Crashing using AudioSuite plugins?

[cc1]

Almost every time I try to use an AudioSuite plugin (Serato P&T, Gain, Autotune, most all of them) PT crashes. Does anyone else experience this? Any comments on a remedy for this? Thanks for help.

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[studiojimi]

i had a crash kernal type panic today

when i attempted to open pitch change plug with the gain plug still on the screen

the software did not seem to want to close the gain and open the pitch change plug

the curtain closed and down i went

also at the end of the day my session show the true closing time of 4pm

rather the opening time of the session
more like the creation date..i wonder if it slipped into the creation date mode

i'll have to check and get back to you

i'm one of those renegades using 10/3/5 with 6.4 with the updates.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Almost every time I try to use an AudioSuite plugin (Serato P&T, Gain, Autotune, most all of them) PT crashes. Does anyone else experience this? Any comments on a remedy for this? Thanks for help.

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How much physical RAM do you have installed? How large is your AS buffer in your prefs? How many levels of undo in your prefs? How many other apps are you running at the same time as Pro Tools? Do you have updates for all the plug-ins where this happens?

Rail

[audioboffin]

It's worth checking to see how much more native resource power you have left over before you attempt to process with an Audio Suite plugin. You can easily see how much machine power is left independantly of Protools by running the command top in the terminal window.

Sometimes if you find the CPU is already close to being maxed out (RTAS plugs or other tasks outside of Protools that are consuming CPU cycles) you will hit the wall and PT may fall over. How much physical RAM is in the machine ? Do you have sufficient unused disk space ?

[cc1]

Rail Jon Rogut and audioboffin,

How much physical RAM do you have installed?
>> 7 gig on a dual 2ghz G5

How large is your AS buffer in your prefs?
>> small

How many levels of undo in your prefs?
>> 16

How many other apps are you running at the same time as Pro Tools?
>> no - but I have the following RTAS instances: 4-stylus, 1-intakt, 1-trilogy
>> and sometimes acrobat (PT documentation)

Do you have updates for all the plug-ins where this happens?
>> yes

Do you have sufficient unused disk space?
>> OSX drive (94gig avail), Data Drive (67gig avail)

How much more native resource power you have left (running the command top in the terminal window)?
>> Processes: 49 total, 2 running (PT project with the 6 RTAS instruments + acrobat)
>> CPU usage: 4.5% user, 5.8% system, 89.7% idle
>> PhysMem: 469M wired, 179M active, 924M inactive, 1.54G used, 5.46G free

I also use 4096 samples H/W-buffer-size and 60%-cpu-usage, 96 voices-3 dsp's, HD2 accel system, delay compensation-short.

Thanks again for help,
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