Then click on the Browser tab and the menu options as I have done here:Ĭlick on Song Creator, and drag the highlighted midi into the MIDI drop zone:Then select, unselect and set Tempo to 104 (that’s my taste, anyway):ĭrag 4 copies of into Bars 1 through 4 (I’ll explain why in a moment): I have then answered No to this question:ĮzDrummer then comes up – I’ve picked these options for my example – you of course don’t have to, but it makes it simpler if you are following along: There follows an assumption that you have told Reaper where to look for your VSTs – email me if questions on that… Start a Reaper project as Administrator, then…
The goal is to get a few bars working, and save that to SoundCloud so you can hear how my version sounds. I’m using EZDrummer 2, the Cocktail drum set (which I think is a free add-on with EzDrummer), and the latest version of Reaper, all on Windows 10 pre-release. If you don’t do that, then the drag just fails silently.īeyond that point, this is largely about getting EzDrummer to do some of the “hard work” (quotes because nothing here is what a drummer would call hard work).
#Ez drummer tutorial how to
This is about how to use EzDrummer in Reaper – it may be the same for other DAWs, but I can only be certain for Reaper.Ī key point is that in order to drag bars from EzDrummer into the DAW Reaper, you need to run Reaper in Administrator mode.