Antares AutoTune 8.1 crashes demo host

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Hi
With Fabians great success with IK multimedia, let’s keep rolling:
Antares AutoTune 8.1 Crashes Juce plugin hosts.
Initially reported by end user, I can confirm the issue in the demo plugin host.
It simply crashes during scan.
The plugin can not be run under debugger so a bit hard to figure out.

Here is a link to the plugin:
http://www.antarestech.com/products/detail.php?product=Auto-Tune_8_66
This was reproduced on Windows 10 64, 64bit host, using VST3

I’ll keep posting these compatibility issues, but since there are a few I’ll limit it to products I consider “industry standard” or very popular.

Issue #113 on github:

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OK thanks to the folks at Antares we were able to narrow down the problem. It’s still not fixed yet but there is a workaround you can use right now.

The problem only occurs when scanning the plug-ins. It seems that AutoTune doesn’t like to be loaded and then immediately closed again without completely initialising the whole VST3. To workaround the problem simply comment out lines 1031-1055 in juce_VST3PluginFormat.cpp. Replace these lines by

createPluginDescription (desc, file, companyName, name,
                         info, info2, infoW, 2, 2);

This will hard code the number of input/output channels to two so this will probably break other VST3 plug-ins. We’ll work on a better fix and update this post soon.

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Great !
Yes the workaround is bound to break other plugs :slight_smile:
I’ll wait for a better fix before sending this to endusers
Thanks for working on this @fabian

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Sure… was more thinking that you could put an if statement there to only do that if it is autotune. You already have vendor and effect name to check against.

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Hi there,

do we have some news about plugin crash at scan ?

Thanks.

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There is nothing we can do about this bug. We are in contact with Antares and they confirmed that it is a bug when AutoTune is loaded and immediately closed again. I suggest changing the scanning code on your own local branch and adding a sleep when scanning AutoTune. Sorry that I don’t have better news on this.

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Ok thanks a lot for the fast answer