Jym Feat
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Jym FeatNo, I did not: as a Logic user, I thought I’d never have to worry about the VST folder, and could safely leave it alone.
Jym Featokay: problem solved — it looks like the AU and VSTi components of the plug-in weren’t actually in phase: while my DAW uses the audio unit, the stand alone version uses the VSTi instead… what puzzles me is the Product Manager should have detected that the VSTi component needed an update: I had to force it by hand.
Jym FeatThanks for your suggestions… I first tried to fix the issues with the PM program: unfortunately, it doesn’t see anything wrong with the way my ezx are installed, whereas the web version does; and from within my DAW, the EZD plug-in AU component 2.0.2 can access any ezx without a hitch, as does the SD plug…
As a matter of fact, it’s only the stand alone version of EZdrummer 2.1.4 that has issues when loading some (not all) of my ezx; and those that have issues aren’t the oldest or the most recent ones: for instance, both funk masters, the latin percs, or the hip hop drums; some of them (seventies rock, southern soul…) don’t even show in EZD’s load menu!
Can you help?
Jym Featno: this functionality is not available in SD2; you’ll have to decipher that cryptic name yourself, knowing each group of characters stands for a level in the file-tree…
Jym Featyou paid [extra] money to buy [real] grooves played by excellent [human] drummers, and you’d rather have them sound as if they were machine-generated… isn’t that actual perversion?
Jym FeatHumanizing must occasionally be turned off; at least two situations come to mind:
1. with dual-kick kits, humanized midi patterns will insist on unrealistically alternating every other bass-drum hits between each kick, even when the pattern is already programmed internally to switch kicks on purpose, I mean in the case of a pattern programmed to switch to kick 1 (i.e. midi note 36) and to kick 2 (i.e. midi note 35 or 34) intentionally…
2. I’ve come across situations where loud snare cracks ruined the track consistency by happening sporadically, and couldn’t be controlled by velocity: this could only be solved by turning the H option off!
Jym FeatThat’s true: their midi packs are compressed as monolithic files, but as far as AD1 is concerned, the standard midi files (SMF) from XLN’s ADpaks and MDpaks are available as separate downloads, provided you have a customer access to their website; actually, nothing needs be exported: the files can be used immediately, once their enclosing folder has been dropped onto EZ Player’s window…
For AD2, they only have a single MDpak (American rock) which I’m not interested in, so I don’t know whether there is a separate SMF; since their forum is down, the best move is probably to ask them directly.
Jym FeatYes, John — as I wrote in the original post above, I deleted the demo manually; and no, there couldn’t have been anything left in the trash, for at least two reasons: 1. the files were all deleted immediately instead of being sent to the trash in the first place; 2. those remnants would have been uncovered by any following search anyway; By the way, today, I checked my trash twice then attempted to install those four packages again: no EZkeys application installed in the Toontrack folder, whatever I do, however I do it; but now it doesn’t matter…
Jym FeatThank you so much, John: it’s a big, big relief, and I’m glad I’m now able to use the standalone version!
Jym FeatSorry, this is the only uninstaller I’ve got in the Toontrack folder: I can’t run another. Thank you for all your suggestions: they gave me the support I needed to look further and deeper… But hey, look what I’ve already got without having to reinstall everything for the 8th time… Now this is totally unexpected: I’ve just used a program that searches inside packages, any level deep, and there it was at the 3rd level, deep inside an EZkeysPlayer package receipt pushed aside in the system’s library folder after use… And it works it works like a charm, indeed – I don’t even have to pull it out of its hideout to check that it runs as expected: moreover it’s the 1.1.2 release – on par with the latest plug-ins (i.e. not the ones included in that particular package). file://16309/C54399C0ACEC46A3BEB7F58B0549F42D.gif Thinking it over, all of this is utterly weird: – applications left out on the shelf instead of getting copied where they should – plug-ins that don’t match their application as regard their release number – packages released in version 0 – plug-ins that install even when they’re told no to – uninstallers that don’t do their job properly… And this is certainly not an access-privilege problem: as a member of the ‘staff’ and ‘admin’ groups, I’m an administrator of this machine.
Jym FeatAh, John, the problem with this uninstaller is it’s unreliable: it doesn’t actually know what’s been installed, and it’s missing a number of pieces of software, like Toontrack Solo, Superior Drummer or Ezkeys among others! Look at that blue line below: it won’t even tell us what it was that it wasn’t able to find! That’s why I cleaned up the place by hand before installing EZkeys… file://16309/ACDFF10073CD4E34B090FC50D31A683D.gif But at least, it shows that the infamous Toontrack folder is definitely sitting there!
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