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[Neb]

I’d like to clarify that we intentionally do not perform gain matching in our software. This is because, in various scenarios, users may want the volume to increase or decrease based on the adjustments they make

I wouldn’t go as far as to suggest EZMix3 is snake-oil, but it is quite disappointing that internal loudness-matching isn’t a feature in a plugin of this nature. If all the presets raise the output level by various amounts, it’s difficult to quickly go through the presets to compare them or find what you need. The biggest mistake someone new to mixing can make, is to assess added processing without loudness-matching first.

I can’t comment on Nick’s assertion that the metering is wrong – I don’t really look at them. I just use my ears.

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[Neb]

not willing to pay $40 per pack to get them

I agree. As far as I understand it, in EZMix all the licensed Overloud FX, amp sims, and cab sims are all in the core program and nothing extra is added later.

So the EZMix add-on packages are just basically text files containing a chain of the existing FX with certain settings – there are no new FX/amps/cabs, so it’s not like buying an expansion.

Therefore, it’s more like buying a midi pack. In fact, I think midi packs are harder and more expensive to create than EZMix packs, and in my opinion they should be priced accordingly. If what I’m saying is correct, the EZMix packs should be cheaper than the midi packs.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, Toontrack!

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[Neb]

How did you delete the file? If you deleted the file within EZ Drummer, the database should be updated.

I think I cleaned up the folders in Windows, and assumed that EZD3 would sync the files and database, or at least I’d be able to remove errant entries manually. I guess I don’t quite understand why I can’t select a whole bunch of missing files in the grooves screen, and select ‘remove from database’.

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Desktop - Ryzen 5 4650G @ 3.7GHz | 16Gb DDR4 | 1TB SSD | Win10 Pro.
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[Neb]

if you added the files in a regular fashion, there should be a small drop-down arrow>menu with the ‘Sync File Changes’ entry.

Thanks for your reply. Where should I see this drop-down?

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• This post was modified 1 year ago by Neb.

[Neb]

What about marking all posts as read?

😉

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[Neb]

I don’t really know what you guys are thinking

I got the impression that the EZD line restricted swing a little purposefully, as one of many small differentiations between EZD and Superior.

They can’t make EZD3 too good. 🙂

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• This post was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Neb.

[Neb]

Anyone know if this is just a Reaper thing or anyway I can fix this?

Double click EZDrummer in the left panel to float the plugin.

Optionally also, FX Window > Options > Float all new plugins

 

In addition, I use the settings in the other post; on my 1920×1080 monitors, I have EZD3 set to 90%.

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[Neb]

At the moment EZD3 does not utilise the user midi folder or linked folders.

I’ve read posts from Toontrack forum moderators which suggest that may change in future updates.

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[Neb]

when I re-humanized the beat back to normal/soft after my unsuccessful tweaks

This is where you’re going wrong.

The first humanisation applied an algorithm. You then tweaked the results. When you applied the second humanisation, you weren’t ‘resetting’ the changes. You applied further humanisation to midi that had already been humanised once and then edited.

If you wanted to undo your manual edits, you should have used the history to undo the changes, and get back to the point where you applied the first humanisation.

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[Neb]

Is it pulled from existing midi parts

In song creator will EZD3 look at the midi file from bandmate and then look for ‘similar’ patterns in the existing collection

Yes. EZD3 does not have the capability of creating its own drum patterns. Bandmate detects transients in the imported audio, and then looks for patterns where the bass and snare line up with these transients, using an algorithm to select and suggest the ‘best’ patterns.

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[Neb]

That photo is a real kit, of the same type they recorded, but not necessarily the actual kit they recorded.

Your 6th tom is included in the Main room kit (right click a tom and choose 7×8″ Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple), along with an extra kick and snare.

It’s just that you can’t load all 6 toms at once on the virtual representation of the kit. However, if you click ‘details’ under that photo, you will see that the kit is described accurately – the sixth tom is ‘extra’.

The virtual kits are really just visual ‘placeholders’ to assign the sounds onto. They bear no relation to the look or configuration of the actual kits recorded. For instance, if you look at the ‘Bright Room’ info on the website, the two photos of the Ludwig and Gretsch kits are small kits. But they actually recorded larger Ludwig and Gretsch kits, with five toms each, and the visual representation allows all five to be loaded.

In the case of the Main Room Studio kit, I don’t know why they would cut the placeholders down from 6 to 5 toms, if they recorded 6. Maybe they want to nudge us into buying one of the large expansions if we want a bigger kit?

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[Neb]

Did you finalise the order (and get a payment confirmation email) before the download was made available on 3rd May (which was early afternoon UTC timezone, I think). It doesn’t matter if you added it to your cart a month before that – if you didn’t finalise the purchase in time, no discount.

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[Neb]

If the file was infected on the server you downloaded from, don’t you think there would be more users reporting this (as in, hundreds of reports)? Why are you seemingly alone in this problem? By the way, I use default Defender on a default Windows install too.

Since you’re alone, you’re really going to have to temporarily allow the file as an exception in Defender (which is completely harmless as long as you don’t run it), which you can do right now without running the installer again because the file should have been quarantined, not deleted (unless you manually deleted it from quarantine).

Then test it (and the installer executable too) with other anti-virus software. The easiest way is to open virustotal.com in your browser and drag the executables into it – you will see the results from about thirty AV vendors instantly. You can quarantine the file again straight afterwards to make you feel safe.

Once you’ve got a consensus clearly indicating that it is infected, then you should download and install on another computer and do the same test. If it’s clean this time, then either your computer is infecting the file, or it’s a Defender false positive due to your security settings. However, if it’s also infected, then it may be the file on the server, and you should send the infected file to Toontrack, with links to your Virustotal results.

Until you do this, I don’t understand what you expect anyone to do? Writing retorts in the forum about your disappointments is not going to get you anywhere. You need to be taking action and stop acting so helpless. Sorry to be blunt.

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[Neb]

 

What I find impossible to understand is WHY your drum software should otherwise trigger the security block, if it is 100% clean and safe?  Can anyone please explain that?  Again and again Windows Defender thinks that download .exe contains a virus, so why does it keep on seeing that there?

You’re right to be careful, but you also have to use a lot of common sense when interpreting what the anti-virus software is telling you.

Anti-virus look for ‘exact match’ signatures in the files – like fingerprints. But these signatures are not 100% unique, and false positives can happen.

Anti-virus also look ‘heuristically’, which is where they try to parse the code and guess what the software does. Some AV are better than this than others, and produce less false positives. They usually provide ‘intensity’ or ‘strictness’ settings for this reason – you have to decide yourself whether you want to receive more, or less, false positives. Defender doesn’t have particularly good or accurate heuristics.

It’s also possible that you already have a virus, trojan, malware, or rootkit on your machine, and it is injecting something into your download once it is on your machine. This is actually very possible, considering that EZD3 was downloaded many thousands of times yesterday, and there seems to be only a handful of people complaining about virus warnings. Injecting nasty things into innocent executables is the very definition of virus – it’s how they keep a machine infected.

Compared to that, the possibility of someone infecting the files either in-house at Toontrack or on the file-server is very remote.

My advice is to reinstall, and when defender gives the warning about ‘EZdrummer 3.exe’, allow it on your machine for now by taking it out of quarantine; it is only ‘dangerous’ if you run it. Then locate it on your hard drive, and upload it to virustotal.com. It will be scanned by dozens of anti-virus vendors, and you will get a good idea of whether it actually is infected or not. You will also see that several vendors (usually the cheaper, smaller, less well-known companies) give a few false positives.

On the other hand, if most of the popular AV companies are reporting the same virus/trojan, then you are right to be worried. But as I said before, the most likely problem by a large margin, is that you are already infected by something.

Good luck!

Reply To: SOLVED: Trojan virus EZ Drummer 3 version: 3.0.0
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[Neb]

Thanks for your opinion, even though I may disagree with it. 🙂

Who wants to put money on the table for anything these days?

Maybe the question should be ‘who can spend that kind of money on a hobby these days?’ My question isn’t driven by some misplaced sense of entitlement. The pricing just doesn’t make sense, especially if you are supporting your family on minimum wage.

I could get some of the EZD2 and EZKeys sound expansions for the same price as an EZMix preset pack. In fact the Nashville EZX is a couple of euros cheaper than the EZMix presets right now, and by all accounts that’s a fantastic all-round kit. Considering the amount of work which goes into a sound expansion (and the fact you get an entirely new instrument) compared to a EZMix preset pack (which is just presets of the same existing effects chain), it just seems really off.

IMO the EZMix preset packs are much more akin to a midi pack (although, even still, more work goes into the midi packs I think), and should be priced accordingly. I’m just not sure what the justification for the current pricing is. I only want one pack (compression and saturation), but I just can’t justify that cost for what it is.

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