

You will be taken to a new window with your customized drum rack, where you’ll hear a metronome and you’ll still be able to click the drums and play them only this time the program will record one drum pattern and keep looping it while you play another drum, and another, and another. What you can do, however, is go to the Search tab and click the “Tap 2 Find” button. Pressing record in the interface and trying to click the drums one by one with your mouse will not result in anything even remotely similar to music.

Apart from the kick drum, the snare, the hi-hats, cymbals and toms that are part of a drum rack, you also get to play tambourines, shakers, claps and a cowbell. Left clicking on any drum will play it, while right clicking will allow you to change the actual instrument that’s played, but also its pitch, volume and velocity. However, EZdrummer even has some nice standalone features that help you produce bits of music even without a DAW.įirst off, the photorealistic drum rack looks great and it’s easily customizable. Ideally, you will use it as a plugin for your DAW (digital audio workstation), adding the instrument’s sounds to a larger musical production project.

A versatile and good looking virtual drum rackīasically, EZdrummer is a VST (Virtual Studio Technology) instrument that you can use to play drums directly on your computer. Still, this is probably what the developers at Toontrack had in mind when they created EZdrummer. But actually making a program imitate a drummer? A bit more complicated. Electronic distorted, heavy, fast or wobbly beats? Sure. Even by today’s music production standards, it’s not easy to create natural sounding drums.
