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2014/05/07 12:14:47
jb101
Installed EZdrummer2 last night.
 
When I opened a project today, not of the VSTi s were making any sound.  They were all Simple Instrument tracks.  Their GUI s all showed up, but no sound.
 
If I inserted a new VSTi, it worked perfectly.
 
Now, here's the strange part.  Clicking on the instrument icon on the SIT brought up the VSTi GUI.If I split the SIT, and then clicked on the icon, it brought up the EZdrummer2 GUI, whether the track was originally Dim Pro, Rapture or whatever.
 
I did a System restore to before installing EZdrummer2, and everything returned to normal.
 
Any ideas, please?
 
Sonar X3e, HP Pavillion, i7-2600, 8gig RAM, 2x 1.5 TB internal drives, Cakewalk SPS-660, Cakewalk A-300PRO.
2014/05/07 12:25:08
karhide
I installed EZDrummer2 yesterday and using it with an existing project it worked fine.  I noticed some oddness when exporting individual tracks but I managed to find a work around. 
 
I never use the simple instrument tracks so I can't test with that.
 
 
2014/05/07 12:35:17
DeeringAmps
I opened a project with SIT's (EZD and Trillian), old template, and I want to say that Trillian was miss routed.
I split both out and "fixed" the routing, and saved (don't think I did a save as).
I stopped using SIT's some time ago...
I think I pulled Trillian up from the "rack" not the "track", so can't comment; but I'll check it out.
EZD2 was "happy" replacing EZD.
 
Tom
2014/05/07 13:09:01
aries
DeeringAmps
I opened a project with SIT's (EZD and Trillian), old template, and I want to say that Trillian was miss routed.
I split both out and "fixed" the routing, and saved (don't think I did a save as).
I stopped using SIT's some time ago...
I think I pulled Trillian up from the "rack" not the "track", so can't comment; but I'll check it out.
EZD2 was "happy" replacing EZD.
 
Tom


I opened a previous project after installing EZdrummer 2 and found the the same problem. A few synths had their inputs selected to EZdrummer 2 (from EZdrummer 2's 16 stereo outputs) and not their own output. 
 
I corrected the synths inputs and did a "save as" then the project loaded as normal.
 
Did EZdrummer 1 have 16 outputs (8 stereo outputs)?.
 
EZdrummer 2 has 32 outputs (16 stereo outputs). This may be a reason the routing has changed.
2014/05/07 13:47:39
jb101
Thanks, everyone.
 
I re-installed EZdrummer2, and got the same results.  It affected SITs and separate MIDI & Audio tracks.
 
@ aries - that does seem to be the issue.  Everything seems to be set to EZdrummer.  All EZdrummers routing is messed up, too.  Over many projects tat is going to amount to an awful lot of work.
 
I like EZdrummer2, but I am not sure that it is worth the work.  I'll keep playing to see if there is a quicker solution.
 
Thanks again, everyone, for chiming in  As always, much appreciated.
2014/05/07 14:00:12
jb101
To "fix" an SIT, you have to split the track, correct the routing, and then make back into an SIT.
 
Some tracks where I had EZdrummer using eight outs are all over the place.
 
I can't decide whether to give up and un-install EZdrummer2 again, or face hours of work re-routing dozens of projects..
2014/05/07 15:05:05
aries
jb101
To "fix" an SIT, you have to split the track, correct the routing, and then make back into an SIT.
 
Some tracks where I had EZdrummer using eight outs are all over the place.
 
I can't decide whether to give up and un-install EZdrummer2 again, or face hours of work re-routing dozens of projects..


All my projects have seperate midi and audio so it should be easier to correct, than projects using SIT's.
2014/05/07 16:16:27
DeeringAmps
I just opened a project created with EZD (in X2a x32) on the "Cat" (X3e x64)
and EZD2 had everything routed correctly.
Kick 1L
Snare Top 2L
Snare Bot 2R
Hats 1R
Toms 3S
Cymbals 4S
Room 5S
 
I had TTS in there as well; it all seemed ok.
 
I'll check some more projects later
T
2014/05/07 17:36:07
jb101
aries
jb101
To "fix" an SIT, you have to split the track, correct the routing, and then make back into an SIT.
 
Some tracks where I had EZdrummer using eight outs are all over the place.
 
I can't decide whether to give up and un-install EZdrummer2 again, or face hours of work re-routing dozens of projects..


All my projects have seperate midi and audio so it should be easier to correct, than projects using SIT's.



True, but it's still a pain over many projects/ soft synths.
 
If it s the extra outs from EZdrummer2, is it an issue with Toontrack, or with how Sonar is handling the new outs?  I've just spent half an hour re-routing a few projects.  I hate to think how long it will take to do everything.
 
I wonder why it doesn't seem to be effecting everyone, too?  We can't be the only ones using this set up.
 
@ Tom - thanks for checking it out.
2014/05/07 19:54:15
bageu
Hi guys,
 
Your definitly not the only ones. I also have the same issue since I installed EZDrummer 2.
My recently made songs, which used EZDrummer (1) now don't play sounds anymore from most of the Virtual Synths.
 
After Installing the brand new EZDrummer2 drum synth most of my synths don't give any sound anymore within the same project.
 
Strange thing is that the tracks that don't produce anymore sound seem to be outputing or at least linked to the EZDrummer2 folder, because when I solo a track which doesn't produce sound anymore than also the EZDrummer2 folder gets a half solo button lit and the MIDI Source track of the EZDrummer2 folder is also soloed.
 
Tried re-installing EZDrummer2, but still same problem. Removing it and installing EzDrummer (1) again and the problem was gone.
 
I tried installing a complete new synth of EZDrummer2, copied the midi data from the old midi source track to the new track and finally tried to remove the old EZDrummer2 synth from the browser's synth list (including removing related tracks). Than SONAR X3e crashed!!
 
Tried changing inputs and outputs of the silent tracks, but that did not help either.
 
Can anyone give a clear explaination if they found a work around for this?
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