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albeham9 · Post by **albeham9** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:47 pm

Hey all,

I try working with the new release of 12 Free. 12.1.3 But every time I play a track and then stop playing it, it will crash, giving me an error that the audio engine crashed. at some other times it will give me an error that there is another instances running and to make sure they are also stopped before restarting 12.
I have re down loaded and re installed several times with no luck. SO I went back to 11 and I am running windows 10.

any help will be much appreciated

AL

deaf80 · Post by **deaf80** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:26 pm

albeham9, does it work in Windows 10? I am encountering the same issues at Windows 11 and WF12 Free, MIDI clips work good but when I work with audio clips I get these "audio engine crashed" errors (sometimes every opening the project!).

albeham9 · Post by **albeham9** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:35 pm

Nope I have windows 10 and even after reloading it like several times it stills crash

pough · Post by **pough** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:43 pm

You can read the error log. It might have some more information. (Settings -> Maintenance)

The most common cause of crashes is certain plugins. Does WF crash even without any 3rd party plugins? You might test by either adding or removing plugins until you find the one that causes the crashes (if that's the problem.)

Sometimes when a program crashes it actually stays running. Use the Task Manager to find them and "End Task" to shut them down.

deaf80 · Post by **deaf80** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:51 pm

Well, here it comes again... I stopped using Linux for the very same reason - having to chase issues, debug programs and read through logs instead of doing the real work, have wasted so many hours doing that stuff.

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20 Sep 2022 19:33:26  Crash report uploaded: Waveform 12.1.3 Crash Log 2022-09-19(3).dmp as a200000008df9a1835bf63676.dmp
20 Sep 2022 19:33:30  Preset database loaded 1280 presets in 6 secs seconds
20 Sep 2022 19:33:44  Showing log file
20 Sep 2022 19:37:20  Loading from temp file!
20 Sep 2022 19:37:21  Attempting to load VST: C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\BIAS FX 2_x64.dll
20 Sep 2022 19:37:21  Creating VST instance: BIAS FX 2_x64
20 Sep 2022 19:37:21  Initialising VST: BIAS FX 2_x64 (0.2.0.0)
20 Sep 2022 19:37:21  Loaded edit: demko2 Edit 1 (Restored)
20 Sep 2022 19:37:31  Opening VST UI: BIAS FX 2
20 Sep 2022 19:37:41  Closing VST UI: BIAS FX 2
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33  Crash Location: tracktion_editplaybackcontext.cpp:tracktion::engine::EditPlaybackContext::fillNextNodeBlock:722
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33  Crash Location: UnknownLocation
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33  Maintenance took: 10 ms
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33  Crashed
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33  

20 Sep 2022 19:38:33  Thread 0:
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33    0: tracktion_editnodebuilder.cpp:tracktion::engine::`anonymous-namespace'::createNodeForAudioTrack:1129
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33    1: tracktion_editplaybackcontext.cpp:tracktion::engine::EditPlaybackContext::createNode:480
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33  Thread 1:
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33    0: tracktion_editplaybackcontext.cpp:tracktion::engine::EditPlaybackContext::fillNextNodeBlock:722
20 Sep 2022 19:38:33    1: tracktion_devicemanager.cpp:tracktion::engine::DeviceManager::audioDeviceIOCallbackInternal:1125

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The issue happened when I double-clicked the audio clip.
I have removed the BiasFX plugin but the issue popped up again in the same scenario.

albeham9 · Post by **albeham9** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:15 pm

nope removed all plugins still crashing... thanks for the idea...

albeham9 · Post by **albeham9** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:27 pm

how do I read the .dmp files? yes I am a NOOP

pough · Post by **pough** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:53 pm

There are probably ways to investigate .dmp files, but I don't know about it. I used the wrong terms. Open the Log File. It's in plain text.

albeham9 · Post by **albeham9** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:15 pm

still no joy fixing this issue

AL

pough · Post by **pough** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 6:00 pm

It's definitely an odd one. I don't recall hearing of it happening before. Sounds like some kind of low-level conflict to me - video driver or audio driver or basic program libraries... But it's so difficult to say. To be honest, I thought you had given up and moved on to Bitwig (I would recommend StudioOne over Bitwig for guitarists, FWIW).

Was there anything at all in the Log File?

Are there any edits that can be stopped safely? Like a fresh edit with absolutely nothing in it?

For me, this kind of issues leads to testing to try to find out what's causing the problem - add something, test; remove something, test; change a setting, test... and that's something that only the person who's experiencing the problem can do. Unfortunately this isn't a common problem where we've seen if before and can just tell you to "press the WORK BETTER button." I can point you to the advanced settings and say maybe changing GUI Rendering Mode or Realtime Priority Mode, but those are wild guesses. We're flying blinder than you. We have no idea what your system or settings are like.

albeham9 · Post by **albeham9** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 6:31 pm

It will not crash when I stop the play back outside the audio clip while still in the track box.

It happens only when when I have am still following the audio clip within the track window where the audio is shown.

Thanks for the ideas, that's what I have been doing .

albeham9 · Post by **albeham9** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 6:38 pm

OMG.. Audio setting sample rate was too small... I had it for the lowest but when I gave it some headroom at 64 samples..more better.. I over looked it.. My pain is your gain...

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:11 pm

Glad you got that sorted out!

albeham9 · Post by **albeham9** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:18 pm

It pays to re-look over things and just ask questions.. TNXS for pough for the help.

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