Backbone 1.6 crashes often

Cubase 14, Windows 10, Backbone VST3

If I right click in the Filter pane of the resynthesis screen, I can reproduce a crash. Also, sometimes when working with this screen and cycling through patches with the left and right arrows at the top, it will crash too.

Reproduced “right click in filter section of resynth screen” on CB14.0.10 running MacOS Seq15.2. This was a hard app crash on mine.

I just installed today but been working fine other than that on my system.

Cubase 14-2025-02-03-182653.ips.zip (23.0 KB)

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Ive just been trying the demo version (using as a vst in REAPER, windows 10) - i had the same right click crash. Also earlier, it randomly crashed due to ‘serious graphic problem’. Its a great plugin, but no way I’m buying if it crashes entire REAPER sessions regularly!

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No issues other than the right click over here.

FYI, it’s free with Plugin Boutique purchase through March something, even for purchases of like $10. Of course, I didn’t get out of there quite so cheap, but I HAD to have the Blue Cat Analysis pack.

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Hi DitaminV and Thor.HOG
I’m able to reproduce it here. Its now in our Defect-Tracking-System and listed as Bug-ID “BCK-1536”.
I hope we can provide a fix for it soon.

Thanks for your report and please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Gerrit Junge

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Additional problem with Backbone 1.6.0 … Issue can be reproduced any time:
1.Clicking on New or Variation slider makes the DAW crash and PC restarts (win10)… got it via plugin b. purchase, but in this state it is useless…
2.Sliding Kick slider → crash, PC restarts.

Not reproducible on Backbone 1.6.0.455 C14P on MacOs. If your PC is actually restarting, then you may have a driver issue. Check your Windows System Event Log for details on what component is failing, and you should probably provide your crash dump file as well - other Windows users could help you nail down the source.

Tested in 3 DAWs. Symptoms are the same. Using 50+ plugins from dozens of vendors. None of them has this problem like sliding a slider makes the computer restart. Only the devs know what instruction in code can trigger this activity… Event logs show nothing. Win10 Pro 22H2 19045.3803.

If an app, and in this case just a VST hosted in an app, is causing a system fault that is actually restarting your computer, there will definitely be an entry in the System Event Log. User-mode code can’t restart a Windows system, so hard “crash” restart is (in my opinion) going to be related to some driver (maybe graphics). It only happening with Backbone doesn’t change that premise, so if I were you I’d look again to see if it gives you a clue.

That or open up a case with support at this point.

P.S. Standard utilities should also be run (as admin):
sfc /scannow
dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

(Msft tells you to run DISM first, but I prefer sfc first).