Old Bidule projects with EZDrummer1 won’t load with EZDrummer2

[Jan.Angermuller]

I am using Plogue Bidule 64bit/Windows 7 (www.plogue.com/bidule) as my VST host.
When I open an old project created with EZDrummer 1, it won’t load, but will hang during loading. My workaround is:

1.) remove EZDrummer 2 from VST plugins
2.) load the project in Bidule
3) put EZDrummer 2 back into the VST directory
4) Rescan for VST plugins in Bidule
5) Replace EZDrummer1 blocks in Bidule with EZDrummer2 blocks

I read that EZDrummer and EZDrummer 2 should be compatible in old projects.
But that seems to be not true for Bidule. Or am I missing something ?

Jan

Topic

[Erik Phersson]

Plogue Bidule is not a host we have tested on or support. However, I’m surprised that opening an old project doesn’t work. We’ll see if we can do anything about it.

Erik Phersson - Toontrack
Head Of Development

[Olof Westman]

Haven’t tested with Bidule in 9 years. It is a cool different kind of host
where you route signals a bit like in an electronics schematic. Well, at least
it used to be. I can imagine that it might frown upon a VST that changes its
number of outputs.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
Coder

[Christoffer]

It works fine for me. What library did you use in EZD1 and how many of its outputs had you routed?

Christoffer Lindmark - Toontrack
Coder

[Jan.Angermuller]

Hm, strange, I tried to load the project several times and crashed (i.e. it hangs) every time.
It is a project with 12 instances of EZDrummer, each containing a different drum set.
Most drum sets only have two outputs, but the percussion sets (EZClaustrophobic and EZPercussion) use all 8 outputs.

I would also think that it has to do with the new number of outputs, as Olle said above.

Jan

[Christoffer]

Do you have any other projects with fewer instances of EZdrummer 1? Do they work?

Could you surf to https://ftpserver.toontrack.net/upload and upload your project there so we can test it?

Christoffer Lindmark - Toontrack
Coder

[Christoffer]

What version of Bidule do you use?

Christoffer Lindmark - Toontrack
Coder

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