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Review
ToonTrack EZdrummer is a versatile and functional-looking Virtual Studio Technology (VST) instrument that users can use to play drums directly on its computer, or to create and edit drum patterns, either as a plugin for DAW or as a standalone program. Ideally, the user will use it as a plugin for DAW (digital audio workstation), adding the instrument's sounds to a broader musical production project. However, EZdrummer even has some excellent standalone features that help the user produce bits of music even without a DAW.
First off, the photorealistic drum rack looks great, and it is easily customizable. Left-clicking on any drum will play it, while right-clicking will allow a user to change the actual instrument that is played, but also its pitch, volume, and velocity. Apart from the kick drum, the snare, the hi-hats, cymbals, and toms that are part of a drum track, a user also get to play tambourines, shakers, claps, and a cowbell.
Pressing record in the interface and trying to click the drums one by one with the mouse will not result in anything even remotely similar to music. User will be taken to a new window with customized drum rack, where will be able to hear a metronome and still be able to click the drums and play them; only this time the program will record one drum pattern and keep looping it while the user plays another drum, and another, and another.
This would be an excellent time to add that the program comes with a library of prerecorded MIDI drum sets that users can use to create their songs. Also, the pattern that the user record during "Tap 2 Find" session also gets recorded as a MIDI. It would be overkill to write about all the EZdrummer's functions in just one review. The user probably would not be able to produce whole songs only by using this VST (unless want to make a drum-only song). Still, if a user wants natural sounding drum patterns in its production, then this is a plugin that should consider.
- Tap or record rhythm to find a matching groove, search by filters or browse the traditional way;
- Perfect marriage of sound, form, and function;
- Use the Power Hand to instantaneously change the leading instrument or the Amount or Velocity knobs to control the complexity and velocity in a selected groove;
- The best music software for DJs, Music Makers, Studios in addition to Music creators;
- Go from initial rhythmic idea to finished, mixed and customized drum track without ever leaving the program;
- Intuitive user workflow interface;
- Intuitive and creatively gratifying software environment for drum production;
- Works easier, faster, and also intuitive.
What is new in version 3.0.5 (Released on September 01, 2022):
EZdrummer 3.0.5 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.0.5 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q4 2022).
CHANGES
General
Grid Editor
E-Drums
Settings
BUG FIXES
General
Drums Tab
Grooves Tab
Mixer Tab
Song Track
Edit Play Style
Audio Export
E-Drums
Standalone
What is new in version 2.1.8 (Released on December 10, 2019):
New:
Fixed:
EZdrummer 3.0.5 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 3.0.5 is required for the support of EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q4 2022).
CHANGES
General
- Added high-resolution graphics for several menu icons and buttons, etc;
- Improved readability of the main tab labels and improved color cohesiveness with tab content below selected tab.
Grid Editor
- A new articulation row called “Choke (Stop Playing)” has been added for each instrument that responds to aftertouch. The poly-aftertouch editors have been removed;
- Moving the playhead in the song track now scrolls the Grid Editor to show the playhead, unless the Auto-Scroll option is off.
E-Drums
- The hi-hat splash feature has been improved in order to remove unwanted hi-hat splashes. The hi-hat now has a time window, within which the pedal needs to have been raised after a “Pedal Closed” hit in order to generate a splash.
Settings
- On Windows, there is now a setting to invert the horizontal scroll direction when shift+wheel is used.
BUG FIXES
General
- Some (few) EZX presets would for some instruments cause a high-pitched noise at low buffer sizes;
- The current library preset was not marked with an asterisk if a mixer knob was turned;
- Printing the MIDI layout with the plug-in scale being other than 100% would cause some texts to be incorrectly positioned and sometimes truncated;
- Quitting certain hosts when the VST 3 plug-in had been used could cause a crash;
- The setting “Keep on Preset Change: Output Routing” was never saved in preferences;
- Loading a project at the same time as the host was changing the plug-in parameters could potentially cause a crash;
- Changing libraries or loading a preset did not make the host get properly notified that parameter values (mixer knob values) had changed.
Drums Tab
- Trying to load an audio file on a cymbal or a tom would crash the program;
- Importing an audio file to an instrument with “Keep on Preset Change: Output Routing” active would make the instrument silent;
- It was not possible to switch to the Drums tab while dragging an audio file (by hovering on the tab).
Grooves Tab
- Fixed some cases where the “Clear All” button wasn’t hidden when no filters were active;
- Setting the velocity slider to something other than 0 and selecting a different groove would make the filter always say “+127 Velocity.”
Mixer Tab
- Setting a channel output to None, saving and loading the project would cause the channel to completely disappear.
Song Track
- Recording onto a song block with a user-defined Song Part (a custom color) could cause a crash;
- While recording, notes did not graphically appear on the red block;
- While recording, moving the playhead before the beginning of the red block would graphically start a new block instead of extending the existing one;
- The time signature editor did not support keyboard shortcuts for copy/paste;
- After dragging a groove from User MIDI, “Remove Groove Part” did not work on the block;
- The Auto-Scroll setting was never saved in preferences;
- The Count-In setting was never saved, it is now saved in the project (like Metronome on/off).
Edit Play Style
- asting notes on the tambourine or shaker pad should no longer cause a crash.
Audio Export
- On Windows, the disk space check could not correctly handle more than 4 GB free, so you could “randomly” get a false not-enough-disk-space error;
- Channels routed to “None” are no longer shown in the stem selection list;
- Deselecting stems to be exported did not work correctly.
E-Drums
- Changing libraries with an e-drum preset active could in some cases result in incorrect mapping for some notes/instruments;
- Floor toms in Hard Rock EZX and Rock Solid EZX were not mapped correctly with some e-drum presets, for example TD-50.
Standalone
- On Windows, the splash screen no longer has a drop shadow because it didn’t look good with the rounded corners.
What is new in version 2.1.8 (Released on December 10, 2019):
- EZdrummer 2.1.8 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the "My Products" area in the user Toontrack account. The release includes improvements and important fixes listed below. Note that EZdrummer 2.1.8 is required for EZX expansion packs released from this point forward (Q4 2018).
New:
- Aftertouch is now preserved when user record or import MIDI;
- Hi-hat CC is no longer converted to notes when recording;
- Aftertouch and CC can now be removed from song blocks using the right-click Remove Notes menu.
Fixed:
- Certain effect knobs in several EZXs did not work as intended (in version 2.1.7 only);
- When starting the standalone on MacOS X Snow Leopard, if the previously used audio device could not be opened, the error dialog for that was not possible to close;
- The effect library has been updated with fixes for some potential crashes.
System requirements:
OS: Microsoft Windows® 7, Windows® 8, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 10 (both 32 & 64-bit);
CPU: Pentium 4 or Athlon processor;
RAM: 2 GB;
HDD: 4 GB hard disk space.
Install notes:
1. Extract and run the executable file;
2. Enjoy!
Screenshots:
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All credits go to Team VR, who made and shared the preactivated version with us!
File: Toontrack Drum MIDI Packs Bundle.exe
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00/64MD5: caeeb82ca5b1166ebca390fed0e4f807
SHA1: 47fbd3ed7f23f16bcbb4f2d2b5f5bf2c37074f7d
SHA256: 4a2590b00f69e49741eb6b2556e0d16ec49c297f41f0c86a0a011fddb803687c
File: Toontrack EZdrummer v3.0.5 CE.exe
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00/62MD5: 5153197e24bd029220d5109305e34ff2
SHA1: 70ef5751ec590784c3930c0cd2331fbec7b16217
SHA256: 4104a62c40fa20b74d45dfb6845cd4bcced212fc1f08d563d8169ddfdad2c3dc
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