Cubase 15 crashes on startup and stops at: “Initializing: ARA Service scanning plugins

Cubase 15.0.21 64bit 2026.4.17 22.14.32.906-freezedump.dmp (3,1 Mo)

Cubase 15.0.21 64bit2026.4.17 21.09.37.578.dmp (895,3 Ko)

Hi and welcome to the forum,

Could you please provide more details?

Can you always reproduce it? What kind of ARA plug-ins do you have installed? Did you have Cubase 14 installed? Did also happened? Did it happen with Cubase 15.0.20?