V-Vocal Consistently Crashes on X3

I have used X2 for about a year, and I can't tell you how much I love this program.  There were a couple of weird glitches, like V-Vocal crashes, but I finally got used to saving before I used V-Vocal because of that.  I had hoped that they would stabilize it in X3 but I am sad to report that it is much worse.  I have tried everything, including converting all of my softsynth tracks to audio and gotten rid of any extra plug ins that I don't need, and even with 4 -5 tracks stripped down I have not even been able to use V-Vocal once w/o it crashing. :(
 
Anyone have any suggestions?  Not there yet, but I am starting to wish I'd not done the upgrade.... 
R

I left X2 installed in case something went awry.  It crashes the second I select a clip and set it to create a region I get the white screen of death. I have not installed 3B.  Is there a separate executable fiile for V-Vocal on the X2 disk?  Thanks for your help...
R

Fantastic ... I did the X3b patch (sounds like a stop smoking campaign) and it worked.  It resolved the V-Vocal crash problem.  It "appears" to not be leaving those ghost tracks that X2 left after you did the V-Vocal and bounced it to track anymore which is a welcome change...
 
My life is a dream again... I can safely go back to Gaga Land, stop whining and go make music...
R

You almost surely have a broken VVocal installation. 
You should be able to reinstall VVocal from the X2 disk, by doing a minimal X2 install. Please contact tech support and they should be able to help you out.
VVocal works fine in X3.

I appreciate what you are saying, however I finally gave up and did some exploration of Melodyne yesterday, and ended up using that instead of V-Vocal...  it worked okay yesterday, well.. I thought... except SONAR will not boot up at all today.  I am now legibility sorry that I bought X3, gentlemen it is NOT ready for prime time!!  I wasted the entire day, the only day I had to record.  Client was really unhappy... and I lost money... only problem is I can no longer use X2 as it crashes now as well.  It's Sunday so I am assuming tech support is closed...
 
NOT HAPPY!!!!
___________________________________________________________________________________
A fatal error has occurred.
Module: c:\program files\common
files\vst3\celemony\Melodyne\melodyne.vst3
 
a crash dump file has been created here"
c:users\audio\appdata\roaming\Cakewalk\Sonar X3
Producer/MiniDumps\_10202013_133558.dmp
Exception Code: c0000005
Address: 0000000102545E12:0000000000000065:0000000000000065
As a result of this error SONAR is about to exit abnormally.
Should Sonoar Attempt to save a recovery copy of your work?
________________________________________________________________________________
 

I have the same problem with V-vocal crashing.  I am starting a ticket with support.

RMCALL
I appreciate what you are saying, however I finally gave up and did some exploration of Melodyne yesterday, and ended up using that instead of V-Vocal...  it worked okay yesterday, well.. I thought... except SONAR will not boot up at all today.  I am now legibility sorry that I bought X3, gentlemen it is NOT ready for prime time!!  I wasted the entire day, the only day I had to record.  Client was really unhappy... and I lost money... only problem is I can no longer use X2 as it crashes now as well.  It's Sunday so I am assuming tech support is closed...
 
NOT HAPPY!!!!
___________________________________________________________________________________
A fatal error has occurred.
Module: c:\program files\common
files\vst3\celemony\Melodyne\melodyne.vst3
 
a crash dump file has been created here"
c:users\audio\appdata\roaming\Cakewalk\Sonar X3
Producer/MiniDumps\_10202013_133558.dmp
Exception Code: c0000005
Address: 0000000102545E12:0000000000000065:0000000000000065
As a result of this error SONAR is about to exit abnormally.
Should Sonoar Attempt to save a recovery copy of your work?
________________________________________________________________________________
 

Melodyne is very stable indeed with X3 there is definitely something bad at your end. I suggest you install X3E patch. Make sure melodone is up to date via its auto update facility. Then perform a RESET and then a rescan of your VST's.

Then run windows update several times including most of the optional updates.

If you keep having trouble you may consider more drastic action. Back up your partition, wipe it and reinstall your OS, but see if new projects rather than existing projects are effected first. Or you could do a clean removal and reinstall of Cakewalk apps but it might not be as effective.

Please make sure you have a backup strategy in place. It helps you and your customers.

... and hope this helps.

What Alex says. Really seems like an installation issue. I'm one of the people who likes V-Vocal and still use it as well as Melodyne, so one of the things I really liked about X3 was V-Vocal being far more stable.
 
When you re-install, make sure no virus protection is on. Also, the reset/re-scan is essential when updating X3.

Have to say that VV is better for me in X3 compared to the crash fest that is could sometimes be in 8.5. I haven't used it a lot, but it seems far more stable and it still does some things better than melodyne, so I'm happy to have both. It would be nice to be able to assign a shortcut key, but other than that it's all good here.
 
 

I also recall that V-Vocal was most stable for me when I worked with small sections of audio, rather than lengthy ones.
 
Bob Bone
 
 

PS:  I started a support ticket about this problem, but have heard nothing.  I suppose I should have written the ticket number down.  Stupid me.
 
Melodyne works well and does some cool things, even though it apparently has a memory leak in the software code (each time you stop and restart more memory is required according to Sonar's little memory doodad).  However, v-vocal allows you to do some "repairs" that melodyne does not.  Having both tools is the somewhat-best of worlds, although the best of worlds is to have a vocalist that can actually sing on key.  Imagine that!!!