OS and version: PC laptop running Windows 11 Version 25H2
RAM 64.0GB
CPU 12th Gen Intel Cor i7-12700H
Glyph Atom EV SSD 4TB USB-C Portable Solid State Drive to serve samples to laptop
Gig Performer version: Version before update to 5.2.2 (not sure which version number that was)
Plugins being used at the time: Opus VST3 (not updated to the latest version that came out last week (writing this as of 05/20/26); Kontact free player running Spitfire chamber strings; SWAM tenor sax; loopMidi
Audio: MOTU AudioExpress connected via usb-c to a OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock
Issue:
Booted up for a performance (I do musicals for communty theatre) and my iLok tried activating licenses since it was just renewed. However, the iLock was renewed a week prior, checked activations and worked fine the prior week. Also, I had no issues for the past three weekends of running the show. iLok wanted to reactivate which I ok’d. Opus engine from EastWest said there was an upgrade available, however, I don’t upgrade during the run of a show so I click on “no”.
Everything seemed to be fine with one song that I tested (BTW, I’m using a sequencer named “MidiMaestro” which was built years ago by never made it to wide-acceptance. It’s very simple and has everything I need to run a musical. It is a 32bit program, but I use Gig Performer to use my 64bit sounds). Started the show and GP kept crashing. Luckily I use a piano sound from a Roland Integra-7 just incase something like this occurs. I tried reloading my GP file but it would work for 15 measures or so and crash again. I finally switched to a previous GP file that I had saved from 3 weeks prior. Worked flawlessly after that.
I back up my midi/gp files to Dropbox which I had done a few days prior, however, Dropbox crapped out and said it couldn’t upload and the page went blank. I didn’t bother trying after that. As I think back, this happened a couple of times over the past months and each time I had to get a previous version of the GP file that I had saved. It’s almost like with the failure of the upload of the gig file to dropbox, the gig file corrupted. Just a thought.
The next day, next show, I used the same older gig file I had saved and everything worked fine except GP crashed toward the end of the show when nothing was playing. Sequencer was not playing. It crashed a couple of times while idle but I was able to get it to hold until the end of the show (after reloading twice).
The show has ended at this point but I ran it couple of times at home and couldn’t duplicate the problem. Since then, I have upgraded GP to 5.2.2 and also my instance of Opus.
I do have the issue on the laptop with the having to stop and restart midi-services because of the Microsoft rollout a couple of months ago that cut-off midiports.
Thanks for your insights/opinions/suggestions in advance. I’m not going to switch to a “commercial” DAW/sequencer as none can do vamps/holds/advance etc., things that are needed for musical theatre. I wish someone could look at MidiMaestro and flesh out to a 64 bit system to bring it up-to-date (it’s based off of Cubase) as it’s an amazing piece of software.
Link to crash files: Dropbox
