Topic: Problem with Bootsy’s FerricTDS 1.5

@Slomo wrote:

A couple of hours ago Podium crashed when scanning Variety of Sound’s Density mkII v2.02 plugin. I recall having problems with these plugins before.

Yep, this is ‘known issue’ to me – all older bootsy’s plugins cause instability when using more than one instance of any of them (this includes scanning). I usually use only one of them for ‘mastering’ purposes. These kind of crashes also roughly match the instability of these plugins often reported by Cubase users, so I didn’t bother to report it here. But Ferric’s behavior described above is something really new and weird to me, that’s why I reported it.

@Zynewave wrote:

I installed a bunch of Bootsie plugins a couple of months ago, and gradually almost every one of them has crashed at random during plugin scanning. Something scary is going on there. If the problem also exists for Cubase users, I’ll assume the Bootsie developer is aware of the problem and is trying to fix it.

Sure, these are ‘normal bootsie plugin crashes’. But this Ferric 1.5 is really new thing; simple scenario:

1. install ferric tds 1.5 on the track
2. make it visible (E), twist some knob in it
3. start playback
4. change color of the track clicking inspector’s color picker

results in: hiding plugin’s window at point 4 (ok, sometimes even at point 3), and also causes quite long audio dropout at point 4.

Seems so strangely tied to the host that it could be somehow interesting even for host developer.