EZ drummer 3 Main Room / all Drums and Mixer Presets for RIDE CYMBAL are choking

[Diane Ward]

EZ drummer 3 Main Room Studio Reverb RIDE CYMBAL bow tip is choking.  Happens with all Drums and Mixer Presets for EZ drummer 3 Main Room kit. It’s like the after touch has been altered.  Any ideas?

EZdrummer version: 3.1.2
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

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[John]

Hi,

is this in standalone or as a plug-in in a DAW? If the latter, which one?
Can you monitor incoming MIDI in any way to see if EZdrummer 3 is receiving AfterTouch?
Which MIDI controller are you using? Are you triggering note #51?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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[Diane Ward]

Yes, with noted kit, it is triggering Bow Tip midi note #51.

Playing 8th notes in a 4/4 109BPM track on all Ride cymbal expressions. Bow Tip, Bell, Edge.  Have since checked other kits and appears that all ride cymbals are now doing this.

Currently writing the drum part with EZdrummer3 as a plug in on a stereo track within my session. But it happens in both the session and in standalone. My recording set up is ProTools 2025.12.1 / Sonoma 14.8.7 / Mac M1.

When troubleshooting I unchecked both Aftertouch and Poly Aftertouch in Protools (unchecked means data passes through). Both were enabled by default.

No change.

Any ideas?

Appreciate your help!

Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

• This post was modified 4 days, 7 hours ago by Diane Ward.

[Brad]

Does this happen when you write your drum arrangements in the EZD3 grid editor, instead of the PT track itself? (Just for troubleshooting of course)

Does the track with EZD3 inserted have monitor selected?

 

EZdrummer version: 3.1.2

Mac Studio M1 Ultra, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 14.x, 15.x, 26.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Fender Studio Pro 8, Presonus Studio One Pro 7
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

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[Diane Ward]

The drum part is written in the EZDrummer 3 grid editor and the midi has not been brought into the PT track/grid yet. But with that being said, I just opened the session and the ride cymbal is now triggering properly after days of dealing with the ride cymbal muting issue and it’s my bad…  Compression was the issue.

Thank you both very much for responding and for your help! Sorry for the user error troubleshooting.

Kindest regards, Diane

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 3 days, 3 hours ago by Diane Ward.

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