What instruments does EZkeys 2 include?

The core library comes with a selection of acoustic and electric pianos, and the 2.1.5 update adds support for the Transistor Organ EKX expansion.

Can EZkeys 2 run natively on Apple Silicon Macs?

Yes, the Mac build supports both Intel 64-bit and ARM processors, with improved multi-core CPU performance in the current version.

EZkeys 2 Torrent: What You Get with the Songwriting Piano

Name: Toontrack EZkeys
Author: Toontrack

Version 2.1.5 brings support for the new Transistor Organ EKX expansion and a noticeable CPU improvement on multi-core Macs. The standalone icon got a macOS Tahoe refresh, and the expression pedal knob now appears in the String Machine EKX view under the Keys tab.

Most of what you reach for lives in the main grid. Chord Wheel and Songwriting Scales sit up front, letting you block out progressions without touching a MIDI keyboard. Tap a scale, spin the wheel, and the chord voicings follow. It is a fast way to rough out a verse when you are staring at a blank arrange window.

The mix-ready presets cover a broad palette — felted upright, bright grand, processed electric pianos — and the resizable interface means you are not squinting at tiny faders on a 5K display. AAX support keeps it tidy inside Pro Tools sessions.

A singer-songwriter on a tight timeline opens EZkeys 2 in standalone mode on a MacBook, pulls up a basic four-bar progression in C major with the Chord Wheel, then drops a few rhythmic taps into Tap2Find. Within a minute she has a B-section piano figure she would not have improvised on her own — syncopated, tight, shaped to the groove she described with two fingers. She drags the MIDI into her DAW, layers a soft Rhodes preset underneath her vocal scratch track, and sends a rough mix to the producer before lunch. The whole session stays in EZkeys while she works out vocal harmonies against the chords; she never opens a notation view or a piano roll.

Ignoring Tap2Find’s rhythm input

Ignoring Tap2Find’s rhythm input. New users often click through presets randomly. Tap a basic rhythm on your keyboard or even the Mac’s internal mic, and the suggestions tighten up fast.
Overloading the MIDI browser without filtering. The library covers dozens of genres. Narrow it by playing style and time signature first, or you will scroll past usable parts.
Treating Bandmate as a full arranger. It generates chords and grooves from an audio or MIDI snippet, not a finished arrangement. Feed it a clear, short phrase — a hummed melody, a guitar lick — and treat the output as a starting block, not a final part.
Leaving the grid resolution too coarse. The internal timing grid affects how patterns snap to bars. A 1/4-note grid can make a swung 16th-note pattern sound robotic. Tighten it before judging a groove.
Running the standalone app and the plug-in simultaneously on an older Intel Mac. The 2.1.5 multi-core improvement helps, but doubling up still invites clicky playback. Pick one host.

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EZkeys 2 vs. Native Instruments Kontakt piano libraries

Kontakt libraries give you deep multisampling and often more velocity layers. What they lack is the compositional scaffolding — no chord wheel, no pattern browser, no tap-to-suggest engine. You play them; EZkeys plays ideas back at you. Producers who already write with a controller often prefer Kontakt instruments for the raw piano tone. Songwriters who build from chords and grooves tend to stay inside EZkeys.

EZkeys 2 vs. UJAM Virtual Pianist

Virtual Pianist leans harder into phrase-based playback — it performs complete piano parts in a few styles, and you steer with keyswitches. EZkeys gives you finer control over individual MIDI patterns and lets you edit note-by-note. UJAM is quicker when you need a polished part in two clicks; EZkeys is stronger when you want to break a pattern apart, re-harmonize it, and build something new around the bones.

EZkeys 2 vs. Apple Logic Pro Session Player

Session Player is tightly integrated and free inside Logic, but it stays inside Logic. EZkeys works across AU, VST3, and AAX hosts, and it includes the standalone app for writing away from the DAW. The MIDI export is cleaner too — drag a pattern out of EZkeys and you get plain MIDI you can send to any instrument, not a locked region tied to a single sound source. If you split time between Pro Tools, Ableton Live, and Logic, EZkeys moves with you.