Halion Crashes Cubase, Problems with base install Options

[bizzarro]

Hi all

I have a new Mac G4 800 with half gig of ram and OS 9.2 standard build. My sound card is a Midiman Audiophile 2496.

I loaded Cubase 5.1 and it ran with no problems (not that I used it for long) until I loaded Halion. Both were "easy" installs. Halion loads up a default sound bank. Problem is, it keeps causing Cubase to crash with "error 2" what ever that is.

These packages came as one, ie Cubase 5.1 Edition, and as a result, I would be surprised if they didn't work well together.

After a couple of crashes, halion seems to be corrupted and can no longer load its samples.

I have reloaded the Base version if halion, ie no extra sounds, and it is more stable when being chosen from the VST Instuments menu, but crashes Cubase at various times after sound banks/Instruments have been loaded in.

Any Ideas?

Cheers

Other info that might be relevant....

OMS is installed.

Also had problems with Lexmark printer causing system to slow down or stop, have removed Extention.

Have latest version of Toast installed, although I doubt that this would have any effect!

[tangot]

Hey,

I've had error 2 crashes on Cubase 5.1 because of running demoversions of some Native-instruments like B-52 and FM7.

Just had to erase all preferencefiles from these applications.

Error 2 is a hardware problem like in my case cubase were uanble to locate the soundcard, because another program was sitting on it. Could it be that you have set up Halion to "sit" on the soundcard alone ? Have You tried to run Cubase+Halion on the Mac own soundcard?

good luck

tangot

[bizzarro]

Hi

Yes I have run it on the Macs own sound card. It still fails, although cubase selected the Macs soundcard itself after crashing and loosing the Delta Audiophile. I wouldn't be surprised if the problem is related to the sound card drivers, problem is I am new to Macs and not totally confident in my own abilities to diagnose where the problem is.

I will try removing the other plugins and trying halion again.

I am wondering if there might be a hardware issue, although the diagnostics CD runs and passes, and I took the soundcard back to the shop to be tested, and it worked.

[damann]

sounds to me like it's a memory problem, probably caused by too many plugins.
assign more ram to cubase/keep the buffer sizes down.
i hate to say this, but, is it an official version of halion?
somtimes software just dosen't work properly.

bah, humbug...