treesbygb Hi,
I’ve just installed EX drummer, however when I start my DAW, Sonar Home studio 7 xl, I get the message that the plugin has an error, type “open”, advises me that to install it is risky! Ok, So I install anyway, when the DAW starts up, I can’t find ez drummer. I have been using studio instruments drum kit, so I assume it’s with all the other virtual instruments, but it’s not. Can anyone help. I’ve read both manuals (EX drummer and cakewalk, and the FAQ here, but can’t find an answer,) can anyone help?
Thanks
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
treesbygbExcuse the typing, EZ drummer not EX obviously!
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
ScottPlease provide your system specs on your member profile page or in a post as it will help us tech’s give advice.
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
treesbygbThanks for the reply. I think I’ve added them here.
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
treesbygb Just to Clarify,
I’ve downloaded the latest version 131, I’ve downloaded the 32 bit update, I’ve installed ez drummer solo, just to see if it works and it does and I’ve authorised the computer.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
treesbygbOk, I’ve tried uninstalling and re-installing, I’ve gone to the vst plug in manager and identified the program, and told the DAW to load it, the program file is showing on the vst list and is being scanned, but still doesn’t appear in the soft synths or virtual instruments.
After reinstalling it and starting the DAW the same error message appeared as before. It says that EZ drummer has an error, of the “open type” and says it could be the following:
Plug in is not installed correctly (I have installed it and reinstalled it, using the latest version and updates)
Computer is low on memory,(less then half the 500GB memory is used)
The product is copy protected (I have authorised it by starting up ez drummer solo)
The programme is incompatible with the DAW (I’m using Sonar Home Studio 7 XL, is this possible?)
EZdrummer, is proving to be not so easy. I’ve had difficulty installing it, now problems getting it on to my DAW, I’m not a novice and this product is billed as being suitable for the beginner and pro alike. I’m very disappointed. I appreciate the speed in which technical support has so far answered my posts and hope that this problem finds a rapid and satisfactory solution.
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
ScottIs your Windows 7 64-bit (or 32-bit)? Is your Sonar 64-bit (or 32-bit)? Is your EZdrummer 64-bit (or 32-bit)?
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
treesbygb Thanks for the speedy post Scott,
Windows and Sonar are both 32 bit, I downloaded the 131 version of ezdrummer, (there’s only one version for PC?), and I downloaded and installed the 32 bit update.
I’m self employed and have given myself three days off to really get to grips with ezdrummer and put some decent drum sounds on my music, but have so far spent the time trying to get it to work. I’m sure you can appreciate my fustration.
Gary
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
ScottTo tell you the truth, I have no experience with Sonar. I don’t want to ‘pass the buck’ but since EZdrummer operation seem fine in Toontrack Solo, I would suggest posting over on the Cakewalk forum:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tt.aspx?forumid=5&p=1&tmode=1&smode=1
Again, I’m not trying to pass the virtual support buck but I honestly have never heard of the error message you are reporting mentioned on the Toontrack forum before and my google searches haven’t yielded any results either.
Let me know if the Sonar folks have any solution.
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
treesbygb Thanks for posting Scott,
Strange how every single other plug in works fine. I’m very disappointed. I’ll let you know what happens, because I can’t believe I’m the only person who has encountered this problem.
Gary
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
treesbygbAnother day gone and still no luck with ezdrummer. However, some progress of sorts. After many uninstalls and reinstalls, I can now start sonar with no error message. I’ve been to my plug in in manager and have told it where to look for EZdrummer. However, ez drummer only appears in the VST effects list and not in the VST instruments or any other list, when I try to start ezdrummer in the effects list it crashes sonar. Can anyone help with this extra info, thanks.
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
Dave ModisetteI am a SONAR Producer user and I’m fairly familiar with the products. I am going to ask the obvious questions and have you check some things that you have already stated. I don’t mean to insult your intelligence but it’s been my experience that it’s usually the obvious things that bite you because we tend to rush through them.
Did you drag and drop the EZdrummer program into the VST Plugins folder manually? If you did then put it back where it was originally installed and change the scan path in SONAR.
Since Toontrack solo is working, would you please check the path to EZdrummer in Toontrack solo and then the path to EZdrummer in the VST Scanner for SONAR Home Studio. See if there are any differences.
Open SONAR in Run as Administrator mode and see if that clears the problem up.
That’s usually what gets most people. If this doesn’t correct things, I’ll try to continue to help.
Dave Modisette www.gatortraks.com www.plasticsamerica.com http://www.gatortraks.com/forum
treesbygb Hi Dave,
thanks so much for your help, I’m feeling like I’m banging my head a brick wall here. Ok, I didn’t drag and drop ezdrummer, I went to the global menu, VST plug ins, then add folder, I then selected c/program files/toontrack to cover all bases. When I hit the scan button, I can see that ezdrummer is being scanned.
I then go to tools/plug in manager and exdrummer appears in the vst audio effects list. I’m thinking it should be VSTi in the VST instruments list. OK, so when I click on plug in properties, I also check the the configure as synth box, as well as enable plug in which is already checked.
Upon restarting sonar, ezdrummer is now in the VSTi list, but it’s not there when I go to add an instrument track, ot there when I go to insert soft synths.
Am I getting close?
Ok the path in ezdrummer solo is c/program files/cakewalk/vst plug ins
I’ve looked and the ez drummer d.ll is there,
This path exists in my vst plug ins also. I have removed the toon track path. Now I can find ezdrummer in add instruments, vst plug ins, sounds good.
However when I click on it I get a message that a fatal error has occured and Sonar crashes.
Head…Wall…
Thanks Dave, any ideas?
I have this listed in my sonar
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
Dave ModisetteDid you also try right mouse clicking the SONAR icon and selecting “Run as Administrator?”
EDIT: FWIW, in my VST Plug-In Properties – Force Stereo Operation is also checked.
Also do a Windows search and see if there might be two copies of EZdrummer.dll on your computer. If there is then don’t do anything yet. Let me know where they are.
Dave Modisette www.gatortraks.com www.plasticsamerica.com http://www.gatortraks.com/forum
treesbygbDay three…..and well Dave it’s a pity you are in Florida and I’m in London ‘cos I would be hugging you right now! I’m not sure what FWIW means but I went to the plug in properties and checked the force stereo operation and it’s worked!! Finally. It’s been a long and fustrating road and just to help anyone else who has the same problems here’s a list of all the problems encountered on the way:
Error 1308 when loading from disc- disk is out of date download from toontrack website.
Error 1309 when installing -right click downloaded zip folder and extract all, simply going for the extract all button doesn’t work, because that’s what I did first time.
Error loading plug in message from cakewalk -first install not done correctly, as the ezdrummer.dll file was not loaded into the c.program files/toontrack path, Don’t waste a day trying to figure this out like I did but uninstall, try again, then delete and download again from toontrack site and start all over again.
Can’t find ezdrummer in VSTi- go to tools, plug in manager, vst effects find ez drummer click on properties and check configure as synth.
Now ezdrummer appears in the vsti list, nearly there, add instruments, vst plug ins, ez drummer, then there is an error message which crashes sonar- Go back to plug in properties and also check the force stereo box.
I’m sure This isn’t the end of the road, as you can imagine, I’ve lost confidence in the EZ nature of this software and am very disappointed that I’ve encountered so many problems. This has never happened with any other plug in I’ve used so I can only deduce that toontrack have still got a bit of work to do before charging £85 for this.
On the plus side, techinical support were quick to try and help, up to a point, and the kind souls who help on these forums, rekindle my enthusaism for human nature.
Thanks again Dave.
Windows 7, Intel i7 2.8 ghz, 4gb Ram, 500 GB hard drive, T.C Electronics twin Impact sound card ASIO, 44.1 khz sample rate.
godprobeORIGINAL: Dave Modisette
Did you also try right mouse clicking the SONAR icon and selecting “Run as Administrator?”
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Something akin to that was going to be my suggestion as well. It’s sounding like Sonar is having trouble getting permission to talk to the plugin. If that doesn’t work, check read/write properties on the ezdrummer.dll folder and files as well as the Toontrack folders/files.
Also make sure that EZdrummer isn’t loaded elsewhere simultaneously (possibly restart Windows just to make sure). I don’t think this usually matters, but it may be worth checking.
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