Topic: Buzzing sounds – perhaps it’s a latency issue or something

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Replied September 8, 2015 at 02:29 #1982485

Scott
Moderator

Never heard of buzzing. How about some details about your system? OS version? EZD2 version number that is displayed on the interface? Latency setting? Audio device?

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied September 8, 2015 at 08:24 #1982491

ddubourdieu
Participant

Never heard of buzzing? Well, try this MP3 I just recorded using Audacity while attempting to play Modern Vintage/Straight 4 4/Fills/Variation 6…

Operating system: Windows 8.1

EZ Drummer II – whatever version is being downloaded this week…I just got it on Friday…

Audio device? Whatever kind of hardware is standard on a Del Inspiron E1705 laptop…had no problem with lots of other stuff including Steinberg and all those VSTs…

Replied September 8, 2015 at 08:42 #1982492

John
Moderator

Hi,

there’s no audio file attached to your post

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied September 8, 2015 at 12:22 #1982501

Scott
Moderator

The latest version of EZD2 is 2.1.1. It is also a 32-bit or 64-bit version. Which version number is displayed on your interface? If you downloaded the full product installer and not the update, it won’t be the latest version. That is why I’m asking for the version number that is displayed on the interface.

Does Audacity support loading VSTis like EZD2?

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied September 8, 2015 at 17:57 #1982518

ddubourdieu
Participant

Ok, sorry. Weird upload interface on this website. Didn’t realize there were so many things involved in making it happen.

Definitely 32-bit. And it’s the full product installer.

And version number displayed in the interface…hmm…wow…there it is…could you make this any smaller? Or perhaps simply put it on the About screen? Looks like it says “version 2.0.2 32-bit”

Replied September 8, 2015 at 18:36 #1982522

Scott
Moderator

“And version number displayed in the interface…hmm…wow…there it is…could you make this any smaller? Or perhaps simply put it on the About screen? Looks like it says “version 2.0.2 32-bit”

It is. Menu->About EZdrummer.

Now, please update to the latest version 2.1.1.

And, how are you running EZD2? From the Audacity website: ‘Audacity can load VST effects (but not VST instruments)’. EZD2 is a VST instrument.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied September 8, 2015 at 18:38 #1982523

Olof Westman
Forum Crew

This is the way it sounds when you have ran out of memory.
Could possibly be something else, though.

EZdrummer2 will need about 1GB of free RAM.
Start up the Task Manager and check how much memory
you have ‘Available’. If it is less than 1GB before starting EZdrummer
then you need to close some other applications.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
Coder

Replied September 10, 2015 at 03:41 #1982583

ddubourdieu
Participant

Well, I’m not sure where you are getting these numbers from. I’ll grant you mine is an old machine, and if you want to tell me the reason why this is happening is because my hardware is not up to the task, then I’d say you need to make that clearer on your product requirements page, because I have no problem running SQL Server 14 on this laptop along with about ten other programs all at the same time.

Be that as it may, however, this machine has 2 GB of DDR memory, and about 995MB of that is used up before I load anything else at all. On the other hand, that does leave over 1GB of memory available. When I load EZDrummer, however, it only consumes about another 200MB, so I’m not sure where you are coming up with a 1 GB requirement for the program.

I suppose the fuller explanation is that I’m still not very happy with the absence of any pattern development or editing capability within your program, so I’ve installed Anvil Studio and loopMIDI to turn your EZDrummer program into a downstream slave synthesizer. So Anvil can load your .MID files and play them back thru EZDrummer, and most of the time the hits will work, but every once in a while, it buzzes. The whole environment is toddling along at 1.5 GB of used memory, leaving 500 MB lying around for whatever else needs it, which is apparently NOT EZDrummer, because the memory demand remains flatlined at 1.5 GB.

Then I go back to the EZDrummer interface, bang on a few drum heads and randomly get buzzes instead of drum hits.

So I’m sure you’re going to tell me that whatever I’m doing is simply too advanced for my computer or your software or whatever.

In the mean time, it still buzzes and I don’t have a reliable method for coming up with my own customized drum pattern variations.

I’m still not sure why this is an improvement on simply using Acid Music and using all the various .WAV files out there for this kind of stuff.

Replied September 10, 2015 at 13:41 #1982597

Olof Westman
Forum Crew

> I’d say you need to make that clearer on your product requirements page

The minimum requirements are 2GB RAM. Your machine qualifies,

>EZDrummer, however, it only consumes about another 200MB,

That would depend on the EZX in use. The Modern and Vintage EZXs that
ship with EZ2 both use up some 700MB.

>I have no problem running SQL Server 14 on this laptop along with
> about ten other programs all at the same time.

Well, EZdrummer is a real time application and an SQL server is not.
If some of EZdrummer’s sounds are swapped onto disk by the OS
because some other application needs memory then EZdrummer’s
real time rendering process will hang until the OS has brought
back those sounds from the disk. This means that the sound card
will not get its buffer of sound in time and you get that buzz instead.
For an SQL server a request that comes 100ms late is usually not
catastrophic.

Now, I don’t know for sure that your problem is that you run
out of memory but I would consider it likely. If I were you I
would close all other applications and stop all non-OS
SQL-servers or what else there is running on your machine
that isn’t necessary for the moment and see if that improves
the situation for EZ2. If it doesn’t then your problem is
something else.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
Coder
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