EZ Drummer 3 Bandmate A-Z in 10 Minutes
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00:00 - Introduction
00:42 - What is it?
01:09 - Need Files?
01:20 - Importing
02:15 - Sync and Controls
03:36 - Tools and Looping
04:50 - Finding matching beats elsewhere
06:05 - Grooves and Beat Controls
07:27 - Switching and Sorting Beats
09:18 - Pretty cool, right?
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In case you need some audio files to play with while trying out Bandmate drive.google.com/file/d/1MwyCDyajOz0KuJJN0uvutZwaVfODF9pk/view?usp=sharing
man you are a natural educator, concise and to the point. you take all the baby fat out of all explanations. cant thank you enough!
Thank you, Eduardo!!
Your videos are awesome! You talk like the ultimate corporate training video and I love it.
Thank you, Ted!
So glad I found your channel ... substantive, clear, and great presentation ... super work ... thank you for sharing!!
Fantastic comment, it makes my day. Thank you!
Thanks for the time you put into these videos Shawn, and helping us stay on top of our game..
HARLEY!!!!!!!!
This is so awesome! Thanks for the overview as I'm a bit new to EZ Drummer in general too! Great video!
You got it!
Dude, you are my hero. Years using EzDrummer and never found such good tutorials.
my best wishes, thank you very much
My pleasure, thank you for saying!
Great job on this looking forward to all the other videos 😎👍
Thank you, Rob!!
Great work, thanks again Shawn. Some awesome upgrades in EZD3 that are really well done. Looking forward to you covering these over coming vids. Cheers!
Thank you for commenting, Glenn. Cheers!
@@ShootieSchool , you can easily replace the groove from any ezdrummer library, because there are not as many grooves in the filters as we would like. This is a big plus. Although it is not so obvious, but it is very easy to do it
@@user-nw8bf3py9n Certainly is. DO tell what method you're referring to if you wish.
@@ShootieSchool , I add a guitar loop, the midi grooves of the drums are automatically selected, then I go to the "grooves" tab, select the desired midi groove from any ezdrummer library (which I have), for example from "black metal", drag it to the track "drag grooves here", go back to the "Bandmate" tab, and then drag it to the automatically selected groove from the filters menu, and the groove will change to the one I need
@@user-nw8bf3py9n Certainly can. You can Detach the Groove's Tab as well to work more quickly and drag straight to Bandmate.
Right on! Very, quick and informative. Like this because it was less than 10 minutes; and I'll probably watch it again knowing it's short and sweet!
I appreciate you commenting on my vids, Ron!
Best tutorial channel out there… thanks man!
Thanks so much for saying, AJ!
Great video. I purchased eZdrummer 3, which is for me the best drummer for creating songs, but I didn't see the bandmate interest before watching your video. It's great, well explained, and easy to understand. Thanks a lot for this.
I appreciate you saying that. This is the way. Thank you!
Great video and it looks like your channel is full of amazing content. I've been using EZ Drummer for years, but mostly for writing with presets - defining a song structure and writing to that with various EZX/MIDI packs. For final recording, my producer is a genius at custom drum programming (and sometimes we use a real drummer) but we haven't worked together for a while. I have tons of guitar/vocal song fragments where I'd like to add drums to help me finish the songs, and it looks like Bandmate could be the key to that. My first tries were awful but now I see now that there are lots of things to adjust and lots of things to learn. Your videos look to be really helpful in that. Thanks! Subscribed.
I appreciate the comment and sub, Bruce ! welcome.
How is your progress now, a year later? ✌🏾
Very helpful info, thank you.
Thank you for commenting, Tam.
ALSO... In addition to guitars, I use EZ Keys a lot for writing and recently got EZ Bass too. I appreciate that Bandmate works well with MIDI, including MIDI from these other Toontrack tools. Lots to learn but I think this will result in cool new idea sources and workflows for writing and recording.
Great info! I'm kind of a novice at recording but needed something to help me with percussion and drums.. EzDrummer3 is excellent.. again thanks for the info...
Thanks for commenting Bo. There's a bunch of stuff on my channel if you're using EZDrummer3.
Really like your style, I have EZ Drummer 2 and have been using it for a while now, I am thinking of upgrading and find your reviews/tutorials really helpful. I can see the Band mate feature is going to save me a load of time, I used to have to search for hours until I have the right style and feel, apart from the time looking for the right beat the only thing I found frustrating with EZ2 was the fills and transitions from Verse to chorus etc.
Thank you, Duncan. Yes, transition are the most important thing. I'll be chatting about that in the grid editor in the future. I appreciate you commenting!
@@ShootieSchool Cool 😃I will look foreword to that 👍
Awesome info
Welcome back, Michael. Thank you!
Shootie your videos are invaluable, thank you for the effort. I still enjoy EZD2 but this bandmate feature makes me want to upgrade now. Unfortunately I'm low on the bones so I'll wait for Black Friday unless Shootie alerts us on any new deals. Would like to see you compare the audio fidelity of the new vs old as well as experimenting with importing hits and creating custom kits. I'll be waiting on that subscriber bell to ding! Thanks man.
Thank you for coming back, Fred. I appreciate you commenting. I'm not sure how I will attack a comparison video at this point, it will come to me. You know I'll tear up the rest, stay tuned. I can only find the regular version on sale. If I see the upgrade, you'll hear about it. Cheers.
@@ShootieSchool Actually Shootie I meant the $99 upgrade from EZD2, I should have hit it when it was $20 off. I'll keep an eye out for your Toontrack discount vids, those are appreciated! For audio fidelity comparison I'd like to know if it objectively sounds better. I'm guessing there must be a way to compare the bit depth or wave pattern of a snare or kick (for example) from similar kits in each version of EZD. That stuff is beyond me but I know Shootie can figure it out.
@@Fred.pSonic Yeah, we are talking about the same thing.
From the tech spec since you brought it up. The bit depth slowly goes up as time goes on, the sample rate does not.
Wow I had no idea what a phenomenal tool I have in EZD3. Great tutorial thank you!
You got it, Peaches :)
TOP !
Subscribed!
Awesome, thanks!
Best demo yet. Would like to learn more about flows in and out of Logic.
Thanks for the comment, Alan!
Mmm 5/4 that's a sweet tip
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I'm waiting for you to say "Yeahhh, Johnny got wacked."
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You Speak Tune Trackian very well !..........
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@@ShootieSchool U bet man!!!
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Dude the thought came to mind as every other minute I stepped the vid back to catch the detail as my brain was trying to store all the nuggets of gold. Nutrient dense food for the brain.. there's so much in your videos , this one for sure, it's nutrient dense info dense not full of fluff. Thanks again and this is the reason your vids kick major ass bar none (no pun intended) thanks a million, extra credits added to your account 😊😉 Dang how long did you work on that gleaning that info ... 👍!
I didn't even think you would like this one. Thanks so much for saying. I got up at 7am and it's now 2:30am. I kind of have 2 days off a week, so I need to crunch them in when I can. Thanks again, Shane.
@@ShootieSchool I loved it you opened my mind to uses above what I originally thought it was for. It's hard to put into words cause you shared a bunch of work flows n tricks I didn't think of simple things dragging into the song creator just looked so easy opening up the different styles there was a bunch of stuff . Nutrient dense brain food plus once you start seeing work flows you know who designed systems things in a certain pattern that will relate to the rest of the system. A classic for me being a PC nerd for years was getting a Mac and having to unthink things . Getting frustrated then finding the answer feeling like a brain dead idiot cause it was so so simple . If you can think like the designer you can grasp the whole system fairly quickly
@@williamshaneblyth I appreciate you talking with me about it. I forget if you replied the other day, but I assumed since your keys-based that you might get a kick out of dragging your keys midi to this. Though not having your intended sounds might be off-putting. I've gone completely Mac based to Completely PC based a few times, at this point, it's whatever I can afford at the moment, it doesn't even matter anymore. But I do remember the original transition.
@@ShootieSchool I taught PC skills on a 1 to 1 basis years ago anyway 7 get some rest and we'll done 👍
cute little drop down window lol \m/
It is!!! We'll I was implying the sounds, but, you get it.
@@ShootieSchool it's all good bro it gave me a good laugh ✌ also subscribed🤘
@@jfloyd2919 I appreciate that!
Hi Shawn, I juts ordered ez3! Waiting for the link to download. Quick question, (I may be missing something) I also have pro tools. Is there a way to work with those grooves in PT or is it not recommended? Reason is, I am used to looking at the wave forms in pro tools while laying down tracks. Not "2 screens" if that makes sends ? Appreciate your work man !!! From Boston.
I'm not sure where exactly you're at, Jon. This may help. When you load EZD in Pro Tools as a Plugin, it will play when you play pro tools. You just open and close ezd when you want to see it, you'll always hear it.
here's two EZ/PT vids, I forget what's in the first one, but may be good if you're new. The second is a little trick with Bandmate when you're ready.
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@@ShootieSchool Perfect !! Thank you again!
@@jonlatino9964 You got it!
using ableton when i try to drag a recording of me playing my guitar it says something like file format unspported. do i have to export it first to a wav file? it looks like you were draggin em right off abletons app? i got a lot to learn but hoping i will
See if this helps... www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/ez-keys-2-bandmate/#post-3109919
You can do hella good voice overs man
You have a hella good username!
Hi there - thanks for these great vids! Quick question - I’m not seeing the BandMate option when I load EZDrummer 3 as a plugging with my DAW (Reaper a but I have others). Is it only available in the standalone version?
Something is wrong, it should always be available. I'd reinstall EZ before pursing the issue.
Thanks very much for the help! I’ll reinstall and dig more deeply!
Thanks for doing these tutorials. I'm new to EZ Drummer 3. I'm struggling with Bandmate so far. I'm putting in a lot of fast-strumming acoustic guitars, and nothing it recommends comes close to sounding good. Any suggestions? Might an expansion pack (like country) give me a wider menu of grooves it could recommend?
As a test stop playing chords and play your guitar as if it was a bass. You’ve got to be playing tight to a metronome.
@@ShootieSchool I'll give that a shot. Thanks, Shawn!
@@ShootieSchool That was definitely good advice. NOW I'm having fun! Thanks again!
Great video! Just to confirm Bandmate never suggests midi files from the additional library of purchased EZ midi drum files? Just creates and suggests something different which I could then use “find similar” in order to get to those?
I think it pulls from all TT midi, it's just limited until future EZD3 updates.
Thanks for this. I picked up some hints I hadn’t noticed on first play. My question is, can it work out the time signature of a riff? If I play a riff in 7/8 say, will it be able to work this out?
My assumption is not is way you're hoping. I have real feedback about that shortly if you don't hear otherwise. We shall see.
@@ShootieSchool I’ll try it out later with a riff I have.
@@paullowder7932 Shoot me some results if you can. Certainly want to make a segment about it at some point. You're the third person asking me about it.
If you record a guitar that isn't to a click track, will EZD find the transients if they're not on the grid? Thanks. I like how you present things. You are well organized, which is welcome.
Thank you for saying! It will not. There's a chance, but I would not hope for it at all.
Amazing program….
You know it!
I made a drum fill to a song and then imported the actual song into the Bandmate. The original song i imported is the one i used to play the drumfill so it was a drumless track. Well after aligning the two, my EZDrummer 3 drumfill and the drumless track, the tempo, speed and BPM change and I can't control this at all. Is there a way to keep the original song from changing the bpm so that my drumfill matches the song? ThankYou in advance. I just got EZD 3 today and it's a very nice program. Love it. Oh and your peace sign at the end and changing the other fingers.... that hard to do LOL
Welcome to EZdrummer 3! Alan, the first problem is importing an entire song into Bandmate. It's not intended to be used like that. I assume you're using a DAW?
Looking to buy EZdrummer 3. Is it better to get extra EZX expansion packs or some of the MIDI packs? Do you have a lesson on using this in Logic Pro X (or how to set it up within LPX and use the EZD3 functionality within LPX rather than standalone)?
You could save on a bundle, but EZD3 has a good amount of stuff to get you started. If you’re watching your budget, no need to splurge right away. No logic specific vids. It will load into logic like any other plugin. Piece of cake.
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Quick question .. .I see you easily take a midi file from EZKeys and drop it in bandmate ... but when I try to drag a midi file from the track pain (I do have to cut to drag the part intended) ... it doesn't work ... so I've been saving the midi file and having ot uploaded it from the "Open" portion of bandmate .... shouldn't most DAWs like Studio One be able to be dragged into EZ Drummer 3? ... thank you ....
DAWs will have different rules as we are all finding out the limitations with dragging into Bandmate. I was using two Standalone Aps, and not the plugins in a DAW. That is the difference btween my vid and your situation. For now do what you're doing. Do sub or swing back. Working on a vid that discusses this.
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You're too good to me ;)
06:08 "These are The grooves from your Groove Tab" AND the groove's that Bandmate has completely fabricated on it's own.
08:23 If you're into shuffles but not music theory, listen to this...
If you play shuffles in 4/4, you want to select the "Swing/Triplet" Filter in the Bandmate Results area.
If you want the same shuffle "feel", but play in 6/8 or 12/8 Time Signatures, select the "straight" Filter in the Bandmate Results area.
Hey @shootie school what would be your process if you wanted to do a cover song ? Where you’re not writing original drum tracks thank you
Ryan, I would know where to start just having a youtube comment to explain. It would be a full class.
Bandmate plays better than me. Its create as a starting point and works well overall.
Great to hear and a great feature!
Hi I have a problem. I need to know how to take a track I've recorded, say a guitar track and place it to my desktop so I can drag it into easy drummer 3 Bandmate. I am using protools, This would be a great help because no one out there is offering the information on how to do this. if you have the time it would be great.
Thanks
Just for you, Hewey. Here is the current best practice of bringing Pro Tools Audio into EZDrummer 3's Bandmate. Some DAWs that have the full bought version of Melodyne installed have a more seamless workflow. Something I will cover in the future after more testing.
ua-cam.com/video/p3Xj7jF0czA/v-deo.html
If the audio doesn't start at the beginning of the clip (quiet few seconds), is there a way to "Slide"/"Shift" the audio imported into "Bandmate" so that the waveform can be aligned to a specific measure? OR is it required to edit the audio clip at a measure or count at a time?
02:15 explains your options
@@ShootieSchool Thank you SO very much for your patience with me man. My ADHD can cause me to spin out at times and then jump around for answers. I completely missed the snap at @3:01 and I saw this video a few times today, but spaced out due to poor focus. I really appreciate you, man.
@@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios You got it!
I can't figure out how to drag a midi file from my Logic project into EZD3. How can I do that? Also, I noticed I had to drag an audio track from the edit window.
Few DAWs allow that. You have to manually export from logic, then drag back in from a Finder window.
Can the drum track be exported as an audio file? How do you export it into Reaper?
Go to the Track Menu>Bounce>Export Song As Audio.
Or if you're unfamiliar on how to use EZD inside of Reaper, check out this video... ua-cam.com/video/IUOaysrX6Bo/v-deo.html
Once you've "finalized" a drumbeat in Bandmate, how do you export it as either an aiff, wav or mp3 file?
Drag to ezd3 song track. Main menu>track>export audio
just bought this app i see its clear to set your song's time signature but if your tune has stray bars of 5 or 3 in the arrangement can you add these to the grid & click?
Menu>Track>TimeSigEditor.
I have Mac book pro using ableton 10 my Mac is a i7 1 TB HD With 16 gigs of RAM I can’t find the requirements for this drum software please help thank you for turning me on to this software I have a lot of saved riffs and I can’t wait to start bringing them to life with this software 👍🏾🎸
i7 should be fine. Ram I think is good enough unless you have huge sessions in your daw.
I just bought this. Are all of those Genres on the left supposed to come with EZDrummer 3? I only have Pop/Rock, Blues, Jazz, and Metal
Many show up for me. I also have a lot of Toontrack expansion and midi packs though.
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Ha, great line. Also, great content. 👍
Thank you, Buddy! What an easy name to say all of the time.
i am trying to record from my electric kit onto some drumless tracks but ez drummer is not allowing me to record it when i hit to record the source channal stops
There’s a lot of info to be desired here. You’ve record enabled the track? OS/DAW?
Got a question for ya Shootie my brutha....
So we know that you can use all the drum kits etc from EZD2 in EZD3...
Can you use the EZD3 kits in EZD2?
Would appreciate if you could check on that for me bro :-)
Its gonna take me a while to warm up to the completely new layout of EZD3, im really not diggin it.
I wish they would have kept the old layout, I dont like change when something works for me.
But im old and set in my ways lol
No on EDZ3 kits in EZD2.
You know how I feel about the later, I get it.
@@ShootieSchool Thanks for checking on that for me bro, really appreciate it
Of course.
I have whole songs recorded. Would I have to break each riff in sections?
That is the workflow so far, Jerry.
Has it any jazzy preset? If not how could I use it for jazz music?
Jazz is definitely open to interpretation. I'll get you some general feedback though, I'm curious as well.
I am using Studio One Artist. I got a perfect grove after using band mate. I pulled the audio from a UA-cam Video. How do I copy the groove to the Ez Drummer Track in Studio One?
You can literally drag from the EZD Song Track to a Studio One Instrument track. Do you have EZD loaded inside or Studio One?
@@ShootieSchool I do have it loaded and I tried to drag it but maybe I’m not doing it right.
@@patrickhurley3858 "How do I copy the groove"... you are talking about an EZD3 midi drum file, right?
@@ShootieSchool the track that is created by Bandmate.
@@patrickhurley3858 On PC the drum track created by bandmate drags right into the EZD Studio One Instrument track. It's hard to miss, very simple. Are you on Mac?
I wonder if I wanna do slow doom. Bandmate seem to make pretty fast beats.
It's tough to be particular with Bandmate. Do try selecting Half-Time under Filters though, it may help.
I used almost any kontakt to, sd3, ggd, addictive 3 and ez2.
IMO, ez3 is the most versatile in terms of humanizing, velocity, tone control, fills whatsoever.
I luv the groove but in the early process of production; my least priority is drums ( I want to make the last hit with drums ) so ez3 type of vst give vibe and I continue the work. then I fill groove manually. I didn't like sd3, since it is 250 gb and requires so much mixing.
ez3 offers good presets that I barely touch.
EZD3 s way faster, you're right!
When I drag the file, it doesn't move the file and open the program. :(
It works different for every DAW and OS.
Can someone, anyone please tell me how to record a DI guitar track in reaper? I really want to use EZ Drummer 3 to its full potential .
You need an audio interface that you can plug your guitar into. At that point you link reaper to the audio interface and you can record anything that you plug into the audio interface.
@@ShootieSchoolthat’s exactly what I have. So, to be clear, I’m running my guitar input into a focusrite audio interface and then into reaper. I have 2 tracks, once with an amp sim and one just plain. That is a DI correct? Both of the wav forms look the same whether the amp sim is on them or not, hence my confusion.
That is a DI and you only need one since you get your tone in Reaper.
Just trying to find a way to half time the speed of the drums. I hate how everything is eigth notes and sounds the same. ugh
In band mate, look in the filters for half time. Otherwise, use the filters on the Grooves Tab.
Does it recognize 3 rd party midi ?
It recognizes all midi. I recommend the midi being General Standard Drum Midi so the mapping works though.
@@ShootieSchool so bandmate will include 3rd party drum midi when its looking for matches ?
Someone needs to create a video strictly focused on swing and shuffle beats. I have found that most DAW's and drum creation software don't even have a clue as to what a swing beat is. For instance,the song La Grange by ZZTop or Tush are rock swing beats or shuffle beats for blues and such. I have bought hundreds of drum midi samples over the years and for instance there are hundreds of samples in FPC in FL Studio that claim to be swing beats or shuffles but they're not. I have yet to find a drum midi file that I can drag into a piano roll or playlist that could be played to LaGrange without reconstructing the entire beat. If EZ drummer 3 had that function I would buy it but It seems that most producers and software developers don't even know what a swing beat is. I have been watching hours of youtube videos on Drum programs that may have a swing beat function with some pre created swing loops to choose from but I have yet to see it.
I'm not sure if you could consider swing/shuffle a feature. It's a rhythmic pattern that sequences triplets. So you either know how to program them or you own the right midi. In any Piano Roll/Grid Editor of any program you simply reveal triplets to start creating shuffles. Or to find shuffles in your midi collections, at least when it comes to using EZD3, you simply sort your midi by "Shuffle or Swing" and it shows up. The default EZD3 midi library probably has a few hundred files, and buying related midi packs such as "The Blues" will have way more results.
I've got a video on triplets, but just talking about them, not necessarily focusing on how to program them...
ua-cam.com/video/4Nlu9V0j1yc/v-deo.html
It’d be cool if you could just load a song in there and it could give u a drumtrack!
I'm sure the industry will answer sooner or later with this.
I find this maddening when starting something on the and of 3 or 4 in a pickup bar. Bandmate seems to think that is beat one. I had high hopes for Bandmate but so far, it's been a great disappointment to me.
I've yet to use it in one of my projects. We'll see if they develop it further.
Who prefers Bandmate to Logic's Drummer?
I still need to check out Logic's drum stuff. I've been hearing about it for a while now.
Your videos are amazing. But is this really your natural voice? The action movie trailer tone is so distracting.:D
Thanks for saying. I'm just talking.
AI Experience?
there is no AI, all what Bandmate does is searching the libary you have installed. ;)
Sure. Was just a term form the top of my head before the whole world starting geeking about AI. Algorithm might be better.
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