Native Instruments FM8 is crashing

General discussion about Gig Performer
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Hi everyone … I’m having a weird issue … every time I restart my machine and start GP5, I almost ALWAYS get a crash at the first attempt. I then give it a second try and almost always it will startup fine… On some occasions, I will have to give it a 3rd try …

I have also had to startup without “load last gig file” option… Once GP is up and running, I then load the gig file and it usually starts up ok…

It always ends up starting and work perfectly the rest of the session but it’s weird that it takes a few tries to startup…

Any ideas?

I’m using Kontakt, Korg TRITON and TRITON EXTREME, XPand!2, Pigments (installed but not used), Cherry audio, Analog Lab 4 & 5, Pianoteq 8 (Installed but not used), Waves SSLChannel, BlueARP, KeysOfThe70s, Melda MCharmVerb, TH-U

GigPerformer5-2024-12-06-214651.ips.zip (11.0 KB)

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FM8 (Native Instruments) is crashing

Thread 0 Crashed:: HotFudge Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   FM8                           	       0x11a2b0a66 FT_Stream_ReadULong + 134
1   FM8                           	       0x11a2f3efb sfnt_init_face + 315
2   FM8                           	       0x11a2b4943 tt_face_init + 147
3   FM8                           	       0x11a2b1ced open_face + 445
4   FM8                           	       0x11a2abd48 ft_open_face_internal + 632
5   FM8                           	       0x11a2ac271 FT_New_Memory_Face + 65
6   FM8                           	       0x11a22dfc6 NI::NGL::DETAIL::SizedFontDataManager::createAndInitResource(NI::NGL::DETAIL::ResourceEntry<NI::NGL::DETAIL::SizedFontData>*, unsigned int, bool) const + 86
7   FM8                           	       0x11a230570 NI::NGL::DETAIL::ResourceManagerBase<NI::NGL::DETAIL::ResourceEntry<NI::NGL::DETAIL::SizedFontData>>::allocResource(unsigned int, bool) + 128
8   FM8                           	       0x11a22c5c1 NI::NGL::Font::init(NI::NGL::PictureManager*, NI::NGL::FontManager*) + 721
9   FM8                           	       0x119c56f00 NI::SND::Lib::initFonts(NI::NGL::FontManager*, unsigned int) + 160
10  FM8                           	       0x119b5f7b5 FM8App::init() + 309
11  FM8                           	       0x11a43ab9f NI::UIA::AppModule::attachApplication(NI::UIA::IApplication*) + 47
12  FM8                           	       0x119b6014d MainModule::init() + 877
13  FM8                           	       0x11a43a8af NI::UIA::AppModule::create() + 111
14  FM8                           	       0x119b68f28 moduleStartup() + 24
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Oh dear!!

It seems to work ok during the session… Can you tell why it crashes only on startup?

I’m using only VST3 version… I’ll try changing to vst.

Thanks!

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Unclear - it’s happening as part of the initialization of the plugin and might be related to fonts.

Did something else change on your system just before these crashes started happening?

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As I posted on another thread, I installed Sampletank 4 MAX and had a problem with it “remembering” the sound within the plugin, so each time I recalled a rackspace with anything related to ST4, be it ST4, Miroslav, Syntronik etc, there would be no instrument loaded within the VST… So, I decided to delete ST4 from all rackspaces and find similar sounds from other instruments I already had on the system.

So, basically, I did and undid anything that I can consider “change on the system”.

Here’s the thing.

Last night I changed ALL FM8 VST3s to VST and went to bed… knackered!!
This morning, GP started up marvelously… Fingers crossed…

I’ll let you know how things go from here on with this change.

:wink:

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A quick update on the matter.

for the past couple of days, on every startup, everything runs perfectly… so, I suppose we can take this as a sign that FM8 VST3 format has something dodgy and doesn’t run well, at least on my machine…

I’ll be using VST format for FM8 from now on

:wink: