EZdrummer2 tempo problems

[Jack Nimersheim]

I've been using EZd2 successfully for months, in Tracktion3 and T5, both of which are installed on my Windows 8 PC. For some reason, however, a couple weeks ago,T3 started changing the tempo of a Tracktion session to 120bpm, whenever I dropped an EZ2 drum sample into a T3 track.

This seemed to start happening when I downloaded and installed a recent T5 upgrade (Sorry, I don't remember which one. Tracktion offered it, I grabbed it.) that, for the first time I remember, began asking me whether I wanted T5 to "import tempo and time signature changes from the MIDI clip" whenever I dropped an EZ2 clip into a T5 track. T3 offers no such option and now automatically modifies the session tempo upon any MIDI drop from EZD.

I realize this is a pretty obscure problem, but has anyone else experienced it? And have you discovered a fix or workaround?

By way of explanation, I've worked so long in T3 that it's still my preferred platform. That, plus the fact that I've had problems transferring individual VST presets (call them fxb or fxp files, if you like) from T3 to T5, keep me plugging along primarily in T3. But this is a discussion for another thread.

Anyway, any help anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thanks...
Jack Nimersheim

[Jack Nimersheim]

Here's another clue/symptom on this one: The tempo actually changes in the "global" track at the top of the T3 display, starting at wherever the EZD clip is inserted, and the now-modified tempo (always 120) carries out through to the end of the session. Anything prior to the insertion point remains at the original tempo I specified for this session.

Yes, I can manually change it back...but that's frustrating as heck.

[rlindsey0]

Yeah, I had that same problem:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 2&t=412042

I never found what I'd call a fix, but I did find a sort of workaround. Basically, instead of dragging and dropping loops onto a Tracktion track, I do all the assembly within EZD2's composition tool. (This can become tricky if you have a number of time signature changes, as I occasionally do, because the measures stop matching up after a while, but it's pretty straightforward if you're sticking to one time sig.) Once I have everything the way I want it, I export the whole loop assembly as a MIDI file *from EZD2 (not Tracktion)* to some place where I can easily find it again.

Then I reimport that MIDI file into a different track in Tracktion and drop a new instance of EZD2 onto it (one that doesn't have any loops in the composition window but is set to the drumkit and mixer settings I want). I check that track to see if everything is OK--that is, that the MIDI file is OK, that it hasn't done anything screwy to my tempos or anything else, and that it works the way it's supposed to--and if it is, I delete my original EZD2 track. At this point, you can edit the drum MIDI clip further if you want or need to.

HTH