EZX 70's Rock Midi

[R V]

Hi Folks,

Got a new PC this holiday season and was re-installing some my libraries.   I installed the 70’s rock, and got this in both SD3 and EZDrummer 2 for the EZX Midi pack:

https://ibb.co/c80thV9

There is another folder with the 70’s Rock Midi which is working fine.  Any ideas why this one seems to be empty and the midi database doesn’t seem to be know what to do with it.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Greg Johnson]

I think I have had this happen before….I vaguely remember right-clicking on the orange folder and ‘adding to database’ or something like that.

There is another thread with the same issue

Jack 007 wrote:

And why do i have to use ‘Add to Database ‘manually for each item separately here, also after using the ‘Restore Midi Database’ function?

Above is a screenshot from the thread, which is linked below.

https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/midi-database-a-mess/

 

I hope this helps.

GregJ

[R V]

Unfortunately, I did click Add to database and nothing happens (in SD3 or EZD2).   The folder itself is blank.   Add to database seems to do nothing.   Seems somehow it was installed either empty, or incorrectly as a root folder instead of under the other seventies rock EZX as best as I can tell.

[John]

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Hi,

I have no idea what has brought that folder there but there is simply no product named ‘EZX 70s’. ‘There is ‘EZX Seventies Rock’, so if you have that one, it is OK.
I would simply right-click the ‘EZX 70s’ and select ‘Open in Finder/Explorer’ and then delete that folder.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[R V]

Thanks will delete.  I do have the EZX Seventies Rock there already.  Note that this was just a new installation on a new PC this year, so somehow that just appeared with one of the installers.  I have no user midi or otherwise.

[chris matz]

Its not in finder. Nothing associated with that file exists anywhere.its just empty and no way of deleting  it.

[Gianpaolo Gallian]

I had this issue, too.

EZdrummer version: 2.2.1
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

[Les Widmark]

Necro-posting here for anyone else that has the same problem.  The same thing happened to me with the “EZX70s” folder being Orange with an exclamation mark and not being able to add any content to SD3 in the Grooves Browser.

What I found was that the installation creates 2 different libraries under C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Toontrack\EZDrummer\Midi [Windows 10 64 bit].

• 1914@EZX_70S
• 1914@EZX_SEVENTIES_ROCK

 

The EZX_70s folder was empty. All the content was in EZX_SEVENTIES_ROCK.

In my case, I copied the entire contents of EZX_SEVENTIES_ROCK into the EZX_70s folder. I then opened Superior Drummer Grooves Browser and clicked “Add to Database” and all the content was made available and worked AOK.

It seems to be a problem where the installation process creates two different-named libraries, only populates one with the actual midi (EZX_SEVENTIES_ROCK),  and the application itself is actually looking at the second empty folder (EZX_70s).  From John’s comment above, it seems the expectation is that the app should be looking at the former, but is actually looking for a folder called the latter somewhere – there may be an issue with the path/folder name in the code somewhere where the wrong folder name is entered?

 

 

[Drumahiru]

FWIW I had this same issue, with the empty folder created on my Mac system (presumably during installation of EXZ Seventies Rock) with path:

     /Library/Application Support/EZDrummer/Midi/1914@EZX_70S

The empty ‘EZX 70s’ folder showed up in the browser under ‘EZX Libraries’ (along with the populated ‘EZX Seventies Rock’).  Oddly ‘EZX 70s’ also showed up under Menu>Settings>MIDI Libraries, under the ‘Third-Party’ category.

(Another similarly named folder appears to have valid information about the kits at /Library/Application Support/EZDrummer/EZX2_70s)

I did not have any issues accessing the MIDI patterns or kits associated with ‘EZX Seventies Rock’.

Therefore I just deleted the oddball 1914@EZX_70S folder (but not the EZX2_70s folder) in the finder and that got rid of the empty ‘EZX 70s’ folder in the browser with no side effects.

(I appreciate the necropost from @Les, since it let me know the empty folder didn’t mean I was missing some content; seems to be a minor installation bug in that EZX.)

EZdrummer version: 2.2.2
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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[SunSlice]

I have the exact same folder  but mine will not exclude or delete. It just goes into an add to database loop. Maybe this is a programmers easter-egg or a glitch folder in accidentally added in the installer.

EZdrummer version: 3.0.2
Operating system: Windows 10

[Emmanuel Martin]

Same here. Weird. BTW I’m slightly underwhelmed by the sound of this EZX in my DAW compared to the audio on Toontrack website (even though I realise it has been mastered etc.). Especially the towelled Camco… Any idea how to get closer to what we hear on the website ?

Manu

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

[Andrewsrea]

I don’t have the ability to ‘right click and delete’ that or any folder in browser mode, but can certainly ignore it.

I can access the ‘Seventies Rock’ and it has 4 songs.  For some reason I thought it had more than four?

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