Cubase14 VST3 plugins cannot reactivate on Blocklist

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Hello,

I recently upgraded to Cubase 14 on a Windows 11 OS. I am also using a PC with Windows 10 and Cubase 14 in the Studio where i do not have any of the following issues.

Some of my VST3 Plugins have been moved to the Blocklist. However, if i try to reactive them Cubase crashes immediately.

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I have updated every plugin, Cubase to the most recent version and reinstalled everything.

I also tried deleting the Blacklist.xml files. I have not installed vst2 versions of any of these plugins.

However the newly installes plugins are moved to the blocklist immediately.

I do not know what to do anymore. Also i tried to install plugins do different folders which does not help and the default folder also has a bunch of other plugins that work just fine.

Am i missing something?

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I have the Soundtoys plugins (latest version) installed with 14 on Win11, too, and I experience no such problem, so it can’t really be a general issue with those and/or Cubase.

Just an idea: are all of these plugins iLok-licensed? I don’t known all of them, but I know that at least Soundtoys, soothe/spiff and the eventide stuff are.

Have you tried updateing the iLok Pace Software from https://www.ilok.com/#!home?

If that’ts not it, you could try sharing the Cubase crash dumps here, they are in your Documents folder “Steinberg\Crash Dumps”.