I got in the past problems with GP crashing on my iMac. Now I have a new MacBook Pro and the crashing continues. This problem has been discussed here before and the experts said the crashing is caused by the UVI Falcon Plugin. Below you find a crash report from some minutes ago. Is the crashing still caused by UVI Falcon? Thank you in advance.
Crash.txt.zip (14.0 KB)
What did you do before the crash?
Can you reproduce it?
Please don’t upload massive text files like that crash report directly. Instead, compress them to a zip file and upload the zip file instead. I have deleted your text above and replaced with a zip version.
Also, can you say EXACTLY what you were doing when that crash occurred? Were you just opening a gig file, or were you changing some options, etc?
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I was just opening a Gig File. Nothing special. We have discussed this before. Many of my Gig Files contain the UVI Falcon Synth as Audio Unit. I have been advised before here in this forum that I shouldn’t use Audio Units, but I have to confess that I still use them. So instead of changing everything I would prefer to continue to use Audio Units and UVI Falcon without Gig Performer crashing all the time.
Sorry and thank you for making the zip File.
OK, can you try UVI Falcon AU in a DAW?
It is vice-versa… A plugin crashes and therefore brings down Gig Performer.
GP devs can’t do anything about that (in case it is a plugin crash), and it is recommended to try with another plugin format, as VSTs are tested with lots of DAWs and hosts.
Not exactly sure how to help you if the advice isn’t taken. VSTs and even VST3s are more rigorously tested on multiple platforms because far more plugin hosts use them so they’re generally going to be more reliable.
Developers generally test AUs solely against Apple products and if they work there, they don’t really bother with anything else.
I never had a problem in Logic Pro with Audio Units and never had a problem in Logic that the Falcon AU would crash Logic.
Are you using predictive load?
Please do a test:
Set Predictive Load to 1.
Load the gig file
Switch through different rackspaces and notice when a crash occurs.
Another test: Please disable Falcon in the plugin manager window.
Then load the gig file with predictive load disabled.
Now when no crash occurs, enable Falcon in Plugin Manager Window and reload the rackspaces where Falcon is used.
This all is to see what really crashes.
Can you confirm from the crash report that Falcon or another Plulgin crashes GP?
I am on a Mac.
I’ve used UVI Falcon AU for years on Mac and never had a crash.
Understood – and as I said,
“Developers generally test AUs solely against Apple products and if they work there, they don’t really bother with anything else”
This last crash report suggests that there is a problem saving application settings, which I find very hard to believe unless you didn’t give Gig Performer Full Disk access permissions.
If you open without loading a gig file and then change some options, do you get a crash?
No, I don’t get a crash in that case I would say. Anyway now I see that GP5 didn’t have Full Disk access permission. I don’t know if this is my mistake, but if this is necessary than during installation of GP one should be asked to give GP that access. I don’t remember that I have been asked that during installation. Or am I wrong? Now I have to see if GP will be more stable with Full Access.
Did enabling this fix the crash?
Generally macOS should prompt for this the first time you run an application that tries to access files. Is it possible you were prompted and declined by accident?
I am not sure, but I remember when I had this IAC problem I reinstalled GP5 a couple of times and I think I haven’t been asked. I did deactivate my license. I installed (wihtout being asked) and the activated the license again.
I will tell you tomorrow if this fixed the endless crashing. I will have to do some test in the meantime. Thank you very much for your quick responses. I appreciate that.
That would have no impact