[Barry Warsaw]

True, Cubase 14 does not support VST2 although I think it depends on your CPU (Intel vs Apple Silicon), and whether you’re running w/Rosetta or not.  I’m not actually using EZD2 in Cubase 14, but I do have older projects that run on earlier versions of Cubase, and can start in Rosetta so I can kind of make it work for upgrading projects to Cubase 14 on macOS 15 on Apple Silicon, where I have EZD3 and SD3.  But sometimes I also like to run EZD2 in Standalone mode, so that’s where you might see the errors the most.

I fortunately stumbled on a workaround because I had previously installed EZD2 on an older Intel mac mini, and an M2 MBA.  All you have to do is copy a folder from a working EZD2 machine to the busted one, and you’re good to go.

/Library/Application Support/EZDrummer/EZXP_EZdrummer2_Percussion

That’s all it takes.

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

On my other machine (M2 MBA macOS 15.5) everything is fine.

So that gave me the bright idea of copying the folder from the working machine to the non-working machine and that fixed the problem!

/Library/Application Support/EZDrummer/EZXP_EZdrummer2_Percussion

 

Reply To: Percussion not installed, Ezdrummer 2 and Macos Catalina version: 2.2.3
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

I’m having exactly this problem now on a new machine that I installed EZD2 on.  On my other machine (M2 MBA macOS 15.5) everything is fine.  ON the new machine (M4 Studio macOS 15.5) there is no percussion.  I’ve tried to reinstall everything through TPM but they are still missing.  Please provide an updated fix!

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

I have exactly the same problem after installing EZD2 on a new machine.  No amount of reinstallation through Toontrack Product Manager makes it work.

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

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[Barry Warsaw]

Thanks Scott.  Yes, I definitely plan on following better project hygiene in the future!  I’ll see what I can do for the older projects which I’m opening as I move them over to my new machine.

One interesting thing is that with newer projects I almost never edit the midi in the SD3/EZD3 plugin.  I almost always drag groove midis into Cubase and edit them there.  That way I can do little micro-tricks like grab just a fill from the end of a groove and add it in a short transition from chorus to verse, for example.  I find it much more flexible to edit complex midi drum tracks in Cubase than in EZD3/SD3.  I guess the advantage of that is that with the midi in a Cubase track, I have no problem assigning SD3 or EZD3 to that track.  I guess that’s similar to your suggestion when your project is “done”.  I didn’t really follow this workflow for older projects.

Thanks again for all the great advice.

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

Hmm, I’m sure I’m not explaining things right.  On many projects, I created some grooves in EZD2 but never pulled the midi or the audio into Cubase.  I just have an instrument track with EZD2 and it played whenever I started the project.  Now when I open the project in Cubase 14 and bring up the VST Instruments panel, it has an EZD2 slot but with !!! and says it can’t find it.  That makes sense given what you say above regarding VST2/VST3.  By “registering” I was thinking that EZD3 would automatically be used for this VST Instrument channel.

Now, if I use the VST Instruments panel and change from EZD2 (which it can’t find) to EZD3, EZD3 does come up but doesn’t play anything.  It’s like the grooves I had set up in EZD2 just disappeared.  So I don’t know how to get my drums back and upgraded to EZD3 or SD3.

I’ll go back and look at Cubase’s support pages.  Maybe that’s the trick: open the project in an older version of Cubase, if possible, then export the EZD2 midi or export as an audio track, then import that into the Cubase 14 project.  Not sure if that will work, but it’s worth a try unless you have any better ideas.

Thanks for all your help!  Now I can understand the “never upgrade” advice!

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

Ah, thanks Scott.  The problem is that I never “printed” my drum tracks so when I assign that channel to EZD3 or SD3, there are no drums.  I guess EZD3 doesn’t “register” itself as compatible so whatever grooves are saved in the Cubase project don’t end up triggering EZD3 when I update the missing VST Instrument channel.  I don’t know if you have a solution for that?

The only other thing I can think of is to install an older version of Cubase and try to export the drum audio from there.  I have several older versions installed on my old Macs, but only 14 Pro on my new Mac.  Do you know the last version of Cubase that’s compatible with EZD2?

BTW, reinstalling EZD2 broke something so I opened a support ticket for that.

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

Hmm, now I think maybe EZD2 would satisfy that requirement, but for some reason it’s not showing up in my Cubase 14 plugins, even though Toontrack Product Manager does show that it’s installed, along with EZD3 and SD3.  Can EZD2 and EZD3 be co-installed?  I’m going to try to reinstall EZD2.

Reply To: EZDrummer 1 for modern Mac? version: 3.1.0
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

I remember Steinberg’s old Virtual Guitarist, which was an amazing tool.  Sadly it was discontinued years ago and my copy stopped functioning after upgrades in both hardware and operating system.  I’ve looked at other guitar plugins and nothing has the simplicity or sounds of those old VG products.  I know of no other company that could do as amazing a job on an EZGuitar as Toontrack, given how fantastic their other products are.  I’d buy a copy in a heartbeat.

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

Okay, here’s how I solved it.  In TPM, reinstall SD2.0 but *don’t* reinstall SD3 Upgrade.  I tried that and SD3 still hung.  When I only reinstalled SD2.0, SD3 started up as normal.  I had to go to settings to fix the paths to point to my removable drive, but once I did that, all my drum sounds were found and everything seems to work just fine.

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

Also note that with SD3 hanging, you can’t quit it, you have to Force Quit.

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

Thanks, this seemed to work for EZD3.  I still see some files in the /Library/Application support/Toontrack/EZDrummer 3 folder, but it’s only 871M.  Without doing anything else, When I select Libraries/Paths I see the external drive location already selected, and if I look inside that folder, I see several EZX3_EZdrummer3_* subfolders, mixed with EZX2_EZdrummer2_* folders and EZX_* folders.  I spot checked it by pulling up some EZD2 and EZD3 drum kits along with the Americana kit and they all seem to play just fine.  I also compared this with the EZD3 installation on my other computer and everything seems consistent.  Hopefully that means the move and reinstallation worked.

However, I’m still stuck with SD3.  I even tried to download and re-install SD3 (for macOS 10.10 or above) v3.3.2, but when I start that up, it still just hangs.  I see the menu bar entry for “Superior Drummer 3” but no menu items, and the main SD3 window never comes up.  Can you help with that too?

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

Thanks for the response, but for EZDrummer 3, I did follow those steps, however I’m now stuck in the situation where EZD3 on startup requires a reinstall rather than prompting for the new path.  Do you recommend reinstalling it and then trying to switch paths again?  Should I just install it to the external drive?

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

[Barry Warsaw]

I’m also evaluating EZD2 demo (well, I’m pretty much sold!). When I uninstall the demo version to install the full version, will I lose any custom grooves I’ve written. I *think* I’ve managed to save them with Track->Export Song As MIDI file

Cubase 14 Pro, macOS 15

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