Sonnox Oxford Transmod causing Cakewalk to crash.

[roarvangen]

I have been using Cakewalk/Sonar for 30(?) years and would describe myself as an advanced user with deep knowledge of computers, electronics, technology and music production. I have hundreds of plugins and in general I have very little problems with stability. I have a windows 10 - 64 bit pc with 64 Gb memory and a RME Fireface UFXII soundcard.  I fell in love with Sonnox Oxford Transmod (a transient tool) many years ago but have had problems with Cakewalk crashing when I use it for quite some years. I bought it many years ago and have been able to uprade it several times. Lates version is 4.01.0.(128) from 2022. I have upgraded several times but the crashing has not stopped.  I have other transient tools but they are not as good as this one. Does anybody use this plugin without problems?

Roar Vangen i Norway

[roarvangen]

I found a newer version - 4.02.0(158) 15. oct. 2024. If I insert this in a channel in a project with 30 tracks Cakewalk crashes at once.

[Amberwolf]

Without specific knowledge about that plugin, but based on my experiences with testing various plugins / software / etc., my best guess is there is a bug in the plugin itself, or an "idiosyncracy" in how they implemented something, that causes Sonar to blow up whenever that particular thing is accessed.

Sometimes the host (Sonar in this case) could be made to more gracefully handle the unusual situation, sometimes it's a situation where the plugin trashes things like memory space that the host itself (or another plugin) is using. 

What do the plugin developers say about the crashes?

[roarvangen]

I have not asked Sonnox yet. I will do.