ET440 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Just wondering if anyone else ran into this....I was trying out Spitfire Labs with Cakewalk and everything would crash and close. Sometimes it'd happen right away, other times it'd be after I switched instruments. Funny thing is, it was happening when I had a Nektar keyboard hooked up. I was just playing around now using the virtual keyboard, and no issues. BTW, I am totally new to Cakewalk and DAWs in general, so am pretty clueless when it comes this stuff. I didn't like the keys on the Nektar board, so I'm getting a little 32-key Arturia instead. We'll see how that goes ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecelius2 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) I have seen LABS crash my Cakewalk and my Unify vst. I reported this to Spitfire Audio last week and opened a support ticket. You should also know that The Pluginguru complany has indicated that there is a problem with LABS crashing their PluginGuru Unify program and that LABS also is crashing multiple DAWS. Pluginguru opened a support ticket with Spitfire ; their support ticket # is: 169679. You should also report your problem to Spitfire and mention that ticket number. The more people who complain about this problem with LABS, the better the chance that it will be fixed. [EDIT: Since you mentioned the possiblity of a Netkar issue, let me add that this crashing happens no matter which controller I use, which are Native Instruments S61, StudioLogic SL990, and my Edirol/Roland PCR800; so I do not think it is related to Nektar controllers.-- I hope that helps. Please report your issue to Spitfire Audio's Support.] Edited April 2, 2021 by Cecelius2 Additional info 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET440 Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 Thanks! Glad it's not just me having the issue. It's too bad because I really like the LABS stuff so far. I hope they can get it sorted out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 @Cecelius2 thanks for following up. Please keep us posted on the status of this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeGBradford Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 This is interesting - been using LABS for a long time and had no problems - I'll remember to save my work more frequently now though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET440 Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 So, interestingly enough, I don't think LABS is the problem. I was using a different VST plugin the other day, and the same thing happened—CW just closes without warning. This usually seems to happen when I'm changing sounds (like in LABS, say I'd switch from strings to piano, or whatever). It's also very intermittent. Wonder if it's some kind of driver issue? I also had Ableton Lite do the same thing. Maybe it's a windows 10 thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Are you doing this while the project is playing back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad_Muc Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 LABS works fine for me, although it does not have the best performance. Do you have the latest version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET440 Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 1 hour ago, bdickens said: Are you doing this while the project is playing back? No, I didn't even have anything recorded. I was just playing around with all the sounds, so luckily I didn't lose any unsaved work. 52 minutes ago, Vlad_Muc said: LABS works fine for me, although it does not have the best performance. Do you have the latest version? I think so. I just DL'd it last week. Since it happens with other plugins, could it be a driver issue? Are there any additional drivers I need to download for CW? I'm just using my PC's audio card now, which I think is Realtek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 @ET440 its not a driver issue. If the app is exiting after changing patches its most likely some plugin is corrupting the heap. unfortunately these issues are very hard to pinpoint and it may affect different apps differently since its corrupting memory randomly. You should definitely report this to the plugin vendor as a memory corruption issue. If this is reproducible please let us know and we can also follow up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET440 Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 Thanks, I will try to pinpoint when it happens, as it seems pretty random. The last few times I've been playing around, everything ran smoothly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 This is unfortunately the nature of the beast with heap corruption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoseC Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 If you are using the VST3 version, try with VST2. I had problems with the Spitfire free BBC orchestra library where it would not load the VST3 version, but works fine with the VST2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecelius2 Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 (edited) FYI--Labs Memory leak. The programmer/coder over at PluginGuru has said that Labs has a serious Memory Leak problem. Here is a link to their forum where he says: "LABS has serious memory bugs. We have an ongoing discussion with Spitfire Audio support staff." and also "This is a known issue with the LABS plug-in, which I have reported to Spitfire Audio. It affects every host, not just Unify. Please report it to Spitfire yourself,..." Here is a link to his quote: https://forums.pluginguru.com/questions-about-unify-v1-0/unify-is-crashing-labs/#post-8761 My problem is that Labs is still crashing my Cakewalk and Cubase DAWS on two different Desktop computers, but to be fair I have had the vst Unify from pluginguru also running when LABS crashed. Please submit support tickets to Spitfire Audio Support so they can track down this memory leak and crashing of LABS. Cecelius2 Edited April 9, 2021 by Cecelius2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecelius2 Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Good News! Spitfire is fixing the LABS Leak. I received an email from Spitfire tech support today with beta versions that fix the leak. I have tested the vst and vst3 beta releases and I used Pluginguru's Unify 1.5 to make sure that this is fixed. I tried every category/type of LABS instruments and there were no crashes any more; I also let it run for most of the morning; no crashes. So, Spitfire will be updating this fix to Labs at some point (I do not know when). C2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Ferguson Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 This problem with LABS appeared just yesterday in CbB for me too. Cakewalk crashes whenever I try to delete an instrument track that has LABS loaded into it. I even tried it in a blank Cakewalk file with nothing else but a LABS track loaded up and it did the same thing when I tried to delete the track. The instruments are playing, but there also seems to be some electrical interference-style glitching on some LABS presets. Also strange is that the Spitfire audio app that you use to allocate folder locations and everything else, says I don't have LABS installed. All the file paths are correct. Very strange. I'd update it if I could, but the Spitfire software tells me I don't have any products so... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I was unable to duplicate this. Here's what I tried: opened a blank project inserted an Instrument track with LABS added some MIDI data verified that it played back deleted the track Is that how you did it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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