easy drummer and mixcraft

[alisonmusic62]

I have an older version of easy drummer. I want to use it with mixcraft 8. I can get Mixcraft to recognize easy drummer. But when I go to the edit button to bring up easy drummer, I get no sound at all when I tap on the various drums. When I run easy drummer on its own with out mixcraft running it works fine. Is there something I'm missing or not setting up right?

[alisonmusic62]

I got easy drummer to make sound in mixcraft, but when I try to drag and drop a beat (sound) in to my instrument track it says, mixcraft failed to load the sound. So right now I can't record a sound or load a sound.

[JonInc]

Do you have Mixcraft properly set up to be used with your audio interface/ sound card?

Basic setup (First 3 minutes of vid):
http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/v7/he ... guide.html

Keyboard setup:
http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/v7/he ... llers.html

Do the following to auto-scan and designate any installed VSTs (like EZ Drummer) with Mixcraft:

Start Mixcraft. Under File-Prefs-Plugins, click on "Edit VST/VSTi Folders". Click "Auto-Scan For VST Directories". This will find any VSTs you have installed and add their locations to Mixcraft's VST list. Be patient, this may take a while. When finished, OK out of the Preferences window to the main MC screen.

Restart Mixcraft. Open a virtual instrument track. Click edit button, play instrument.

[alisonmusic62]

I had already done what you posted, thanks for the info. But mixcraft won't let me drag and drop sounds into its instrument track.

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

You wouldn't be dragging and dropping sounds, you'd be dragging and dropping MIDI blocks onto the virtual instrument track in Mixcraft. Is that what you're trying to do?

Greg

[alisonmusic62]

Yes, Greg!

[JonInc]

Before we address dragging midi into Mixcraft, I just want to be sure that EZD is set up and working correctly in MC8. You can play and hear notes from a midi keyboard or the qwerty keyboard (Ctl+alt+k), is that correct?

And you can audition EZD's internal midi loops?

If the above are true, then what happens when you drag the midi from EZD into MC's VI track?

[alisonmusic62]

Hi JonInk. I have easy drummer running through mixcraft. I can trigger sounds with my midi keyboard. And I can audition the loops through easy drummer. But can not record what I trigger, or drag the midi loops into my mixcraft VI track. I get a message saying,mixcraft failed to load the sound. It could be corrupt or in an unsupported format.

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

What version of EZDrummer are you using? What build of Mixcraft 8 are you using? You can see the build number along the top of Mixcraft's screen.

Try starting Mixcraft by right-clicking on its icon and selecting "Run As Administrator." Does that fix the problem?

Greg

[alisonmusic62]

Thanks Greg, you solved my issue. Run As Administrator. Not sure why it has to be that way?

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

Some kind of Windows permission issue, most likely.

Make sure you do have Mixcraft version 8.1 build 405.

Greg

[alisonmusic62]

I have latest release!

[Acoustica Greg]

I have latest release!

Just checking! We fixed a lot of bugs.

[AHornsby]

Just checking! We fixed a lot of bugs.

Hopefully more than were created.

[bootsycoxproductions]

I'm having the same issue, MC 8.1.413, EZD 1.4.0 Tried everything that I can think of including the open as admin. Toontrack is trying to help me but to no avail...Any other ideas? I'm starting to get angry. Spent the last 8 hours trying to figure this out.