Cubase 12 pro - keeps crashing

Is anyone else experiencing cubase crashing - this is happening on a regular basis now.
Never had this issue before.
For instance I could be mixing vocals and it’ll then decide to crash. This is happening even if nothing is playing. I then lose my work. I know there are backups but that’s not the point considering the money this program costs. I have set the autosave to 5 mins by the way.
My Mac is powerful enough and today I had safari open in the background.

My equipment is:

Cubase 12 pro
MacMini M1
CPU/8C GPU
Memory 16 GB
1 TB SSD Storage
macOS Ventura 13.2.1
Apollo twin X

I haven’t gone to support yet but thought I’d put up the diagnostic report so someone can have a look. :hot_face:
Cubase 12-2023-03-22-183643.ips (265.4 KB)

Rock solid here on same system.

Most likely a third party plug-in causing a problem, or corrupt preferences.

Perhaps try with safe settings to rule out the above?

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Hi,

The crash is in iZotope Nectar 3:

Thread 272 Crashed:: Vst Prefetch Thread 0
0   iZNectar3                     	       0x2beb86eec 0x2bde74000 + 13709036
1   iZNectar3                     	       0x2beb86ee8 0x2bde74000 + 13709032
2   iZNectar3                     	       0x2bf20f60c 0x2bde74000 + 20559372
3   iZNectar3                     	       0x2bf2175b0 0x2bde74000 + 20592048
4   iZNectar3                     	       0x2bebc0348 0x2bde74000 + 13943624
5   iZNectar3                     	       0x2bebc0348 0x2bde74000 + 13943624
6   iZNectar3                     	       0x2bf1920d8 0x2bde74000 + 20046040
7   iZNectar3                     	       0x2bebc0348 0x2bde74000 + 13943624
8   iZNectar3                     	       0x2be6327a0 0x2bde74000 + 8120224
9   iZNectar3                     	       0x2beccf1f8 0x2bde74000 + 15053304
10  iZNectar3                     	       0x2becd11c8 0x2bde74000 + 15061448
11  iZNectar3                     	       0x2bece3fb4 0x2bde74000 + 15138740
12  iZNectar3                     	       0x2becfba48 0x2bde74000 + 15235656
13  PluginHooksVST3               	       0x137f47840 0x137f28000 + 129088
14  PluginHooksVST3               	       0x137f387ec 0x137f28000 + 67564
15  Cubase 12                     	       0x105e2b0d0 0x104a28000 + 20984016
16  Cubase 12                     	       0x10634fb88 0x104a28000 + 26377096
17  Cubase 12                     	       0x106362570 0x104a28000 + 26453360
18  Cubase 12                     	       0x106323f80 0x104a28000 + 26197888
19  Cubase 12                     	       0x106371980 0x104a28000 + 26515840
20  Cubase 12                     	       0x106318bf0 0x104a28000 + 26151920
21  Cubase 12                     	       0x106d65b30 0x104a28000 + 36952880
22  libsystem_pthread.dylib       	       0x1949ae06c _pthread_start + 148
23  libsystem_pthread.dylib       	       0x1949a8e2c thread_start + 8
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Thanks Martin. I’ll have a look later and remove it from the tracks it’s on and see what happens.

as usual you’re knowledge and experience has been invaluable. Many thanks Martin.

I removed Nectar 3 from the tracks it was on.
I also had forgotten that, I’d set my M1 to run natively a few weeks ago: Big mistake as some 3rd party plugs are not ready for native yet and go to the blocklist - even though they are VST 3

That said, everything is working perfectly now as it should.

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