Sonar 7 producer & Ezdrummer

The one on Toontrack's site shows the concept

For Sonar - Open Ez drummer via the synth rack
The 'midi' and 'audio' track will load automatically
On the 'midi' track it'll have the 'output' going to Ez Drummer - double click the text and it'll open the EzDrummer interface if it's not already
Once EzDrummer has loaded ie 268MB - you will see a kit
Underneath you will see 'drag and drop' and 'open grooves'
click 'open grooves'
click pop/rock - then click 'ballad' in the next column - then click a 'groove' in the next column - then a 'variation' in the next
press the 'play' button next to 'drag and drop' - you should hear it
To put it on Sonar - click on where it said 'drag and drop' (it'll now show the groove name you selected)
Drag that onto the 'midi' track - it'll fill one measure
To stretch that clip over many measures - just highlight it and press ctrl+L - it's now a groove clip and can be stretched

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I find that the following is a very effective way to use EZD to create drum tracks fast:

1) Set up EZD on an audio track. This is a rough scratch setup, but it'll work fine for programming the drum tracks.
2) set up a MIDI track for your main groove and point this MIDI track to the EZD plugin.
3) set up another MIDI track for your drum fills and point this track to the EZD plugin also.
4) Now you can audition MIDI groove files using the built-in MIDI file browser in EZD. When you find a clip that will serve for your main groove, drag it into the first MIDI track and stretch it out as a Groove clip (as per the instructions in the previous post).
5) Record the rest of your parts over this main groove.
6) go back to EZD and audition fill parts. Drag these to the appropriate places in your second MIDI track, and erase the corresponding parts from the main MIDI track.
7) Edit as necessary to complete the midi drum tracks.
8) delete EZD from the audio track where you had it set up. Now insert EZD as a synth in your synth rack, and include all the audio outputs, so you get a separate output for the kick, snare, hats, etc. Go into EZD's mixer and allocate the various drums to particular outputs. point your MIDI tracks to this new instance of EZD.
9) Bounce the drum tracks to audio and start mixing.

Regards, lightninrick
Regards, lightninrick

ORIGINAL: Fitzy

I am having a similar problem. I load ezdrummer, load Nashville drum kit, the screen comes up and I can play all the grooves without a problem I drag measures into the ezdrummer track and it loads up. However, when I try and play the track back I get no sound! I use and Edirol interface and that interface shows in the track as output, but nothing comes out?

Fitzy

The most common cause for this is that the USER is dragging the grooves into the EZdrummer audio track instead of the EZdrummer midi track. The fact that the Edirol is showing up in the output leads me to believe that this is the case. Don't feel too embarrassed if you have done this. I do it occasionally myself - still.