a way to route ever single kit piece from EZDrummer/Metal Machine?

[bryan_kilco]

So, I forget exactly how many Output channels are provided in EZDrummer, but I've run into an issue where I select Multi-Out for all my kit pieces and it routes everything to their own separate tracks in Reaper.

Except the toms.

They are all on the same channel, because I don't have enough routing options inside EZDrummer.

Am I missing something silly? Do I have to use 2 instances of EZD? I simply cannot work with all the toms being on Track 5 or whatever it is.

HALP!

 

[FIXXXER]

unfortunately, the toms are "baked" into one stereo track, IIRC this is the only thing that really sucks about EZ.
a possible solution would be adding two or more instances of EZ and load the toms seperately, it's a mess and very confusing though.

 

[abt]

Use the "Original Mix" preset, it has every tom on its own mixer channel which can be routed to where ever you like.

 

[bryan_kilco]

Use the "Original Mix" preset, it has every tom on its own mixer channel which can be routed to where ever you like.

I'll check into this when I get back home, thanks. But does this mean other kit pieces are sacrificed? I would ideally like something like:

-kick
-snare top
-snare bottom
-hats
-tom1
-tom2
-tom3
-tom4
-ride
-splash
-china
-OH (all crashes)
-Room

and I noticed Metal Machine has "Ambience" and "Reverb" channels as well. Assuming ambience is room? I haven't played around with it too much yet and I'm away on a job and don't have it on this computer. So far it seems the single Slate kit I have sounds beefier than the MM stuff.

 

[bryan_kilco]

Use the "Original Mix" preset, it has every tom on its own mixer channel which can be routed to where ever you like.

Got a chance to try this and I didn't even have the "Original Mix" preset available. It looks like I'm stuck with all toms on a single track.

I've also noticed that MM drums sound quite thinner than the one Slate pack I have. This seem right?!

 

[~BURNY~]

Got a chance to try this and I didn't even have the "Original Mix" preset available. It looks like I'm stuck with all toms on a single track.

I've also noticed that MM drums sound quite thinner than the one Slate pack I have. This seem right?!

I seem to remember Original Mix presets came with the latest updates. I haven't tested it myself.

 

[bryan_kilco]

Hmm, thanks. I'll have to wait until the weekend before I can try that. I actually got the MM pack straight off my bassists disc because apparently it let's you install it on 2 machines/gives 2 licenses which was cool of them. So I probably have the base version.

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

Got a chance to try this and I didn't even have the "Original Mix" preset available. It looks like I'm stuck with all toms on a single track.

I've also noticed that MM drums sound quite thinner than the one Slate pack I have. This seem right?!

Every time I hear Slate drums they sound nice, but they seem to be basically pre-processed. The snares all have ridiculous reverb tails and the kicks are all slappy out of the box. Most of the EZX's I own tend to provide you with less-processed and more-processed versions of each drum, particularly the kick. In some EZX's, there's a snare or two with that bumpy bottom end and prominent verb already mixed in, or at least switchable through the kit room/verb presets. The snares for MM are all fairly dry for whatever reason, so that could sound thinner if you weren't expecting it, mostly because I think that's Andy's style. You can always add a low shelf and clip the snare for a more Slate-esque, mid-focused sound, and you can just put a reverb insert or a reverb aux channel to add to it.

Also...thought I posted in this thread originally, but couldn't use some tool in your DAW to route a certain MIDI key or set of keys to a new track, so you can specifically have it target each individual tom using the piano roll midi numbers?

 

[bryan_kilco]

I'm not sure about that, to be honest. It's not the end of the world as I really only use programmed drums for my own demo ideas. But...yeah....not being able to work on each tom individually is a pest! I'll check for the later updates and see what that brings me. And you know what - what you said about the Slate is totally true. Just the other day I was rending out instruments from an old session so my bandmates could hear everything solo'd and I just could NOT get rid of the snare verb no matter what I did. Finally it sunk in that it was baked into the sample.