are these Reaktor bugs common?

guatamaham · Post by **guatamaham** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:55 pm

1) I can load several Reaktor VST's; but if I try to load the same ensemble in more than one of them, I get an immediate crash

2) when I click the snapshot button I receive a crash; the workaround is to press shift+click when I open the Reaktor VST GUI (as Mac users must do when they wish use their keyboard within the GUI); but note that the snapshot button makes it crash before I even touch the keyboard

3) some ensemble settings aren't saved with Live; and if you try to save them to a Reaktor bank while you're in Live, they won't be saved at all

4) if I have an ensemble open and then decide I want to use a different ensemble, I will more-than-likely get a crash (if not every time) when I press the "<" button to open the Reaktor browser again (I always close the browser when I'm playing with ensembles)

anyone else experienced these? anyone know whose fault they are, Ableton's or NI's?

(I'm on Mac, by the way)

guatamaham · Post by **guatamaham** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:05 pm

corrections:
I saw a reference to Audio Hijack in one of my crash reports, so I removed that from my machine (I had only used it once as an experiment anyway). That improved a couple of these problems. I can now save ensembles correctly within Reaktor as well as change from one ensemble to another without crashing. The ensembles seem to load faster as well. However, if I change the ensemble after saving it; I'm now getting crashes. At least now I can save my changes, though

So anyone using Hijack might want to be careful; it runs a deamon process on your machine, waiting for any audio in case you decide to hijack it. And I guess that not only slows things down but makes them not work.

Frank Hoffmann · Post by **Frank Hoffmann** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:50 am

guatamaham wrote: However, if I change the ensemble after saving it; I'm now getting crashes.

Can you explain more how you change the ensemble so that you can't load it later anymore? Maybe give me a very short step by step explaination how I can create the problem? Thanks in advance.

Frank

guatamaham · Post by **guatamaham** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:07 pm

Frank Hoffmann wrote: Can you explain more how you change the ensemble so that you can't load it later anymore? Maybe give me a very short step by step explaination how I can create the problem? Thanks in advance.

I don't think I'm describing it well. what I meant was that if I take a snapshot of the ensemble, press save (in the Reaktor window) and then try to change to another ensemble, Live crashes.

maybe my system's unstable or something... the behavior has changed in the past couple of days (although the above still holds true). now I can't run more than one instance of Reaktor at once. I can load more than one Reaktor "shell" VST and put an ensemble into one of them; but as soon as I try to load the second ensemble, Live crashes. BUT I just completed a song the other day with two ensembles in it and I can open that and freely change the ensembles to other ensembles with no crashing. AND if I just take that existing Live set, delete everything in it but the Reaktor instances and then change their ensembles to whatever I want (and save the set under a different name), it works just fine!

thanks for the help Frank!