Then I simply drag it to the Beat Buddy Manager. By default, we can assign our EZ Drummer instance to be output through 16 channels, and this is great, but the default routing isn’t the most flexible. This ‘Records’ the beat back into EZDrummer. First Steps In today’s tutorial, we’re going to look at how we remap EZ Drummer 2 from Toontrack to allow for a more flexible approach to mixing our drums. So, press the record arm in EZDrummer and then press play in Reaper. I can’t drag a midi loop from Reaper into the Beat Buddy Manager, so I need to get the loop back into EZDrummer 2 (as you can drag loops from EZDrummer). For example, EZDrummer has a heap of hi-hat sounds outside of the General MIDI note range, I just select the row (right click) and move them to the Beat Buddy Hi-Hat (ctrl + up/down). I then move all the drums that are not on named notes to a named version.
I then drag the midi part from EZDrummer into Reaper and open it with the the MIDI editor (which has the drum names from the link above). (As you say, you could create your own kit - but that seems like a lot of hassle and you’re limited to 100MB, so probably best just to stick with the existing kits for now) This will show what drums are available in your midi score editor. Then you need to get a map of what drums are available, you can get that here.
First create a track and add EZDrummer 2. I use Reaper and EZ Drummer 2, but the process should be similar.
