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Logic 10.2.1 crashing when closing plugin windows


Samuel J

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Hey guys

 

This is my first post so please excuse me if I've not followed the posting rules!

 

After updating to 10.2.1 yesterday a major problem has developed:

 

When I close any of the Logic plugin windows (after say adding a compressor) Logic crashes completely and I have to restart the program.

 

Is anybody also experiencing this?

 

I appreciate any help!

 

Many thanks!

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I am also experiencing frequent crashes with 10.2.1 when closing plugins, opening plugins, or dragging plugins to a different slots.

I used to be able to do this with no problems even while a project is playing. With the new version, the program crashes 20 times a day or more even if project is stopped.

 

Thus far I can discern no pattern. Seems to happen with plugins from various manufacturers.

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System specs:

Retina MacBook Pro 15” (late 2013), 2.3GHz Intel Core i&

16GB RAM

OS: 10.10.5

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048MB

Logic 10.2.1

 

I'll start keeping a list of which plugins cause the crashes. Some that I remember:

- Waves SSL E Channel, G Channel, Compressor

- Waves VEQ

- PSP TripleMeters

 

I have not tried with fresh projects; I always start my projects from my templates.

No automation yet in the current project.

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Have you renamed any of your plugins?

 

Logic doesn't seem to like certain characters, all of the plugins I'd renamed crashed when I tried to close them. Once I removed the '.' from the names it fixed it.

 

Thank you for the reply.

I did indeed rename many of the plugins, but with no special characters (unless spaces are problematic?).

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I'm not quite sure what the problem characters/punctuation are exactly, I also removed a space at the same, time, so it could have been that too!

 

I will try that if the problem continues...first, I tried completely and cleanly uninstalling the Waves plugins, and reinstalling, since those are giving the most problems (maybe only because those are my main third-party plugins though, and not necessarily due to any particular technical fault of Waves).

 

I also ran Onyx, the maintenance utility, which rebuilt directories and did various other house-cleaning. Will report back whether stability is better.

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I did indeed rename many of the plugins, but with no special characters (unless spaces are problematic?).

 

That is most likely the culprit. It seems there are a few issues with the new renaming feature, causing crashes - weird characters, names too long - it is just rather too flaky to use.

 

I suggest removing custom names for now, and seeing whether the crashes go away.

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this happened to me (i posted on this forum about "vocal transformer crashing logic X". it's definitely the custom name...once i shorted the name (in this case, from VOC TRNSFRMR to VOC TRNS, the crashes stopped. no need to remove all custom names, just shorten them (if that particular plugin crashes on closing it's window).
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this happened to me (i posted on this forum about "vocal transformer crashing logic X". it's definitely the custom name...once i shorted the name (in this case, from VOC TRNSFRMR to VOC TRNS, the crashes stopped. no need to remove all custom names, just shorten them (if that particular plugin crashes on closing it's window).

 

So you found that spaces were not the issue, but the name length?

Did you use the same (short) custom name for both columns of a given plugin, or only in the short name column?

 

Thank you...

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