EZD2: Muted drums?

[David George]

I’ve been using EZD2 since late last year and have a few libraries and quite a few MIDI packs in addition to the defaults.

Today I’m suddenly running into a weird problem I’ve never encountered. I like to use the Studio Blues kit included in EZD2 Modern and have a few custom kits based on that.

When I have this kit loaded the ONLY drum I hear is the kick. Changing nothing else, if I switch kits I hear everything that isn’t inactive (i.e., dark).

All I can think is that I must’ve somehow soloed the kick without knowing it. I use Pro Tools, but this behavior is the same even when I use EZD2 standalone. This is driving me slightly mad.

Any ideas?

UPDATE:

It’s actually happening on everything including and below Studio Blues on the dropdown list (SB, Tape Filter, Tight, and Original Mix).

The only drum I can hear is the kick. When I’m in drums view the drums “react” as they normally do when I hit them manually, but I can’t hear anything. Could the database have gotten corrupted?

I notice in the advanced options there is an option that says “Restore Factory MIDI database. Is this what I have to do? That would not be good because I have a lot of user MIDI saved (patterns I have catalogued and plan to use).

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[Scott]

What does the routing in the mixer page look like? Is everything set to 1? Or are the multiple outputs active? Have you tried rebooting your computer?

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[David George]

Scott,
Thanks for replying. I just resolved this in the last few minutes and came back here to update again. In the mixer, everything is set to 1 for now (once I get deeply into a project I assign individual tracks, but not till the drum parts are all final).

I rebooted and that had no effect. What was really weird was that even when I shut down Pro Tools and opened the standalone, the problem was still there.

Finally I reopened the project in Pro Tools (nothing from EZD2 has been dragged over yet: I’m just going through the plugin interface in PT). I deleted the insert for the plug-in and then reinserted and everything was fine.

It’s really weird because I’ve used the same PT template for several projects and it has Studio Blues loaded as my default. Also weird was that when the problem was still going on I reopened a PT files I finished mixing yesterday: I was very worried that all the drums would be messed up because of this. But that wasn’t the case: the Studio Blues kit played fine. I closed that file and reopened the template file and no go: all I had was kick.

After that I deleted and reinserted the plugin and it was fine.

For the record, can you tell me this: If you do choose the “Restore Factory MIDI database,” am I correct in assuming that you lose your presets? I have several custom kits and lots of MIDI data saved in the User MIDI section. I am assuming that if I did have to do this kind of factory restore, I could restore my presets from a backup of my Toontrack folder, right? (I am obsessive about backups and have two backups of everything on other drives.)

dg

[John]

@dg27 said:
For the record, can you tell me this: If you do choose the “Restore Factory MIDI database,” am I correct in assuming that you lose your presets? I have several custom kits and lots of MIDI data saved in the User MIDI section. I am assuming that if I did have to do this kind of factory restore, I could restore my presets from a backup of my Toontrack folder, right? (I am obsessive about backups and have two backups of everything on other drives.)

dg  

Hi,

presets will not be deleted, nor will User MIDI. It’s just the MIDI Database that gets restored.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[David George]

Thanks, John.
Any idea as to why this situation of drums being muted happens? I reopened the same template, which I had not resaved with the original name: Until I deleted and reloaded the plugin it was the same situation (only kick).

[John]

Hi,

not without you sending me that Template to have a look at.
You can ZIP the .ptx file and attach it to a post here.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[David George]

Thanks, John–don’t want to waste your time. For some reason it seems like that instance of the plugin was misbehaving, but it seems resolved now. Thanks.

[John]

OK

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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