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OK, for EZD 2 here's what I've been able to figure out so far. I went with stereo tracks as well, and things seems to line up better. It seems that the Cakewalk drum map for Session Drummer 2 matches up for the main EZD 2 kit pieces. I have not gone hunting for any unmapped items yet, but it seems workable. Clicking on the drum map labels in the piano roll will sound the respective kit pieces in EZD 2. Choosing different drum kits in EZD 2 changes a few items in the EZD 2 mixer. So for now I am sticking with the EZD 2 Vintage basic kit. It seems that only the kick and snare are individually "miked". The hats, cymbals, and toms only seem to come over on the "OH" (Overhead) and the "Amb" (ambient room) outputs, as well as the output labeled "Comp". That has some of the same sounds as the ambient output, but it's not clear to me yet what that is doing. Discovered this by alternately muting or soloing from the EZD 2 mixer while looping a MIDI drum pattern in Cakewalk to isolate what was routing to what. The operation manual is fairly basic, and doesn't go into much detail on the mixer section.

No, but it carries over if you have Sonar installed on the same machine.

I have EZDrummer 2 also, and noticed the same thing. Still tinkering with it... definitely different from AD2.

I think the cause of confusion is that a simple instrument track is a hybrid track made up of a combined MIDI track and Audio track. Simple is probably not the best name, because it's not entirely intuitive. It's handy for plug and play though. MIDI controller input (or a MIDI clip, piano roll, or step sequencer) triggers the instrument (soft synth), that then generates the audio output. If you want to record the MIDI from your controller, that can be done directly on the instrument track. It just needs an active MIDI input, must be armed for record, and the input echo should be enabled only for that track. If you want to access the audio track for your instrument, you may want to begin by inserting an instrument as separate audio and MIDI track types, using options for MIDI source, and synth audio outputs, rather than as a simple instrument track.

So my pseudo-scientific study tells me that the best rock drummers are from either Canada, or the UK. Pass the Molson, please!

Never touch the stuff! But you might catch me with a Bass Ale, or a Boddington's...

Or John Bonham!

Just that PROBABLY not everyone would agree with me. I mean for some, it might be John Bonham, or Ringo, LOL!

Then you are all set! By the way, I've seen 2 live Rush concerts with Neil. He was probably the best rock drummer ever! ?

The short version is that getting dry pre-fader individual audio outs for each kit piece, from any drum plugin, over to the Cakewalk mixer gives you the flexibility to mix the kit directly in the console, as if you were miking a real drum kit. There are two important steps: 1. When you insert the drum plugin in Cakewalk, choose "instrument track per output", rather than "simple instrument track", and presto! You probably want to select mono for the kit pieces, although stereo is an option (that's really only good for the room, overhead, and busses). 2. Then go into the drum plugin and make adjustments as needed to assign what you want to send to Cakewalk on each output. Then there is a bit of housekeeping as far as labeling channels and stuff so you can tell what's what. All covered nicely in the video!

The SampleTank Neil Peart library would qualify for GB at the $79.99 level. I do not recall ever seeing crossgrade prices for any instrument libraries. Just for the instruments and effects.

It's clearly on the qualifying list... https://www.ikmultimedia.com/25gb/#products

A quick 3-4 minute video tour of how to implement a drum map from scratch in Cakewalk (video is already cued at 5:35 for this drum map topic). This example uses AD2, but I assume you could follow this to implement one for any drum kit you are using.

So I woke up this morning, fired up my copy of AKAI VIP 3, and after it scanned my new KORG plugins, guess what? There were factory preset maps available for some of them!!! ? The VIP preset browser has these all tagged by "Instrument | Timbre | Style | Articulation". M1: 1524 presets MonoPoly: 257 presets MS-20: 32 presets Polysix: 32 presets Wavestation: 900 presets

If you don't already have Unify, you should get it! Only $79. https://www.pluginguru.com/products/unify-standard/ Unify comes loaded with content out of the box, and also has many free "Unified" patch libraries available for many commercial and free synths (you will need to have the synth licenses to use these libraries, demos won't work for them). Such as:

Yup! ?

Well you do get WUP for a year on those 3 plugins...

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Sonic Reality apparently produced this one for Cakewalk Session Drummer 3. Interesting that it's still available for sale. I have the Neil Peart kit for SampleTank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Reality

You would have to actually "BUY" 2 licenses to achieve that. Sweetwater's deal is buy one from them, and IK will give you the free one. So if you buy 2 and register 2 at IK, then you will get 2 (or more with Group Buy) at IK.

Larry caught the fine print. Sweetwater is not giving anything away. They are just luring you into the IK group buy with 1 free item. Shady if you ask me... "Free Product will be available upon REGISTRATION" (at IK).

You're apparently right. I missed that! I thought they were offering a direct deal when Sweetwater said "one". Tricky dudes...

Sweetwater is offering a buy one get one with T-RackS Sunset Sound Studios Reverb. So buy this, and get a free plugin of equal value there, and then register at IK as qualifying item for more group buy freebies at the $149 level! https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TRacksSSVerb--ik-multimedia-t-racks-sunset-sound-studios-reverb Same deal for the Lurssen Mastering Console at the $159 level... https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LurssenMast--ik-multimedia-lurssen-mastering-console And MODO bass for the $299 level (with the Sweetwater bogo deal that's like half off!!!) https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ModoBass--ik-multimedia-modo-bass Amplitube 5 Software Suite for $299 (Sweetwater bogo) https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AmpliTube5--ik-multimedia-amplitube-5-software-suite Not a deal! "Free Product will be available upon REGISTRATION" (at IK)

Those are all good ones! I like the MixBox better than T-RackS, as you can quickly slap an FX chain on any track as you are getting creative as a musician, and tweak that. I'm not an engineer, so T-RackS takes a bit more patience and planning... probably much more useful for mixdown and mastering... And for some reason, anything that I run through Lurssen sounds better coming out of the other end (says the non-engineer)! That Hammond sure sounds authentic (created in close collaboration with both the Hammond Organ Company, of Chicago, Illinois, and Suzuki Musical Instruments Mfg. of Hamamatsu, Japan)! My go-to now for tone wheel and Leslie goodness!