Loading slowly and then up to 515MB

[Karl W]

WhenI now open EZ Drummer it loads slowly and then goes up to 515 MB. It used to only go to 156MB. If I now try to sample a drum pattern it plays excessively slowly. Even on X2. Any help will be great. Using it with protools 8.04 on an iMac. Thanks in advance for you help

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[Scott]

Are you using a sample rate other than 44.1kHz?

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Karl W]

Yes I am.

[Scott]

From the EZdrummer FAQ:

EZdrummer was designed to operate best at 44.1K. It can of course be used at any sample rate but the engine will have to recalculate the samples to compensate for the resulting shift in pitch.

In order to guarantee no loss of quality the above procedure requires non trivial computation and loading time will rise significantly, by up to a factor 3 to 6, depending on computer resources available.

Note also that operating at high sample rate will unavoidably increase the memory requirements. A 96K project for example will require over twice as much physical memory (RAM) to operate, this is strictly no fault of the software.

Users are advised to operate with at least 1Gb of Ram if a sample rate higher than 44.1K is to be used.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Karl W]

Thansk you Scott. I get that. WHat has been used prior is playing fine. I cant play a sample that I pick from now as it is slow. Any ideas on that.

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