Native crash when 'opening effects state'

[joelgordon]

Wondering if anyone has a workaround (even a solution !) for this first ever (for me) problem.

I'm trying to open a particular project on my laptop (running pyramix 64 bit native v9) and it crashes Pyramix when it gets to the stage of 'loading effects state'. The project was transfered from my studio (Mass Core v9 64 bit) and is much like hundreds of my other projects ---- 24 chnls, some automation, a few strip tools, altiverb and Syrah. Other similar projects work fine. I'm on the road, far from the studio and need to work on this project so any wisdom would be appreciated.

Thanks

[fl]

Is it possible that one of your plug-ins has become corrupted? You might want to try re-installing Altiverb and Syrah, or just start Pyramix without opening your Project, and do a "Force Re-scan" of your VST plug-ins.

Have you applied any Microsoft updates to your system recently? MS has been pumping our some problematic updates in the last year or two...

[Jesse.Lewis]

This is unfortunately common - I have struggled with Flux VSTs crashing the mixer for years.

Try updating your Flux plugs to the latest version.

Cheers,
Jesse

[joelgordon]

Frank and Jesse,

Thanks to both of you. I tried rescanning and then even removing the flux plugin (Syrah) but no luck. I've actually had this issue once before on a 2 channel project with no plug ins at all but Eqx. I brought it back home to the studio and it ran fine. I can't even blame Microsoft as I haven't installed any recent updates.

Thanks again.

Joel

[Jesse.Lewis]

I often have found the MassCore version ran fine, but it crashed in Native (or visa versa!). Can you test that?

The Merging guys have been very helpful to me in getting the unplayable to play and unopenable to open... They were able to identify the specific plug causing the crash.

Jesse

[fl]

In the past couple of weeks, I've encountered this issue, especially when opening old projects. It seems that anything that could affect a VST plugin from instantiating itself will cause Pyramix to crash - for example, when opening an IR Reverb which cannot find the particular IR that was in use when the Project was last saved. Even when the plugin offers to either allow you to search for the missing element, or to cancel opening, the damage has been done, Pyramix locks up and has to be Force Quit.

It would be great if there was some way to open a project without fully activating any VSTs - similar to booting up Windows in "Safe" mode. Then at least you could modify the project to salvage what you can.

[joelgordon]

Yes, when I got back to the studio it ran fine in Masscore and I finished the project there. Dennis at Merging did send me back a new version which I haven't tested out yet (it came after the project was done) but I will check it out at some point. What's weird is that the project - once corrupted - was unable to start up on the laptop even with all plug ins removed !
What's also weird (but probably common) is that other projects - newer as well as older - using the same plug ins open just fine on either system. Sometimes I miss my editing block and razor blade

[Jesse.Lewis]

I'm running another project now which locks up in Native, but runs fine in Masscore - but related to a media issue. Project will not open in Native... Native has some problems which MassCore somehow overcomes.