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I agree with all the posters.  Nice, neat track.  It’s not as easy as people think to hold listeners’ attention with a guitar-solo based track for 4:30 mins – but this one did.  Smooth and some nice chord changes too.

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reaperGG – I completely agree.  I’ve got a very basic notation software and vst piano sound and so I hold my hands up entirely.  You are spot on.  Thanks for your comment(s)

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Really enjoy the atmosphere created in this song.  And if I’m honest – it’s the strength of the song itself that compels me to listen more – even though I logged in to the forum to hear some drums!  The two previous comments are ok, in that there may be hints of other artists, (another guitarist’s work came to mind for me too) but I would put that aside and commend you above all on the strength of your own composing ability.  Excellent – there’s scope for it in film work too I think… 

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Hi Guys,
 
Scott, I owe you an apology.  I checked my Soundblaster Live card and you are correct – it DOES default to 48khz sampling rate, and although the helpfile says the options are 44.1 / 48 /96, I can’t see no other drop-down option in there other than 48Khz, so I guess I’m stuck with that.   Thanks for your greater knowledge on these things.  I know my pc is old (2003) and the soundcard is ancient, but it still does its purpose.
 
And the best bit – I googled a free registry cleaner, ran it and the 100% cpu usage issue has been fixed for now, (some dodgy HKEY entry) so EZdrummer is uploading as normal again.  Weyhey!
 
Thanks for your all assistance.  Super product, super team!
 
Regards

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Hi Guys,
 
Thanks for all your advice.  I’ve checked all your suggestions.  As far as I can tell, the sampling rate has always been 44.1khz and the 2GB ram on my pc has been sufficient for everything EZdrummer has required… right up until last weekend.  However, I’m now beginning to think that the problem lies elsewhere – for example when I run task manager (even after just booting up the pc, and with no programs running), I am getting a display of 100% CPU usage…  Uh-oh…  Any suggestions on how to solve that (from your own personal experiences – without any apparent endorsing of anything) – would be appreciated now?
 
Thanks for your help.

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Hi Guys,
 
Thanks for all your helpful suggestions.  Really appreciated.
 
John.  I have installed the full product EZdrummer from the original CD installation approximately just over a year ago.  On the my account page at Toontrack.com I recognise those red PC and Mac buttons that you  point out.  Do I have to install the full product again from these buttons, or is my original CD installation sufficient?  I don’t need to install the whole full product again do I, from the links on the ‘my account’ page?
 
Ollie
Thank you for your suggestion too.  I will run a deep scan later for viruses.
 
Really appreciate all the helpfulness.

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Hi Scott,
 
Thanks for pointing out that possibility of slow loading.  Subsequently, I’ve tried closing down all other applications that might use up memory etc, and then tried to run EZdrummer both via the Sony Acid program and then via the Toontrack Solo program (even though I know that I won’t be able to hear sounds from it).
 
Either way, with all other applications and resources either minimised or disabled, and only EZdrummer running, it appears that you are correct in your speculation.  EZdrummer indeed does load up the sounds, but – unbearably and impracticably slowly.  For example, I left it to load up the default Rock/Pop kit and 25 mins later it still had only loaded up 6mb.  Same with the smallest ‘Cocktail’ kit – 10 mins to load up 8mb on that one.
 
What is strange however, is that this problem has occured overnight.  On Saturday night it was working normally – like it has been since I first installed EZd, but overnight it now has this problem?  I have not downloaded any new programs on to my pc in between.  EZ is stored on my pc’s C drive, of which 40gb has been used up with programs and data out of a possible 107gb in that drive.  There’s a spare 40gb on a separate ‘D’ drive partition & both drives are on the one piece of harddrive kit.
 
Any ideas?
 
I do appreciate your time and help with this.
 
Regards
 

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bob2020,
 
That’s interesting to hear your comment.  Have you heard of this problem before with Creative?  However, as I commented, as soon as I ran the EZDrummer plugin WITHIN the Sony Acid Music Studio program, I had no problems.  I’ve tried it again on a new session/another day, and it still works by this method so no problem.  I’m going to uninstall TTsolo however, reinstall ,and try it once again.  I’ll post the results here at the weekend.
Cheers

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Scott, thanks for your help. I will try uninstalling and reinstalling TT Solo.
 
Just one general question – unrelated: On the Toontrack.com/ezdrummer.asp page, there are MP3 demo tracks.  Can you tell me – Is the 2nd one (EZdrummer demo2) a proper groove that is avaiable in the full version itself?  If so, which one is it, please?
Many thanks for your time and assistance.

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Scott, let me update you:-
TTsolo still does not recognise any audio device  – however, I downloaded Sony Acid Music Studio trial version and, following the instructions within that software, Acid communicates with EZDrummer and I can play the kits from within Acid!
 
So the problem looks as though it’s somewhere within TTsolo?
 
I think I will probably buy Sony Acid Music Studio, because I am just looking for a basic sequencer to stack drum loops etc and then record them on an external 8track, and by the way, if anybody is reading this looking for a cheap no frills, sequencing software program then I’d ask them to check this one out.  The ‘Show me How’ Tutorials are excellent.  They take you to all parts of the screen to show you where things are another program is obscuring the buttons it wants to show you it will ask you to move your program window to the side!

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Thanks for your reply.  I now understand your reply regarding sequencers and making drum tracks for songs etc and I will sort this out for myself.  Thank you for this info, but I still have a problem with my soundcard.  I note that  you say Toontrack Solo version 1.1.2 supports
WDM, however the problem still needs  resolving.

When I click About (F1) in the ‘Help’ drop down menu on the EZD interface, it says version
Toontrack Solo ver1.1.2.  It is the first install.  I chose the regular install, not the ‘custom’
one.

Here is my route when I try to run the programme:-
I double click the TTsolo shortcut on my desktop
This loads TT solo but I get a message, “AUDIO ERROR: failed to load audio driver”
I accept this & continue by selecting the default EZD VST path:-    C:Program
FilesVStPlugins
In the (Toontrack Solo:Drummer1) EZD interface screen, I click the ‘Audio’ drop down menu
(the one at the top next to ‘File’ and select ‘Audio Device…’
A pop up window appears with the message: “Audio Error: No ASIO device available”

I reiterate that I have in my ‘My ComputerDevice Manager’ menus, Creative EMU10K1 Audio Processor (WDM) listed as the Properties of my Audio Device within my Creative SB Live Series soundcard:

Creative EMU10K1 Audio Processor (WDM)
Driver Provider is Creative
Driver version is 5.12.1.296
Driver date is 28/08/2003

What should I do?

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