cubase crash & freeze

Cubase
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Hi…
for some days i’m having a crash i can’t explain:
it doesn’t happen all time (but at least twice a day) it happen always when playing but i don’t know excatly why or how.

what it does is a freeze where i can hear the sound played at that instant going on a loop like 300ms and then crash message “cubase stoped running” and back to desktop :frowning:
if i reload cubase just after that crash then it works and play for 10 sec than crash loop again.
but then it can work ok again…but when i want to save the session i have instant crash i mean no warning no nothing just back to desktop when i clic save. and now i discover that the session is corrupted. what ever i do i can’t save it (!) i get instant crash or cubase. i can load it … but not save it

what i did recently was adding some kontakt librarys and updating the synthogy ivory vsti :stuck_out_tongue:
i use W7 / i7 2600k / 16ram / ssd / cubase 6.0.2

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sigh I wish people would put full system and Cubase specs in their sigs or posts. It would save having to ask What bit OS? What bit Cubase? :bulb:

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With 16G of ram you’d have to assume 64bit for both but you’re right, full spec please.

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sry yeah 64bit.
thx for your help :wink:
i use :
MtherBoard P67A-UD3P-B3
GraphicCard ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series
RME fireface UC

today i’m having this problem for the third time. but no “freeze” direct crash to desktop when i try to save / save as / or sometime in the export window when i try to bounce. :cry:

this session is big but processor or ram ar not overladed at all… (5 instance of kontakt with LASSfull / vienna / 4 pianoteq / 2 Alchemy / 2 FM8)

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well now i have a session that refuse to open … when i try to load it i get instant crash of cubase…
now this is really annoying…

i found something this is what i did:
i opened an empty session.
then i opened the corrupted session but did not activate it and it works.
so i guess it as to do something with a plugin.

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That would be the first assumption, rename plugin folder/s and see if it works.

Edit… looks like you have found your problem.

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no no … sorry i did a mistake !
i was attempting to load the wrong session :stuck_out_tongue:
i’ll do some more test but still crashing here

—EDIT
so and the winner is JBridge. i had some 32plugins that were “bridged” and it was working so far but crashing for some reason recently. :stuck_out_tongue: let’s see if it’s ok now.

—edit
as i was writing the lines above… CUBASE CRASHED in background…
omg this is the end… dunno what to do.

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Thing is, does it crash with the plugins disabled? do other projects work?

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without plug it works .
but as the crash occurs “sometime” it’s not 100%sure.
so i’m reinstalling plugs one by one and try to play session for a moment and see :stuck_out_tongue:

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ok so after 5h testing this is what i can say.

the problem happen only when i have all the following VSTi (picture bellow)
if i remove one of the VSTi from the folder (in the picture you see that Pianoteq has been removed) them i can open the session. like if there were to many … :neutral_face:
and it has nothing to do with th JBridge like i said above.

OR if i remove only one instance of KONTAKT i can open the session.
for the moment when the session is open (without one of those VSTi) it’s working but i’ll have to wait to make sure i don’t get more crash. But at least i can open the session
when it’s working the processor uses only 7% and ram is around 6Go used

last thing but super strange.
this comes from a template session i did with all these Vsti and Vst and all instrument loaded exactly the same way … and it is working :S

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Well, 6 GB is quite a large project and while your system may be having no shortage on memory, your 32 bit plugins may be. Not sure which ones are 32 bit but you did mention a bridge so could have something to do with the problem.
HTH
J.L.

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well … can’t be sure. i’v been using bigger ram without troubles at all.

  • it’s strange that openning session or saving session does the crash.
    and when i remove any of the VST i’m talking above all is fine. and they are all 64bits.

well … let’s keep working while it’s ok

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so removing instances did solve the problem until now.
i still don’t belive it’s a ram problem i alreay got ram overload and i get a message warning that an instrument can’t be loaded because not enough ram but not instant crash.

anyway i was doing fine and there again always when i try to “save” or “export” it crashed.
this time i was in export window, i cliced on “path” to rename a file i just bounced, browser appeared, rennamed and when i press “enter” boom. back to desktop no warning … i’m getting little upset about this.