EZ Drummer 2 Doesnt Follow Tempo Change In Pro Tools 12

[Shadow777]

Hi, I had made a song with EZ Drummer 2 in Pro tools 12 with a tempo of 115 bpm. Later after recording most of the instruments, I had found the song to be too slow so I bumped up the tempo to 130 bpm in Pro tools. Now the problem I’m having is that EZ Drummer wont follow the tempo change. I have it set on Follow Host and it wont. Is there an easy fix for this?
Thanks

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[John]

Hi,

the EZdrummer 2 plugin receives Tempo from the host, so this shouldn’t really be possible.
Is the MIDI on the Ezdrummer 2 Song Track or is it on the Pro Tools Instrument Track?
Is the Instrument Track Sample-based or Tick-based?
I can take a look at the Session if you ZIP archive it (without the Audio Files) and attach to a post here.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Shadow777]

Hi John, thanks for replying. I used EZ Drummer 2 originally on an instrument track but also in trying to fix this, I tried using the midi on a midi track and neither wants to fall in line. The track is tick based. I’ll try to get the session zipped to here. Thanks!

[Shadow777]

Hi John, I just tried to upload a zip file of a session but it said exceeds max allowable size. When someone does something like this, would I need to delete 90% of the tracks or what is the preferred way of doing this? Thanks

[Shadow777]

Removed most of my tracks and still cant upload the session. What is the allowable upload able file size here? Thanks

[Henrik Ekblom]

You only need to keep the EZdrummer 2 track. Can you create a new project with only EZdrummer 2 and recreate the problem you have? If so, post that project.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Shadow777]

When I try to upload the file, I get a File Extension Error. Can you advise?
Thanks

[John]

Please ZIP compress it.

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Shadow777]

I’m such a moron .. LOl ok, finally got it zipped and attached. Thanks for bearing with me. Any insight of what I’m doing wrong with not being able to get EZ Drummer 2 to follow the tempo of Pro Tools would be much appreciated. When I increase the tempo of pro tools, it seems that EZD2 plays some other tempo …and not even what was of the original.
Thanks

[John]

Hi,

sorry for the delay.

When I open your Session, the MIDI on the Song Track plays back as expected, at 130 bpm as entered in the Pro Tools Conductor track.
If I change that Tempo in Pro Tools, the MIDI in EZdrummer 2 plays back accordingly. The only way for me to force some kind of Tempo mis-match between Pro Tools and the EZdrummer 2 plugin is if I preview a groove in EZdrummer 2 with the ”Preview Original Tempo’ button on.
I really can’t see what can be causing what you describe.
Your Session is 44,1kHz/24bit, 30fps with Delay Compensation Off. Does that tell you something?
Do you have any kind of external clocking?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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