Toontrack EZDrummer 3 - Upgrade from EZdrummer 2

The Next Generation of The Songwriter's Ultimate Drummer

Although EZdrummer 3 is new from top to bottom, it's firmly rooted in what has made its predecessor a staple tool for songwriters around the world: to make adding drums to your music effortless, inspirational and intuitive.

EZdrummer 3 reinvents the role a piece of drum production software can play in a songwriting context. It gives you the creative reins to a comprehensive set of easy-to-use features that allow you to create fully fledged drum tracks without ever leaving the software.

Got a riff? Let the Bandmate come up with a drum groove on the fly. Hear a rhythm in your head? Use Tap2Find and let EZdrummer 3 list its best matches. Got your groove down? Turn it into a full song using the Song Creator. The options are endless.

Of course, at the heart of the program are the seven drum kits, the library of drum grooves, and the broad array of presets for anything from subtle and acoustic to hard, heavy, and modern.

Ready to write some songs? Meet your new drummer.

Features

• Fully resizable and scalable interface
• Onboard grid editor, step sequencer, and more
• Find grooves using the Bandmate or Tap2Find
• Seven (7) kits as well as additional snares, kicks, and cymbals
• Approx. 15 GB of drums, cymbals and percussion
• Mix-ready presets for a wide range of styles and sounds
• Comprehensive MIDI library of grooves and fills

Bandmate

Just drag and drop your audio or MIDI and the Bandmate will come up with a suggestion on the fly.

Tap2Find

Hear that perfect rhythm in your head? Use the Tap2Find feature and let EZdrummer 3 list its best matches.

Grid Editor

Pen your idea in from scratch in the onboard Grid Editor. Then, add more soul and personality to it using the many features for style, feel and timing.

Grooves

Browse and audition grooves in the intuitively laid-out MIDI library. Star it or drag parts directly to the Song Track.

Edit Play Style

When you have your basic groove down, the Edit Play Style feature lets you make real-time changes that make perfect musical sense.

The Power of Percussion

EZdrummer 3 includes the optimal staple set of percussion. Add it to your groove at the click of a button.

Song Creator

A groove is just a groove until it's a song. Let the Song Creator turn your idea into a fully fledged song.

Groove Parts

Slice, dice, re-arrange, copy, paste and create – the power of mixing groove parts and working on the Song Track is endless.

The MIDI Library

Grooves and fills covering the entire range, from subtle to extreme.

• Played by Real Drummers - Performed on electronic kits by professional drummers.
• Song structure format - Organized in common song structure parts (intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus etc.)
• For all styles - Material for anything from jazz and blues to rock, metal, hip-hop and EDM.
• Mix & Match - Single out parts from different grooves and create new ones in an instant.
• More than 2,500 individually played grooves/fills - Pop, Rock, singer-songwriter, soul, Latin, funk, metal, hip-hop, Afrobeat, EDM, contempory, R&B and more!
• Different time signatures and feels - 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 12/8, 7/8 material in different feels (straight, swing, shuffle and/or halftime etc.)
• Pick-ups and endings - Been struggeling to come up with an intro drum fill or epic ending? Not anymore.
• Patterns - Dedicated patterns for tambourines, shakers and one-shot instruments like claps, snaps and cowbells.

The Sounds

Seven (7) full drum kits captured by Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer/mixer
Michael Ilbert (Coldplay, Adele, The Weeknd) at the world-famous Hansa Studios in Berlin.

• 14 kicks
• 24 snares
• 30 toms
• 6 hi-hats
• 6 rides
• 16 crashes
• 3 splashes
• 2 chinas
• 1 clap stack
• 4 tambourines
• 4 shakers
• 2 maracas
• 2 mounted tambourines
• 2 cowbells
• 2 woodblocks
• Claps, snaps, foot-stomps (recorded single, double and group)
• Drumstick count-ins