Vst crashing ableton. Hello all. « Reply #1 on: June 04, 2020, 04:55:30 pm » It does'nt happen In this video I will show you how to use simple debugging tools to actually open the DMP files inside Ableton crash reports, and how to use the info inside o I can't open old projects due to dodgy vsts lol installed you can move it where you want and after just search for the new folder in the plugin folder options in ableton. Turn on the Track and Sync buttons for the MiniNova Input and Output Midi Ports as shown below. LOVE this synth, works fine in stand alone. Not really possible to use Live 11 for anything at this point. dmp files in WinDBG. Really need some help here as I am unable to use my Ableton at all and the VST scan keeps happening every time I open live resulting in an immediate crash. I’ve also tried opening Vital in Offline Mode before opening the VST in Ableton. Now whenever it opens it scans every file in there even thinking some . Some instruments inside of Komplete will also appear blank. Top. 5) I copy the tracks and restore VST settings, all good. MIDI c Once i examine the VST and AU folders and they appear in the browser, loading one of them (but not ALL go them, which is super weird) makes the software crash. dlx. Works beautifully for my very modest usage. The best VST plugins for Ableton Live are generally those that are best across the board. Happening on both vst/vst3 versions. The crash report will probably tell you which plugin. With that in mind, Once I determine the group, I start trying each track until I get the once that crashes things. When Ableton (9. This may indeed happen with our VST3 plug-ins. Reply More posts you may like. 1. If Live starts normally, one or more plugins are causing the crash. I recently made a track with the OPIA Wave Table instrument in Spitfire LABS. Third-party plug-ins and Max for Live devices 5. Ableton Live 11 Suite (11. Ableton checking for VSTs is causing your program to freeze, you can isolate the issue by temporarily uninstalling the VST before launching If Live starts without crashing, the issue is your own default template. Another problem was the linked folders of u-he plug-ins inside my vst folder. I have no idea what the problem is, last night a friend (who knows live much better but mac's much less) attempted to install some third party stuff and either moved a folder or told live to search the entire library for vst, now when I try to start up live it always, always freezes on the step scanning for vst plugins. \AppData\Roaming\Ableton\[YOUR LIVE VERSION] If it's happeneing when scanning the VST directory, remove all of your VST plugins and open Live. How To Add Plugins Into Ableton. If you use the same Plugin inside an additional host eg BlueCat PatchWork then the problems are fixed. By accident i started scanning my Program Files(x86) instead of VSTplugins, this caused ableton to shut down. clydesdale Posts: 350 Joined: Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:28 I hadn't installed any new VSTs in the lead up to this happening, so it doesn't seem to be the fault of a buggy plug-in or directory. These are the plugins I am currently using on my new (first) Ableton 12 Old versions of VST wrappers are known to crash Live 12, for example. Ableton is a powerful tool, but it can break during use like any tool. I’ve uninstalled, reinstalled, logged out, logged in, removed the Vital VST files from plug-ins, rescanned etcany ideas? Thank you Been getting crashes on Ableton 11. I have two monitors. An incorrectly set preference could cause Ableton to crash on startup. Best. - any tips or advice would be appreciated and I'm sending my recent crash reports to Ableton support I downloaded a new VST plugin for live and so I went to Preferences to scan for it. That was two months ago roughly. Even if I have a brand new session with only ONE TRACK and this plug-in on it, it will just randomly crash. I'm When I load vital onto a channel I let it sit for a few seconds after it opens up, cause if I don't then the Ableton crashes. I am indeed running a new Apple M1 Max MacBook Pro with Ableton Live 11. VST/AU plug-ins reset to default preset. Not only for its loop-based workflow and MIDI editing capabilities but also because it has great built-in plugins. I've tried updating all the plugins and disabling the AU/VST/VST3 versions of each plugin but I'm still getting crashes. I do not have 32 bit plugins, and after updating maschine, it somehow screwed up all my libraries, now some vst cannot see their respective libraries. It doesn't even appear on the screen. Ableton on Mac is If you have VST and VST3 plugins, click on the one with the plugin you want to open. Rechecking the 'Use custom folder' for both VST2 and VST3 do nothing to help with the scan. Right click on 'Ableton Live 11 Suite. 3. Windows will no longer make the executive decision to choke Ableton. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. Is there a solution? I can't find one! Note, I have tried EVERYTHING Ableton documentation says to do as far as tuning Windows and Ableton settings. The Ableton Live 10. Make sure all of the following are fully up-to-date and compatible: 1. Most of my Native Instruments plugins and a number of other 3rd party plugins weren't loading. It's handled massive sessions in recent weeks with no issues whatsoever, but suddenly the display is freezing any time i zoom or change loop lengths. 2 on my Windows 11 Pro system. So Ableton will not load them. Is anyone else using the Reason VST rack with Ableton Live and experiencing issues? It seems like about half the time I drop an instance of the Reason effect rack onto a channel, it will crash the program. If it's a badly coded VST, which I'm not convinced is the case, it would be useful to have some code within the VST host to avoid deadlocks such as this. I'm having this same problem as well. As example, Arturia So basically, I am running everything on a 2020. Loomer String 1. 3phase Posts: 4648 Joined: Fri Also, as advised on the support page I tried some of the other methods to troubleshoot it, but Kontakt 6. The standalone version Spark works fine. Hopefully that solves everything! If Ableton is crashing when you're booting, you're going to have to go into your C: folder, enable hidden folders, then go into those subfolders and delete Ableton's Just bought/installed my first VST to use in Ableton Live 9 that didn't just come free with some hardware, its Waves Ovox. It happens once I add the plugin to a blank track. Start an empty project and drag individual tracks into that project. If you still have the crash after selecting your vsti folder, this might help. 2 on a 3. Can you hear your guitar coming through Ableton via the irig? This happens only in Ableton 12. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. dmg/. 05/ Win 10 since updating to the new 2. I tried Un/Re Installing Ablton, Ilok, and the Gojira Archetype just to be thorough, still no fix. Now when you adjust the tempo in Live the MiniNova will follow. You chose an incorrect custom VST folder. 1 - 64-bit) opens back up, it suggests that Zebra2 is the issue. 43 on Mac OS Monterey 12. Should I really start thinking of changing the DAW? I have bad expierence with Ableton since their 9. I installed another instance of Ableton on another drive on my PC and set another custom VST location, and put a few dlls in there and that seemed to work, so Tips To Fix Crackling, Crashing & Freezing Audio interface. Haven't been able to load MPC vst once Previous 2. I can not use Panflow, when adding it to any Ableton Live 11 (11. Or, you can temporarily or permanently move a specific plug-in file outside the folder where it's installed on your Here are 9 possible reasons why your Ableton Live keeps crashing: Your software, OS, or drivers are outdated. Hoping to gather some insight because I love Hi, I have always had issues with Analog Lab & other Arturia VST plugins eventually crashing in every DAW I have tested (Bitwig, Ableton, Cubase). I have submitted a request already, but haven’t received a response and was curious if there was any input here. I am opening the crash reports and opening the . Log In / Sign Up; Advertise on Reddit; Shop Collectible Avatars; Get the Reddit app Scan this QR My Ableton is unstable as hell it crashes at least every hour. So you have open each preset using the "Load Preset" option within the the UAD plugin and navigate to the Once you have pressed that, Ableton will scan your VST folder and find the new VST without having to scan your VST folder every time you open Ableton. If you have installed multiple VSTs since your last scan, you can do a deep scan by holding ‘alt’ and left-clicking on the Rescan Plugins button. Abelton start up screen comes up, Mac pinwheels and then nothing. I use jbridge since I'm on a 64 bit Macbook Pro. Ive tried reinstalling and trashing Spark preferences as instructed by Arturia tech support. It has Ableton Forums; ↳ Ableton Live; ↳ Ableton Push; ↳ Ableton Note; ↳ Ableton Move; ↳ Third-Party MIDI Controllers; ↳ Tips & Tricks; ↳ General Music Production; ↳ Feature Wishlist; ↳ Music Sharing; ↳ Local Events; ↳ Announcements; ↳ Live 8 Beta -- done --↳ Beta; ↳ Live 9. The machine is super powerful and new ABLETON ruined my day, I can't continue my work. Leaving live to linger in the memory and require a reboot just to get it to release audio drivers. 1 running natively. 03 seems to be working nicely in every respect apart from one: Choosing the VST Plugin path (live's native folder with no effects in it, or the VST PLugins folder working just fine in Logic Audio) causes the application to freeze. I have them Almost certainly it's a rogue plugin or two. Reply reply dsgstng MIDI synth track with a rack, loaded with 30 or so VST synths, Reaktor synths or Live synths A bass audio track with 4 VST soft synths Vocal track with a few effects, none of which are activated. I have a selection of instruments from the native instruments komplete collections and require some of them for live performance use. If Ableton, or any other program (I also user Reaper and VCV Rack) is loaded on my second monitor certain plugins will always crash the program (Arturia FX, Voltage Modular, Ableton's built in Max LFO). Re: Please help, Live 10 Crashing upon save. When I use more than a few Waves plugins I start getting a lot of crashes. See screen shot. google. As the title says. On So far as I can tell it's only Arturia Pigments 3. 2 and onwards updates. I'm running Windows 7 with Ableton Live 9. [EDIT: we are currently updating our plug-ins to fix this issue] However I found that it is general problem for many VST plugins and different DAWs: they hang or crash when Nvidia graphics card is used and more than 1 display is used. Komplete Kontrol (as plugin or standalone): most VST3 plugins doesn't work or crash (they crash Komplete Kontrol). Has anyone else had issues or know of any reason why I'm having issues? Thanks for any help Ableton Push 2. " These are turned off by default, so be sure to enable them so that Ableton can recognize Splice Bridge. You can send me a private message with a link to the crash report if you want me to have a look. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, checked updates for Ableton, talked to tech support at VPS and Ableton and no luck, VPS says its Ableton, Ableton say its VPS. Finally, providing us with either the Full "Mac OS" "System Report" or the "Windows" "DXDiag Report" depending the OS you're currently working on may also be really helpful. It seems any action can cause a crash. Keep doing this until you put a batch back that makes it not open. pkg file on Mac or an Well, Live 2. And it also let me use Toontrack Audio Sender that is a godsend. Just downloaded the helm vst by matt tytel, looks great, but every time i try to use in ableton it crashes the daw? Works fine as a standalone but not as a vst. apQualizr. Use the VST Plug-In Custom Folder entry to tell Live about the location of your VST Plug-ins: Click the Browse button to open a folder-search dialog for locating and selecting the appropriate folder. Any advice? The lack of information and support for this product on native instruments Hi people, I recently bought the Amigo VST plugin and I love it. My live set crashes. From authentic analog synth emulations, to modern space delay effects, there are plenty of free Ableton VST plugins to choose from. zip Ableton crash report. I can clearly see my VSTs from Waves are installed, and licensed, but yet Ableton refuses to cooperate with it. But with so many categories of plugins to choose from, and a Yes, the standalone app works fine- I hear it, and I'm able to configure the In/Outs using the Asio4all driver, the same In/Outs I use for Ableton. vst crashing Live on scanning for the first time (is okay on the second go) OSX 10. I'm using Ableton Live 10, and the plugins are V12 for Waves. It freezes in ableton. Could drag them there from first monitor but Live 10 Suite (10. I am using VST only, as the names prove. DanJamesAUS August 22, 2020, 3:06pm #15. 4 Build: 2023-06-27 _d83675ef81) I was playing with ALP in Ableton (11 Suite) and I saw a few Sound Banks I thought I would download and try. 7. Go into Ableton's settings (not sure where- I'm away from my computer) and change/set your scanned folder for VSTs to the one you just made. r/ableton A chip A close button. Delete the Kontakt User Registry Folder. I tried to reopen it and was given a prompt to continue the vst search that had crashed the program or cancel and resume sonic charge VST plugins crashing Ableton 11 Vince Mertes 2021-07-19T05:33:42Z 300 views 3 posts un follow topic. Therfore it wont open and shuts If the issue is a crash, the crashlog / dump will be necessary. Re: Post AU/VST plugin issues here! Post by glitchrock-buddha » Fri Jul 06, I'm having issues with Loomer's String. I accidentally changed my VST root folder to Program files instead of what I was trying to. 4 automatic upgrade, my system Pigments is crashing Ableton anytime it's removed from a track, or a track that has Pigments on it is removed. The PC’s default sound card driver can’t I changed my custom vst folder earlier in an attempt to load a troublesome vst. Then, in Ableton, click the rescan button What To Do When Ableton Freezes. The crash or hang happens at the exact same place after restarting the live set which crashed. Logged LBH. ↳ CK Modules & VST; ↳ Sennheiser AMBEO; ↳ Muon Software; ↳ Westgatesounds. I’m not clocking the CPU and everything runs perfectly apart from the seemingly random crashes. 30) It seems as though whenever I use a fair amount (10+) of non-native plug-ins in a project, it crashes whenever I try to re-open it. 78, Bitwig Studio 4. Every once in a while (usually when you least want it to happen) the playing audio clip or the triggered VST drops out, goes silent and then the VST catches up with itself but approx 1 second behind the triggers (until I reset the VST). 3) session it crashes the DAW within the next 10-20 seconds. Deactivated all VSTs (still crashes with all VSTs deactivated) Ableton support says from the crash log, they can see that there are a couple VSTs causing the crashes. If you’re looking for free VST plugins for Ableton Live, there are literally hundreds of plugins out there that work perfectly with this incredible DAW, you just need to know where to look. exe' then under Efficiency Mode > Always > Set this to 'Off'. Set a profile under 3d settings for Ableton. Ofcourse they will make excuses there is a problems with my VSTs bla bla. Recently, due to the 10. If it works now, it's probably a bad VST. 0. Recovering a Set manually after a crash. Old. weilhalt wrote: ↑ Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:10 am 2021 and still wavestation plugin causes crash on ableton live 11. I try to open up Vital as a VST Plugin in Ableton. Sometimes it will crash as it’s loading, but more often than not it will load fine & be working normally, but when I minimise it to work on something else, then come back & attempt to re-open the VST window, I'm running 11. 920; Karma: 261; Re: Pigments crashes Ableton. Similar to the process I mentioned for uninstalling VSTs, Ableton can be uninstalled from the control panel on Windows under control panel > programs > programs & features> Ableton live 11. zip and unzip it. Ableton ; Live; Troubleshooting; Crashes; Crashes. 9. A plugin just opens like a white field and then Live stops responding, and I have to shut it down though the task manager. x BETA; ↳ Live 8. Going a bit further I then uninstalled all of the plug-in's and waves central, removed the Waves-Shell VST3 file, and deleted the Waves program files and opted for a fresh install Interesting thing. dlls, Live might crash as it tries to interpret them as VSTs. I disabled my plug-ins individually and figured out which one was causing the problem. so you either have to find a way to read the logs, or debug the mini dump files, always seemed too difficult. Unfortunately, the same crashes occur with Arturia VST To fix their registeries and making Win10 to deal with them correctly, you need to try firstly to reinstall the main DAW, as it has the major role to detect vst . I found the bad VST but it was a long Iteration! Its ok as a workaround for getting the sound in but you lose the VST like control sweetness of Overbridge And guess what: 0 Crashes. What I did to get around it was copy my Ableton 10 cfg files to 11 and she opened up without a crash BUT I have not tried to open VMR. Hope this helps Ableton Live 10 is crashing often. exe Some reverbs can be quite heavy could just depend on the vst. dll to my VST folder (where all my other Skip to main content. I can open the Labs VST and load and play some of the instruments but most of them cause a sudden crash in Live. It pops up with the 12. I updated these (Valhalla vintage verb, Waves L2, oeksound Soothe2)but I guess I'm not sure. I have seen lots of people reporting this and presenting all kinds of solutions, where some worked. I'm pretty stoked about this plugin, HOWEVER it keeps crashing my whole session out of nowhere every time i use it. 'save to user samples' after loading it prevented it from crashing again (so far anyways). After many attempts, Ableton would open, but as soon as it started loading the set, it would crash. With the latest update to 10. One of the first problems beginner producers are faced with, which causes crackling and freezing when starting their music production journey, is their PC built-in audio cards. Is there any way I can turn off the vst scanning at startup so I can change the custom vst folder back to what it was? Thanks in advance either enable vsts one by one, try to read the crash report yourself, reach out to ableton support or check your computer logs to see if anything gives you a clue there. 10 works fine too All I get is that blank screen where the plugin is supposed to be Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks EDIT - Switched back to 2. New. Or, rather, not crashing but having to Force Quit on opening because it just stops responding while 1) I open an existing project - CRASH 2) I open Ableton , disable the VTS2 plugins and reopen - WORKS 3) I enable VST2 while the project is opened, and save 4) Reopen the project, no crash, but all the tracks with VST2 loose their settings. 4 ghz with 8 gigs of ram. I know they've updated a few LABS libraries since then, but IDK if it fixes any or all of the bugs that causing the crashes. It’s a pain in the ass, but honestly you shouldn’t be running Catalina on an i5 running at 1. Quit and restart Live and your computer Update and confirm compatibility Check device installation Check the plug-in path in Live's preferences Troubleshooting I had the same problem and renamed the whole VST-Root-Folder. ? Top Win 10 Pro Ryzen 9 3900XT UAD Apollo/ART Voice Channel Ableton Live 10/Cubase 10. If it crashes still after you stopped it from loaded/scanning for VSTs, somethings up with Ableton itself, best suggestion is to reinstall. aklisiewicz Posts: 625 Joined: Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:33 am. Then, one of my side hard disks E: started crashing. I’ve put in a ticket with Spitfire but the automated msg said they are inundated with requests and it might be a few days for them to get back. Menu. vst 0x1dc1a2fc AudioEffectX::dispatcher(int, int, int, void*, float) + 316 The question here is: is this a Live bug, or is Apulsoft's product not compatible with Live 8. Many laptops and PCs don’t have audio cards in them that are made for high-quality audio processing that happens inside DAWs like Waves Plugins Crashing Ableton [VST] I'm new to using plugins so I'm not sure whats going on, but I have the plugins located within Ableton where they should be, but when I try to launch them, they don't open and crash Ableton. It crashes whilst using Ableton when I try to load a drum sample kit. 6 Ableton 10. But the vst installed on my mac is labelled as "Ohmicide_VST2MachO" I tried changing the name of the vst to match the old title, but it doesn't seem to be that easy on Mac. 1b4 ) mac book 2,16 ghz 4(3)gb ram, Os 10. The system DLLs are missing. They dont tell me what caused the crash uuugghh! I have only 7 VST third party plug ins. Mac Book Pro 13 inch 2020 2,3 Ghz Quad Core i7 with 16 GB Memory. VST2 loads fine. 0 won't open as standalone and causes Ableton Live 11 to crash when I try open either the VST or VST3 plug ins. Just purchased Spark 2 and when trying to launch the VST plugin in live it crashes live and doesn't launch the VST. Are you using specific hardware to control amplitube? You only need to use the midi preferences if you are using a midi stompbox or something. Ableton is aware of it and will hopefully issue a fix for this problem. If it does then name the path back, relink the files, I use AU plugins only now and Ableton doesn't crash anymore when I am Freezing/Flattening tracks, which is very good. Unfortunately it crashes. bla bla. I really like Ableton but this is not acceptable. Ableton only freezes, when using the digitone. There is only the regular crash message from Live, apart from that, no info. Until four weeks ago, I had a fully operational setup with Windows 10, Ableton Live 11 and the Komplete 13 Ultimate Collector's Edition. Ableton Live. While downloading these I opened the Arturia Software Center app and ALP, Modular V3, and Pigments all had upda Pardon the possible dumb question, but I'm having an issue w/ Zebra2 crashing Ableton. Even more likely to happen if audio is playing. Here I attach a drive link with the . Yes freezing the offending tracks should help Then i try to load one by one the drum parts, and when i load the 2nd crash thats when ableton crash. buffer size. Help?' Top. 5 free? By the way, this is happening only with the VST version, when i use AU this does not happen, but i have a few projects with the VST and ableton don't let me open them. Add a Midi track and select the Midi Output to MiniNova. The VST 3 folder is on and even when I find the VST file manually, it cannot be added to a track. I tried different fixes but so far no luck "You are what you think you Working on a project created in Ableton Live 11. The Reason splash screen will appear, and then nothing. Thanks in advance! I emailed Ableton support and from looking at the crash report, they told me it was due to my Gainstation VST2 and they recommended I uninstall it and try opening the project. I installed the ikok license manager, added the . However, suddenly when I try to export a song with this VST, or try deleting it, it causes Ableton to freeze and even crash. The XML is massive Now every time I try to open the session it crashes instantly. I uninstalled the VST3 version as well just to be extra sure, and still no luck. Re: Scanning for VSTs freeze on start up. I tried uninstalling and opening the project again, however still no luck. This will briefly disable I was playing with ALP in Ableton (11 Suite) and I saw a few Sound Banks I thought I would download and try. This bypasses all plugins. net; ↳ Squaredheads; ↳ Sonigen; ↳ To anyone who get this problem, please write to support@ableton. Re: LIVE 12 VST compatability . Do the same, but now with ALT. A vst wouldn't let me save and that is what started the problem. Location: The Ableton Live Forum. And it's not only traditionally crashing the program, but the computer (Macbook M2 Max / Sonoma 14. Less than ideal for sure. If a track contains only an Arturia plugin with no additional effects, Ableton does not crash. If you recently installed a new one, try putting them all back but that one. In case the process doesn't happen automatically, or if you clicked "No" on the restore document dialog, the relevant files needed to recover the set are moved into a folder named "Crash" located in Live's preferences folder. Unsure how to install the VST without reinstalling Amplitube, but I'm sure a quick google/yt search will help you out! M1 MacBook Pro through Live 11. Any idea what could be Ableton started crashing for me within the past two weeks and it has steadily gotten worse It just so happened to start when I got low on storage (still had about 6GB), so I made room and now have about 50 GB free space on my drive, but the problem has only gotten worse. Considering some DAWs have more “closed” ecosystems, this is a significant benefit to Live users. A subreddit for users of the music software Ableton Live. I haven't been reaching for LABS lately I'm in ableton 10. Not exactly the same as what you're describing, but yes, vital has Hello everyone, I'm experiencing crashes with certain VST plugins (Kickzilla and Serum) in Ableton Live 12. Training in Seattle: 3 trainers and institutions offer . 4. I tried to put in for support help from Ableton but it comes back and says it doesn't offer support for Ableton Live Lite and directs me back to the knowledge database. Post by aklisiewicz » Sun Mar 06, 2022 2:35 am Same problem here. -This is a Ableton 12 install that seems to be using Live 11 settings since all projects, vst paths etc are there -Before Push I was using Live with a Maschine mk2 and Komplete Kontrol MK1, both with MIDI scripts from NI and it worked flawlessly, actually, everything worked flawlessly from Ableton 10 to 12 including MIDI stuff, external synths midied thru USB etc. Anybody with the same experience, and maybe a Free VST plugins for Ableton. But, when I try to load the VST (2 or 3) within Ableton (suite 10, Mac OS High Sierra) it completely crashes Ableton. Anyways Slate VMR crashes Ableton right at scanning. I’m still able to trigger sounds in Vital but the DAW cras As the title says. My CPU is very low around 10-20%. If a VST or AU plug-in preset fails to be recalled in Ableton Live, or resets to a default preset when a Live Set is re-opened, there are two possible causes: 1. I restart Live and try again and Page 224 of the Live manual: CHAPTER 16. People get lots of crashes if they skip this step. I'm able to load the mellotron plug-in individually I'm pretty sure I have both AU and VST versions of it installed. I fiddled around with the parameter that previously made it crash The interesting thing is that the first project causing the issue has the track with Ableton instrument grupped with another VST. thx Hey. 4) and the double screens I have goes all black, and restarts automatically. It is old and has reached end of life. Kind of a pain to hunt down every plugin that's having compatibility issues but at least something works. 837 Mac: 10. I've tried using exclusively VSTs but this doesn't solve my problem. Without realizing that, I went to scan and the program crashed due to the excessive search. Feel really upset and pissed off. It fucks with my folder organization, and it's starting to I'm currently having issues getting ableton v8. If not, you have to search through the project file. so- you have no way of knowing what is causing the crash. Hi people, I recently bought the Amigo VST plugin and I love it. At the same time ableton crashes when u have two instances of the same plugin in the same folder with different versions so just check this and delete the incorrect one. 2 release notes list a number of bug fixes related to AU plugins, so I decided to test using Arturia VST plugins instead to see if the issues are limited to AU. Bugfixes: Authorizing a full version of Live would sometimes activate a As the title says, i have a plug in from kvr, just one of the free ones but its ok, on the set i'm using it on, i have it twice on different audio tracks, on one it is fine, on the other its qone crazy. I reinstalled them When I attempt to load a project file Ableton crashes, when I disable plug-ins and re-scan plugins nothing is recovered. Tonight however it generates strange errors ( C++ error) What may have happened? (I also tried offline installation but to no avail) Can you help me? Addendum: If it helps, this happens: if I reply “ignore” to the C++ error, Ableton opens vcv and DjHillsdon wrote:So I've been working on a remix on and off for the past 4 months now and I went to go and duplicate a midi channel with nexus and then Live crashed. Start Ableton in safe mode, load the problematic project, delete the problematic vst from that project, save under a new name, reopen in Ableton. Hoping to gather some insight because I love The last time I emailed Spitfire about crashing they said they had an update(s) on the way that would fix the issue(s) causing the crashes in Live. Did you try deactivating AU/VST plugins? And if Live can't even open without crashing, temporarily move your VSTs to another location before launching Live. this is now happening to me, cannot get live to start up. Computer operating system 3. Then I could load the project again and I knew that the crash was caused by a VST-Plugin. Crash Reports from Push 3 (standalone) provide information to help troubleshoot crashes and other issues. I've got the exact same issue with Ableton 11 and haven't find a way to fix it yet. Re: Ableton is crashing upon opening! Post by nuxnamon » Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:12 pm andy_cytomic wrote: It's most likely because you've got an old version of Reason installed and its rewire connection is causing Live to crash. Ableton ; Push ; Troubleshooting Push; Push 3; Push 3 Crash Reports. I haven't isolated each and every plugin yet as it's are you trying to run 32bit vsts in your 64bit ableton? that's what was happening to me, a certain plugin was stuffing me up. 14 and getting crashes, always in thread 0 and seems to be when I click on File im wondering if its any of the UAD plugs or Massive - but I'm not seeing that in the crash reports (not that I really know how to read them). Instantly crashes Ableton. But it doesn't make a difference and same behaviour repeats. I had the same crashing problems with vsti. HOWEVER. English (US) Deutsch Español Français (France) 日本語 简体中文. There's a glimpse of a red screen as the ableton screen slides off the desktop when it crashes. Uninstalled everything; Manually removed all remnant and hidden folders; CCleaned the I run it as VST and it’ll play for 10 seconds before turning my screen a color and crashing my computer EDIT When I run vital with the window closed, it works fine at 50% cpu max intensity (instead of crashing my computer lol ) I think it’s a graphic card issue but program works without the wave tables being visualized. The other program (Audacity, in this case), might be set to use the VST3 format plugin. tintala Posts: 480 Joined: Mon Nov 29, 2010 5:37 pm. Please be sure to restart your system. dmg or . This happens every single time band not with other plugins. hello, I have had similar issues with Ableton crashing when I try to open Well, Live 2. After reading up on the Waves and Ableton websites and many a forum posts, I first started by running all of the Waves Central maintenance options for a possible quick fix- to no avail. A few ways of finding the culprits 1) Run the whocrashed app 2) uninstall the suspects one at a time Although they appeared in my plugin list, when I tried to load them it would either say the VST plugin could not be found (and load that blank plugin), or crash Live 12. Hi there guys, I have a continuing problem with AUs AND VSTs crashing live. I'm currently familiarizing myself with Ableton Live 9 (Standard) and Sylenth1. Vince Mertes 2021-07-19T05:33:42Z. Long story short, whenever I try to delete the MIDI channel with the DX7 VST it crashes Ableton! This is pretty much universal with all of the VSTs. But if I load the same plugins while Ableton is running on my main monitor I have no issues. Below is a list of 3rd party plugins that I have on my new Ableton 12 project that continues to crash every 5 minutes. The title of the issue is misleading as the poster later discovered that the Arturia plugin does not need to be in an instrument rack, however if the track contains both an Arturia plugin and an effect, then Ableton 10. when opening a file which uses the Amigo VST plugin Ableton directly crashes and I could never open the file again. pinkpaint wrote:before you worry about your bit rate. Ableton Forum Moderator. Using Ableton live 10. A temporary fix for this is to go The most common reason Ableton keeps crashing is due to VST plug-ins. It feels very buggy when it comes to scanning my vsts. The next step is to delete the preferences file. Then, please send us all the useful informations from this form: Ask for help BTW, I am testing Ableton Live 11 Intro and can say it sees all my controllers that Bitwig Studio truly ignores . - that are not relevant for my music setup. I had this issue a month Note that plug-ins are loaded within the Live application, so a crashed VST or Audio Unit device can cause the entire Live application to crash along with it. Guitar Rig 5 Pro has been working perfectly for months. Audio interface drivers 4. I was Or else autotune will consistently crash - for some reason Rosetta is still in effect for those autotune VSTs ? (I think) Steps I did: Open the Finder application on your Mac. Drag it onto the track in Ableton you want the effects to be on. Latency and response is fine. Hello - As personal experience vs. The only down side using AU in Ableton is you can't easily change UAD presets in the Ableton Device like you can with VST. Figured I would post with my experience. This is making Pigments unusable. My system: Win 11 Pro 23H2 AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 32gb DDR 4 2080 Ableton 12. dll's and verify them You may see that Ableton is running fine, but it might not be able to have enough privilege to verify & activate vsts. That drive contains user documents - letters, photos, etc. Have you find any fix so far ? In the meantime i'll be contacting support Update: I've just updated Amplitube from 5. Machinesworking Posts: 11473 Joined: Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:30 pm Location: been through this many times with Ableton. I'm on MacOs but can be applied to Windows. x. 01 Komplete Audio 6 Samplerate: 48. It crashes when starting, when recovering, when making music, when opening certain VSTs, when changing settings e. I didn't update anything and am using latest version of Diva (1. Please fix. I've uninstall both Ableton and the all Kontakt/Native Packages and plug ins I had but when I reinstall it's the same thing again, So this leads me to believe that there is some kind of Plug-In conflict going on here and one of them is causing Ableton to crash, so my question is, how can I determine which of my Plug-Ins is the culprit here? Thank you. Right-click on the Ableton Live 12 app and select "Get Info" from the context menu. There are recurring themes: So I was seeing a memory access violation due to a VST drum plug- Skip to main content. Thanks in advance for your replies. I'm hoping someone here might have encountered similar issues or knows of a solution. To combat this, try holding down the Alt key and then launching Ableton. It works great while starting a new Ableton file and play with it. Where to find Crash Reports; Troubleshooting a crash Hi all I am having an issue that the superior drummer 3 VST. apulSoft. Controversial. 5 Push 2/Moog Subsequent 37 VST, VST2, VST3, AU Format plugins can all be installed on the same computer. Bitwig, Cubase, Studio One and Reaper are working just normal. Honestly, this whole licensing application bullshit needs to be done away with. 6. In the next step I renamed the VST-Folder back to the original name and then renamed some of the vst-dlls to *. Click the Windows Start button and enter "regedit" into the search field. 000 Buffer: 512 All Plugins are VST3 Helm VST keeps crashing ableton . x Beta; ↳ For Sale / Wanted Ableton released a letter/email stating that the VST3 Wrappers (Native Instruments & Kilohearts, etc) are bugged in Live 12 and crash projects while loading. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, I was having issues with a lot of plugins both VST3 and VST2 versions. my solution was I'm also getting crashes in ableton using Cube, when I try to load in and tweak my own samples. drive. Note: this is currently for Mac OS X only. When installing the plugin, once you’ve downloaded it, ensure that the vst folder it will be installed into is the same one that Ableton uses. Live 12 - VSTs crash the software. Get app Get the Reddit app Log In Log in to Reddit. I run Ableton 10. I may submit a ticket to Lunacy Audio. It’s in a weird spot too, my previous version of kontakt is under plugins-VST and 7 is under plugins-audio units. ABLETON ruined my day, I can't continue my work. It happened several months ago too, the last time I was attempting it edit: quickly figured out my problem. I'm using an M-Audio Oxygen 49 via USB. Same goes for removing an existing channel with something loaded on it. 46K subscribers in the abletonlive community. I've even used it for mixing in some cases as a VST and while it can be a big CPU drain, I never recalled it crashing my system. Open comment sort options I have no idea what the problem is, last night a friend (who knows live much better but mac's much less) attempted to install some third party stuff and either moved a folder or told live to search the entire library for vst, now when I try to start up live it always, always freezes on the step scanning for vst plugins. 4. I've never used Ozone in standalone mode, but it usually is pretty stable if ran as a VST especially if you are using for mastering and not mixing purposes (ie not using it in large busy projects). The step you're missing is the Amplitube VST that you'll need to drop into the folder you have your Ableton VSTs in so that when you load plugins, it's available for you. Go to: Preferences -> Plug-Ins -> Use Audio Units V2 -> Set it to "Off". where the preset lists are, there is just a £"??, and if i touch anything on it live crashes, it also seems to crash when i try to save my work, i've tried deleting it, but it just Navigate to Ableton's preferences, and ensure that you have turned on "Use Audio Units" and "Use VST3 Plug-In System Folders. 15. Ableton can't handle crashing plugins well. When I open Ableton in a new file everything is fine, I can load Analog Lab use instruments but I've narrowed it down to the Mellotron synth that's initiating the crash. Then select Registry Editor from the results. Otherwise, try putting a few back and reopening. The problem isn't with Ableton per se, but it is Im sure this question has been asked before but i still cant find a good Mac VST emulator for a Roland TB 303? There seems to be a lot for windows but i cant find any good ones for mac?? can any1 help me out (book of ableton, psalm 6. NI says to open ALL their VSTs standalone before you try them in your DAW for this reason. If I load one of these into a MIDI channel and then try to delete it, it crashes Ableton. This guide includes steps to follow if a third-party VST, VST3, or Audio Unit plug-in device is missing from the Browser in Ableton Live. I've had the Waves Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain plugin for a few years now, and it's never been an issue when trying to export or even remove the plugin. The problem is this, if I change the buffer size under latency in the live preferences menu, and then drop in a new VST into any of my tracks, live will usually crash. But the crash happened while using a drum plug When I try to open the Vital VST or VST3 plugin in Ableton Live 11 Suite, Vital opens with a white screen and crashes both Vital and Ableton. Gonna try the AU version and see if this problem still occurs edit: This fixed it! When I switched out the VST version for AU in this specific project that crashed on me earlier it didn't crash on me any more. 14. Does it crash randomly or when opening an ableton project with the plugins in it? I suspect that when you activate Ableton online, it basically does a drag/drop in the background, and so that is why it will not work as well - but I'm not certain about this. 6 Standard 32 bit. It will also crash upon deleting a VST on a track and plugin/audio effect as well. Once i examine the VST and AU folders and they appear in the browser, loading one of them (but not ALL go them, which is super weird) makes the software crash. Unfortunately however, it crashed Ableton and it crashes every time I try to open it now. 1, now Ableton crashes directly when opening the VST(3) file If still lost, create a crash report and contact Ableton support and see if they can advise of what is causing the crash. Also tried AUs with the same problem. I used to run Ableton as Administrator but stopped a few months back so I could drag sounds from Splice Bridge into a Live session, which is not possible when running Live as Admin. For me it were the waves plug-ins. I tried to ungroup it and remove either one and upon removal Live crashes, so no way to fix it that way. Any ideas? Archived post. Ableton 12 is crashing every time a project is opened that has used an instance of komplete kontrol. I had the same problemdeleting any track with an Arturia plug-in would cause Ableton Live to crashit was driving me nuts. I sent my crash reports in to support but haven't So, although this workaround will get your session back, I think it would be good for a developer to look into why individual threads can stop Ableton as a whole working. Ableton is telling me "ohmicide_vstwin_x64" cannot be found. Contact Support Login. Open comment sort options. For reference, I am I've been having issues with VST's not loading and eventually crashing Bitwig but only when the plugins are opened on my second monitor. Current problem is kontakt 7 not opening when I click on it and instead just crashing ableton. VST3, this plugin format is, globally, less stable than VST2, whatever the DAW I'm using (Windows 10 x64 platforms) - REAPER 6. Navigate to the Applications folder and locate the Ableton Live 12 application. 7 using Ableton Suite 11. If I load a new ableton project and try to add an instance of komplete kontrol it also crashes. Which clearly sucks. H20nly Posts Live 11 crashes often when I duplicate an existing midi channel with a VST loaded on it. I suppose it is OpenGL related problem, so maybe there is Hey guys, I'm new to this board and Ableton as well. If Kontakt still crashes, proceed with the next chapter. I then read about uninstalling nexus, which I just dragged out of the VST folder I had established, |Installation File Method (. Are all plugins up to date? What OS are you using? Top. 5 (current version as of time of post). I am unable to open live to access Preferences to disable the VST scan and I can't seem to find the VST folder on my Mac to remove them entirely from the computer. Other sessions open with no problem. If your new project crashes, the track you were dragging contains a vst that aint behaving well. I'm so sick and tired of having to download a bloated application for every single VST company. But now, with the upgrade to 12, it keeps crashing on me. Share Sort by: Best. But now whenever I go to open it, Ableton crashes straight away. 6ghz. I removed all VSTs and meticulously added them in one by one until I found the culprit. VST3 vs. Open the MIDI Sync tab under settings/preferences in Ableton Live. 2 Likes. I restart it and get crash files to send to Ableton. Crash Reports from Push 3 I tried out the DX7 VST and decided that I wanted to switch to the Wurli instead. Recently opening certain plugins has started making ableton crash, Guitar rig crashes it, Fabfilter EQ does, kontakt does. When attempting to open Live, it goes to scan the entire folder and takes ages to load, before it eventually crashes. 12. 5 REV 12092). 2 crashes with both AU and VST versions of Arturia plugins. In the Registry Editor, open the following directory: HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Native Instruments ; Depending on the Kontakt Hi, I have always had issues with Analog Lab & other Arturia VST plugins eventually crashing in every DAW I have tested (Bitwig, Ableton, Cubase). Well, Live 2. VST/AU plug-in doesn't appear in Live's Browser. To Troubleshoot Plug-In Crashes: Ableton released a letter/email stating that the VST3 Wrappers (Native Instruments & Kilohearts, etc) are bugged in Live 12 and crash projects while loading. As example, Arturia Once you have pressed that, Ableton will scan your VST folder and find the new VST without having to scan your VST folder every time you open Ableton. windward Posts: 3 Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:39 pm. I don't When I say "Guitar Rig 5 Pro crashing Ableton on launch", I mean when Ableton is starting up and scanning VSTs. Post by windward » Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:21 pm Actually just tried your reinstalling idea with Valhalla and it worked. Live version - Updating Live 2. I recently got VPS Avenger vst and cannot get it to work with Ableton Live 10. Ableton Forums; ↳ Ableton Live; ↳ Ableton Push; ↳ Ableton Note; ↳ Third-Party MIDI Controllers; ↳ Tips & Tricks; ↳ General Music Production Yes, the standalone app works fine- I hear it, and I'm able to configure the In/Outs using the Asio4all driver, the same In/Outs I use for Ableton. Re-installation Process: I transferred all my licenses to the waves cloud. The plug-in is out of date. 2 will crash. I'm running on Mac OS Catalina but the problems started with Sierra (and when I got more VSTs). Additional test information -- Ableton Live 10. Plugin installation files typically have the extension . the problem is that ableton doesn’t have plugin sandboxing. WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS AND EFFECTS For Windows, proceed as follows: 1. please help Interesting thing. . 6 ch. and when choosing to "recover the work", not much are actually recovered. Anyone else having this issue with SSD5. Sometimes it takes two tries, but Anytime I try to open the latest VST3 version of Filterstep (which is what I’ve used on many of my projects) Ableton crashes on Windows 10 version 22H2. Edit 2: Sorry for the spicy title. I’ve uninstalled, reinstalled, logged out, logged in, removed the Vital VST files from plug-ins, rescanned etcany ideas? Thank you Hello all. 2. If you experience this problem, please reset Live and make sure to remove all non-VST Massive X, and other VST3 freezing or crashing ableton on close. Pigments: 2. 10 version. I’m still able to trigger sounds in Vital but the DAW crashes. And If the custom VST folder contains non-VST . And because it won't restart anymore, i have to delete the Preferences file for the I just got Ableton Live Suite 11 and haven't been having any issues with it until i got the "purity" VST installed on my macbook pro. I'm on Mac OSX 10. If you’re looking to learn how to install plugins in Ableton Live 11 on Mac or Windows with a no-nonsense approach, then read on! Ableton Live is a first-choice DAW for music producers worldwide. g. [EDIT: we are currently updating our plug-ins to fix this issue] Posted here like an hour ago with another issue. thx Share Add a Comment. 9, Arturia V Collection up-to-date as of 3/15/20). And now when I try to start it up again and Ableton is scanning VSTs it is being currupted by the amount and type of files that it has to scan. (Specs = Mac OS, Ableton Live 10. I'm Whenever I load my Ableton Live it crashes as it scans through VST's and I assume this problem came from when I was trying to get a VST to work and accidentally made the directory the entire Program Files folder. 1 Ableton is is crashing when I close my project, and every time I start up I get a crash log, even though I never get a dialog for a crash, only a windows event. Post by tintala » Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:08 pm ^^^^^ this, cant run 32 bit in a 64 bit os. It's not really specific to one thing, and it happens Any time I have a crash when it's loading a VST or something I will try and isolate it by removing that device from the load path so if you believe it is due to a sample (which I have never heard of, it's normally a plugin) then temporarily rename the path where the project is reading the samples from and see if it loads. makes the software crash. Although they appeared in my plugin list, when I tried to load them it would either say the VST plugin could not be found (and load that blank plugin), or crash Live 12. Ableton Forums. While downloading these I opened the Arturia Software Center app I have a constant problem with certain VSTs such as the fab filter series and Melda plugins loading in with a blank screen or frozen gui that proceeds to crash my project if I try to If ever you've had Rosetta enabled for your Ableton 11 or 12 version, when you disable it. Not sure of the specifics, but occasionally when I close the Zebra VST plug-in window (while working on a patch that's playing), it shuts Ableton down. 9 vst worked fine and the standalone 2. M1 MacBook Pro through Live 11. My theory is perhaps the naming convention has changed. Locate your plugin within this list and drag it onto the right track. Ableton support noted that they changed the formatting for everything with the native build of Live 11. 0 to 5. edit: thanks for the help everyone. dll files from other things are VST's then crashes. for me it was always some incompatible 3rd party plugin. zip. It's probably a VST is causing the issue - to isolate MY problem I disabled Audio Units V2 and found the root cause. When restarting after a crash, Live will now display a warning in the Help View if the crash was caused by an issue with a VST plug-in. Live's file recovery process is usually triggered by an undo file in Live's preferences folder. It stops responding and I have to force quit Live. 5 in VST3 that crashes Ableton. 6) I work on a projects for some time and Save Ableton keeps crashing when I delete a track/VST/Audio Effect It's typically only happening in bigger sessions but intermittently whenever I go to delete a track Ableton will crash. open up kontakt in standalone, as it needs to clarify its library destination in standalone mode. As an example, one Application (like Ableton) may be set to always use the VST2 or AU format plugin. Stack Exchange Network. Just uninstalled and reinstalled the newest version of Ableton but still To work around a plug-in related crash, disable plug-ins scanning by holding [ALT/OPTION] when launching Live. 6 scan vst custom plugin folder without hard crashing. I'm on Windows 10 and I installed beside Ableton 10. I tried so far everything I could find After about six years with Ableton where I could count the crashes on one hand, I just get constant crashing since the 12. The memory out crashes occur even if alll my VSTs are turned off, and I simply load one more soft synth VST into my instrument rack. 1 update. 2. 9 or Ableton Live Lite 11. Troubleshooting a crash Switching from Live Beta to the release version of Live Transaction declined in webshop Authorizing Live Buying Push a growing group of trainers and institutions are offering approved Ableton teaching at all skill levels, both for individuals and groups. A . 1 dll. 0 and 12. When I open the configure window in Ableton it doesn't have the settings option- but everything else seems to work fine in Ableton, I can hear the track until I activate the plug-in. Nothing kills creativity more than having technical issues while in the middle of your flow. pkg/. It will hang and I'm forced to quit Live. 14, Live has started to crash any time I try to use almost any third-party plugin. 4b1 64bit. exe) This method is the quickest and most simple way to install VST plugins for use in Ableton. A temporary fix for this is to go into your project's folder and remove the Wrapper folder and Live will load the rest of the project with the problem device set to "missing". 7 (64bit VST) Another alternative might be to install a new instance of Ableton on another place in your hard drive, create a new VST directory for it, and use your new plugins there (working across the two versions of Ableton by bouncing stems between the two). Using the VST version instead should fix the issue. every time I try to change the effects on the purity VST or turn the volume of the preset down it causes Ableton to crash and I dont know how to fix it. Sort by: Best. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling Vital as well. Knowledge Base. Somewhere on the internet I found out that max4l doesn't go well along with waves in 10. because the crashing happens the same even when all VSTs are deactivated. It will likely be a memory allocation issue, Catalina will be drawing too much CPU so loading ozone will likely cause Ableton to freak out and crash. zip package containing Ableton. Expand user menu Open settings menu. So, apart the possible crashes with Scaler and the lacking multi MIDI-OUT (I found I need it very rarely), Ableton Live remains my preferred DAW None of these solved it, the VST actually crashes Ableton 11 every time. If you're lucky, you'll be able to see the offending plugin before the crash. The crashes mostly occur when switching windows, for instance from VCV vst back into Ableton or when trying to close the VST window. Google Drive file. please help In my stupidity, I set the VST custom folder to Program Files (86x). This may occur after an operating system update, where the version of the plug-in is not fully compatible with the I purchased VCV Pro some time ago and it has always worked well under Ableton Live Pro (it was still perfect last night). So far, I've tried: - Uninstalling Gainstation Ableton Live has good VST plugin support, so at the end of the day, you can use just about anything you want. Feeling dumb for not trying that sooner lol . I'm trying to use Spitfire Labs in Ableton Live Suite 10 but having no luck. Or else autotune will consistently crash - for some reason I have same problem with the time and tone bundle from softube, it doesn't crash loading Ableton but if I use the saturation knob Ableton will freeze or crash. Hero Member; Posts: 4. Not even loading a set yet. 11. Anyone have an ideas what’s causing this. I've uninstall both Ableton and the all Kontakt/Native Packages and plug ins I had but when I reinstall it's the same thing again, Try setting Ableton to run at max performance in the nvidia control panel. r Also, as advised on the support page I tried some of the other methods to troubleshoot it, but Kontakt 6. Sometimes it will crash as it’s loading, but more often than not it will load fine & be working normally, but when I minimise it to work on something else, then come back & attempt to re-open the VST window, Spitfire Labs crashing in Ableton Live . com detailing the problematic VSTs and your system's specs. Uninstalling EMU and deleting the VST did not fix. 4 Live 8. jestermgee Posts: 4500 Joined: Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:38 am. com Ableton Crash Report 2023-11-10 000533 Live 11. 62, fireface 400, Top. Ableton project files are really just zipped XML files, so change extension to . vokhex lwibet xrvf oyaq jrdvtlp vejeilh hqay jlik akrag esgz