ezdrummer and cubase se?

[guitar08man]

When trying to use the drag and drop feature, where does on drop the midi score in cubase?

any hints or helpful suggestions appreciated.

[Wayniac]

If it is like Cubase SX, add MIDI track (before audio so you can adjust the tempo) ... you need to click the little white triangle, then pull it to show the area you are adding..
Just drop& drag the fills/patterns you want...
After that, you can vierw it in the drum editor and changehits, etc...

[guitar08man]

If it is like Cubase SX, add MIDI track (before audio so you can adjust the tempo) ... you need to click the little white triangle, then pull it to show the area you are adding..
Just drop& drag the fills/patterns you want...
After that, you can vierw it in the drum editor and changehits, etc...

oops, i forgot to say that im working with cubase se, but im sure that the process is similar.

Where is this little white triangle of which you speak?

[Wayniac]

Text pasted from when a friend helped me out with this:

Look closely in the upper left corner of the white field....you should
see a very tiny white triangle...
That is the Marker. You need to set that first of all. This is how I do
it:
Place the marker (the arrow/mouse) on the upper line where the beat
numbers are, 1 - 3 - 5 and so on. When you move the marker just so you touch that upper line it changes from an arrow to a pen. The click. Now you should get that triangular marker just where you clicked?

Place your marker (mouse) on that arrow and click and hold down, now
you should be able to drag half of that white marker triangle. Drag it to
the right a bit. Now there should be "blue" field between the two
triangles. If it is brown, you dragged the wrong half of the marker. Do it again in that case. It has to be blue.
Lets say you got the first one (the one to the left) on 3 and the second one (to the right) on 5 you have now "marked a 2 beat part. Place your marker (mouse) within that blue field on the white part of the window, but still within your midi chanel lines. Then double
click. And Bang! There you have your part.

Now do this: Go to: MIDI in the upper menu line, choose "open drum
editor".
Now you should get tons of squares all over the place and to the left
you have the list of Kicks, snares, toms, cymbals and so on. You've got a set
of "tools" there too. Choose the "drum stick" now you can click on the white
field and get sound. Right? Real easy. Here you can "click" in your own
beats if you like. Time line is the horizontal axis and the toms,
snares and shit are the vertical.
Look to the left in the main Cubase window, just under where you
changed the midi ports. Directly under where it says "EZDrummer" it says. Channel 1.

Just to the left of that "channel 1" you have a little symbol. Place your
marker (mouse) over it and it says: Open Device. Click on it and you are
directly in the EZDrummer window. Right?

Ok, so click on "Open Grooves" on EZD...Choose a library, (for example:
EZX Library) Choose Rythm (Metal 1/4) Choose groove (groove 01) Choose
variation (01 Hats - closed)
And press that little "play button"
Now you should hear a basic drum beat.

You can easily change the tempo by typing a new one right in the
"transport device" If you have problems with it just click on the "Tempo" button. It should say "Fixed" Then you can change the tempo.

Now, check this out: Put your marker (mouse) on the "01Hats - closed"
letters, click and hold down and drag it on to the white part on the
main Cubase window. Now you should have one beat of that drum rhythm on
there. Then you can duplicate that just as much as you like, or delete or what ever. You can also open it like mentioned above. (midi - drum editor)
and change what you like.

You can of course move all the "parts" in the main window too. Both
midi and audio and cut, copy and paste and so on. Just click and hold down on a part and move it around. Easy!
This way you can re-arrange a song very easily. And you only need to
record a song part once and then just copy that. Time saving! You´ll get the
hang of it.

To hear the midi drums I don´t need to activate the "monitor" button
since it is midi but on audio stuff I need to do that.

[guitar08man]

hmm i should be doing everything correctly, except when i go to drag, the little cancel symbol shows up where my arrow is.

[Wayniac]

Hmm - maybe SX and SE are that much different?
try the Cubase forum - www.cubase.net ?

[guitar08man]

i figured out whats going on. Cubase SE1 doesnt support the drag n drop feature. But i did figure out how to physically write out the drum parts. Oh well...

[Wayniac]

Ah - I should have guessed that - had the same prob with Cubase LE...