EZdrummer 3 clipping when 2 drums hit at exactly same time

[basbomer]

Hi all,

I have this weird problem that when I hit two drums at exactly the same time (eg Bass and snare) a clipping sound occurs (happens both with the standalone app and within Cakewalk Sonar).

First I thought that it was a ASIO buffer issue. But even with the buffer at the largest setting this occurs and as often as with the smallest setting. The system I am running EZD 3 on has the following specs:

Ryzen 7950x
64Gb RAM
4TB SSD
RTX4080
Presonus Audiobox USB96

CPU utilisation does not rise above 10% when using EZD3, memory usage is 35%. So it looks like it is not the system…

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

EZdrummer version: 3.1.0
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Mick Avoidant]

How high are your volume levels for each drum and the output near the bottom right corner of EZD?

Is the Presonus plugged into a USB1 hub?

[basbomer]

The Presonus is plugged in directly into my PC (USB3, although the presonus only supports USB2 I believe). The output in the bottom right corner is: 0.0db (default), The individual tracks were also on default. Never looked at the mixer view actually (!). I adjusted kick and floor toms volumes downward a bit. Now it seems to be solved! How simple can it be. Thanks for your help!!

EZdrummer version: 3.1.0
Operating system: Windows 11

[Mick Avoidant]

Glad to help. Always set your mixer levels to well below 0dB, to keep from clipping. Some say to keep everything below -12. You can bring the level up when mastering.

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