[Dream] Avoided Pentagon crash - Phew!

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Avoided Pentagon crash?  Please, no 9/11 conspiracy theories here...

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-troy

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:35:52PM +0000, Doofus McFluoro wrote:
> Olly,
> 
> Open your project and save the channel data and patch data (and midi if you
> have it already). Then remove the pentagon from the loaded vsts list. Then
> uninstall and then re-install Pentagon from the machine.
> 
> Once reinstalled import all the data back to the track.  If you have a
> licence challenged copy of Cubase (which I am sure you havent but thjought i
> would mention anyway) it may be a bit glitchy.  Should be alright after you
> do this.
> 
> PS
> 
> Olly... Appreciate your time of unemployment... make music while the... well
> while its pissing down with rain.  Jobs are crap for creativity.
> 
> See you soon mate (I hope)
> 
> Doof
> 
> 
> On 3/7/07, Kudos <kudos.dream at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> >I already lost 3 hours of changes to my project in SX3 tonight, as
> >Pentgon decided to cause the whole of SX3 to hang just as a turned an EQ
> >knob.  The audio drivers were screwed as well so it meant a complete
> >reboot to get back...
> >
> >...2 hours later I'm back to point where I was just before I lost my
> >work, so I save....then go to Pentagon and turn that EQ knob and it
> >crashes again!
> >
> >This time, when I opened the project, It opens up all the open stuff
> >like mixer, Instrument panel, and plugins including the Pentagon, at
> >which point it hangs again...
> >
> >'oh shit', I thought.
> >
> >That file I saved was the only copy of the changes I made back in
> >January - the next earliest backup was November!
> >
> >Then I had a brainwave....to load the project without loading the
> >Pentagon.  So I renamed the Pentagon DLL, and restarted Cubase, and my
> >project loaded fine - It just moaned about Pentagon being missing, but
> >it loaded so I saved the project to a new file, renamed the Pentagon DLL
> >back again, and the newly saved project loaded fine with not even the
> >Pentagon settings missing, which was nice.
> >
> >Back to the music anyway...
> >
> >Olly
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