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MichaelBenjamin ·
i isolated some crashes specifically in reaper because of the draw loop primitive. vst parameter modulation with reapers (very cool) inbuilt automation lfos crashes the whole process very quickly when a redraw loop is involved. seems that it cant keep up with the high data rate that reapers lfo send. maybe an internal limit to the actual redraws happening in this primitive would help soving this issue and perhaps also other vst gui related crashes.
Nu Audio Science ·
Confirmed
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Disco_Steve ·
thats a hard one because I have in some case thousands of objects drawing via the draw loop!, the best thing is to use the redraw area, does that stop the crashes?
MichaelBenjamin ·
the normal redraw/area redraw does seem to work. its better you test this again for yourself in reaper.
update: after i replaced the redraw loop it still crashed, but took longer: ~2-5 minutes with 8 automated parameters, 10 gfx step, small graphics. so far it turned out to be the string format primitive causing the crashes.
MichaelBenjamin ·
ok, i can confirm the second problematic primitive with reaper crashes is the string format.
Nu Audio Science ·
Don't suppose you been able to have any luck tracking down the prim or reason that some plugin scans of SM plugs can poof Reaper Micheal ?
Also another tricky one i cant get any headway on is this Open a project with an SM plugin, delete the SM plugin and then start browsing using Reapers media browser and poof This is confirmed by a lot of users but i can't get any headway on what could be causing it 🙁
Cheers
NAS
MichaelBenjamin ·
the crash on scan if i remember was only when i overwrote something with changed parameters and internal structure or changed plugin id, but didnt happen lately.
i didnt find the reaper media browser, where is it?
Nu Audio Science ·
View/Media browser
NAS
MichaelBenjamin ·
hmm version 3.104 demo, there is no media browser at the view tab, only the fx browser.
Nu Audio Science ·
Sorry its called media explorer
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MichaelBenjamin ·
ah now i remember unticking it during install
djhayman ·
Hello,
not sure if we have a similar bug but the string format module seems to keep crashing SM. All it takes is to drag and drop the module into the schematic, add the %.2f command to it using a string box and it crashes the whole program.
The module can work normally however, its has caused a crash more times than not.
I am using a mac with parallels 5 if it makes much of a difference.
Cheers Dan
MichaelBenjamin ·
has this been fixed? i havent mande any tests lately but had the impression that this has been adressed in one of the latest betas. but the report of djhayman makes me think it maybe still persists, however i had not experienced any crashes inside sm with that module yet.
rl ·
RE string format: IIRC when string format was introduced some time ago it was discussed whether it should be "safe" to use. I think the result was, in order to make it safe, a lot of additional coding would be necessary - not worth the hassle. It's like using the sprintf() function in C/C++. If not used with care, there goes your application....
infuzion ·
Well, the MSE uses a String Format in a loop for each envelope dot, so I hope it is OK.
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