EZ Drummer Drum Review

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EZdrummer was developed to provide you with the best possible drum-sample quality in a small, inexpensive plug-in format that’s really easy to setup. With Toontrack’s EZdrummer, you can easily drag-and-drop audition samples and build drum kits recorded with multi-microphone configurations. You additionally get a mixer window which allows stereo and multi-track routing into your host sequencer through a plug-in and contains presets for fast mix types and speedy sample switching.

With the second-generation “Toontrack Percussive Compression” (TPC), system requirements are minimal, which means it is a readily available virtual drum kit worthy of high-end studios, but accessible for the basement studio too. The EZdrummer sampler includes the recording and producing experience of Pat Thrall (Pat Travers, Black Crowes) and Neil Dorfsman (Dire Straits, Paul McCartney), the drumming expertise of Nir Z (Genesis, Joss Stone, John Mayer), as well as the engineering assistance of Toontrack’s own Mattias Eklund and Henrik Kjellberg.

Their blended efforts have made an in depth assortment of over 8000 MIDI files recorded at Avatar Studios, a 50-year old location which has been home to a veritable who’s who of award-winning musicians. EZdrummer is now Windows Vista compatible.

Features:

• 7000 sound files at 16-bit/44.1kHz equivalent to 5GB of uncompressed WAV files
• Instant access to more than 8000 MIDI drum patterns with pre-listening, quick browsing, and drag-n-drop functionality
• Same extensive layer depth on all drums and cymbals as in EZdrummer’s big brother – dfh SUPERIOR
• Ranges from entry level usability to pro handling
• Features multiple microphone control
• TPC II reduces system requirements to a minimum
• Operates in general MIDI

What Users Say…

Freddie Lamberte:

“For a working musician this software is a must have in ur arsenal. It makes ur life easy n cheaper than hiring a professional drummer”.

EZDrummer is a virtual instrument (says so right on the name). What that means is that you plug it into your favorite “main” sequencer program (FL Studio, Cubase, Mixcraft, whatever) and use it from there. Actually, EZ Drummer *does* come with a stand-alone program as well, but it’s mainly a virtual instrument. Complaining that you need to buy a sequencer to use it is like complaining that you need to have a computer or an operating system, or a disk drive, or a power outlet. Duh! That’s it’s nature, and it’s well understood.

The licensing is not *that* bad. Here’s what it is: you install the program from the disk, you login to their website and fill in some info including the “license key” that comes with your disk, Toontrack generates an automated email containing an authcode that is specific to your computer and your serial number, you type that in on your computer, and you are done.

The bottom line is that you can set two machines up to run with a single copy of EZDrummer. Then if you want to install it on a 3rd machine you have to de-activate one of the licenses that you had previously activated.

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