[theojkett]

Shootie,

Thanks man. We’ll try this out and see what happens.

tk

[theojkett]

Shootie,

Thanks for your feedback and input. I have long thought that that might be the problem. Since the only three variables in this scenario are the CPU, GPU and sound card between us and the GPU/CPU may not matter, the only deduction then is the sound card.

I’ll look into HOW to increase the audio buffer size, since I’ve never had to do that, this will be a learning experience.

I don’t mind learning a new DAW, they are basically all the same, but Sonar is my second one and my second Cakewalk product. My brother was on Voyetra many years ago and eventually moved to a version of ProTools that he felt was far too complicated. He went onto Sonar about a year after I did and likes it. So here we are.

We’ll try a couple of things, first of which would be to remove the sound card and see what happens.

Thanks,

TK

[theojkett]

Computer specs? Well, we’re way above the specs. We’re both at 32 gig of Ram, Oodles of hard drive space (SSD), 6-gig video cards (He’s Radeon, I’m nVidia), I’m an i7 Intel cpu, I don’t know what his AMD cpu is, I’m using on-board audio and he’s using a Sound blaster something or other. We are both using a Alesis multimix 8 USB Mixer as our codecs. Again, he’s getting latency and more issues with TT than I am. My stuff works like a champ most times but I do get the occasional crash, but my computer is old and dying a slow death. That will be remedied soon enough, but we both like Sonar and we’re used to it and aren’t fond of the idea of learning new software.

So you think it’s the sound card? What recording software are you using?

TK

[theojkett]

I’m not sure what a “bit-bridged” version means, so you’ll have to explain that.

As with all EZ products, you can see the song builder portion where you’d drop the midi parts in.  This is where my brother is creating the song and then he has to export the finished midi song and import it into the approriate track in Sonar. Once it is in the track it will play back with the EZ Bass and EZ drum parts. BUT, it will not play back from EZ Keys with the rest of the song (bass & Drums), the midi must be in the song on Sonar for it to play back.

I’ll try to get video and upload that. But for now, attached is a photo of the EZ Keys Grand Piano interface.

Ted

[theojkett]

Thanks Bill and yes he is using it with “Follow Host” enabled. But without the Midi dropped into the track, nothing will play back.

We’re both baffled. Bass and drums work fine but the Keys are being a bratty little kid.

[theojkett]

I’m sorry… I neglected to mention it is my brother Tim who has the EZ Keys Grand Piano. He’s not real good with forums and he asked me to do it for him. But, no I don’t have EZ Keys of any type.

His interface is a forward view of a grand piano. I watched him use it… or try to… and what I explained earlier is what happens. His EZ Bass and Drummer work like normal…. same way mine does.

I’ll get more information from him later and if there is anything in particular that you need to know about his setup I’ll get that info from him as well.  I do know he is using Sonar Artist (as am I) and is definitely using the latest version.

Thanks for your help.

TK.

[theojkett]

It’s EZ Keys Grand Piano Version 3 and yes I have gone through PM.

 

TK

[theojkett]

Windows 10 Version 21H2.

Hope that helps.

TK

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[theojkett]

Hi,

All good. It took two hours, but my brother and I worked on it and we had to backdoor the whole install. Manually, we had to extract all of the zip files, jump through several hoops, authorize, install and then finally EZKGP finally worked AND found the sound files. It shouldn’t have been that hard.

While we did use the Toontrack Product Manager, we had to bounce back and forth between the Toontrack website and TPM until we finally got all the parts working together. Why we had to go through this for EZKGP and not the others is a mystery, but it is all working now.

Thanks for responding.

TK

[theojkett]

Well thank you Scott. I will have to give it a try and see how that turns out. I’ve never done it so this will be a new experience for me. Though I have worked with midi plenty of times before, I have never done it with external software such as Toontracks. I look forward to the new challenge.

Thank you graciously.

Ted

[theojkett]

So let me see if I understand correctly.

When you are in Cubase and you import your midi tracks from EZD, EZB & EZK (I don’t know what S3 is), Cubase pulls the sounds from those three things? Not some other external source like a keyboard, Module or drum machine? I’ll have to look into the tutorial on how that’s done. I’ve imported sounds from other sources but never EZD.

I’m using Sonar Artist software and while the software has internal keyboard sounds and drums sounds, they too are just “okay”. If I can pull the drum sounds from EZD I’ll go back to the midi method and do it that way. That will certainly make it easier for me to use my index finger on the “add to cart” purchase of EZ Bass.

Thanks for your input and help.

Ted

[theojkett]

Okay…. so then what is generating you sounds for your drums and your bass? That is my dilemma, that’s why I’m not using the midi feature…. yet. I don’t like the Drum and bass sounds that I have available. I like the sounds EZD and ESB has and I want to use those.

What’s the recommendation then?  I appreciate your input. Very informative. Thank you.

 

Ted

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