About the Ambience+Cubase bug

[svork]

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I recently tried Ambience in Cubase SX2, and i believe i was hit by the known bug as mentioned in:

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 842#184842 (http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=184842#184842)

I had already added Ambience, and just touched a fader (i think it was the volume for an instrument that sends to the ambience fx-channel), and it went crazy. There was a nasty feedback-ish sound, and i threw off my headphones as fast as i could. The entire program crashed, and I restarted the machine. Then i found out that my SB Live soundcards outputs were blown. The output for the back speakers was completely dead. The front speaker output sounded like a cheap walkie-talkie with very volatile sound (the sound came and went, changed EQ automatically, etc). So I bought a new M-Audio Audiophile 2496 the same day. Causeously testing with Ambience gave the same result. Hard feedback and program crash. Luckily the card survived unharmed (as far as i can tell).

So I am just wondering, have you found the bug yet, or have some indication of what it might be? Did anyone else experience the bug?

Please note: I'm actually somewhat happy that the sb live was fried, so that i could get a new card, which i'd been thinking about for a long time :^)

svork

[svork]

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I experimented a bit, and found that both FreeverbToo from http://www.sinusweb.de/index2.html (http://www.sinusweb.de/index2.html) and Freeverb2 crash just like Ambience. Now, i can't get it to crash with normal synths, only samplers. And in particular, Kontakt. This is what i do to make it crash:

1. Add a miditrack.
2. Add the Kontakt VSTi.
3. Connect the miditrack to Kontakt.
4. Add Ambience as an insert effect on the Kontakt output.
5. Play a single note.
6. Have my ears blown off by the feedback :^)

I sure hope this bug will be sorted out.

svork

[Sahul]

Hello,

Some old Kontakt versions had a problem with Cubase SX 2 that caused more or less what you describe, have you tried putting Kontakt in "old plugin behaviour" mode? Just select the colum in the VST Plugins list window.

[svork]

That actually worked! Then i wonder, is this the known bug that was mentioned in regards to Cubase+Ambience, or is it something else? Thanks for the reply!

svork

[topaz]

probably nothing to do with Ambience and all to do with an old Kontakt version. update needed.

That actually worked! Then i wonder, is this the known bug that was mentioned in regards to Cubase+Ambience, or is it something else? Thanks for the reply!

svork