when i drag and drop ezdrummer loops to music creater 6 and then press play i can only hear bass drum some high hat and occasional snare but not consistant

Welcome to the forum.
What synth are you playing the MIDI drums through?
Open the MIDI track's Piano Roll view (PRV) and click on the drum names on the left. Do the drums sound when you click the same instrument name as the loop's notes, or do you hear drums on notes other than those in the drum loop?
Possibly the EZD loops are not General MIDI (GM) mapped.

tell us about the computer and the sound card you are using. some factory sound cards will do that. 

stock soundcard on laptop. planning on getting a usb interface will that help

57Gregy


Welcome to the forum.
What synth are you playing the MIDI drums through?
Open the MIDI track's Piano Roll view (PRV) and click on the drum names on the left. Do the drums sound when you click the same instrument name as the loop's notes, or do you hear drums on notes other than those in the drum loop?
Possibly the EZD loops are not General MIDI (GM) mapped.

yes - this is likely the problem.
 
go to the toontrack website where you registered EZD.  sign into your account.  go to DOWNLOADS.  look for the USER AREA and find the DRUM MAPS.  download the drum maps for EZD and  any of the EZX kits you have.
 
follow the directions on where to install them.
 
then change the OUTPUT of your MIDI track to DRUM MAP>EZD
 
then it should work right.

does not have a drum map for music creater 6

you don't need to map the drums.

My guess is that when you get a decent sound card the missing notes will be s non issue. 

the drum maps for sonar are the same for MC6.

Herb, do you have EZ Drummer?  there are some hits which are not GM mapped depending on the MIDI loops and the drum hits you're trying to trigger, thus a drum map is needed.
 
according to the EZD Manual:
Furthermore, if GM compatibility is important to you, you should always program your tracks using notes between 36 (C1) and 60 (C3) only. This is to ensure accurate playback on GM compatible devices (cymbal chokes notwithstanding).
Technical note: all notes in the range 35 to 60 are GM compliant with the following exceptions -
39 (clap), 54 (tambourine), 58 (vibraslap), 60 (bongo).
 
so if you aren't using a drum map, you won't hear those hits at all. 
 
What Herb (Guitarhacker) says about the sound card CAN be the issue.  I'm not saying he's wrong.  but the information that you don't need a drum map is not correct.
 
if the soundcard is causing the problem there ARE alternatives we can try before you buy a soundcard which will give you more certainty that the problem is the soundcard.  and those things might be able to help you to get along until you can afford a real soundcard.
  

 

owwwww! no, I don't think I have EZ drummer. And I don't think I'll buy it just to learn how to do mapping. Session Drummer and Jamstix are the ones I have but as you know, I rarely use either these days. 

I've seen a few people come here in the past want to build drum maps and really didn't need to do that, but that might have been with a different synth. 

Drum maps, I have never had to do that..... I guess I misspoke on that one. 

dang .... ignore duplicate