Writing and Mixing a Song From Scratch - Part 2

[@Jamminn555]

Outstanding series on easily creating tracks and mixing with the EZ ToonTrack products. Really well done. Thanks so much, Mike.

[@MikeLuke]

Great series & well explained Mike. Enjoyed watching it.

[@toontrack]

Thanks!

[@DEADLINETV]

This is really very valuable info here! Great tips, tricks and overall thinking!

[@giannisterzopoulos4840]

What a great video!!! what a great mixing

[@daanieele]

when an update for ez keys in order to make his window bigger!?!? I am getting blind when I use it

[@Peychamp]

Hello there! very creative job! I'm fan! Hello from France 🇫🇷

[@thegroove2000]

Resizing the GUI ability would make the products more attractive to a wider audience. Cmon team wake up.

[@mrmar-que6307]

Our time is now boy's, our time is now!!!😎

[@michaelpal7641]

Valuable videos. As a first time user of EZ Bass, EZ Keys and EZ Drummer-I have finally put together that "full band" sound. No more druggies, no more egos, no one telling me it's too loud. Only complaint I have is the GUI's of all your products. 1.) Too damn small-I can only sit and look for so many hours, dragging/dropping song pieces, then going in/out to lengthen/shorten the midi parts. Invariably, I end up changing the original midi piece only to go back to each midi part , join them and see if they "Fit"! 2.) You need to provide a "sandbox area in each product below the timeline where a user could drag/drop parts of a Bass, Keys or Drums to test out. It's so very tedious to want to add a midi part to an existing time line-make it bigger, copy part/midi..then place cursor at exact point-more times than not, I end up overwriting what I have. A sandbox area would benefit users to drag/drop midi pieces to test out without disrupting what you created in the first place. If anyone has thoughts as to how this can be done, from a workflow perspective, please comment. Final analysis though is that 35 years ago-this software wasn't even thought of. So in that respect, I'm happy to be have it.

[@toontrack]

Hi Michael. Thanks for your feedback and suggestion! We will forward this to our development team!

[@neospora6678]

I usually create multiple tracks inside the plugin (EZbass/Superior Drummer 3) to experiment with different variations of an arrangement. Adding multiple tracks kind of works like a sandbox area in other words:)

[@michaelpal7641]

@@neospora6678 I'll try that. last night I came up with a really nice drum beat..to which I sing & play along with. So the drum beat is 4 bars, lengthened to 8. Its a I, IV, V progression, except I needed to add a fill for the turn-around-which was tedious-I lengthened one midi part only to find it didn't fit, then I shortened it. The timeline has a tendency to jump-so yes, I ended up creating a fill over what I liked (this cut the 8 bars down to 5-6-hence, your back to dragging the midi left/right again-find the sweet spot and start all over again. Your idea is certainly worth a try though. Thank you so much for your response! Best Regards.

[@michaelpal7641]

@@toontrack Thank you Sir. If I may add, since I found Studio One, it has allowed me to, at the very least, to make a "commercial" recording of my guitars/Lead and vocals. I was using the installed drum sounds with an Atom. But two finger drumming, editing the midi parts made me exhausted and near blind. Then I found Toontrack-EZ Drummer, EZ keys and EZ bass. Well, all I can say is that I now sound like I have a whole band behind me (people are asking me-who is playing, where is your next gig)? Toontrack products are "Light Years Ahead" of ANY and ALL products I have tried. Spent hours trying to integrate Steven Slate Drums with my Atom-found that the 2-finger method and subsequent exhaustive procedures to "create" music! I had a full working Blues Rock song the very first weekend I owned Toontrack products! I will state the fact again:Toontrack products are "Light Years Ahead" of ANY and ALL products. In closing-your response was greatly appreciated. Nice to know there's people at the other end vs. a email response from other companies that is meaningless. Best Regards to you Sir. Thank you!

[@mmane257]

ezguitar should be coming next.

[@dennisramirez1989]

please update EZkeys GUI

[@tobbebergman7583]

+1

[@jayrocknurse5386]

Very well done but in my opinion it's become way over mixed.