I recently found how to write a song with EZ Keys and watched many Youtube videos about it. In my opinion, it can be ARRANGE, but not can be COMPOSING exactly.

There are patterns in the library and you can cut, paste, changing chords to make a song. It sounds very similar to sampling. The patterns are limited, so the created songs could be similar. If there are more than 10,000 patterns, it could be different story.
EZ Drummer is really helpful as it doesn't need to make melody.

I am not sure. It is just my opinion. Have I missed something? Can I make really a unique song with EZ Key?

 

My cousin can make a unique song with a piece of paper and a comb, so yeah..I think it's possible.
Let's wait to see what others have to say!

 

Ye, that is definitely creative, but songs are created by EZ Key may be patterned. Or someone else may be able to make really unique one with that.

 

Not so impressed with the included midi content in EZkeys, sounds to me like they have taken hit songs from each genre and changed them just enough to not sound exactly the same..

I love toontrack but the lack of effort put forth in their midi packs is noticeable and lazy.

Pretty sure its aimed mostly at noobs.

 

load ezkeys, and twiddle around on a keyboard 'til you find summat interesting and you'll be on the way to beginning to compose something.
Then the really hard work begins.

the block midi pattern files are not conducive to the serious craft of songwriting, though they may show you something about construction, progressions and so on, but you're better off studying completed songs for that, or of course, genning up on music theory.

playing with lego bricks is not the same as building a house, though the finished result might look quite similar.
cheers everybody.

 

Last edited: Apr 10, 2019

Depends how you use tools
A keyboard is only a small set of repeating notes. A guitar has only 6 strings. Maschine only has 16 pads...

 

AFAIK the good thing about EZDrummer and EZKeys is that you can prototype quickly with the stock MIDIs and then you can tweak every note/hit to your taste if you want. It's been a while since I used them though, not sure 100% about the tweak thing.

 

I agree, I dont think EZKeys is a great composition tool but it is an excellent piano arranger once the song is composed. The browser has a multitude of different MIDI patterns. You can also import your patterns. Any of these patterns can be used to play the chords from your song. It takes some cutting and pasting but it is well worth it since I am a MIDI guitarist. My piano skills are limited so I can play the chords from my guitar into EZ Keys, then select any of the browser patterns to turn my Guitar chords into a perfect Piano part. Great piano players have been fooled as they should be.

 

It's been a while since I played with the arranger part of ez-keys (I really like their e-piano sounds) but I don't think those midi pack things are meant to be a composition helper other than maybe for the forms as someone already stated. However it does have a very useful prototyping feature for singers who just want to have a foundation and then work with others or just karaoke over Faketon Johns pattern #2.

Money wise going after the singers is not bad marketing, everyone is sure they can sing... why do Wal-mart and Sam Ash sell so many $19 microphones. The Ez-Keys patterns are just loops that you can have in your preferred key. Just like loops they can be changed or left alone and it is up to the person that is using it to decide if that is art or not (although we are all free to judge, there is no need to shame.)

Besides how many times a week does someone here post, "I can't play any instruments or even understand music, but I want to get rich yo!." Toontracks is fueling the dream while also delivering some decent sounding instruments for people who can play them.

 

you can always load in your own midi and use the wheel to jumble it around a bit or pair it with something else you're working on. I copied the scales and chords patterns from FL studio to a separate folder as well as other less common arrangements. you don't need toontrack midi only to work with ezkeys. thats the beauty of midi.

 

I was a noob once. It was a long time ago. I had no musical training. My parents were so disinterested in music we didn't own a stereo. I worked three jobs after school and bought a Roland SH-3. My friend bought a cheap electric guitar and his dad built him an amp from a magazine. Together we worked out how to play chords. We joined a band. Got drunk. Got laid. Music is something you should do with other people. It's fun. You'll laugh more than at any other time in your life. These are my best memories. Can software and you alone in your bedroom offer the same?

 

I'd have a Kajillian watt P.A. system by now if I had kept all my SOS back issues!