Not nearly as fast as EZD’s method.ĪD2 seems to offer more sound shaping than EZD. Very handy! AD has a grid search in which you fill in a drum machine-like grid to find similar patterns in your collection. You can also play in your own patterns to find similar ones in your collection. In the Search window, you can drop pattern into the MIDI drop zone and EZD will find similar patterns from your collection. Midi pattern search: here’s where I think EZD comes out a bit ahead. You can also reassign articulations in this window.

It does not let you mute certain parts and have that reflected in the midi that you drag and drop to your DAW. You can thin out or increase the density of hits of individual kit pieces (as well as the pattern as a whole) and you can increase or decrease the velocity of each kit piece. EZD, via the Edit Play Style window, lets you do many of those same things. You can also change the speed and length of the midi pattern. Superior Drummer 2 used to do this it looks like SD3 will allow only a single kitpiece's midi to be selected rather than several. You can also mute various parts of kit and have that change reflected in the midi that you drag to your DAW. You can change which articulations are being triggered (change snare to sidestick, for example). You can also do the same thing for the velocity levels of each individual kit piece. You can broaden or narrow the dynamic range (that is, velocity) of the midi pattern, as well as raise or lower its overall velocity level. Midi pattern editing: AD can do quite a bit via the transform tab in the Beats window. EZD’s controls are more minimal - just a few basic controls on the mixer page, like reverb, dynamics, pitch, and mic bleed.

There are also global effects (reverb, delay, EQ) that can be applied to taste via sends for each channel. On the Edit page, there are kitpiece controls (response, pitch, tone designer, volume envelope) as well as noise, tape & shape, EQ, compression and distortion. Sound shaping: AD gives you quite a bit of control over each piece of the kit.

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