Pro Tools & EZdrummer 2 & 3

[Artfuldodger]

I recently upgraded my Pro Tools to 2023.9

After doing so, my existing projects with EZdrummer 2 only work with Rosetta.

Without Rosetta EZdrummer 2 is disabled.

I updated my EZDrummer 3 and additional drum packages to the current version.

After doing so, I inserted EZDrummer 3 on the existing drum track, but it won’t play back the midi drums in the track.

Any ideas or solutions so I can bring this thing current.

I tried creating a new instrument track and copying the midi to the new track.

It does play after the copy, but the drums don’t seem to be in sync.

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

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[John]

Hi,

the discontinued EZdrummer 2 is not Apple Silicon Native, so it will only function if Pro Tools is started in Rosetta mode.

If you insert EZdrummer 3 on an Instrument Track where EZdrummer 2 was previously inserted, you need to enable the Instruments view in the Pro Tools Mixer so you may set the MIDI Output (at the very top of the mixer channel in PT) of the Instrument Track to EZdrummer 3 instead.

When copying MIDI from one track to another, I tend to just Cmd+A on the source track the Copy, then ‘p’ and/or ‘;’ to move the selection up or down to the destination track before Pasting. That way I can be sure there is no manual error when pasting, causing the timing to be different.
Also, if you have RealTime Properties (such as e.g. Quantize) Enabled on the Source Track, copying MIDI will not automatically Enable those Real-Time Properties on the destination track.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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[Artfuldodger]

I tried what you said.

I created a complete duplicate copy of my sesssion/project in Pro Tools.

I used Rosetta to open the original old one with EZ Drummer 2.

The original version sounds great. The drums sound great. There are no eq, delay or another plugins on the EZ Drummer 2 track on the original.

I opened the duplicate session/project and created a complete new stereo instrument track with EZ Drummer 3.

I copied the midi from the EZ Drummer 2 track to the EZ Drummer 3 Instrument track.

This track does not have any other plugins on it either.

Don’t know what is different but the drums don’t sound like the original and definitely don’t sound good.

One more thing, the version of the session/project with EZ Drummer 3 track is Apple Silicon with Sonoma, not running Rosetta.

Jim

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

• This post was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Artfuldodger.

[Brad]

Artfuldodger wrote:

I tried what you said.

I created a complete duplicate copy of my sesssion/project in Pro Tools.

I used Rosetta to open the original old one with EZ Drummer 2.

The original version sounds great. The drums sound great. There are no eq, delay or another plugins on the EZ Drummer 2 track on the original.

I opened the duplicate session/project and created a complete new stereo instrument track with EZ Drummer 3.

I copied the midi from the EZ Drummer 2 track to the EZ Drummer 3 Instrument track.

This track does not have any other plugins on it either.

Don’t know what is different but the drums don’t sound like the original and definitely don’t sound good.

One more thing, the version of the session/project with EZ Drummer 3 track is Apple Silicon with Sonoma, not running Rosetta.

Jim

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

• This post was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Artfuldodger.

Are you using the same preset and kit that you used in the original PT session?

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

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2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

[Artfuldodger]

Well, the kit was different.

So I change it to Modern Basic.

It is much closer, but still feels like something missing dynamically.

[John]

I suggest you open the session in Rosetta mode and create a duplicate track with EZdrummer 3 where you check all settings in the plug-in on the EZdrummer 2 track and mimic them on the EZdrummer 3 track.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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