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Re: Toontrack EZ Drummer Rock 2013/09/20 03:15:11 (permalink)
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  It's all about commercial sounding drums and not so much about "realism" or an organic playing sample collection (in a drummer's perspective.) 



Yeah, I bought this on a whim and while there are a lot of useful sounds in there, the kits feel pretty "cheap" to play compared to Toontrack's usual quality (machine-gun snares etc.) Guess I should've expected that when they put eight kits in a package the size of a regular EZX.





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Re: Toontrack EZ Drummer Rock 2013/09/20 03:37:22 (permalink)
Yesterday I put a loop on this kit. (Woody kit but with Tight Punch Snare) and jammed with a piano to that.
And boy do I have a new favourite. This is home for me.
No other kit have given this momentary joy. And I have almost all of them, incl SDX kits.
 
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Re: Toontrack EZ Drummer Rock 2013/09/20 11:15:58 (permalink)
I stopped buying Toontrack products years ago when their copy protection began asking me to re-authorize every time I loaded EZDrummer.  It turned out that the problem was a VPN on my laptop, which Toontrack unhelpfully advised me to stop using.  (Yeah, that's what I want: let every freak on the Internet into my laptop so I can run EZDrummer.  Good tradeoff, that.)  I now run Drumcore 3, Steven Slate 4 and BFD Eco on the laptop, all of which play very nicely with my configuration and sound very good.
 
That said, I liked EZDrummer plenty, and wouldn't mind using it again if Toontrack has managed to create a copy protection scheme that's actually workable.  have they?

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Re: Toontrack EZ Drummer Rock 2013/09/20 11:48:39 (permalink)
Well... it's one of the easiest to use of any I've tried and it's never given me problem one.  YMMV.

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Re: Toontrack EZ Drummer Rock 2013/09/20 12:04:35 (permalink)
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Yeah, I bought this on a whim and while there are a lot of useful sounds in there, the kits feel pretty "cheap" to play compared to Toontrack's usual quality (machine-gun snares etc.) Guess I should've expected that when they put eight kits in a package the size of a regular EZX.


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Yesterday I put a loop on this kit. (Woody kit but with Tight Punch Snare) and jammed with a piano to that.
And boy do I have a new favourite. This is home for me.
No other kit have given this momentary joy. And I have almost all of them, incl SDX kits.
 



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Re: Toontrack EZ Drummer Rock 2013/09/20 12:08:36 (permalink)
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SvenArne
Yeah, I bought this on a whim and while there are a lot of useful sounds in there, the kits feel pretty "cheap" to play compared to Toontrack's usual quality (machine-gun snares etc.) Guess I should've expected that when they put eight kits in a package the size of a regular EZX.


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Yesterday I put a loop on this kit. (Woody kit but with Tight Punch Snare) and jammed with a piano to that.
And boy do I have a new favourite. This is home for me.
No other kit have given this momentary joy. And I have almost all of them, incl SDX kits.
 



As myolpal says, "It takes all kinds. That's what makes a horse race."


So, to get into a happy medium, we should wait until it's on sale ya?

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Re: Toontrack EZ Drummer Rock 2013/09/20 14:43:42 (permalink)
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So, to get into a happy medium, we should wait until it's on sale ya?


The sounds are perfectly cool, but the limited articulations/velocity layers makes it less enjoyable to play via E-drums, compared to other Toontrack libraries IMO.

If you're programming or using factory midis, this library may be just the thing for you!





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