We are the music makers - producers?

An EZDrummer2 moan:

Right okay. Thanks for clarifying. See I thought the fact that the patterns in EZD2 were fewer than your standard drum package but of high quality (often played by named session notables etc) and usually 8 bars as opposed to one or two was one of the big the big selling points. I thought it was supposed to create more a living breathing real drummer feel as opposed to just overlaying nicely recorded single hit samples on metronomic midi templates. That's kind of why I bought it.

But the lack of useful basic patterns that you can build on is bugging me and now I understand there's no way to edit the midi within those patterns without exporting, tweaking and re-importing which seems to defeat the object. If i'm going to do that could have just bought sample pack and used logic's drum sampler which works fine.

From the video ads and the not-so-subtle names of the patterns it's apparent to be that what they've done is record a full sound-alike of a well known song in that genre and used that as the basis for all the patterns. Case in point being "Hellas" in the Indie Folk pack which is rather obviously an homage to Mykonos by Fleet Foxes with four levels of additional hoo-ha on successive versions of each pattern. That's all well and good and maybe great for inspiring ideas (assuming you haven't twigged what the soundalike is, in which case it's maddeningly impossible to un-hear it). But the issue for me is that they are often quite specific grooves and not all that useful if you have an existing song that happens to, I dunno, not sound like Mykonos by Fleet Foxes.

Honestly I'm astounded there's no basic kick on the 1 and 3 and hi-hat on the 2 and 4 pattern anywhere. I've been fiddling with it for a week or so and to be honest i'm starting to wonder if it's the right thing for me...

from here:

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/recording-progress/482714-ezdrummer-2-era-begins-2.html