n moving around to make stuff work. Thank u brah gonna release a big bastard of an album to make up for all the time i didnt have digital releases out :) will be a blend of ez drummer, real drums and penciled in programmed drums
Would you say that there are any key features in Superior Drummer 2 that you would have a hard time letting go of if switching to EZDrummer, either in EQ'ing, Routing, or Sound/Sample packs? Because this looks super user friendly and fairly feature rich, and sounds really good so far. Well done.
This just made my day! It's really easy to use this feature, and effortless you can produce decent drum tracks. If you tweak them a little more they sound quite good! Thanks :D
Love the video, this would make drum track composition a lot easier than using a drum kit through a midi keyboard or drum pad. Thanks for posting this one!
I'd just end up doing what I do now: write everything manually, except today I use guitar pro. My groove and fill ideas are pretty unique for the most part, and so I think samples just limit the composition and creativity. The only interesting think is writing in loop. But I think I'll stick with EZ 1, at least for now.
I freaking LOVED this information! It is PRICELESS! Thank you SO much! I knew about some of the options but the way you do it opened my eyes so much! Stay awesome! \m/
this is perfect! especially when you do not have time to learn drums to do your tracks, and also finding someone who would do drums in a small town is the worst yet! but this is a real game changer :)
It looks like hes running EZdrummer as a MIDI into his DAW, so you're hearing everything through that when he plays the full track, I dont know much though so I very well can be wrong.
Thanks Ola! This is the first tutorial I watched where I understood what to do. I dont know why Toontrack changed everything in version 2. I bought version 2 months ago and wasted hours trying to use it then went back to version 1. Now I can upgrade again and use 2 thanks to you. \m/..\m/
I have a question. So I mainly play/write metal songs and i really want to get into utilizing EZdrummer 2 but i dont know if the regular EZdrummer 2 will fit my needs or if i have to upgrade to the metal version. Basically what i am asking is: Will the regular version work for me or would you guys recommend buying the Metal version? Thanks! Any advice helps!
+Takaro depending on your budget I would suggest (in a best case scenario) get the base model version of EZ Drummer and buy just the midi packs from some of the metal packs of drummers like dirk veurbueren (spelling?) Matt halpern Thomas hake and so on. For the actual drum sounds I would suggest grabbing Adam Getgood's new Getgood Drums samples and using that for your final product. Overall the setup will have a few steps, first record what you have to the click and go into your midi library in ezdrummer to find a template that works. Do some light editing in the vst and then drag it Down to a seperate track where you Have Getgood Drums on an identical midi map then open up your daw's midi editor and finish up the work on the drum part and your good to go.
i didn't get it inside i just drag the midi out of EZX onto a track with GGD as long as the midi notes lines up its all good. i use EZX for writing and demos and GGD for final production. When my midi is done i just drag it over. All midi is universal you can even take EZ keys midi and put it in GGD if you wanted to. like I said though to get them to work you do have to either adjust your GGD map so that when you drag over your midi they perfectly line up or select the groups of notes and redistribute them accordingly. For kick, snare, toms, etc your all good but for hi-hats i like to set them manually when i bring them over because there are a lot more sample options for them in GGD than in EZX. A little hint for final production would be to get the best possible drum sound with GGD and save it as a template so that when you are ready for final production you just drag the midi into your pre-produced project and boom, in a matter of seconds you have big budget album quality drums. This method requires a little extra work to start it off but it is incredibly worth it. Toontrack has great stuff especially with their midi stuff in ez drummer but i think everyone can agree that GGD sounds a lot better and honestly for not all that much more money than you would pay for an EZX expansion, of which in all of the expansions you can buy the midi separate for $30, so you save money and time. I can honestly say that when set correctly their is no discernible difference between GGD and ultra big budget organic drums recorded in a great room.
This one "old" video just saved me HOURS of a learning curve with EZD2, which I just bought (with Metal add-ons) to do some demo songs! Thank you, Ola!
@@Dienex Hm, good question. I like both Metal! and Metal Machine. Metal! has fewer "kit" presets, but more choices for "playing/part" presets. Metal Machine has more "kit" presets, but just a few less choices for "playing/part" presets. My preference is the Metal! package, though. It has more playing/part presets to start from. Still, I'm glad I have both.
I bought EZ Drummer 2 and recorded 2 originals. It is amazing, and kinda easy to use. There were a few times that I got a little frustrated cause I couldn't get exactly what I wanted for some parts of the songs, but eventually you come up with something...
In my opinion this completely takes away from the creativity of song writing... just dragging and dropping pre-made stuff? Really? What happened to people coming up with their own drum tracks and actually having the knowledge of rhythm to do so. This does the entire amount of work for you. People are going to be using these programs as crutches to make up for their own lack of knowledge and rhythm. Just my opinion on the whole thing.
idk, having cool new tools assisting workflow isn't gonna stonewall creativity. Most would just end up with similar sounding grooves... Isn't this just the same argument when it comes to loops or by extension, samples in general?
What about musicians that cant play drums? or amateurs just starting out with no or little knowledge of making tracks? in my opinion this is just a tool making it easier to get the results you want.
Holy Shit-I am so freaking backwards. You had your guitars recorded first, then you went looking and matched the drums to what you were playing? Didn't know I could do that!! I playing the rhythm guitar and writing a song verse by verse, then adding a drum part by drum part, manually match a drum for verse, chorus. Damn I think I better take a look at the manual again. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Hot damn! I've been manually adding MIDI notes one at a time because I couldn't find the particular beats I wanted. 'Click to find' got me close, but I kind of assumed I was limited to what the search found. I had no idea how versatile it got from there. Thanks much for the tutorial!
Now I have found Superior Drummer 3! Perfect for a solo artist as myself for my original works, to my grunge "band" and my metal "band".. Thanks for the walkthrough!
The Edit Play Style feature is the main trick - wether you end up keeping from the results from Tap 2 Find or customizing further and getting as close as possible to what you were initially looking for - it is designed to satisfy your needs down to the last detail. Personally I love how you can listen through different drum kits playing the same thing - on the spot. I also love how Ola has the most views for EZDrummer 2 - Hhhhh stay Swede
