Cascading plugin failure

[dbmusic]

Last night I put one UAD-1 plugin too many into a project, exceeded the CPU limit on the card and experience a cascading failure of ALL plugins in the project. Removing the offending plugin and restarting the project did no good. ALL UAD-1 plugins would still not work. So I tried starting another project and none of those plugins would work. Subsequently, ALL plugins in ALL projects would no longer work. I had to reboot my machine to get the plugins and the card to function again.

Can anybody tell me if this is normal behavior? I am running Sonar 4.0.4 with 1 UAD-1 card.

Thanks,

db

 

[Cabbage]

I would call this normal. Using the CPU limit should avoid this.

Petter

 

[dbmusic]

Normal? Really? Just one too many plugins in a project causes all plugins to fail in all other projects? Requiring a reboot of the computer? Granted, I don't understand the technical details, but that seems a rather extreme system response. Guess I'll be a bit more careful in the future.

db

 

[secretworld]

I never had that. Just a bunch of crackles and removing the plug helped. but I was never way over 100%.

 

[electro77]

did you try disable/enable to fix it before rebooting?

 

[dbmusic]

Yes, I even tried removing then re-adding the plugins. Very odd that even when opening other projects, those plugins would no longer function either. It seems the entire UAD-1 system was corrupted and could only be fixed by a reboot.

db

 

[Phil Chamney]

...and you had the CPU limit set?

 

[Drammy]

Could you not have disabled the card and then rescanned for hardware changes to enable it again - that should work

Unless you're on a Mac - I don't know if this is possible? Anyone...

 

[dbmusic]

...and you had the CPU limit set?

No, that I had not done. Never had a reason to. Like I said, I'll be much more diligent in the future. But the fact that this failure affected ALL plugins in ALL projects was cause for concern.

 

[tkingen]

Yesterday I inadvertantly overloaded my UAD-1 card to 11%. It started crackling and popping. I removed the extra instance and all was well again. Sorry to hear that yours was more serious.