Scott Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Looking for your advice: When I place a groove from Ezdrummer into cakewalk, it inserts at about 1 measure. I then Groove Clip Loop it out to 50 measure. To do this, I grab the right side of the clip and swipe my mouse left and right (at right side of screen) many times to get it long enough to get around 50 measures. Question: Is there a more efficient way to do this? Like, identify somewhere how long I need the drum clip and it just takes it there? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustabo Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 You can always copy and paste (specify how many times to paste in the dialog box) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 depends on the drum track you create in EZD (or really any other tool like EZK and EZB, the Ample series of instruments w/ their Riff section, Scaler, etc etc) the idea is whatever is the length you need for a given section of song divide that by the phrases you need. e.g. i have a verse of 12 measures, and 3 separate drum phrases, so i create a 12 measure track in EZD, create those phrases, then drag that into my MIDI track. then repeat for chorus etc. then either copy those clips into the rest of the song (or use the arrangement tool in CW) to fill it in. for simpler phrases / song structures, the groove clip approach is viable. often times i'll stretch it for the length needed, then bounce to clip to eliminate the looping, and then edit parts to mix it up a bit (crashes, splashes, flams, some tom hits, etc etc). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parboo12 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Or zoom way out in your Track View and drag. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, Scott said: Looking for your advice: When I place a groove from Ezdrummer into cakewalk, it inserts at about 1 measure. I then Groove Clip Loop it out to 50 measure. To do this, I grab the right side of the clip and swipe my mouse left and right (at right side of screen) many times to get it long enough to get around 50 measures. Question: Is there a more efficient way to do this? Like, identify somewhere how long I need the drum clip and it just takes it there? Thanks That's something I have desired for years; a way to set how far the groove clip goes without having to drag it that far. Parboo12 has a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, parboo12 said: Or zoom way out in your Track View and drag. Exactly. Takes 3 seconds this way. Tip - You can use Alt mouse scroll wheel to zoom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Or, under 'View' in the Track View, select Fit Project to Window (Shift+F), drag it out, then View Undo (Alt+Z). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 Thanks to you all for the wonderful suggestions 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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