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Hi!
Today i went through some old projects in FL Studio 12.4. Before this my EZdrummer was working fine for ~ a year inside FL Studio and as a standalone. After said browsing of old projects and then trying to start a new one i got a database error, which told me told me EZdrummer 2 modern is damaged and that i should re-install. So thats what i did, i uninstalled the EZdrummer and installed and updated it again (and rebooted the PC) just to see the same errors.
For me the standalone version works fine after re-install, as it did before the reinstall, but the plugin inside FL Studio still tells me to update. When i check for updates it tells me its up to date. Midi base rebuilding is greyed out and “Midi Libraries…” tells me to check browser, aaaand the browser tells me to re-install. Do i just keep repeating the re-install or is there an actual solution to this? And yes i did use the Program manager for the install. And i did delete all .dll files on my pc before the reinstall.
Can opening a project with earlier version of EZdrummer really disable the whole plugin like that? And if its missing files, why can i not search them manually? Why does it tell me to update and that its up to date at the same time? What a nice waste of production time
Have any .dlls been manually moved? From the looks of your 3rd pic you are running version 2.0.2 (32-bit). My guess is that something was moved and the installer updater doesn’t know where it was moved to.
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
Hi
Yes, i did move the .dll the same day i installed ezdrummer about a year ago. Have not touched any of the files since and it as been working perfectly. And i did delete all ezdrummer.dll files before re installing so it should not matter i guess?
After the second fresh install of ezdrummer today the plugin asked me to locate the sound files and i tried to do so, but could not find them? So now i would like to know what file types the sound libraries are and where can i find them in my pc after a completely fresh install?
What also bugs me is that the plugin only asked to locate the files once and now its back to the same old loop of databaserror-> please update -> you are using the latest version. So it would be nice to know if i can get it to locate files without re-installing again.
Thanks for the quick response by the way!
So, if all ezdrummer.dlls were deleted and then installed and updated to default locations, I really don’t know how you could still have a version 2.0.2 still in your computer. Well, if you installed, then manually moved the .dll, then tried to update, the updated would fail of course. Then I guess it would still show 2.0.2…But if you deleted all .dlls and reinstalled and didn’t move anything again, it should have updated correctly.
Did you install both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of EZD2? Is FL a 32-bit or 64-bit host? If the standalone version works, what version number shows on the EZD2 interface?
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
Both standalone and the VST show the version to be 2.1.4 (build13108). The sound libraries show version 1.0.2.
I have only had the 32-bit version installed since im on a 32-bit system ( ) so i did not install 64-bit on either of the re-installs.
And one point i failed to mention is that my C: drive is just a small SSD for the operating system and i have to choose the install location to be on D: so i guess that can not be called a completely fresh install afterall. Thats propably also the issue here so my bad on that part. BUT, its seems choosing the files to go D: still makes some files to go to C? Atleast now going right-clicking a drum -> kits -> manage in explorer shows direction of C:UsersTimoDocumentsToontrackEZdrummerPresetsEZXEZX2_EZdrummer2_ModernDrumKitPresets_EZ2 and that direction shows as empty to me. Then again i do find MIDI files and some graphic files at C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesToontrack which is not where i wanted anything to go on the install. There i also find the soundb0.obv for the packs i own, which i propably could have shown to the VST when it asked to locate sound files?
So yes, the issue seems to be my potato computer with too small C: drive and me being stupid but somehow it still worked with no problems till yesterday.
EDIT: I did one more re-install and got everything to go to D:UserEZDrummer and still no luck. Im starting to run out of ideas. But since the standalone works it might be on FL Studio end somehow.
EDIT2: Can’t seem to find anything wrong with FL Studio either..
So, where are you at this point? Version 2.14 32-bit Standalone works fine? But 2.14 32-bit in FL doesn’t? And you’ve confirmed that both interfaces show 2.14 (32-bit) so you know it is the same .dll being addressed?
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
“Version 2.14 32-bit Standalone works fine? But 2.14 32-bit in FL doesn’t? And you’ve confirmed that both interfaces show 2.14 (32-bit) so you know it is the same .dll being addressed?” <– That is all correct.
And i did some research on forums and found out that by removing a database file in C:ProgramDataToontrackEZdrummerDatabase2_@EZDRUMMER_2_MODERN#VINTAGE i can cause similar database error that happens in the plugin, to happen in the standalone version. So that might indicate the plugin cant read that file somehow?
EDIT: also the there is this error log i attached
Perhaps a permissions issue with FL? Are you running as administrator in Windows? Or right-click on.the FL exe and select run as administrator. In EZD2 standalone, what is the plugin path shown in the Help menu? Is this the same path to the same plugin in FL?
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
Well of course. Running FL as an adminstrator fixed it! (why the heck did i not have admin in the first place, silly me) Goes to show that the simplest answers are usually the ones that work
Thanks a ton for helping me out even when i was in a full on panic mode!
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