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Hi, please help

I have Ableton 7, that i bought about a year and a half ago. I wanted to try out Pro Tools before buying it so i borrowed the mbox package from a friend and tried to install it. Everything was fine up until the point of installing the plug-ins. The ilok wasn't working on a seperate computer (which makes sense but i didn't really know what the situation was at the time.) Then pro tools wouldn't open and kept crashing on the loading screen after trying to install the plug-ins. Eventually i gave up and tried to uninstall pro tools. However to make things worse, now my ableton keeps crashing. On the loading screen for Ableton it now says 'rewire engine' then crashes. I hadn't seen this note before when dealing with Ableton so i can only assume that it has something to do with pro tools. However i've tried uninstalling Ableton and i keep having the same problem.

I'm not particularly good with these things but if anyone has any idea how i can Ableton back up and working i'd really appreciate it. Completely lost about what to do now.

Thanks in advance

This is my fellow band mates computer that has the problem. Just bumping the thread for him as he's at work...

Any help? This is a huge problem for us!

Download the latest ReWire installer from here:

http://www.propellerheads.se/download/u ... isplaymain

Run it. Done.

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Hey

This made no difference unfortunately?

Any other advice?!

PC or Mac?

Mac

Try searching the OSX Libraries for any remnants of Protools left behind and/or for odd looking files mentioning rewire (remember to use 'system files are included' in the search dropdowns).

You have most likely installed Celemony's Melodyne software which is distributed with some PT LE bundles. Older versions of Melodyne will install a ReWire engine on your computer which isn't compatible with OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and thus crashes all ReWire host applications on launch. Either update Melodyne to the latest version (free download from their website) or alternatively remove all ReWire files of Melodyne from your computer. The FAQ section on the Celemony website has detailed information on where you can find the ReWire files:

http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?i ... rewire_mac

Hope this helps.

Best,
Nico

Thanks guys. Will get my band mate to try these and we'll let you know.

If anyone else has any other suggestions then it'd be good to hear

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Which Pro tools are you on? Also what are the Mac specs?

Maybe you could try deleting the ableton prefs found in your user library

Problem is solved now.

Thanks everyone. really really appreciate it!

I think the rewire issues were the problem.

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