PT LE 8 Upgrade – how to locate EZD plug-in

[John Henning]

I recently upgraded to PT LE 8, and now Pro Tools projects in which I had used EZdrummer as a plug-in won’t work properly.  I get the following message:
“The following plug-ins were made inactive because they could not be found in the  plug-ins folder: EZdrummer(1).” 
 
From researching this issue online, I have come to understand that the only thing I need to do is to move the EZdrummer plug-in to the proper Protools plug-in folder (EX: C:Program FilesCommon FilesDigidesignDAEPlug-Ins). 
 
Another thing I have tried  was to add a path (within EZD) in the VST Plug-in paths field:  
C:Program FilesCommon FilesDigidesignDAEPlug-Ins
however, this didn’t improve PT’s ability to recognize EZD as a plug-in.
 
I would like to try and move the EZdrummer plug-in to the above listed folder and see if this would solve this issue. 
If that doesn’t work, then I plan to un-install and re-install EZD and see if that works.
 
My question is, Where does the EZdrummer plug-in reside?
 
Has anyone else found a way to solve this?
 
Thanks,
 
J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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[John]

Hi,

please don’t perform any manual moving around of components.
The VST dll file will not do any good in the ‘DAE/Plug-Ins’ folder anyway. RTAS has another format.
What I suggest you do is uninstall via ‘Add/Remove Programs’ and then download the Full Product Download available in your Toontrack account, install from this and finallly apply the 1.2.0 update.

Best Regards,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John Henning]

OK,
 
i’ll uninstall and re-install.
 
Tack så mycket
 
-Janos

[John Henning]

I have un-installed and re-installed EZdrummer, and ran the EZdrummer Update.exe update.  Now the plug-in loads, and is EZD is  accessible in my PT session, however, there are no sounds. 
 
I opened Toontrack Solo and experimented by clicking on the drumkit and selecting grooves, however, I am unable to get audio out from Toontrack Solo as well. 
 
Searched thru the forums but didn’t see anything quite pertaining to this situation. 
 
I’m using an Echo audio sound card.  (this set-up worked prior to my dreaded but necessary update to PT LE 8). 
The audio selection from EZD is ASIO Echo PCI.
 
Is a complete un-install of EZD and Toontrack solo required?
 
Are there some other options I could try?
 
thanks,
 
Janos

[John Henning]

My no-sound issue has been solved by changing the “Audio Device” to “Primary Sound Card” in the
Audio Menu in EZ Drummer window.
 
This seems strange to me b/c I am using an Echo Audio Indigo sound card, I am almost certain I had it set to the “ASIO Echo PCI” Selection prior to my un-install and re-install of EZD. 
 
Thank-you John Rammelt.

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