VL3 crashes on Mac, when you only open it and without opening any project use the menu command “Quit VST Live”.
Step by Step
- Open VL 3
- Use menu “VST Live/Quit VST Live”
- it crashes
… while the HUB is visible? After a New Project Command? Do you have a Crash log for us?
Thank you,
Michael.
Yes, while the hub is visible. I did not find a crash dump, but I have copied the report the mac shows me (I used the extension .crash to upload it. The format of the file is RTF).
Crash Report.crash (112.5 KB)
Thank you, @Falfango! It has been fixed and will be pushed to the next Pre-Release 2.2.86 and 3.0.2.
See you,
Michael.
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I can confirm, that this bug has been solved 
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.. Excellent. Thank you very much for your feedback,
Michael.
Same issue here - also had it in VST Live 2 - but hoped it had been fixed in 3.
Version: 3.0.0.74
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macOS 14.8.3 (23J220)
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Intel iMac Pro (iMacPro1,1, 18-core Xeon W, 128 GB RAM)
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GPU: Radeon Pro Vega 64 (16 GB)
Problem Description
VST Live crashes reproducibly on macOS with an EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) shortly after quit. The crash occurs on the main thread, and the instruction stream clearly shows a UD2 instruction, indicating a deliberate abort triggered by internal code (e.g. assertion or consistency check).
The crash does not occur inside third-party plugin code; the crashing stack contains only vstlive frames.
Crash Details
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Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
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Termination Reason: Illegal instruction: 4
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Crashed Thread: Thread 0 (main thread)
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Trap Number: 6
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Instruction: 0F 0B (UD2)
This suggests VST Live intentionally terminates due to an internal validation failure rather than memory corruption or an external crash.
Observations / Environment Notes
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The crash occurs after quit started.
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Multiple plugin vendors are installed, including Waves, Steinberg HALion Sonic, and PreSonus Plug-in Format Adapter.
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At the time of the crash, no third-party plugin appears in the crashing call stack.
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Multiple Waves VST3 shells of different versions are present on the system (14.x and multiple 16.x variants).
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The PreSonus VST3 Shell is also installed (used for Studio One compatibility).
Troubleshooting Already Attempted
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Verified crash can be duplicated.
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Crash log confirms the abort originates inside VST Live itself, not in plugin code.
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System is stable in other Steinberg hosts and DAWs.
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HI @dougieb,
Sorry to hear you’re running into this issue.
If you could share the full crash log, that would really help us take a closer look and better understand what’s going on.
Thanks for your help,
Michael
CrashLog.zip (25.2 KB)
Enjoy