Toontrack has released the Dance EZX, an expansion for EZdrummer 2 and Superior Drummer 3 featuring 15 mix-ready kits tailored for modern electronic dance music, and updated EZdrummer to v2.2.3.
Featuring unique sets of mixed, matched and layered percussive elements based on anything from classic drum machines to textures of cutting edge sound design, the Dance EZX presents a total of 15 custom drum kits designed to paint a broad brushstroke across the entire commercial range of modern electronic dance music. It was engineered by Timofey Reznikov, DJ, producer and composer from Belgium with cuts on platinum-selling albums by the likes of David Guetta, Regi and Dimitri Vegas.
Setting out to capture not solely the percussive nature of all the splintered subsets of the genre, it also includes a large pool of chromatically tuned tonal instruments as well as a selection of unique sound effects tailor-made to fit the sonic identity of each kit.
Toontrack commented:
This makes the Dance EZX transcend way beyond being solely a percussive foundation – it makes it an all-encompassing beat machine on just as much a melodic level. To add, a dedicated library of grooves specifically designed to cater to each kit is included, making getting started on just the right idea easier than ever.
Get ready for a sonic journey that'll take you around the entire universe of electronic dance music and back again – all within the four corners of your favorite Toontrack drum sampler.
Feature Spotlight:
- 15 mix-ready kits tailored for modern electronic dance music.
- Engineered and produced by Timofey Reznikov (David Guetta, Regi, Dimitri Vegas).
- Close to 400 individually engineered source sounds.
- Mixed and matched layers of organic and electronic drums, classic percussion and textured effects.
- Includes a chromatically tuned set of tonal instruments.
- Comes with a dedicated pool of MIDI designed to match the style of each kit.
Price: €75 at toontrack.com/product/dance-ezx
EZdrummer v2.2.3
Changes:
- Improved support for instruments that are sensitive to 'Note Off' events. For example, clicking on such an instrument in the main view now plays it for as long as the mouse is pressed, instead of making a very short sound.
- E-Drums: An "Alesis Nitro/Surge" preset has been added and the "Alesis" preset has been renamed to "Alesis Command/Crimson.".
- E-Drums: Improved cymbal choke support in the Medeli preset.
Bug Fixes:
- On macOS Monterey, Reason was not able to load EZdrummer.
- In Ableton Live, EZdrummer should now be available in the "MIDI To" dropdown for an External Instrument.
- Loading an EZX where some notes present on the song track were not mapped to anything would cause a crash.
- If the EZdrummer 2 Percussion library is missing, a warning about that is now shown at startup.
- If the EZdrummer 2 Percussion library was missing, loading certain EZXs would incorrectly show a dialog that the EZX had to be updated.
- Fixed a crash that could happen at startup if no sound libraries were found.
- When auditioning grooves (for example in Browser or Search), the looping back could sometimes become slightly delayed, for grooves with a 'Note Off' exactly at the end.
- Search Tab: Performing MIDI searches (by changing search filters) no longer aborts auditioning of grooves in the Browser tab or the Song Creator, only aborts auditioning in the search result list.
- Standalone: Starting the metronome by turning off "Only ON when the song track is playing" could cause a loud noise (while playing a groove in the browser, for example).
- Standalone: The Windows standalone can now use ASIO devices with a buffer size larger than 2048 samples.
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