[Barry Warsaw]

I remember Steinberg’s old Virtual Guitarist, which was an amazing tool.  Sadly it was discontinued years ago and my copy stopped functioning after upgrades in both hardware and operating system.  I’ve looked at other guitar plugins and nothing has the simplicity or sounds of those old VG products.  I know of no other company that could do as amazing a job on an EZGuitar as Toontrack, given how fantastic their other products are.  I’d buy a copy in a heartbeat.

Cubase 13.0.50, macOS 14.7.1

[Barry Warsaw]

Okay, here’s how I solved it.  In TPM, reinstall SD2.0 but *don’t* reinstall SD3 Upgrade.  I tried that and SD3 still hung.  When I only reinstalled SD2.0, SD3 started up as normal.  I had to go to settings to fix the paths to point to my removable drive, but once I did that, all my drum sounds were found and everything seems to work just fine.

Cubase 13.0.50, macOS 14.7.1

[Barry Warsaw]

Also note that with SD3 hanging, you can’t quit it, you have to Force Quit.

Cubase 13.0.50, macOS 14.7.1

[Barry Warsaw]

Thanks, this seemed to work for EZD3.  I still see some files in the /Library/Application support/Toontrack/EZDrummer 3 folder, but it’s only 871M.  Without doing anything else, When I select Libraries/Paths I see the external drive location already selected, and if I look inside that folder, I see several EZX3_EZdrummer3_* subfolders, mixed with EZX2_EZdrummer2_* folders and EZX_* folders.  I spot checked it by pulling up some EZD2 and EZD3 drum kits along with the Americana kit and they all seem to play just fine.  I also compared this with the EZD3 installation on my other computer and everything seems consistent.  Hopefully that means the move and reinstallation worked.

However, I’m still stuck with SD3.  I even tried to download and re-install SD3 (for macOS 10.10 or above) v3.3.2, but when I start that up, it still just hangs.  I see the menu bar entry for “Superior Drummer 3” but no menu items, and the main SD3 window never comes up.  Can you help with that too?

Cubase 13.0.50, macOS 14.7.1

[Barry Warsaw]

Thanks for the response, but for EZDrummer 3, I did follow those steps, however I’m now stuck in the situation where EZD3 on startup requires a reinstall rather than prompting for the new path.  Do you recommend reinstalling it and then trying to switch paths again?  Should I just install it to the external drive?

Cubase 13.0.50, macOS 14.7.1

[Barry Warsaw]

I’m also evaluating EZD2 demo (well, I’m pretty much sold!). When I uninstall the demo version to install the full version, will I lose any custom grooves I’ve written. I *think* I’ve managed to save them with Track->Export Song As MIDI file

Cubase 13.0.50, macOS 14.7.1

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