Getting EZplayer pro set up in Ableton Live can be confusing at first, so I thought I’d write up a tutorial with some images.

For this tutorial I’ll be using Ableton 7.0.16.

First, open up Ableton, and open your plugins dialog. Scroll down to EZplayer and drag it into the device creation section, or create a new MIDI track to put it on.

Next, do the same for your Toontrack Plugin of choice, in this case, EZdrummer:

Now, we’ll set up the MIDI routing to tell EZdrummer to take its MIDI input from EZplayer Pro. Click on the pulldown under “MIDI from” select “EZplayer”.

Now do the same for the pulldown under “MIDI FROM“, selecting “EZplayer” from the pulldown. Finally, record enable this track.

Now jump back to the channel that you’ve got EZplayer Pro on. Open the EZplayer interface, and select the drummer you want to use from the pulldown next to the Velocity knob. I’ll select “EZdrummer” from the Toontrack menu:

Now I need to tell EZplayer what channel its going to send MIDI information to. Click the same pulldown you just used to select your drummer, and navigate to the MIDI output menu – select the channel you have EZdrummer on, in this case, channel 3:

Next, select a MIDI groove from your library of grooves and loops. You can drag some of them into EZplayer’s interface from here, or you can audition them using the quick audition player.

Finally, hit play in EZplayer; you’ll notice that EZdrummer is playing back the selected MIDI groove:

That’s it! I’ve included an Ableton Live set for quick reference or you can build this set yourself and save it as a template.

Happy drumming!

-Brian

Tags: Ableton Live, EZdrummer, MIDI, record, Toontrack, Tutorial

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