[Rwp] Reaper and EzDrummer

Wed Mar 4 17:29:59 EST 2015

One more waiting in line for your rundown Alex. No pressure, but... do it! :P

At the moment I'm using EZ Drummer 2, because I don't have the spare
cash kicking around to invest in SD without knowing whether I'll be
able to get enough control in a way that won't drive me insane and sap
the creativity. With EZ Drummer, I can use NVDA flat review to at
least get to the menu to choose presets and work from there.
Unfortunately, the automation controls we can access by hitting
Shift+P on the track are just generically labeled as control 1 through
8, which isn't great, but random fiddling does make changes. Most of
the time though, I'm just going with a preset that sounds close-ish to
what I had in mind, bouncing out the audio when I'm done with the drum
part, and treating them like real drums when it comes to mix. It's not
ideal, and I'd probably use a shed load less system resources if I
could take care of some of these changes within EZ Drummer or SD
itself, so I'd definitely be interested in learning about how you do
your thing.

Cheers

Scott

On 3/4/15, Matej Golian via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Alex. A podcast on this subject would be definitely cool, I'd
> surely listen to it. Patrik, glad to know that there is someone else
> beside me interested in this. Perhaps this will encourage Alex to do
> the podcast. :)
> BTW, Alex, I don't know, I'm very new to Reaper and DAWs in general
> and let alone EZDrummer or SD, but I can imagine how immense this
> topic is - especially from the screen reader user point of view - and
> so, if you decide to do it, couldn't it be in the form of a podcast
> series? Maybe that would make things more simple for you as well,
> because you wouldn't have to explain everything in one go.
> I have installed both EZDrummer and SD (don't ask how I got them :) )
> and from what I have tested so far I must say that SD is the more
> accessible option of the two. Sadly, however, I still don't know what
> to do with it. I have 'discovered' the Load/Save menu, the menu where
> you can select between the installed expansion libraries and the menu
> where you can select the drum kit, but that's about it.
> I see things here like 'Kick 1', 'Kick 1 Right' or 'C1'. When I click
> on 'Kick 1' for example, I get a menu with some of the available
> drums, but hardly all of them. I see that 'C1' in this case shows that
> the kick drum sound corresponds to the C1 note. But what next? I still
> need to access the mixer, right? If for nothing else, at least to
> select multichannel output. Is that correct?
>
> 2015-03-04 21:31 GMT+01:00, joão victor <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
>> hey sorry
>> how do for exit tolist?
>>
>> -----Mensagem original-----
>> De: Patrick Perdue via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Para: Reapers Without Peepers <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Data: Quarta, 04 de Março de 2015 14:40
>> Assunto: Re: [Rwp] Reaper and EzDrummer
>>
>> I, for one, would be interested in how you do what you do, as I am
>> thinking of trying Superior Drummer myself, and possibly in combination
>> with a v-kit/pads/triggers of some sort.
>>
>> On 3/4/2015 2:32 PM, Alex H. via RWP wrote:
>>> I use NVDA full time. Using SD is possible with NVDA, it just takes
>>> more work, especially if you wish to make your own kits or customize
>>> the sound of them. I eventually want to do a podcast on it, but it's
>>> quite a comprehensive thing to summarize without it becoming too long
>>> and boring to listen to. :)
>>>
>>> As an aside, There's an AHK script that works with Superior Drummer
>>> kind of, though I had little luck and so use my own methods to get
>>> what I need done in the plugin.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On 3/1/15, Matej Golian via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the reply, Alex. And may ask you which screen reader you
>>>> use when working with the plugin (NVDA or Jaws)? The reason I ask is
>>>> because I found some commercially available HSC hotspot sets for Jaws
>>>> on one site, but honestly I'd only buy them if they are absolutely
>>>> neccesary. I'm tired of Jaws, I'm trying to convert to NVDA and that's
>>>> why I'd like to leave Jaws out of it if possible.
>>>>
>>>> 2015-03-01 20:04 GMT+01:00, Alex H. via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
>>>>> It's a bear, but possible. I use it regularly, well more specifically
>>>>> I use Superior Drummer with the EZDrummer extensions, no sight
>>>>> required.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/1/15, Matej Golian via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>> I am after some good drum VSTs. I had a listen to a couple of Youtube
>>>>>> videos yesterday and I like the way some of the expansions for
>>>>>> EzDrummer sound. Soundwise I'd say that EzDrummer is exactly what I'm
>>>>>> after. But I just don't know whether the plugin is accessible for us
>>>>>> screen reader users. In some of the videos they mention a graphical
>>>>>> interface, but that might not neccesarily mean anything, so I'd like
>>>>>> to ask... Does someone here have any experiences with EzDrummer?
>>>>>> I have read a couple of threads in the official Reaper forum and I
>>>>>> think I should be able to set up EzDrummer, at least on the Reaper
>>>>>> side, but I'm afraid that working with the plugin itself would prove
>>>>>> to be a completely different issue.
>>>>>> Many thanks!
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