Audio Engine Inactive error

[Tym Johnson]

I keep getting the Audio Engine Active error coming up while in playback mode.  The drums play fine for several measures and then I get a loud buzz which interrupts the playback and throws off the beat.  If this buzz happens repeatedly, the error message shows up.

I have a standalone version of EZ Drummer 2 on my laptop and I don’t use a DAW — I record the audio from my laptop onto my Korg D3200 directly.

Any advice appreciated.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 7

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[Donald Seyler]

The Audio out has no place to go from the software………not assigned properly ….What is your playback device…….since you have the Ez Drummer 2 on a Pc ….the Audio is sent to the Pc’s Audio card which is not the Korg D3200 which has it’s own audio out to your speakers …I’m guessing….The settings in Ez Drummer 2 has to be changed so that audio is sent properly to the Korg D3200 …..If the Pc and  Ez Drummer 2 does not see the Korg D3200 listed in your devices in it’s setting is not good either …..When the Korg D3200 is seen as a device ….then open your open your “sound control panel “settings and make the Korg D3200  the default device as your “playback device” ….. then in “sound control panel ” go to “recording” tab and choose your recording device “Korg D3200  ?  ” the default and save ….Hope I helped you some how !!! you have to some what do this with Ez Drummer 2 settings and your Pc .

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

[Tym Johnson]

Thank you for your help.  I’m notoriously old school, so the way I use the software differs from most.  I play the completed drum tracks on my PC and use a cable from the audio out jack on the PC to two 1/4 inch input cables running to two tracks on the D3200.  I record the finished drum track to the D3200, and from that point, I no longer need the PC.

 

I realize this is unconventional in the era of DAWs, but it works extremely well for me.  Lately I have been having the issue with the buzzing – I believe that my computer is running low on memory when this happens, and I have figured that by restarting my computer, I can mitigate the problem long enough to get a clean playback of the drum track recorded.

[Phenix 2]

Hi

Solved maybe it can be useful

This is more or less solved except for a problem of latency-sound-image synchronization with the drums I had before the last update

but, what must be done to avoid garageband-midi pad controller lockups

is to revert – to come back to last  2.1.8 version  by a line code given by Toontrack

And don’t take the latest version with Mac OS Big Sur (for me, it blocked, garage band crashed and froze (wheel spinning endlessly))

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