[Jeremy]

Hi,

I just bought EZbass and am very surprised how many of the samples have fret buzz. I have all the Toontrack core products and many expansions and this is the first time I can say I’m truly disappointed in the product. I bought it to replace some bass DIs I’d already recorded and am super bummed now due to this issue.

Definitely including some fret buzz adds to the authenticity of the program but the amount of fret buzz on these samples is over the top. It makes it sound really quite unprofessional and budget to me – it sounds like either the instruments weren’t set up properly before sampling particularly with regards to neck relief/bridge action or the person actually playing them when they were being sampled wasn’t taking any care with how they were striking the strings. Neither of these seems likely given Toontrack’s track record with regards to attention to detail. So presumably this was a conscious choice but I think this was a really strange choice to include so many buzzy samples – I don’t think I’ll be able to get a finished performance out of this without random notes ‘jumping out’ due to the round robin nature of the samples, which I think will make me sound like a very amateurish bass player.

Reply To: Fret buzz version: 1.1.0
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

[Jeremy]

OK, I’ve maybe found a work-around. It seems that I also can’t preview any midi files within EZD2 BUT if I drag a midi file onto the track in Logic then press play then go back to the EZDrummer 2 plugin I am then able to trigger the sounds. Haven’t given this any real testing but that process just worked for me now.

Did you contact Toontrack support about this? It would be good to see if there is an issue that can actually be rectified properly (it may be a Logic/Yosemite issue though rather than Toontrack issue). I don’t like having to use work-arounds so I probably still won’t use EZD2 unless I get things working properly.

Cheers,
Jeremy

[Jeremy]

I have the same issue – EZDrummer 2 does not work at all for me on OS X 10.10.3. But it also didn’t work on 10.10.2. Can’t trigger the sounds, exactly as you describe. I have completely erased my MBP three times with fresh install of everything and always ends up the same, unable to use EZDrummer 2 at all.

After updating to Yosemite I’m literally not making any music now because Toontrack software was the core of my workflow.

Cheers,
Jeremy

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