EZkeys 2 Audio Engine Inactive

[Tim Bosschieter]

Why does this window always pop up in the bottom right hand corner as says,

“Audio engine inactive check your audio device”

I do check my audio device in logic and go to logic pro/settings/audio/multithreading and change this to select playback tracks or playback and live tracks ect… and it removes it, until it happens again????

I have the latest version of EZkeys, logic and MacoS.

Thanks

Tim

EZkeys version: 2.0.5
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Most likely cause is an empty instrument track in Logic causing it to believe that the plugin is not in use and turns it off in order to conserve resources. Two solution to solve this:

• Put an empty MIDI region on Logic’s instrument track.
• Disable this feature in the preferences.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Tim Bosschieter]

Thanks BFC, i’ll try that. Interesting thing is…. it doesn’t happen in EZdrummer 3 ????

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Hard to say why without seeing your project file. Perhaps if you post it without any audio, we can have a look (ZIP it up first).

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[docrose]

Put a midi track from EZKeys 2 on an empty instrument track. When that red message pops up, just hit play in your DAW and the message will disappear. It doesn’t do it in EZDrumner 3 because they patched it. Don’t know why they can’t patch this to but that’s how it is.

I know it sounds like I repeated Bear’s advice but the bit about a EZKeys midi and playing the midi in the DAW came from Toontrack help, after a bit of back and forth and it worked.

EZkeys version: 2.0.5
Operating system: macOS Ventura (13)

[bazzaxter]

Usually means your blue power button on the instrument plug-in window  is off 👍🏻

EZkeys version: 2.0.5

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It doesn’t do it in EZDrumner 3 because they patched it. Don’t know why they can’t patch this to but that’s how it is.

There is no such patch. EZ Drummer is probably on because the instrument track is selected and armed for all we know. Logic Pro X goes into live mode at this point and will turn on the plug-ins.

I have a template with blank MIDI track in all of instrument tracks containing ToonTrack instruments. This way, I don’t have to do it when I create a new song. Not to mention that I have all of my plug-ins in place ready to record.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Tim Bosschieter]

Cool, I’ll check it out

[jazzmandan]

I see that in Reaper when I have the track muted.

 

[ed edy]

i have no sound in ez keys 2 (2.1,3) stand alone no sound ..pro tolls no sound logic no sound abletone no sound !!!!!!????? but ez piano 1 work averywhere without problem !!!!! audio settings in ez kexs2 is the same like in ez keys 1 ???????? why ???Thanks !

EZkeys version: 2.1.3
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

[Bear-Faced Cow]

You didn’t provide much details. Thus, it is hard to tell what is happening. If you are not getting audio in standalone, I would first check the Audio/MIDI settings.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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