Bapu Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 41 minutes ago, Fleer said: hey, that’s me! #metwo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawajava Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 At first glance I’m not wild about an organ soundbank from Toontrack for EZKeys 2. Because the soundbanks for EZKeys in general have never been the draw, instead the magic is the tool itself and the midi that we can put together. I am, however, quite intrigued about midi packs specializing in organ phrases. I might grab the organ soundbank because it may accentuate those midi packs. Very interesting new addition to their line up! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeringAmps Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 @lawajava 21 hours ago, bitflipper said: I listened to the clips and it sounds pretty good. Anybody can stack a bunch of oscillators and come up with a reasonable Hammond tone. So what I listen for is the one thing everybody struggles to get right: the Leslie, its tonal coloration, distortion, stereo spread, doppler effect, speed changes and model types. This one seems to be doing a good job at those things, maybe even equal to IKM's Leslie Well according to this fellow it "sounds pretty good"... As I mentioned early in the thread I always thought/hoped that EZB3 would be a "unique" instrument with its own midi packs. Lots of folks who can "play" piano, can't "play" the B3... t 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 As far as I know these EKX sound expansions in EZKeys2 contain lots of MIDI. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cclarry Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 https://www.toontrack.com/product/session-organ-ekx/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cclarry Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 $82.27 at Best Service https://www.bestservice.com/en/ekx_session_organ.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 /rerun on Installed! /rerun off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cclarry Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 Wow...my posts showed up an hour after I posted them....LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 65MB Comes with 600 MIDI files (triple the size of their MIDI add-on packs). 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vernon Barnes Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 A quick test for those wanting to use export MIDI to use in IK Hammond B-3X I selected MIDI in EZ Keys that used both upper and lower manuals. When the MIDI is dragged into Studio One two tracks are created, one for each manual. This can then be routed to the corresponding manuals in B3-X. Both Leslie speed and expression CC 11 are transferred to the upper manual track. Leslie speed is via the modulation controller and works well unless there is a Leslie break. Brake is midway value on the modulation cc from Session Organ which B3-X does not recognise. Theoretically you would need to manually insert CC93 value to brake the Leslie on BX-3 but I have not managed to make that work yet, probably user error. I does not appear that any other continuous controller data is generated by EZ keys. There are preset keys in Session Organ (the black keys on the lowest octave) I have not tested if these are transferred in the MIDI but in any case to work properly it would need the drawbar presets to be setup identically in both instruments. In conclusion the data from Session Organ will be usable in B3-X with some minor edits. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 On 2/5/2024 at 9:04 AM, lawajava said: At first glance I’m not wild about an organ soundbank from Toontrack for EZKeys 2. Because the soundbanks for EZKeys in general have never been the draw, instead the magic is the tool itself and the midi that we can put together. I am, however, quite intrigued about midi packs specializing in organ phrases. I might grab the organ soundbank because it may accentuate those midi packs. Very interesting new addition to their line up! Outside of that few realize Toontrack can be a money pit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grem Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 30 minutes ago, kitekrazy said: can be a money pit. Yes it can be. But I have gotten much use out of all the EZX/EKX/EBX and midi I have acquired. I can throw a song together pretty quick. Not something I would release, but definitely useful for practice and getting ideas together with others. BTW, unless they come out with good stuff, I got everything I need now. And I got a lot... but not near everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeringAmps Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 1 hour ago, kitekrazy said: money pit. 59 minutes ago, Grem said: Yes it can be But as @Bapuand I have tried to educate the masses; buy the midi six packs. The search functions yield useful results quickly. t 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grem Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 2 hours ago, DeeringAmps said: buy the midi six packs. Yep. Still have 4 or 5 serials for drum midi pack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vernon Barnes Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 On 2/15/2024 at 8:29 PM, Vernon Barnes said: A quick test for those wanting to use export MIDI to use in IK Hammond B-3X I selected MIDI in EZ Keys that used both upper and lower manuals. When the MIDI is dragged into Studio One two tracks are created, one for each manual. This can then be routed to the corresponding manuals in B3-X. Both Leslie speed and expression CC 11 are transferred to the upper manual track. Leslie speed is via the modulation controller and works well unless there is a Leslie break. Brake is midway value on the modulation cc from Session Organ which B3-X does not recognise. Theoretically you would need to manually insert CC93 value to brake the Leslie on BX-3 but I have not managed to make that work yet, probably user error. I does not appear that any other continuous controller data is generated by EZ keys. There are preset keys in Session Organ (the black keys on the lowest octave) I have not tested if these are transferred in the MIDI but in any case to work properly it would need the drawbar presets to be setup identically in both instruments. In conclusion the data from Session Organ will be usable in B3-X with some minor edits. Further to this, automation of drawbars is possible in the grid editor in EZKeys. MIDI dragged out of EZKeys seems to correctly affect the drawbars in BX-3. Other things can also be automated, I tried the scanner vibrato, but this requires manual assignment in BX-3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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