Topic: Tap 2 Find Trigger Delay

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Replied June 19, 2014 at 04:11 #1972206

RossH123
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I opened the plug-in in PT and it worked fine so the delay is in Reaper. I’m new to Reaper so i may have a setting regarding delay compensation with plug ins not correct so if anyone has any advice on getting VIs to respond better in Reaper please advise. I’ll search the Reaper forum and respond back if I get an answer.

Replied June 19, 2014 at 14:48 #1972215

Henrik Ekblom
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Have you checked that you aren’t using too large buffer size and that you are using the correct ASIO drivers in Reapers settings?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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Replied February 9, 2020 at 06:06 #2538198

tenvolt
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I have the same problem, any ideas? On Reaper on a PC. When I first started using EZ Drummer, the Tap2Find feature worked fine.

But now there is so much delay it is unusable, I click a drum and the beat ends up being an 1/8th note late in the grid.

If I create a new project in Reaper, and just add EZ Drummer, it works OK. But at some point in time something breaks and the Tap 2 Find timing is off. Everything else is still fine, the playback still works and is in time.

In a project that had the problem, I started bypassing plugins one by one and deleting tracks, even removed EZ Drummer and readded it to the track it was on, but Tap 2 Find was always messed up in that project.

However, if I deleted ALL THE TRACKS that EZ Drummer was using (where the plugin is, and all the output tracks it creates), then readded EZ Drummer and allowed it to recreate all the output tracks again, then Tap 2 Find worked again. So at least I can save my project in EZ Drummer, delete all the tracks, re-add it with all the tracks, then reopen my project, and I can use Tap 2 Find again.

Not sure if it’s a Reaper issue or an EZ Drummer issue but it’s a problem.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

Replied February 9, 2020 at 06:23 #2538200

tenvolt
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Note that even closing Reaper and then reopening it with the project doesn’t resolve the problem, something gets “stuck” in the Tap2Find feature.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

Replied February 9, 2020 at 06:36 #2538201

tenvolt
Participant

Further clues after researching Plugin Delay Compensation…

Reaper has a setting called “Anticipative FX processing” – if I turn this OFF, then Tap2Find works.

When it’s ON, which is its default setting, then Tap2Find taps are delayed again. The default setting when it’s on says “Render-ahead: 200ms” so I’m guessing my taps are 200ms late.

I can’t really leave this setting off because it causes clicks and pops in the audio for me, but at least this is a clue…

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

Replied July 23, 2022 at 02:08 #2955697

jonvalt
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2 years later. No answers. I’ve been using EZ Drummer for years (Ableton Live, Logic) and the TRUE answer seems to be that EZD is just a freaking amazingly greedy resource hog.

Replied July 23, 2022 at 06:42 #2955752

tenvolt
Participant

I actually figured this one out, I totally forgot about this post. In Reaper you can right-click on a track (left side around the track controls) and there are options in the right-click menu labelled “Track performance options”. Selecting either “Prevent media buffering”, “Prevent anticipative FX”, or both, resolves the issue. Not at my studio machine now so I can’t test but try one, then the other, and if neither works alone, then select both. You only have to do it on the track that EZDrummer is on.
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