EZ Drummer noise in playback

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  • Scott
    Moderator

    Have you tried raising the audio buffer of your soundcard? Are you using the ASIO drivers in Cubase?

    Scott Sibley - Toontrack
    Technical Advisor

    Henrik Simonsen
    Participant

    Hi
    I have kind of same problem, I’m using Sup 2.0 and the noise starts after the drum sound has ended. I also have the Custom and Vintage set and it is even worse with that. I assume that this noise is not in the recording?
    Also the percussion set have strange problems, for instance the bongos make a lot of noise.
    I’ve just upgraded to Lion 10.7.4, haven’t noticed these problems before.

    I use an iMac Dual Core Duo 2, 2.16 ghz, 3 gb ram, the built-in sound card, Cubase 6 (and Lion 10.7.4)

    Thanks

    Henrik Simonsen
    Participant

    and now I’ve tried the same song on my Mac Book Pro and it has has the exact same white noise.
    Any solutions?

    Thanks

    Simonsen

    Scott
    Moderator

    Without actually being able to hear the sound I’ll guess it’s a buffer issue. Have you tried raising your audio buffer?

    Scott Sibley - Toontrack
    Technical Advisor

    Henrik Simonsen
    Participant

    Hi Scott, thanks for the answer.
    Ups, buffer, where do I raise that in Cubase 6 (can’t find it)?

    But here are two samples, a tom where the noise starts after the tom-tone and a bongo that just doesn’t sound clean:

    tom: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2312910/TOM%20TEST.mp3

    bongo: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2312910/BONGO%20TEST.mp3

    Thanks

    Scott
    Moderator

    In the ‘tom’ example, it sounds like the snares being ‘exited’ when the tom his struck. This is normal and is how the drums were recorded.

    In the ‘bongo’ example, it sounds like the pre/mic/eq/mixer/etc. used to track had a bit of noise and is accentuated with any compression used. It ‘fades’ as the sample was edited. This is in the recording and can’t be removed.

    Scott Sibley - Toontrack
    Technical Advisor

    Henrik Simonsen
    Participant

    Hmm Scott, I must say that I don’t think thats how it is, I think it is some kind of digital noise/error. An “exited” snare would sound differently, I think, and hopefully the engineer would have heard that noise and moved the snare drum:-). The sound is more or less on all toms, more or less the same (Custom and Vintage). Also, I think it is strange that iit has a crescendo?.
    I’ve done a little research, when I use the pop/rock set it is a much more clean sound even though there is a little bit of white noise in the end. But not much at all, compared to the Vintage set.
    I have Logic, but don’t use it so I cannot make a sound file BUT I can hear drum sets and actually, there is the same kind of noise on most parts of the drum set, not just toms, also a snare with the snares tight on:-). Some of the sounds have very much noise indeed!!!

    Anyway, in my opinion, this is not how the drums sounded when they were recorded, it has come to the sound file when it was edited.

    Bongos: I haven’t used any compression or anything else, it’s the clean and pure sound I’ve using in my audio mix down, and I’m sure that the actual recording of the bongo sounds clean and nice. So I must say again, it happens in the editing:-).

    Can it be something that happens, when e.g. the ringing of a tom is cut of/faded out in the editing process?

    Regards

    Henrik

    Scott
    Moderator

    An “exited” snare would sound differently, I think, and hopefully the engineer would have heard that noise and moved the snare drum:-). The sound is more or less on all toms, more or less the same (Custom and Vintage).

    Does the sound ‘go away’ when you uncheck ‘bottom wire snares’ under the ‘Tools Settings’?

    Also keep in mind that C&V was recorded with an older TG console that was anything other than ‘clean’. From the sample you posted I can only reiterate that the sound you hear is the snare ‘buzz’ and is expected.

    Bongos: I haven’t used any compression or anything else, it’s the clean and pure sound I’ve using in my audio mix down, and I’m sure that the actual recording of the bongo sounds clean and nice.

    No, I didn’t mean that you added compression. The compression was added when the samples were ‘pre-mixed’ by Toontrack. All EZXs are ‘pre-mixed’ using EQ, compression, etc. and the sound you hear is in the samples themselves and is caused by the mixer/eq/compression used at the time of tracking the samples.

    Scott Sibley - Toontrack
    Technical Advisor

    Henrik Simonsen
    Participant

    no it doesn’t go away when I uncheck “bottom wire snares”, it’s exactly the same. Earlier this day I tried to set the bleed amount to 0.0 a that did not make any difference either.

    ok Scott, we hear things differently:-) (“snare buzz”).

    ok (bongos) but still I think it’s a dimension of the audio file that should not be there

    Henrik Simonsen
    Participant

    Hope it was clear that I didn’t use Sup Drummer in Logic so the noise was in Logic-drums too!!

    Found this thread, tried what he did, it didn’t help:

    http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/recording-studio/203263-superior-drummer-clicks-pops.html

    By the way: the sound you hear in the two samples I send you, does your drums have those sounds too???? That would be very interesting to know for me, maybe it is something with my computer
    ?? What system do you use?

    Scott
    Moderator

    By the way: the sound you hear in the two samples I send you, does your drums have those sounds too???? That would be very interesting to know for me, maybe it is something with my computer
    ?? What system do you use?

    If the sound that I hear is the same sound that you hear then (I guess that’s debatable), yes, my drums have those sounds too. I don’t hear any computer related glitching that is caused by soundcard buffer or using the cached mode in S2.

    My system that I use everyday in the studio is a 7 year old, P4 3.0GHz with 2GB of RAM. My guess is your system is better that mine

    Scott Sibley - Toontrack
    Technical Advisor

    Hi, can somebody please help me. I’m running Ez drummer 2 on a MacBook Air with 8 Gb of memory , processor is 1.8 GHz dual core running Catalina 10.15.2 and as a midi controller an Alesis nitro mesh drum kit.

    im having so many issues with sound cracking and overall sound issues.

    i have tried changing the buffer size , I have tried using the setting for Alesis on settings- e drum submenu. But nothing.

    im still getting so many glitches and I cannot use it in a live situation. Help


    EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
    Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)
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