If you really want to make a difference, PM Beno and request the program called Feedback.exe. Feedback is a cool little utility that resides in your T3 folder, automatically activates on poof crash, creates a log, and sends it to Mackie for analysis. Very clever piece of software that gets the info to Mackie fast and in the format that they need.

Yep. Did that monday. Haven't had a response since then...

edit: I guess Beno was busy at AES... Just received Feedback.exe, crash reports are on the way!

hi. i got my first poofy using hg fortunes sts 17.

the setup: Tracktion 3.0.whatever., 20" Intel iMac, WinXP SP2, 2GB RAM, Tapco usb.link audio interface, through DirectSound (I'm having issues with asio that I can't sort out).
The plugins: just about anything. I get "POOFs" with commercial plugs, freeware plugs, synthmaker plugs, synthedit plugs, pluggo plugs, etc.

The action: I will often get audio instability just before it goes POOF. i.e. the audio will go into a very short loop (sounding like a badly looped sample, or very steep AM), the keyboard & interface will become unresponsive, then...POOF

The sob story: I only get to play with the machine after my two little boys and my wife have gone to bed, and every POOF takes from my precious time creating.
Please, the soul you save may be mine!

thanks.

Although the last poster was using an iMac, he was running XP SP2...

One person in the 'what WORKS on a mac' thread mentioned occasional poof crashes, but is this more of a Windows thing?

Not exactly a poof problem. I've installed T3 (latest version) on my new macbook and I've got 3 problems specific to the mac (T3 works flawlessly on my windows PC)
1. Most importantly I'm unable to rewire reason 2.5 into T3 ,when I drag the rewire filter onto the track it says it's unable to find any rewire devices despite reason being open and rewire being enabled.
2. Camel space won't show a gui (just a blank white space.
3. Reaktor 5 FX won't show up in the list of available filters (reaktor synth ok). However it doesn't show up in the list of rejected plugins either.

Anybody get any similar probs?

Johne981, 2 suggestions on the rewire issue, there is an update for rewire for intel macs on the props support page I think, also I presume you know to start Tracktion first then Reason, I might just misunderstand you there.

I have Camelspace runing here on my MacBook and the gui is showing up no problem, are you running the latest
version, 1.43?

Many Thanks for your reply Freddy. Someone told me on another forum that it's because reason 2.5 won't rewire because the rewire engine in 2.5 is not compatible with universal binary. I did try upgrading to rewire 1.7 as you suggested without success.

Cheers
John

I'm just so pleased this problem only affects random poofs

Unfortunately, I can't get Feedback.exe to run automatically when Tracktion 3 crashes on Vista x64.

I'd PM Beno on that.

So what's happening with this??
Is it going to be fix in next release?
The problem seems to be with Tracktion and not vst/vsti since it is happening to me with different one. It seems to be happening often when browsing the different browser of the plugins/instruments and/or loading patches/preset.
It is really annoying, CTRL S is now my best friend...

what's happened with the crash reporter? I could never get mine to work. I hardly use T3 any more.

Anyway, these tools are useful when one or a few users are having specific problem that developer can't reproduce. On this one, everybody is having them so I can't believe Mackie developer cannot...

I had a poof when using the ndc midi plugins.
I'm running WINXP SP2-Dual Core PC.
Switched to use 1 cpu when using these plugs & NO More Poof.