Jack Hardwick

SOLVED: This turned out be an issue with the [xydisplay] object in the CNMAT external.

I have a patch that I have been using and developing for several weeks, and have closed and re-opened it without issue dozens of times. However, after several hours of using the patch today it crashed unexpectedly. Now when I try to re-open it, Max crashes immediately.

It is a performance patch with both raw audio processing and synthesis, so is fairly CPU-intensive. I have two [sfrecord~] objects, one recording the live audio coming in from a microphone, and one recording the synthesised sound from a VST loaded using [vst~]. I was recording with both [sfrecord~] objects simultaneously when the crash occurred. The crash occurred during performance and I had not modified the patch for a while beforehand, so I don't think it can be any kind of overflow error or similar caused by any new patching.

The patch is using the [vst~] object to load the Vital soft synth. From searching online it looks like that object is known to be buggy on occasion, so I wonder if this is part of my issue. I was previously using a different VST, but changed over to Vital recently. I had an intermittent issue previously where it would load the old VST on start-up even though I had changed the object to supposedly load Vital instead.

Of course, I can open the patch as plain text, but I have no clue where to start in editing it as text in order to solve my issue.

Has anyone encountered this before, or be able to point me in the right direction to a fix?

This patch is a central part of a five-month project with a deadline in 2 weeks, so I really, 

 don't want to have to recreate it from scratch. Thanks in advance for any help I can get on this!

(Yes, I should've made some backups along the way, lesson learnt for next time.)

SOLVED: This turned out be an issue with the [xydisplay] object in the CNMAT external.

Hi all,

I have a patch that I have been using and...

[SOLVED] Patch crashed while recording with [sfrecord~] and now crashes on open