EZ Drummer & Superior Drummer updates

[Guy Rowland]

Some very useful additions here, especially easier 1/2x, 1x, 2x tempo changes.

EZ Drummer v2.1.2

New features and improvements:

new e-drum presets.
pasting onto an empty track sets the time signature to that of the pasted loop.
the host will be defaulted to using Windows scaling factor on 4k and high DPI monitors.
drumkit preset menu signals if the selected preset does not represent current state.
added 1/2x, 1x, 2x tempo modifiers to the MIDI browsers, also the possibility to change a 4/4 triplet into 6/8 and vice versa is added in the same menu.
added a velocity slider to the MIDI browsers.
it is now possible to mute blocks in the song track by right clicking and selecting "Mute".
selected preset is now shown below the selected EZX.
presets that get changed from their original setting will have an indicator next to the preset name to show it has been tweaked.
sorting algorithm in search browser has been changed to sort as humans tend to do instead of how computers want to do it.
possible to change the starting bar number of song track time line between 0 and 1.
audio effects updated.
new standalone channel routing system which handles unlimited number of outputs on the sound card.
standalone sample rate is no longer fixed at 44.1k.
improved crash dump dialogs on Windows. Tries to write in three different locations before giving up. Also reports if it fails writing the dump file.

Bug fixes:

various crash fixes.
having no internet connection and going into Online MIDI mode didn't show the "Connection failed." error message.
loading a project containing a tap2find loop always caused search tab to be visible, regardless of which tab was used upon saving.
toggling favorites while in online MIDI mode did not properly keep favorite state when entering offline mode again (and vice versa).
loading a project or selecting "new" in standalone did not properly reset the tap2find loop, which in worst case scenario caused a crash.
when using back/forward buttons reset the quantize value both on block and in tap2find.
dragging from favorites to somewhere and then back to favorites appended an extra .mid on the name.
metronome volume fix in stand alone.
now possible to drag from tap2find to favourites.

Superior v2.4.4

Improvements and fixes:

tempo changes now better handled when bouncing through mixer. This affects only some of the EZX black boxes that react to tempo changes.
changing MIDI as numbers immediately updates the current assigned keys menu.
E-drum MIDI presets somewhat adjusted to harmonize with EZdrummer 2.
rare preset bug fixed. If there was a folder with presets among the user presets and this folder got sorted to be last in the menu, then any preset created during a session could not be deleted.
crash avoided if default lib is somehow broken enough to warrant a warning but that warning never gets the time to display before another lib is loaded.
Support for upcoming EZX sound libraries.
Unwanted focus grabbing in Pro Tools improved.
fix for pitch Reset. Should now reset only selected drums and not 'Fix' anything else by mistake.
fix for rare situation where an EZX1 could get stuck in an unauthorized state.
fix for crash when setting path to S1 libs. (Since 2.4.1).
fix for spurious appearance of non-working EZX POPROCK sometimes when EZdrummer 2 or its demo was installed.

https://www.toontrack.com

[wst3]

hmm... I still use the S1 libraries a lot, and have never run into problems. Makes me a little nervous to apply the update<G>! I don't use EZX yet, but perhaps it is time to rethink that?

Thanks for the heads up, I had not yet heard from them directly.