Ezdrummer 3.03 Ableton 10, Windows 11 Bandmate not working

[joshreghenzani]

Hi there,

 

I’m working with EZdrummer version 3.03 in Ableton 10 with Windows 11. For some reason I have nto been able to get bandmate to work for me in spite of trying a few things. Whenever I try to drag and drop clips (Audio or Midi) it either prevents it outright or comes up with an error message saying ‘Could not read audio file. Supporter formats are WAV…….etc….Empty files are not supported. However when I then try to add the same clips via browsing my clips folder it won’t let me as it says the file is already in use. To make thigns even more confusing some clips it will let me drag and drop fine but there’s no clear reason that I’ve been able to find so far as to why it will allow some clips but not others. Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated, I only purchased Ezdrummer 3 for bandmate as it seemed like it could save a lot of time but so far it’s been anythign but that

EZdrummer version: 3.0.3
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Mick Avoidant]

Have you tried going through the browser first, in a new or freshly opened song?

[joshreghenzani]

I’m not 100% on what you mean when you say going through the browser first sorry, do you mean the browser in ezd3 or ableton?

[Mick Avoidant]

You said it first ‘However when I then try to add the same clips via browsing my clips folder … .’

[joshreghenzani]

Oh true I did, my bad. That’s actually a good suggestion I hadn’t tried that. I will give it a go and update you how it goes

[joshreghenzani]

Sorry for not getting back sooner but I have been away and haven’t had a chance to try this until the past couple of days. Your suggestion did work and just dragging the clips seems to fix the issue, but it is a time consuming process as you have to cross-reference exact clip titles in their original form (as in you can’t just rename a clip and find it quickly that way). It is effective though so appreciate the help. Another user having the same issue seems to have found a quicker albeit still slightly annoying workaround that I’ll repost here in case others have the same issue

[joshreghenzani]

So here what’s user VRN said in a reply to his post where he was having the same issues

“TT basically says “it’s Live’s fault”, which seems plausible, yet not particularly satisfactory. The only workaround (apart from exporting) I’ve found so far is to close the project after recording your clips in Live and reopen the project. Then they can be “dropped”, but that is not a practical workflow. For whatever reason there seems to be something “temporary” about the freshly recorded clips in Live, which the TT plugins do not like. Please help me to nag Ableton (and TT 😉 on the matter, so the issue can be resolved. This way, they have little value for me.”

He posted yesterday with an update on how to get around this..

‘I have some last minute breaking news, i.e. if I do the following:

1) Record a clip
2) Go to the clip view
3) Right-click on the clip link and select “manage sample file”
4) In the list of clips select “edit” (the clip goes offline)
5) Immediately de-select “edit” again (the clip is back online)

Then the clip can be dragged into EZdrummer!

It is still (too) cumbersome, but it is much better than any of the other workarounds so far.’

Hope this can help anyone dealing with the same headache (:

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Thanked by: jrbtaylor and Melborne

[Mick Avoidant]

I’m new to ezdrummer. Please do tell what the better workaround is.

[joshreghenzani]

The last reply I posted was of the other user’s workaround, but if you can’t see it I can post it again

 

Update: I also just tried VRN’s method and it’s been working great for me so far, it’s much quicker than how I’d been doing it and it also works with EZbass if you happen to experience the same issue with it

• This post was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by joshreghenzani.

[Mick Avoidant]

joshreghenzani wrote:

The last reply I posted was of the other user’s workaround, but if you can’t see it I can post it again

 

Update: I also just tried VRN’s method and it’s been working great for me so far, it’s much quicker than how I’d been doing it and it also works with EZbass if you happen to experience the same issue with it

• This post was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by joshreghenzani.

Good that you’ve got a way to make it work

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