Had a hanging note and tried to hit the “Panic” button - instant crash of VST Live.
Restarted 2.1.36, loaded my project and hit “Panic” before playing a single note, crashed again.
I tried to disable the “Reset Audio Device on Panic Button” option, no longer crashing, so looks like a problem with the audio driver reset.
Audio driver select was the built-in MacBook Pro speaker. Tried this with another audio driver (X-Live Mixer, although this also uses Core Audio). Same behavior - crash with “Reset Audio Device” enabled, no crash without.
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x18a37c164 _platform_strlen + 4
1 Kontakt 8 0x3dd553d2c konnekt_v0::ParameterItem::getValueFromEngine(BEngine const&, unsigned long) const + 200
2 Kontakt 8 0x3dd554730 konnekt_v0::ParameterItem::syncToAudioEngine(BEngine&) + 584
3 Kontakt 8 0x3dd555238 konnekt_v0::Parameters::onTimerEvent() + 112
4 Kontakt 8 0x3dcc7a748 nod::signal_type<nod::multithread_policy, void ()>::operator()() const + 164
5 Kontakt 8 0x3dd03d558 BEngineTimer::onEvent(unsigned int, NI::UIA::EventData*) + 36
6 Kontakt 8 0x3df632098 NI::UIA::EventTimerManager::notifySubscribers() + 224
7 Foundation 0x18b63990c __NSFireTimer + 104
… it’s crashing directly in “Kontakt 8”. Can you please contact Native Instruments and give them your crash logs? They know what to do. They can contact me if they like.
Contacted Native Instruments, they pointed me to a knowledgeable article on Kontakt crashes, see below. The first recommendation (giving the DAW, Native Access, Kontakt 8, NI Komplete and the NTK Daemon full disk access) seems to have solved the problem.
Strange that this is not set up this way by NI during program installation …