this problem is occuring for me in two circumstances right now, with both the 5.0 and 5.1 exe under winXP pro. first, when using AbsynthVST, logic 5 will disappear after about 5 minutes of patch browsing. there are usually no error messages, just logic is gone, leaving only the absynth engine behind. then today, when trying to open an lso file that i was working on yesterday, the same thing happens (btw, this file has never had the AbsynthVST plugin used in it). File -> Open -> select the file, and poof! - logic is gone. Task manager shows that there are no longer any running applications, but the "processes" tab shows logic 5 still present, and hence trying to re-launch logic gives the message that the program is already running. so issue 1 is how to prevent this crash, and issue 2 is how to regain access to my file..? kevin

--- In logic-users@y..., "supisuzoi" <supisuzoi@n...> wrote: > this problem is occuring for me in two circumstances right now, with > both the 5.0 and 5.1 exe under winXP pro. > first, when using AbsynthVST, logic 5 will disappear after about 5 > minutes of patch browsing. there are usually no error messages, just > logic is gone, leaving only the absynth engine behind. > then today, when trying to open an lso file that i was working on > yesterday, the same thing happens (btw, this file has never had the > AbsynthVST plugin used in it). File -> Open -> select the file, and > poof! - logic is gone. Task manager shows that there are no longer > any running applications, but the "processes" tab shows logic 5 > still present, and hence trying to re-launch logic gives the message > that the program is already running. > so issue 1 is how to prevent this crash, and issue 2 is how to > regain access to my file..? > kevin Hi, I know this problem and have had this many times with different VST Plugins (W2K and W98SE). It seems, that there are some problems with VST Plugins in the current versions of LAPW. There has been a similar thread before in the last month. I hope this will be fixed in the next update(s). Regards, Axel