Does making a copy of a song cause crashs?

Synthesizer V Studio
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Hello, I’m actually using Cakewalk as DAW. I have disabled the automatic backup function cause I found it disturbing when the DAW started saving the song just when I wanted to do something else. Instead I started making copies of my projects under a new name now and then. Now it happens more and more that a project cannot be loaded into the DAW at all or that it causes the DAW to crash just after the song has been loaded. And up to now, only projects from which I made copies a n d in which I’m using Synthesizer V are concerned. Has someone else observed similar things?

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if you load the project in safe mode, can you (through several openings and skipping fewer and fewer plugins) identify the plugin which is failing? also, multiple savings of a project which has crashed can ultimately result in the entire file being unrecoverable.

in CbB and Sonar, i use the save # of backups (4 in my case and saved every 5 min or 50 changes) and if i crash and the backup or last saved version aren’t correct. i bite the bullet and pick up with i left off rather than try to fight a computers need to trash my work… :slight_smile:

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Now, that’s good advice again :smiley: I’ll try to identify the failing plugins, but that’s tedious work with my long songs with many plugins, they need very long to be loaded. In my newest project, the failing plugin is Audiomodern’s Soundbox. But anyway, Synthesizer V is involved, too. It does not play its own part, but notes from the soundbox track, though they’re in no way connected. That may look like a DAW’s problem, but somehow it’s Synthesizer V which behaves in this way. And if I mute the soundbox track, Synthesizer V still does not play its own notes, but remains mute.

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are you using the SynthV ARA plugin or the VST3 plugin? the ARA will transfer audio between the DAW and the plugin (ala Melodyne) for things like audio convert etc. the VST3 is simply a generator (meaning you provide the notes and lyrics in the plugin and it outputs the content). ARA once the audio convert (not real time) does the same.

as a general note: i only ever create vocals in the Synth V standalone and export each track as audio. this is then imported into the DAW project. interations go through the cycle again - Synth V → export → audio import etc. if i’m extensively changing the project i will fix all that arranging first, then update the Synth V project.

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I’m using the VST3 plugin, inside the DAW, not as standalone.