Releasing The Old Song... hang (solved)

Brief Description: Oftentimes, when loading another song, when it gets to ‘Releasing the old song…’ it hangs, and the program has to be shutdown through windows (‘this app is not responding, close?’ ‘Yes’).

Steps to reproduce: After working for awhile, and saving a song, go to load another song.

Expected results: That the song will load normally.

Actual results: Renoise 'hangs on ‘Releasing the old song…’

Since recently migrating from Renoise 3.1 (got a new 64-bit machine), moved VSTIs/VSTs to new installation. Many plug-ins are 32-bit

Also, when this hangup happens, more often than not the ‘load recently saved song’ list is not up to date. When reloading Renoise to begin again, several loaded and saved songs from the previous session are not in the ‘recently saved song’ list.

The ‘song folder in use now’ is also not remembered, and the same thing with ‘favorite’ VST/DSPs added in the previous (hanging) session.

I have a log if you want me to email it.

It’s kind of a minor inconvenience, but it would be great to know if you can spot something being amiss.

2nd Gen i3 proc with 8gb RAM, 500mb HD, Dell model.
Thanks

What does it say in the log file?

Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly where to look in the file. Could I email a logfile somewhere?

Or, if you have a phrase you’d like me to search for in the log file, I could look for that.

Thanks

It happened again, and upon reloading I took at look at the log. Prior to the ‘banner’ for the new session, this appears to be the end of the previous session:

Application: Saving ‘2022-Autumn_mrblitz_125_30_Star.xrns’…

Application: ‘2022-Autumn_mrblitz_125_30_Star.xrns’ was successfully saved.
Application: Releasing the old document…

MIDI: Loading MIDI actions from file ‘C:\Program Files\Renoise 3.4.2\Resources\Scripts\GlobalMidiActions.lua’…

Osc: Loading OSC actions from file ‘C:\Program Files\Renoise 3.4.2\Resources\Scripts\GlobalOscActions.lua’…

Player: Constructing…
Player: Creating slave threads…
Player: 4 threads enabled. 4 CPUs are available.
Player: Start running…

GUI: Creating the Document GUI…
GUI: Successfully constructed

RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘TB_Reverb_v3’…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Stopping server thread…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Shutting down server process…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Disconnecting pipes…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘TB_Equalizer_v3’…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Stopping server thread…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Shutting down server process…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Disconnecting pipes…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘RoughRider’…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Stopping server thread…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Shutting down server process…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Disconnecting pipes…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘TB_Equalizer_v3’…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Stopping server thread…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Shutting down server process…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Disconnecting pipes…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘TB_Compressor_v3’…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Stopping server thread…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Shutting down server process…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Disconnecting pipes…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘Poor Plate’…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Stopping server thread…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Shutting down server process…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Disconnecting pipes…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘TB_Equalizer_v3’…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Stopping server thread…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Shutting down server process…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Disconnecting pipes…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘Echobode’…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Stopping server thread…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Shutting down server process…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Disconnecting pipes…
RemoteAudioPlugin: Releasing ‘TB_Compressor_v3’…

It appears to be hanging each time on the TB_Compressor (toneboosters compressor). This happens when the compressor is ‘visitied’ during a session. If the compressor is not ‘visited’/adjusted (clicked on and adjusted) during a song edit session, then it seems like it releases and loads just fine. I will have to do some more tests.

i downloaded the 64-bit free versions https://toneboosters.com/downloads/TB_Installer_v1.6.0_legacy_win.zip

(had purchased the earlier versions, and was using 32-bit)

from this webpage ToneBoosters | Audio Plug-ins | Support

from this section: “Where can I find older (legacy v3) plug-ins?”

so, the problem is solved.

now, it’s time to maybe look at the latest tonebooster plug-ins.

thanks

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