Help setting up EZDrummer with Waveform 11

[1432josh]

Hi everyone,

I'm a musician who has experience recording and editing music through FL Studio. Recently, my brother and I purchased a mixer (Mackie ProFX12v3) for us to use while playing and recording our music. This mixer came with Waveform 11 which works much better for recording off of the mixer, and I appreciate the simplicity compared to FL Studio. For the drums, I have an Alesis kit I use with EZDrummer.

In the past, I was able to add EZDrummer to FL Studio easily, record my playing as a MIDI track, and make edits where needed. I figured out how to add EZDrummer to Waveform and tried recording some music with my brother. I was able to record into a MIDI track in Waveform (hearing the drums while playing) but when I tried playing the recording back, there was no sound for the drums. It was almost as if the midi track wasn't going through EZDrummer unless I was recording.

In messing around, I found that I can get a playable track if I record into both EZDrummer and Waveform. The only problem was that once I recorded the midi notes, I wasn't able to make any edits. That and the MIDI track was only playing if it was in EZDrummer too. If I removed the MIDI track from Waveform, it still played through EZDrummer. Which is not ideal. In FL Studio, I was able to record and edit midi files through the DAW, without having to record into EZDrummer as well. I'm hoping to find the same results in Waveform.

I've reached a point where I'm confused, I've spent about an hour messing around with Waveform to see if I can figure it out, but I can't. Has anyone had experience using EZDrummer with Waveform? If so, are there specific setup steps that I might be overlooking? Or does anyone know of a place where I can find an in-depth tutorial on setting this up? Ideally, I want to be able to record all drums through Waveform and be able to listen to and make edits to the MIDI track through Waveform (not EZDrummer). I recognize that this might not be possible but I feel like it should be (based on my experience figuring out FL Studio). Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Josh

[pough]

To record MIDI into the Waveform track the input needs to be armed to record. If not armed, MIDI passes through to the instrument but nothing gets recorded onto the track. That's my guess for what's going wrong. I might be wrong, though, as you do state that you did record MIDI notes.

Just to hopefully make things a bit more clear, you use the term "MIDI track" quite a bit and I'm not sure what you mean by that. Waveform has tracks; they are the horizontal lanes that include the inputs on the left and the area in the middle that holds clips and the plugins area on the right. Technically, there is no specific "MIDI track" in Waveform but you wouldn't want to mix MIDI and audio clips. Do you mean MIDI clip when you say MIDI track?

If you have successfully created MIDI clips when recording then the next steps would be to investigate those clips to see why they're not sending MIDI data to Ezdrummer during playback. No notes recorded? Wrong MIDI channel? Muted by mistake?

Another thing to try is just create a MIDI clip and draw notes in it to see if that works.

FYI, you have posted this in Effects forum even though you are asking about an instrument in a host. There are instrument and host forums here. There is also a dedicated Tracktion forum for dealing with Tracktion Waveform.