Melodyne crashing PT11?

[gdgross]

Hey guys, quick question regarding melodyne.

I have a session with maybe twenty audio tracks and not very many plug ins yet. I inserted melodyne on one of the BGV tracks and every time I try to "transfer" the source audio into melodyne, protools crashes. THis happens regardless of where i start playback, even if there's no actual audio being transferred yet.

Any advice for dealing with melodyne at PT? I'm coming from Logic, and it was finicky over there too, but not usually when I was transferring in audio.

Thanks!

[gdgross]

well, restarting my machine seems to have done the trick....

I have heard some folks like to use melodyne in re-wire? I'm not exactly sure what this is, but does it make things more stable?

[SpinningDisk]

Use as plugin.

[Top Jimmy]

I have found that Melodyne can crash Pro Tools on Mac even after it has been removed. I haven't checked in 12 yet, but in 11, if you use Melodyne and then remove it and put a plugin in the same slot Melodyne was in, Pro Tools will reliably crash. I tried reporting this multiple times to Celemony without success.

[Chief Technician]

Originally Posted by Top Jimmy

I have found that Melodyne can crash Pro Tools on Mac even after it has been removed. I haven't checked in 12 yet, but in 11, if you use Melodyne and then remove it and put a plugin in the same slot Melodyne was in, Pro Tools will reliably crash. I tried reporting this multiple times to Celemony without success.

This is most likely because Melodyne continued to execute code in a thread, even though the plug-in is no longer instantiated in a session. Native Instruments' plug-ins are notorious for this behavior. The only way to guarantee that a plug-in is not loaded is to not have it present in the plug-ins folder.

[Darryl Ramm]

Ah so let's be clear here, by remove do you mean not instantiated or is the plugin file actually removed from the plugin folder and Pro Tools restarted?

If removed from the folder and the history of it being used still seems to cause problems try trashing prefs... or you may have a corrupted session.

[Top Jimmy]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Ah so let's be clear here, by remove do you mean not instantiated or is the plugin file actually removed from the plugin folder and Pro Tools restarted?

If removed from the folder and the history of it being used still seems to cause problems try trashing prefs... or you may have a corrupted session.

My observance was when it was de-instantiated and another plugin instantiated in its place.

[gdgross]

Thanks guys... more strange melodyne behavior this morning...

When playing back a session it sounds fine, but when bouncing a session, the track that has melodyne inserted plays back about a bar behind all the other tracks?? Any ideas what's going on?

Realtim/offline yields the same strange delayed melodyne behavior...

[Rich Breen]

Any tempo changes or meter changes *anywhere* in the timeline?

[gdgross]

Originally Posted by Rich Breen

Any tempo changes or meter changes *anywhere* in the timeline?

Yeah, there's a quick ritard in after the intro, and also one at the end of the tune as well.

I gather that's the issue? Is there a workaround? Maybe do the transfer into melodyne from the beginning of the tune? Typically I'll transfer only a bar or so before the clip, just to save time in the case when a track doesn't play for the entire tune.

Thanks!