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jsdigital
jsdigital
Inspiring
August 6, 2019
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Adobe Audition Crashing (actually freezing) repeatedly

  • August 6, 2019
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OSX 10.14.6 iMac 2019 64gb RAM, 3.6 GHz Core i9

Adobe Audition CC 12.1.2.3

I've been using Audition for over a decade, every day, for several hours a day, and I've never encountered this before. Audition has been crashing every few minutes or so for the past couple of weeks. It seems to happen especially when I work very quickly, particularly when I ripple-delete a clip in Multitrack, though that's not the only scenario. I'm certainly nowhere near maxing out my computer's resources, so I'm boggled.

I've tried switching up the plugins I use to no avail. I use Audition for voiceover sessions, and my current multitrack effects rack chain is:

RX 6 Mouth De-Click

FF Pro-Q 3

Millennia NSEQ-2 (Plugin Alliance)

RX 6 De-ess

Millennia TCL-2 (Plugin Alliance)

UAD Teletronics LA-2A Legacy

Hardware is an Apollo Twin via Thunderbolt 2, and there are no sample rate mismatches or anything overtly obvious. It's been costing me a lot of time, and I could really use some help here.

Thanks!

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Correct answer jsdigital

If it's an actual crash rather than just freezing, then the only sensible thing to do is to follow the instructions in this FAQ:

Audition Crashed. Now what?


Quick update that may be a potential fix for people with the same problem:

I had the idea that perhaps one of the effects in my multitrack chain was pulled from the VST effects folder, and that because of some Audition bug, this could be causing the freezes. Until a recent Audition update, not all of my .component AU plugins would show up (yes, even after rescanning the plugins folder repeatedly). So: I tried saving every effect's settings in my current chain as a preset, then re-loaded all 6 effects from their newly-displayed AU folders. So far, so good.

I've only given this 15 minutes of heavy work, so I can't say with certainty that this fixed the freezing issues 100%, but for now, it seems promising.

Fingers crossed!

2 replies

danmasc
danmasc
Participant
August 26, 2020

I've been having the same issue - I jsut changed the default backup setting from cloud to my desktop and this seems to have solved the problem. 

    ryclark
    ryclark
    Participating Frequently
    August 6, 2019

    If you are moving about quickly in Audition it might be a graphics redraw problem. In Preferences/General try the other setting of 'Use hardware acceleration for drawing'. If it is ticked untick it and if unticked try with it ticked. You will have to restart Audition for the changed setting to take.

      jsdigital
      jsdigitalAuthor
      Inspiring
      August 6, 2019

      This does not appear in Preferences > General as an option.

      jsdigital
      jsdigitalAuthor
      Inspiring
      August 6, 2019

      For above reply. There is no option relating to hardware acceleration in Audition 12.1.2.3

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