WaveLab crash during montage rendering [SOLVED]

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I haven’t used WaveLab very much, but it is crashing on me during montage rendering for All Titles in my montage. Not all the time, and not always in the same spot. Sometimes it gets just a couple titles in, sometimes it gets several in, other times it gets all the way. I have to repeat the montage render several times before it goes through successfully.

I only have three third party plugins on the montage output bus: Soundtheory Gullfoss Master, FabFilter Pro-MB and FabFilter Pro-C2. Windows 11 24H2. Wavelab Pro 12.0.51.

Here is the crash report.

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Hello,

I have fixed my own issue. The crash was caused by a Pro Tools DLL file called CFnd.dll which also causes crashes in Finale. I was surprised to see this as I have a very old Pro Tools version installed and have not used it in many years. I did not want to rename this file because in case I do need to use Pro Tools, it might not work without it.

I found an old thread here on these issues with WaveLab and this Pro Tools DLL file: Avid Support Asks: What is WL's dependency on CFnd.dll?

The old thread explains the problem is actually caused by an ASIO driver made by Avid that in turn calls Cfnd.dll. Cubase could see an ASIO device named something like Avid ASIO Driver, but this did not appear in WaveLab at all actually. The suggested solution to rename C:\Windows\System32\digiasio.dll to digiasio.dll.old did not solve the problem in my case - WaveLab was still crashing and Cubase still showed the Avid ASIO Driver, so I renamed this .dll file back again to its original name.

Finally, I found in add/remove programs that there is an “Avid HD Driver” that is actually this Avid ASIO Driver. I uninstalled the Avid HD Driver from Add/Remove Programs, and the Avid ASIO Driver disappeared from Cubase, and the digiasio.dll file has disappeared from c:\Windows\System32 as well.

WaveLab seems to export now without crashing.

The Avid HD Driver is apparently not needed at all: it gets installed in case the user owns Avid hardware and wants to use their Avid hardware in another DAW like Cubase. So, it is safe to uninstall and won’t break Pro Tools.

I’m glad it has fixed the problem - WaveLab was crashing a lot on me and it was making me afraid to use it almost.

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Thanks for your answer and finding. Indeed, the crash log proves you right.

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wavelab crashes (and tries to crash a whole computer) on any asio it can find - for me it crashes not only on avid asio, but on sonic core / creamware too.
the funny part is that this new WL can’t even use them as it has its 32bit part castrated but still pokes at these old asio drivers in all ways it can trying to crash the whole thing!
for me it never crashed mid-montage but one can guess the quality of WL code nowadays if it interferes with a driver it doesn’t even use amidst some rendering!!

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