Kevin Mulvihill
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Kevin MulvihillI concur. I need to change keys for different parts in a song. The only option seems to be Song Key but that is global only. If I just transpose down, EZB keeps the chords aligned with the earlier song key and everything gets messed up. Would be great to have a solution for modulating keys. Support for extended chords would also be highly useful. If you just gave us these two features, it would be a huge upgrade…
Kevin MulvihillI feel for you not-so. Definitely frustrating and completely unnecessary. Fortunately, there is a fix. Please click the link to my thread above. Shoot to the final entry from me where I sum up what I did. In this thread, there are 3 useful posts at the end before mine. 1 (from Brad) and 2 (from Olaf) are essentially the same but this worked for me. In the third thread, Olaf tells you where to go to tweak the config file. Wish you the best…
Kevin MulvihillOk, guys, I am back. And thanks are in order. First to Brad. Using your technique I was able to prompt the Locate Folder option and that allowed me to point to the correct directory. That simple thing fixed my problem. Thank you my friend, I am indebted.
Olaf, you offered another option that was essentially the same thing. Thank you for this. I do believe it would’ve worked. I also appreciate the SourcePath edit option. I would’ve done that if Brad’s idea hadn’t worked.
Thank you two for helping me!
My recommendations: 1) fix this in your software to make this easier for us and for you. 2) while you’re tweaking Product Manager, make the other changes so we don’t have to personally approve every update and change we make to the installations. As I noted before, I suggest one overarching path for samples. 3) while you’re getting that done, put this fix as part of your FAQ or something. This is the fix that works for us and it should be easy to find.
All that said, thanks once again!
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Thanked by: ChrissoMac and BrianKevin MulvihillAlright, I don’t think I was rude in the earlier post but I can see that no one from the company has replied. Help us people. Please.
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Thanked by: BrianKevin MulvihillHi Brad, no I never had EZD2. I started on EZD3. It’s somewhere up there in all my notes… I was referred to the EZD2 page by John though, that’s probably what you saw… appreciate your reply…
I got a Mac Studio too. Beast.
Kevin MulvihillLot of unhappy people on this thread. I’m also unhappy but I am on another thread: https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/i-cant-move-and-then-locate-my-ezdrummer-libraries-on-external-ssd/#post-3070842
It’s likely that the mess that pathing is in the Product Manager is the result of poor design decisions made during the earliest days of the company. And that’s OK, you got to get started somehow. What is distinctly unpleasant now though is that this has never been fixed. And I understand why… the Product Manager isn’t a profitable product. It’s just a necessary utility product. There’s nothing sexy or directly profitable about working on it.
But not working on it to make it meet the needs of your users is disrespectful to your user base. Some of the posts in this thread go back years. And the response has not been impressive.
Here’s all we need team: add a second path in Product Manager Preferences that points to the overarching directory for all Toontrack samples. The VSTs and program files can remain on the system drive, but we should have full flexibility to move the samples wherever we want and it shouldn’t be a hassle either. If we’re installing one of your products for the first time, prompt us to create this main directory for our samples. Later, if we decide to move stuff around (as many of us now need to), you allow us to make that change and then, because you already know where all our samples are stored, you simply copy them all to this new location. This is the kind of minimal but effective interface design users expect these days. You are not currently getting us there.
John, Olof, and others: you can fix this fairly easily. You know you can. All Toontrack needs is the real will to put your customer’s experience first.
Now is the time to fix this.
Please send this post to your CEO. If he’s still unwilling to fix this, then that is a message that all his customers need to hear.
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Thanked by: Glenn Miller and BrianKevin MulvihillFWIW, I also have Contemporary R&B Grooves and Electronic Beats MIDI. So not just the one add on to EZD3. OK, that is all for now.
Kevin MulvihillJohn, I saw the “HOW DO I MOVE THE SOUNDS FOR EZDRUMMER 2” page. There is no Browse button and Locate Folder is never enabled. As noted earlier, I did move the files where I wanted them. EZD3 just doesn’t allow me to edit the path. There is EZ HOME directory that I could see.
I do use the Product Manager to Download, Install and manage my Toontrack products. When I moved SD3 to this drive, I went into Product Manager, Installation Info, and changed the paths there. Easy. EZD3, in Product Manager, doesn’t give me any options here. See capture. All the other TT products work. SD3 is on the correct drive where I wish to store samples (Samples 2), while EZ Keys and EZ Bass are still in Application Support. I’d like to move them too, but am concerned about creating this same issue.
Finally, Olof, that external drive is definitely not write-protected. I write to it all the time and I can easily move files around on it too.
OK, so I can see all these posts up in the thread. I await your wisdom about how to fix this.
P.S. I am very computer savvy, having been a developer before. If there is a config file I can edit to change the path I am definitely competent to do that.
Thanks.
Kevin MulvihillI didn’t upgrade from EZD2. I bought EZD3. I have one EZX as shown in the prior capture – UK Pop.
Kevin MulvihillDang! I wrote a response a few days ago and I don’t see it here in this thread. OK, so I will give multiple responses to each of you. I still have the problem.
Olof wrote that I need to “move the EZDrummer folder, so that it no longer exists in /Library/Application Support. Then you can use Locate Folder (after restarting EZdrummer 3).” I have moved the folder contents to where it should go. There is nothing in /Library/Application Support. When I launch EZD3, it correctly notes the library path isn’t correct. But Locate Folder has NEVER been enabled and isn’t enabled now. Presets still point back to /Library/Application Support even though there is absolutely nothing there for EZD3. So this doesn’t work.
See photo below. The correct library path is shown except that, in the Toontrack directory, it should be pointing to the EZD3 subdirectory. The correct structure is shown in the second capture.
Kevin MulvihillAlright, it just went to the Downloads folder. But the installer doesn’t work. The first file – … Kick/highlight-white_R.png could not be copied. The error says the operation couldn’t be completed. Operation not permitted.
And it still didn’t allow me to select my drive and folder. This is crazy!
Sheesh! OK, there’s nothing left for me to do except wait for your guidance. You wore me down.
Kevin MulvihillMan, I can’t believe this. So I just chugged down the EZ Drummer 3 core library and went to install AND IT DOESN’T ALLOW ME TO CHOOSE MY OWN INSTALL DIRECTORY. WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU FOLKS THINKING? How absolutely inconsiderate you are!
So, OK, tell me now how to get this over to an external drive. Thanks.
Kevin MulvihillNope that no longer works. What a crappy part of the UI this is. What an absolute hassle. Here’s how to code it: When the library can’t be found open Settings / Library/Paths as you currently do. Then, enable Locate Path on the flyout menu on the right. This is currently disabled. You probably turned it off while testing, but all we need is an Open Dialog so we can p0int to the files and then you grab the new install path. It’s simple. Really folks you shouldn’t be putting your users through this. I’m just going to download everything again. You can do better, Olof!
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