Importing Drum Loops from EZDrummer to BB

BeatBuddy General
#1

Hi,
I just got my BB and I’m digging it so far. Thanks for the great product!

My question is, I have a bunch of custom drum tracks that I made with EZDrummer and Protools, which I have been using for some time, and I would like to use in BB.

I have gone through the tutorials and docs and understand how to make a new song in BB Manager.
However, when I import these MIDI files, some of the drum sounds are missing. I understand it won’t be the same exact drum sounds (unless I go through the process of building a custom kit) But many of the basic sounds (much of the percussion) is missing.

I suppose I need to map these notes to sounds that are available in BB.
Does anyone know of a way to easily do this? Or has anyone built a kit using a standard EZ drummer kit mapping as the base. Or am I going about this all wrong?

Thanks!

#2

Hey Lozeone,
I use Reaper and EZ Drummer 2, but the process should be similar. First create a track and add EZDrummer 2. Then you need to get a map of what drums are available, you can get that here: http://mybeatbuddy.com/forum/index.php?threads/beatbuddy-drumsets-midi-notes-mapping.1873/. This will show what drums are available in your midi score editor.

(As you say, you could create your own kit - but that seems like a lot of hassle and you’re limited to 100MB, so probably best just to stick with the existing kits for now)

I then drag the midi part from EZDrummer into Reaper and open it with the the MIDI editor (which has the drum names from the link above). I then move all the drums that are not on named notes to a named version. For example, EZDrummer has a heap of hi-hat sounds outside of the General MIDI note range, I just select the row (right click) and move them to the Beat Buddy Hi-Hat (ctrl + up/down).

I can’t drag a midi loop from Reaper into the Beat Buddy Manager, so I need to get the loop back into EZDrummer 2 (as you can drag loops from EZDrummer). So, press the record arm in EZDrummer and then press play in Reaper. This ‘Records’ the beat back into EZDrummer. Then I simply drag it to the Beat Buddy Manager.

Easy!

#3

I’ve just read the release notes for the last firmware and one of the bullet points was ‘Support of External MIDI notes’. So that makes things even better. Just hook up a MIDI cable to the pedal and you can live preview the drum parts as you edit them in your DAW.

#4

I just did a video on exactly this topic covering how to use any MIDI drum files on your BeatBuddy. I cover GetGodd Drums and Toontrack EZdrummer grooves as examples and show how to use the BeatBuddy Manager in general to edit your songs! I hope anyone enjoys this!

Cheers!

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#5

It is very nice of you to share your “how to” video.

However, please do not post the same content in 3 different threads.

I have removed your other posts. Thank you for your understanding.

#6

Hello from Italy: I also use reaper and ezdrummer so I would like to ask you where I could find the map of the sounds of the bbuddy, since that links is expired. thanks!!

#7

This might help MIDI Maps 2018-02-25 - Various