Crystal Crash?

[jersmi]

Two crashes within 5 mins. Is Crystal synth crashing Bidule? Too bad if so, I had been excited to discover it could play soundfonts. Wondering if maybe a problem with more than one instance playing the same soundfont (since that's when crashes started).

Process: Plogue Bidule [18398]
Path: /Applications/Plogue Bidule 0.9724/Plogue Bidule.app/Contents/MacOS/Plogue Bidule
Identifier: com.plogue.bidule
Version: 0.9724 (0.9724)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [129]

Date/Time: 2012-04-19 21:45:49.696 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D2001)

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Crashed Thread: 12 com.apple.audio.IOThread.client
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Thread 12 Crashed:: com.apple.audio.IOThread.client
0 com.greenoak.Atfr 0x14693585 SampledWaveOsc::setModTargets(ModTarget*, ModTarget*) + 21
1 com.greenoak.Atfr 0x1469f011 ModSynth::createNote(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int) + 10129
2 com.greenoak.Atfr 0x1469c553 ModSynth::processEvents(VstEvents*) + 2083
3 com.greenoak.Atfr 0x14645904 AudioEffectX::dispatcher(int, int, int, void*, float) + 340
4 com.plogue.bidule 0x0023bea7 plogue::BiduleVST::dispatchVST(int, int, int, void*, float, bool) + 87
5 com.plogue.bidule 0x0024be7b plogue::BiduleVST::process() + 3019
6 com.plogue.bidule 0x0006871d plogue::Bidule::getProcessedResults(plogue::Channel const*, unsigned long long, float*&, std::vector<plogue::MIDIEvent, std::allocator<plogue::MIDIEvent> >&, float**&, float**&) + 7645
7 com.plogue.bidule 0x00067f5f plogue::Bidule::getProcessedResults(plogue::Channel const*, unsigned long long, float*&, std::vector<plogue::MIDIEvent, std::allocator<plogue::MIDIEvent> >&, float**&, float**&) + 5663
8 com.plogue.bidule 0x00068a82 plogue::Bidule::getProcessedResults(plogue::Channel const*, unsigned long long, float*&, std::vector<plogue::MIDIEvent, std::allocator<plogue::MIDIEvent> >&, float**&, float**&) + 8514
9 com.plogue.bidule 0x000abc15 plogue::AudioDevice::getSamplesTerminal(unsigned int, unsigned long long, float*) + 933
10 com.plogue.bidule 0x000ae03e plogue::AudioDevice::paCallbackInternal(void*, void*, unsigned long, double) + 3006
11 com.plogue.bidule 0x00a69357 PaConvert_Process + 177
12 com.plogue.bidule 0x00a6677f PaOSX_LoadAndProcess + 177
13 com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9cd0512c AudioConverterChain::CallInputProc(unsigned long) + 180
14 com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9cd053fe AudioConverterChain::FillBufferFromInputProc(unsigned long*, CABufferList*) + 98
15 com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9cce4794 BufferedAudioConverter::GetInputBytes(unsigned long, unsigned long&, CABufferList const*&) + 192
16 com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9cce42a1 BlockCopyConverter::RenderOutput(CABufferList*, unsigned long, unsigned long&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 85
17 com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9cce4943 BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer(unsigned long&, AudioBufferList&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 337
18 com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9cd0424a AudioConverterChain::RenderOutput(CABufferList*, unsigned long, unsigned long&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 108
19 com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9cce4943 BufferedAudioConverter::FillBuffer(unsigned long&, AudioBufferList&, AudioStreamPacketDescription*) + 337
20 com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x9ccc51b2 AudioConverterFillBuffer + 200
21 com.plogue.bidule 0x00a674fb PaOSX_CoreAudioIOCallback + 450
22 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9c6ed3cd HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOWorkLoop() + 2535
23 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9c6ec926 HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOThreadEntry(void*) + 136
24 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9c6ec898 __HALC_ProxyIOContext_block_invoke_6 + 20
25 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9c6ec81d HALB_IOThread::Entry(void*) + 69
26 libsystem_c.dylib 0x96a1fed9 _pthread_start + 335
27 libsystem_c.dylib 0x96a236de thread_start + 34

[seb@plogue]

Do you get that with all sf2? or a specific one? Looks like either a bug in Crystal with a specific modulation or something wrong in the sf2 file.

I _think_ DLSMusicDevice can use sf2, you need to put the files into either /Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks/ or <your user>/Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks/ for the bank to show into the dropdown in the UI. Otherwise, it might be time to revisit bundling ARIA into Bidule...

[jersmi]

Thanks, Seb. Since upgrading to Lion I have only installed this one soundfont for testing, the Jeux organ. I have not used any soundfonts in a while. Most I have are quite old, but I thought I would see if I could get them to work. I have used Jeux a lot in the past. I wonder if it is buggy, too. The DLSMusicDevice shows Jeux in the pulldown, but currently won't allow selecting another soundfont besides the quicktime music synthesizer. Apparently this is a known issue.

So I'm over sound fonts, or at least trying to use something free to play them. DLSMusicDevice has always been unstable. I thought Crystal would be cool because of all the modulation possibilities, but it, too, is a bit outdated at this point. I have Aria Player/GPO, I'll stick with that. Will Aria Player play sf2's?

[seb@plogue]

Will Aria Player play sf2's?

Not by itself (or at least not without the currently unreleased SF2toSFZ converter...)