macOS: SWAM VST3s crash on gui opening

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1

Hi there,

the SWAM instruments / VST3s are crashing/force-quitting in Renoise 3.4.4 macOS 14.5, as soon as you open its GUI. The log shows nothing after the entry about opening the GUI.

Opens fine in Bitwig, Ableton etc.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Visit https://audiomodeling.com , register a new account
  2. Install the download manager (it’s not intrusive at all)
  3. Install some instrument as trial version, only the VST3 version
  4. Try to open it in Renoise in a clean project
2

Please report this to the audiomodeling crew as well. Maybe they have a clue why, or can replicate this. It opens fine on macOS 10.13 here.

3

Ok, will do. Do you have a macos 12, 13 or 14 and arm test system, too?

4

Well whatever, was just demoing their stuff, seems to be the best emulation of natural orchestra yet… Might be a problem then on my machine. Thread can be closed.

5

I seem to have solved this. My firewall was blocking Renoise from network completely, but as soon as you allow local area communication, it will work. So it seems that Renoise does not like the warning popups within these plugins, or so…