MDrummer 16.05 crashes with Dangerous Punk

[mevla]

Hi, as said, I do use Linux too. I thought you knew and I wrote it: I perform and compose and record and do music solely on my Linux Manjaro, with Yabridge and wine-tkg to run Windows stuff.

I am very sorry that I haven't remembered it ! I will try this weekend.

By the way, I am currently listening in the car to the PFM album "Passpartù" which I find is an excellent album before the band really started to move towards pop with "Suonare suonare" and the other albums ... until today it seems.

[mevla]

Steps to reproduce:

Here's what I did :

[X] create a project containing the MDrummer plugin in a track. For your convenience, choose to map all channel to 10 in the track inspector in order to play with keyboard

[X] select the Dangerous Punk preset from the Experimental Under Drum
Empire 2020

[X] save the project

[X] reload the project

Result 1 :

mDrummerTest-01.jpg

From there I tried playing a rhythm.


Result 2 :

mDrummerTest-02.jpg

Reloading the project yielded the exact same results. Not working at
all.

Reminds me I've seen something similar about a month ago in which the
VU meters for the track on which MDrummer was were not acting right at
all but, without crashing. I ended saving the MDrummer setup,
deleting the track, creating a new track and loading the saved setup.
It then worked OK.

So yes, reproducing the steps you have described makes MDrummer crash.

This is with version 16.05, Bitwig 4.4.10, wine + yabridge in Xubuntu
22.04. 16 GB RAM and Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz.

[fsciarra62]

Mevla, I apologize if I've been acting like I was a dic***ad... I didn't want to be nasty asking you to remember about me and which platform I use... I beg your pardon... It's only frustration that sometimes drives me to write things without double thinking about what I write and how it might sound to whom read.
PFM... One of my idols! And being Italian a love since I was a kid... I'm 61.
With my prog group, we're trying to play "E' Festa". With a lot of difficulties! They were and are great musicians and players...
From "Passpartù" I'm trying to convince my friends to play "I cavalieri del tavolo cubico"... it will require 6 months of study, maybe more, to be able to play it in ugly way...

Thanks a lot for taking the time to reproduce the bug.
Now I know it's not only in my head.
Hope they will fix it.

Best regards,
Fabrizio

[mevla]

Mevla, I apologize if I've been acting like I was a dic***ad... I didn't want to be nasty asking you to remember about me and which platform I use... I beg your pardon... It's only frustration that sometimes drives me to write things without double thinking about what I write and how it might sound to whom read.

No problem at all, I actually had forgotten that at the beginning of this thread you mentioned Linux.

So yes, there are such occasional problems with MDrummer. That you have seen it also happened on Windows 11 adds more weight for Melda technical support.

From "Passpartù" I'm trying to convince my friends to play "I cavalieri del tavolo cubico"... it will require 6 months of study, maybe more, to be able to play it in ugly way...

I'll PM you about music subjects.

Cheers.

[fsciarra62]

Hi there.
I've tried again with MDrummer 16.06a and Bitwig 4.4.10 and 5.0 beta up to beta7.
Still crash, same way...
I don't know what to do...
Fabrizio

[mevla]

Hi there.
I've tried again with MDrummer 16.06a and Bitwig 4.4.10 and 5.0 beta up to beta7.
Still crash, same way...
I don't know what to do...
Fabrizio

On Bitwig's side I don't think there'll be any traction in buying and testing with a 3rd party from a more or less 'little' company. If it was a major plugin company they would already have the plugins anyways.

On June 22 2018 I contacted Melda concerning a problem with MDrummer on Linux. On June 28th 2018 Vojtech told me that he had the latest Bitwig when trying to debug a problem I had on Linux which resulted with Vojtech sending me debug versions of MDrummer that generated log files for debugging purposes which I sent back to him. This went on a couple of times and was marked as solved on June 30th 2018. I was happy that Vojtech actually tried to debug this even if it was on Linux as it showed dedication. A quality that's becoming scarce nowadays.

I do not know if Vojtech has maintained his Bitwig up to date since then but he does have a license and knows how to run it.

This said please consider :

* Stick with Windows when doing a bug report.

* Include as much details as possible, and screenshots. Does MDrummer do that with other drum sets ? I have seen many bug reports while working in software and quite a few times when developers put them aside if there are not enough details as it means doing some initial back and forth with the customer instead of working on software.

* Take into account that there's a release going on which brings its own load of business. (But then again, it seems there are perpetual releases )

* The nature of the bug as it seems to be in the range of a race condition of some sort since at least another person here said that under the same condition it worked.

* There was a recent change at how Melda works re: acquisition by Image Line. That might affect things.

I think your best bet for troubleshooting is with Melda. You already sent an email. Wait a week and trying again, checking you have all details possible, on Windows.

Ciao.