Up and running - first thing, I can't seem to locate the option to select kits. I can select mixer presets which will load the appropriate kit, but I can't seem to find the menu which allows you to pick, say either the Vistalite or the 60's Ludwig...
 
The manual is of no help thus far - I certainly hope there's something I'm overseeing. I don't care for mixer presets, but some of the kits I own like The Classic offered 4 different kits, and I'd like to be able to easily pick say, the Yamaha or the Craviotto.

Mod Bod

mixmkr
what happens to the expansion packs...as they get updated too...correct?  and I presume they'll still work in Superior.
 
New MIDI grooves?

Yes, your expansion packs get updated.  You will know that they are update by the new graphics and the presence of new presets for them.  You may have to run an update separately for your existing EZXs.  I noticed all of my EZXs had an update indicated in my products page.

Hey Mod,
Will the old presets still be available in the upgrade?  Yes, I noticed my expansion packs all had upgrades available as well. [but before upgrading] Asking if we should save presets somewhere before the upgrade, or if they'll all morph over.

hope they didn't take away the droid version of the EZX electronic GUI !

It finally finished downloading just as I was leaving the studio for home. Unzipped the file into a folder. Noticed that inside the install folder were some more zips. Remember reading the...natch...instructions to unzip the main file. Do I need to unzip all those others in the install folder or will they self extract during installation??
(which I'll do tomorrow)

I've tried pretty much everything but there doesn't seem to be anyway to access drum kits other than via mixer presets. I can hardly believe that they've merged that stuff and didn't leave the option.
 
Am I the only user to only use the flat/route out mixer preset wanting to retain the ability to select the drumkit as a whole w/o having to build it piece by piece?
 
That's one HUGE disappointment for me.
 

Nevermind - there's an option in a submenu when you want to replace a piece of the kit...

That can't be right. Have you tried watching any of the tutorial vids??
Maybe Mod will chime in.

Download and install went fine. It installed on top of version 1.  Found previous ezx's. Everything works fine.  Tap 2 find, Song Creator and Edit play style are great tool for song writing.  I have always had problems with finding the right loops from an alian library. This is a big step forward to getting the right drum feel for a song.  I am happy with it.
You can build a complete song structure from within ESDrummer2 and I will try to work with that but I think the right place to arrange the structure of a song should be in the DAW somehow.  

How does it sound? Good for 18bit samples?