DigiRewire Plug-in not allowing Pro Tools 8 to open

[drdolla80]

I recently upgraded to Pro Tools 8 HD with OS 10.5.5 (from Digidesign linked combo update)

I couldn't get Pro tools to open. I uninstalled it, re-installed and it opened once. I tried to run Reason and was told that Pro Tools couldn't find the reason folder and it said something about checking rewire.

The next time I opened Pro tools it wouldn't launch again, and I was able to see that it was stopping and hanging up on the digirewire plug-in as it loaded, then it would give me the "Pro Tools Application has Unexpectedly quit" window.

I took the digi rewire plug-in out of the plug-in folder and put it into the unused plug-ins folder. Pro Tools opened right up, however this leaves me no way to run Reason.

Anyone have any ideas? Is there another Rewire plug-in I can stick in there? Is this rewire 2 that is being used in ProTools 8?


Thanks,


(Im running a 2 x 3 ghz Dual core Intel Mac Pro, Os 10.5.5, Reason 4.01, Stylus RMX, Reaktor 5... everything seems up to date including PACE stuff for ilok)

[Eric Lambert]

Odd, isn't it? That's been the case on my home system for the past three PT upgrades. I have to remove the rewire plugin, otherwise it crashes opening PT at that exact spot.

[tonwurm]

same here, after upgrading to 8.0 PT "quits unexpected" at startup. as drdolla80 told, only moving the rewire plug out of the plugs folder prevents from crashing...

[Rob van Hees]

Same problem here ...
Seems that alot of other people have this issue too.
Would be nice if Digi made a statement about this.
(Sorry if they did that, but then i haven't seen / found it)
Not very elegant to have to drop the digi rewire plugin out for Protools to work.

[Drew Mazurek]

You need to update Reason, Melodyne, and/or both. It's a known issue with ReWire. If you don't use rewire, just dump the digi rewire plug.

[DigiTechSupt]

Would be nice if Digi made a statement about this.

We have - please do a search for 'DigiRewire' here on the DUC, as this problem has been addressed many times. Dmazurek has the brief answer to your question - update you ReWire compatible plug-ins or applications.

[drdolla80]

Thank you folks for your help,

I found that just uninstalling Melodyne uno Essential, which was the outdated version for use with Pro Tools 7 allowed digirewire to do its job.

To uninstall Melodyne I used the app delete program found here:
reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete

I can now run Reason, even though I get strange messages from Reason telling me to check the Rewire Host.

I must say that the performance seems a bit sluggish so far though. What worked without hiccup on 7.4 is now too much for the CPU to handle. Time to search the threads for answers to this problem

[tonwurm]

the solution (at least) on my config was not only to update all rewire apps, in addition I had to remove rewire extensions from apps, which aren´t still in use anymore

I have the newest version of melodyne studio installed, but 2 years ago or so I installed melodyne essential, which I removed from disk as I bought melodyne studio. But the rewire extension had still remained on disk and this was the problem.

the same with Logic Studio, which also crashed on startup.