Crash and Project corrupt when using Kontakt / DrumLab

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When futzing with DrumLab in Kontakt in C10 - I get a crash and a corrupted project.
This same scenario doesn’t occur in Cubase 9.5. Tested, working.

The crash happens using Kontakt 6 and Kontakt 5, doesn’t matter.

I’m on OSX High Sierra w/ all the latest OS updates.

Replication: (I’m hoping someone out there will try.)
I created a project in C10 with a bunch of plugins I’m testing on 2 different FX tracks. But all FX are turned entirely off, not just bypassed, so I don’t think this matters.

I add an instrument track, Kontakt 6, then load up DrumLab - the Native Instruments hybrid drum plugin.

I hit play on the plugin itself to play back a pre-installed groove.
I then click the dropdown where I can change the loaded samples (the loaded drumkit) from the preset “Smooth” to another one, like “Tight”… and click on that.

Result:
C10 crashes every time AND corrupts the project.
I always have to revert back to a different backup.

In C9.5, if I open this same project (created in C10) with all those preloaded plugins (again, all turned off)… the project doesn’t crash.

2

Hi,

Could you attach a crash dump file, please?

3

ok, here it is… or one of them, rather.
Cubase 10_2018-11-21-133220_Mikes-2nd-MacBook-Pro-2.crash (146 KB)

4

Hi,

The crash is in Kontakt.Synth.vst.

5

Thank you Martin.

Here’s the problem:
it works in Cubase 9.5, doesn’t work it 10… and yet it’s the fault of Kontakt. How is that even possible?
I guess something has changed in the host program that Native Instruments needs to address?
Wouldn’t this then result in many plugins needing to be fixed to work with Cubase 10?

6

This is a NI problem. It freezes my VEP machines as well as my local Nuendo machine. Super frustrating but not Steinberg’s fault.