[variantboy]

Hello –
i’m checking back on this thread that i started a month or so back. I am somewhat comforted to know that I was/am not the only one to experience this with my system. Coincidentally, In the last month or so, I decided it was long overdue for me to get a new Mac, so I sold the old one and bought a new 15″ macbook pro, with 16GB of memory.

After getting set up with my known-to-work software, just out of curiosity, i tested that EZ drummer demo – and the same issue happened. I see the above post stating that there is a known issue with the mac AAX demo….

i’m wondering if there is an ETA on a fix for this. I have been working in Logic with their drummer plugin and it’s nice.. but I am still hoping that i might get to try EZ drummer integrated into Pro Tools – as i am most experienced in that platform.

would love to hear an update.

thanks

[variantboy]

One more experiment –

downloaded a demo of XLN Addictive drums – and it works fine. Very curious. So many variables in this equation it’s hard to know which piece of the puzzle is the root cause. For now I guess i will have to forego the impressive sounds I heard in EZ drummer. Hopefully someone else will have this experience and determine what could be the cause. I liked what i heard in those demos enough to check back and see if i can make use of the product.

[variantboy]

no longer having the problem with the ableton plugin – but still having the problem with ez drummer demo – i have been consulting the avid message board as well as the one here. I have reinstalled operating systems, uninstalled and reinstalled pro tools, uninstalled and re-installed ez drummer, trashed preferences, removed all third party plugins…

nothing is working.

on the premise that it might be an insufficient memory problem – i pull up activity monitor and reproduce the problem – there are no memory spikes in the memory pressure monitor and i don’t see any “grabs” for memory in the process list… no cpu overload or any evidence that the simple insertion of the ez drummer instrument on an instrument track is causing a significant resource drain.

is it time for me to just give up on toontrack ?

[variantboy]

I just tried that – and it did not solve the problem. I can’t for the life of me understand this. the stand-alone app works fine, and the plugin for Logic works (I’m not a logic user). Need this to work in Pro Tools and unfortunately don’t have the time to spend on the I.T. investigation. bummer.

could this be a physical memory error ? is 4GB enough for pro tools + ezdrummer ?

i just tried loading ableton live as an instrument and got the error :

“the plugin could not be made active” and something about an AAE error.

hmm… is it possible this is the same problem, but the two products simply report it in a different way ?

[variantboy]

Just tried uploading the crash file again. Let me know if you can see that. thanks.

[variantboy]

Update –

Another update for Yosemite appeared today – so i installed that.
Then, I removed all installations of Pro Tools (had 10 and 11 both).
Next I uninstalled EZ Drummer Demo
Re-Installed Pro Tools 11.3
Re-Installed EZ Drummer Demo
Ran Pro Tools

The services that were once showing up in Activity Monitor as “not responding” were no longer unresponsive. I thought that might be a good sign.. but…

as soon as i tried to insert EZ Drummer on an instrument track – CRASH !

I have attached the crash log from Pro Tools (compressed)

[variantboy]

Still crashing – with Yosemite and PT 11.3.1.

Activity Monitor Utility shows MANY services that seem related to audio as “not responding”. Now I’m doing some investigation as to why that might be. I am thinking that there is something wrong in the system as a whole. Not good.

[variantboy]

If i open the stand-alone app and invoke the “Check for Updates”, it prompts “Your EZ Drummer software and libraries are up to date!”

I am suspecting, that since it worked with Logic, that it is some sort of memory management problems with pro tools…. as the read-me for 11.3.1 mentions something about 4GB being a threshold for other problems. They don’t explicitly call out virtual instruments in that line item – but perhaps it affects that space as well.

I have since upgraded my OS to Yosemite, and am getting the latest version of pro tools (11.3.1) to see if perhaps this was addressed in that update. I’ll come back and report whether or not this is successful.

Need to know this works in PT before purchasing !! so I’m hopeful it does.

Thanks

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