Guide to Reaper and EZDrummer Pt Ia

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A Guide to Reaper and EZDrummer Pt I ( 56K warning )

Hey everyone! This is Part I of my Guide to Reaper and EZDrummer. In here, I'll describe how to set up EZDrummer so you can add effects and tweak the

sound. EZDrummer provides good raw sampling, which allows you complete control with how they sound. Very close to real drum mixing. This is more of a

general, "how to" guide on how to get rolling with EZdrummer so you can do your thing. Part II will have more information on what I do to get a better

drum sound, and that might help you out. Everything I do will be with plugins that either come with Reaper or are completely free.

Step 1: Download Reaper, install it, and open it. It's free to evaluate, you can evaluate into eternity, but if you do want to pay, its only $40 ( and I'm

buying my license tomorrow ).

Here is what Reaper looks like:

Step 2: Add a track.

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Step 4a: Click on "VSTi", and look for "DFH Sampler ( Toontrack )" or something similar.

Hit "OK" and this will add the EZDrummer VSTi to your track. If you have the Drumkit from Hell ( which I REALLY like for the extra cymbals and toms ),

then go to step 4b. If not, go to step 5.

Step 4b: Switch over to the Drumkit from Hell! This is done like so:



Easy enough. The rest of the guide will be for DFH specifically, but it is very easy to transpose the knowledge over to regular EZdrummer.

Step 5: This is personal preference. However, for most metal recordings, this is helpful. There are three presets, "Default", "Roomy", and "Dry".

set everything to Dry. This gets the most separation and the least room sound. This is good if you want to have greater control on the reverb.

opinion the room sound on EZdrummer isn't that good. You can access the presets like so:

Step 6: In order to route the different drum tracks on the mixer here out to the mixer in Reaper, you have to set the EZD mixer to "Multitrack" mode.

Here's how that is done:



You'll notice that I turned "Comp Mix" off and I turned the bleed off on the snare drum. You won't need "Comp Mix" since ( as I'll show in part II ), you

don't want the compressor on the entire drum kit. The bleed is personal preference of course.

Step 7: Now that we've got EZDrummer to output to multitrack, we need to have "multitrack". Add a bunch of tracks. You want it to look like the

picture.

Step 8: In order to get our "MIDI Drums" track ( the track with the EZDrummer VSTi ) to do what we want, we need to set it to be more than a stereo

track. Here's how to do that:



To get to this screen, click the "I/O" button on the "MIDI Drums" track. It's in between the phase switch and the folder tool.

Step 9a: EZdrummer is set to output. We have tracks to receive these outputs. The track is ready in Reaper to accommodate everything. Now we just

have to tell Reaper where to send what. Here's what EZDrummer is doing:

You can look in the EZDrummer mixer to see exactly what "Track 1" is. For our purposes, its "Kick Drum".

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