Crash inside live ezd2

[chris harbin]

If you select a different output than 1 in ezd2...

If you select a different output than 1 in ezd2 then ezd2 crashes. Happens 100% of the time.

I’ll ask again, is there not an ezdrummer support area currently?

If you select a different output than 1 in ezd2 then ezd2 crashes. Happens 100% of the time.

I’ll ask again, is there not an ezdrummer support area currently?

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[aquataur]

Scott,

yes I read it. But if the folks are in the verge of fixing things they might need to know that there persists a problem that they are not aware of yet.
I have not seen them things Mixcraft adressed yet.
-helmut

[Pierre Blais]

To Scott and gang,
If I “J-Bridge” EZD2 will the memory issues/problems in Mixcraft 6 go away?

Thanks
Pierre

[Scott]

I don’t recommend any bit bridge utility.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Pierre Blais]

@Scott said:

I don’t recommend any bit bridge utility.

So that means I should pass on upgrading my EZD1 to EZD2

[Scott]

@clavguy said:

@Scott said:

I don’t recommend any bit bridge utility.

So that means I should pass on upgrading my EZD1 to EZD2

Well, that’s up to you. I just said I don’t recommend (neither does Toontrack) using and bit bridge utility.

I’ve never used Mixcraft so I don’t have any experience with the problem you are referring to.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Patrik Wall]

@aquataur said:

Maybe you folks at toontrack should know about this too…

Using Mixcraft 6 as a host, sometimes when I use EZD2 in a project, other plug-ins (that had worked flawlessly up to this point) produce strange out-of-memory errors.
* I also frequently cannot load any other fx into the plugin slots,
* the EZD2 GUI won´t open,
* some host dialogs refuse to open
* EZD2 won´t play despite the fact that “follow host” is enabled. (It does start if I open the gui most of the time, but sometimes it refuses to play in sync at all.)
* and EZD2 crashes frequently when I change kits despite some 1GB free memory.
* EZD2 crashes when opening its own menu (such as saving a preset)

all above requires a host restart.
Mixcraft 6 is out if its cradle and stable. This is beyond discussion.

Otherwise, its a great plug-in and I am sure you´ll get those errors fixed.

-helmut

I have tried reproducing this with no luck, however, everything about this points towards out-of-memory issues, other plugins report out of memory and the problems you describe are so weird and unexplainable that it´s the best guess I can make of it (weird stuff happens when starting to write/read memory already allocated by other processes), remember that MixCraft 6 is 32-bit only, which means you can only use roughly 3Gb before running out of memory.

Can you reproduce these issues when running a project with less plugins loaded?

Regards
/Patrik

Bass player in swedish thrash metal band Defiatory
www.defiatory.se

Coder at Toontrack
www.toontrack.com

[Pierre Blais]

Talking about what appears to be a memory issue in Mixcraft 6. I have successfully used J-Bridge to use my 64 bit versions of East Quantum Leap and Kontakt samples in 32 bit Mixcraft.
You guys have said that I shouldn’t us any bit bridge utility. Can we talk about this please?
Why do you recommend that I don’t use J-Bridge? By the way, I have successfully used J-Bridge in the other direction also where I am now able to load my 32 bit IK Multimedia samples into my 64 bit Studio One Pro DAW.

Thanks in advance
Pierre

[aquataur]

Patrick,

my post is related to the initial version. I have not worked extensively with Mixcraft since the bugfix, so I cannot comment on wheter things have changed or not.

Nevertheless, I find it strange that a process can screw up another processes memory. From my past software writing endeavours I would think, if memory is not available, I cannot allocate it. If I cannot allocate it, I should not write anywhere. If that were the case I would call it bad coding, but I cannot image that.

Officially, there was 600MB available when this happened BTW.

-helmut

[Author]

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