DankStar
Her Little Mojo Minion
RANT WARNING -
I finally got my imac in working order with el capitan. I've been messing with the EZD2 demo, and I get to where I'm going to lay down a scratch track, now my interface doesn't have any drivers for the OS. :argh: I hate recording with computers.
As another bonus, logic express didn't get upgraded through the ages with apple's various OSs, so I get this awesome black "blanket" that goes over all the tracks as it's recording or playing back, nearly rendering the whole experience impossible to use now.
I'm not super impressed with EZD2 - for all the features, it's still a PITA to write a tune (with drums that actually follow the riffs). I guess if you just want a bunch of drum loops that just keeps a beat going it's fine. Once you get to wanting cymbal chokes on specific parts and midi editing within the program, forget about it. And you can drag out of the thing but not back into it.
As for its available library, I tapped out a simple rock beat so I could have it search for matches and it listed all this motown stuff that doesn't have a rock feel at all - you can go in an edit (barely) but at that point, I can pound out my own on my midi drums with slate. Their solution would be for me to check their entire line of loops via the online search and then buy whatever add-on packs have the loops I want. That sounds really economical, thanks!
I do like the drum sounds though; not worth $150 just to have it trigger the sounds and not use the rest of it. I could see using it for fills - those are hard to do on a drum pad and have them sound realistic.
I swear I'm going to go back to a drum machine and a 4-track, Jolly style. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
I finally got my imac in working order with el capitan. I've been messing with the EZD2 demo, and I get to where I'm going to lay down a scratch track, now my interface doesn't have any drivers for the OS. :argh: I hate recording with computers.
As another bonus, logic express didn't get upgraded through the ages with apple's various OSs, so I get this awesome black "blanket" that goes over all the tracks as it's recording or playing back, nearly rendering the whole experience impossible to use now.
I'm not super impressed with EZD2 - for all the features, it's still a PITA to write a tune (with drums that actually follow the riffs). I guess if you just want a bunch of drum loops that just keeps a beat going it's fine. Once you get to wanting cymbal chokes on specific parts and midi editing within the program, forget about it. And you can drag out of the thing but not back into it.
As for its available library, I tapped out a simple rock beat so I could have it search for matches and it listed all this motown stuff that doesn't have a rock feel at all - you can go in an edit (barely) but at that point, I can pound out my own on my midi drums with slate. Their solution would be for me to check their entire line of loops via the online search and then buy whatever add-on packs have the loops I want. That sounds really economical, thanks!
I do like the drum sounds though; not worth $150 just to have it trigger the sounds and not use the rest of it. I could see using it for fills - those are hard to do on a drum pad and have them sound realistic.
I swear I'm going to go back to a drum machine and a 4-track, Jolly style. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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