zippsinc

Thanks Guys
Beagle...I'm very intrigued by groovemonkee. They sem to have a lot of nive stuff. Their prices are a little less than toontracks' midi packs. However, I like the sound of toontrack's Americana, Blues and Rock packs and some others. They may be purchased before the day's out, as may be groovemonkee's Funk/Hip Hop/R&B pack.
in relation to the groovemonkee's midi, where would the files be placed/installed to? Is there an installer or is there anything I need to be mindful of?

Stewart

Stewart:  If you are interested in odd tempos for funk, progressive rock and jazz, you might also look at  http://www.oddgrooves.com   They are set up for Toontrack drums [Superior and EZ] and are "different" in a good kind of way.

zippsinc



in relation to the groovemonkee's midi, where would the files be placed/installed to? Is there an installer or is there anything I need to be mindful of?


Stewart

Don't remember if you put them in EZdrummers Midi folder or if the installer does it for you. But there is no problem. You get a SD named folder from Groovemonkey.

zippsinc


Thanks Guys
Beagle...I'm very intrigued by groovemonkee. They sem to have a lot of nive stuff. Their prices are a little less than toontracks' midi packs. However, I like the sound of toontrack's Americana, Blues and Rock packs and some others. They may be purchased before the day's out, as may be groovemonkee's Funk/Hip Hop/R&B pack.
in relation to the groovemonkee's midi, where would the files be placed/installed to? Is there an installer or is there anything I need to be mindful of?


Stewart

put them here:
[drive letter]:\Toontrack\EZDrummer\Midi\MY MIDIFILES
I have all of my sounds installed on E: drive, if you installed everything on C, then it will be C, if you installed the sounds on some other drive, then use that drive letter instead.
 
EZD will pick them up when you open the grooves.
 

Another resource for good groove libraries is Groove Monkee - they offer grooves in almost all styles one would be looking for and offer monthly discount pricing to registered customers.  There MIDI grooves come in various formats to support many of the major drum software VSTi available.

http://www.groovemonkee.com/en/

Just another note since you seem to have Superior Drums 2, you should have also received a license for EZPlayer Pro (I'm pretty sure they still include EZPlayer Pro with SD2) which is very useful for converting MIDI drum grooves designed for other products effectively opening up many libraries for use with Superior or EZDrummer.

can't you just build X drums to take the place of any missing kit pieces from other groove clips?

batsbrew


can't you just build X drums to take the place of any missing kit pieces from other groove clips?

Yes, very good point there.  That's one of the great things about Superior.  You can remap the note locations of any articulation in any EZX.

i'm in the middle of trying to create my own unique drum kit, building x drums, is why i thought about that...


i've chosen a really hard drum kit to emulate.....

it's a set that dates back to 1974, todd rundgren's "Todd" album, song is ""Everybody's Going to Heaven / King Kong Reggae"


i believe it was kevin ellman's kit, but rundgren's production..
and the sound of THAT kit...


i want it.

Hey thanks everyone.

I just got and installed Toontrack's Americana and Rock Songs and I took note of where they went. Seems this pretty much installed close to the folder where Beagle said Groovemonkee's go and there is a 'My Midi Files' folder there for them. I think you're right Smedberg...they have an installer which puts them there for you.

What do you folks find to be the most useful Toontrack Midi packs? Hell, you might as well give me the other makers' too. 

Jind, I do have EZ PLayer. Converting other grooves? I'll have to look into this.

Cecelius2....I'm totally getting the reggae pack from Oddgrooves. Thanks for pointing me in their direction.

X Drums? I dunno what this is Modbod and Batsbrew. Do you mean changing kit pieces to accommodate incompatible grooves?


Stewart

X Drums? I dunno what this is Modbod and Batsbrew. Do you mean changing kit pieces to accommodate incompatible grooves?

 
Superior Drummer allows you to add extra pads to your kits called XDrums.  You can assign any sample from any SDX or EZX to this extra pad and then assign any note to that pad.  Comes in handy if you need a Tamborine or a Latin Percussion instrument.