Access Virus TI Crashes Sonar 8.5 - FIXED by Sonar 8.5.2!

my virus is working fine though i'm on virus os 3.03 with 8.5 sonar pro, i use xp 32 only thing i noticed is the virus control plug flashes slightly at random not very often tho

i rolled back to os 3.03 when 3.1  wasn't workin properly

Actually, I should have mentioned that, when I first tried my Virus/VC with Sonar 8.5 yesterday, I was on 3.03.  When it crashed repeatedly, I updated the OS to 3.10, but it still continues to crash.  I haven't been able to open a single project file containing an instance of the Virus or insert it into a project without it crashing.

They really shouldn't have named that product "Virus". 

maybe force Sonar to rescan the Virus TI vst?
Maybe uninstall TI and re-install?

ive had incredibly good luck with my TI, some people havent been so lucky.

you know what? one time (no idea why) when i upgraded i just hit "yes yes yes yes yes yes yes" blindly and it installed a SNOW instead of a TI Polar. after i unistalled (and deleted the newly blank reg entry for TI and in CW Plugin Mgr too) i installed it carefully and it was fine.

ps. yes, i still use the 1/4" outputs

OK, a little more experimenting and I've narrowed down the problem to something associated with using the TI/Virus Control in multitimbral mode.  Trying to open a project that uses more than one of the TI's outputs (i.e., multitimbral) OR trying to insert an instance of Virus Control with "All Synth Audio Outputs" selected causes the crash on my system.  However, if I choose "First Synth Audio Output" (i.e., mono-timbral) it opens, works, and saves just fine. Can anybody else try this and see if it works for you?

yep it crashes ok,  i get the same fatal error message and then sonar vanishes !

i'm gona try adding one part at a time time to see if that affects anything

it's rare for me to use the full 16 parts, i normally just use between four and eight midi channels running through one audio channel, i then solo each midi part and freeze the track and then ctrl click to copy the newly created audio to a new audio track, i then unfreeze the midi part and move on to the next midi part, freeze it  and so on, until i have all the parts/clips etc i need for the project then the virus is either archived or removed from the project. 

so it's not gonna affect my workflow but it definately needs sorting!!

do you think the new beta (3.207) is worth a look to see if that's any better?

Thanks for confirming that James!  Yeah, I noticed that I can add tracks manually after-the-fact as well without crashes.  I'm like you in that I rarely use more than 2 or 3 Virus tracks at a time, but the problem for me is that most of my projects were inserted using the method I described above, so they crash Sonar when I try to open them.  I'm not sure if the new beta would fix it or not, since it seems to be only a problem with Sonar 8.5 (i.e., Live 8, and Cubase 5 still work fine for me, and Sonar 8 did before I upgraded).

hmmm. not sure where to select "all synth audio outputs" to replicate?

i can see usb outputs and analog outputs in VC Common page.

So, this was a bug that was confirmed by Cakewalk and fixed in the 8.5.2 update.  I tried it out last night and it works perfectly again.  Thanks Bakers!