I managed to finally find which plug-in in my old sessions in causing the crashes in Cubase. I had an issue where every time I open a session, it’ll crash immediately. By doing elimination to find which one, I found that it was no other then Cubase’s native plugin - Chopper.
To prove and demonstrate this, here’s a video showing a completely empty session, and by adding the chopper plug-in, the DAW crashes:
Attached the crash report generated by this crash: Cubase 11_2020-11-30-150722_s-MacBook-Pro-2.crash (139 KB)
Cubase 11 latest version, eLicenser latest version 6.12.5.1279, Mac OS Catalina 10.15.5.
I had exactly the same problem that a project crashed on opening it. Not knowing what caused it and after deactivating preferences and plugins to no avail, I imported every single track into a new project to find Chopper as the culprit. DAMN YOU, CHOPPER!
I can completely reproduce it like this:
Create a new project
Insert CHOPPER on a track
Turn Sync in CHOPPER off
Turn the Speed Knob up
Crash between 40 and 50 Hz
To open the project with CHOPPER, I temporarily removed the vintage-plugins.vst3 Folder from C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 11\VST3 then deleted the insert and saved it.
Cubase Pro 11.0.10 / e-Licenser 6.12.7.1285
Windows 10 Home 64 20H2 / AMD Ryzen 1700 @ 3.6 GHz / Asus Prime B350-Plus / 32 GB RAM / GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Hi, we were now able to reproduce the issue and you can temporarily change your ASIO buffer size to something smaller than 1024 and the crashes won’t happen. We will provide a fix with an update later this year. (Not C11.0.20, it is too late to get the fix in this version)