Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[The_B]

Hi Paul,

no problem, you're welcome.

As you can see at the beginning of this thread, I made quite a journey myself at the beginning. Once you get an overview it gets a lot easier.

Have a lot of work right now, but as soon as I have some spare time, I will do a PDF with screenshots, so you can jump right in there.

When you did a lot of work with drum machines back in the day, you can use everything you learned about drums and MIDI here. Where you had a trigger and a sound back then, you have a drumslot and a sound now. The only added thing is that you have several articulations for each drumslot now.

Will get the PFD together the next couple of days...

Peace, B.

[Paul_M]

Thanks B.

No need to rush with the pdf - I still have a lot to explore before I get to that point.

I've also just discovered that I have the capability to set up my music system to run in 64 bit mode but just didn't realize it, so I'm considering biting the bullet and doing a complete re-build. I'll need to mix & match components & OS's from two other systems - something I've been doing as long as I've had computers, but still no small task.

Regards,
Paul

[LKWRM_LKWRM]

@The_B

Just want to say a big thanks for doing the EZdrummer kit mappings. Instant gratification since I just bought EZdrummer and got it drumming with (new) style in 2 minutes.

Any chance you've mapped any of the newer EZX-kits like 'The Classic' and 'Americana'?

[LKWRM_LKWRM]

[The_B]

Hi,

sorry, must have missed your other post.

[quote="LKWRM_LKWRM"][quote="LKWRM_LKWRM"]Any chance you've mapped any of the newer EZX-kits like 'The Classic' and 'Americana'? :)[/quote]Somebody?[/quote]

Have not tried the 3.5 version yet, but as I see it, you no longer need a special mapping anymore. Since I have lots of old songs using Jamstix I'm a bit shy to do the update without proper backup...

As I read it, the new version routes midi directly to a virtual instrument, so i.e. for Cubase, the normal drum map should do the job.
You can get these directly from Toontrack if you click on "Downloads" when you are logged in, "Extra Downloads" , "EZDrummer", "Hoststuff", "Cubase", "DrumMaps".
I assume you find similar for other hosts.

Have you done the update yet? Could you confirm wether the new version is a separate install and the old still available? Would speed things up for me, I could have a look at it faster.

Peace,
B.

[LKWRM_LKWRM]

Thanks for the answer I'll try it out.

Regarding the installation of 3.5 I think it gets identified as a new plugin and keeps the old one. I moved my old v3 to a new path to be sure so I don't really know if the DLLs gets overwritten. This is what's mentioned during the install:


------- IMPORTANT NOTES BEFORE INSTALLING!! -------

--- [32-bit & 64-bit] ---
This installer includes all three versions of Jamstix: 32-bit VST, 64-bit VST and 32-bit RTAS. Make sure to only select the version(s) you need. If you check 32-bit VST AND 64-bit VST, you will be asked for TWO plugin locations. You should only need to do this, if you run 32-bit DAWs and 64-bit DAWs on the same machine and wish to use Jamstix in both.

--- [NOTES FOR BETA USERS] ---
IF YOU HAVE A CURRENT JAMSTIX 3.5 BETA installed, please note that any projects you may have created with the Beta will not load this release version. If you have important projects with the Beta version, please exit the installer now, open all such projects and do 'Save Song' in the song menu to create backups of your arrangements. After you install this release version, you can then replace the Beta in each project and load the saved arrangement.

If you have hand-edited rudiments or song builder presets, please make a backup copy of the files rudiments.ini and structures.ini from your current Jamstix 3 data directory to preserve those changes.

--- [IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM JAMSTIX 3.3] ---

1] Jamstix 3.5 does not support sub-hosting of 3rd party plugins. This was dropped due to the complexities involved as we move toward cross-platform (OSX) and RTAS versions of Jamstix. You can still use 3rd party plugins with Jamstix by sending the MIDI output of Jamstix to the desired plugin.

2] Drag-&-drop to the host is currently not supported, please use EXPORT BAR, EXPORT PART and EXPORT SONG instead.

3] The bar editor selection system now uses a left-click/drag scheme to select cells.

4] The rudiment generator structure entry box now uses double-clicking to load the preset menu.

5] The song builder structure entry box now uses a trailing menu button to load the preset menu.

6] 'Adding Cymbal Wash' and similar functions in the tick menu require you to specify the desired end tick by high-lighting a note of that tick before selecting the add function.

7] Audio outputs are fixed (8 stereo)

8] jamstix3.ini is now located in DOCUMENTS\JAMSTIX3

[The_B]

[quote="LKWRM_LKWRM"]Thanks for the answer I'll try it out.[/quote]

As far as I've seen, there are no maps for the newer EZX, just did a download.
It could be, that using the DKFH mapping (more kit pieces than any other kit :-) maps everything correctly, I would try that first.

If any mapping would be required for special stuff like articulations, I will try to sort that out and mail that to either Toontrack or Rayzoon for other users.

[quote="LKWRM_LKWRM"]Regarding the installation of 3.5 I think it gets identified as a new plugin and keeps the old one. I moved my old v3 to a new path to be sure so I don't really know if the DLLs gets overwritten. This is what's mentioned during the install:[/quote]

Thank you for the input! Will have a look at it.

Peace,
B.

[The_B]

[Ralph [RZ]]

[The_B]