Les Paul Gold Top Expansio Pack - Some Patches Causing Sonar To Hang

Hello,
 
Installed and all seemed well. I went to use and the first four or five (most were the 12 string) would cause DP/Sonar to hang.. I am able to exit out but if I try to do anything with the instrument, I get the white screen. I then also have to use task manager to kill the SonarPlt process. I also was able to replicate in a new project where nothing was added except DP. All the other patches work fine in DP... Can anyone else confirm...?? Thanks

Update:
 
Seems to be related to my "recording" buffer setting.  If I move my buffer up from 48 samples (I tried 256 and 512), the trouble samples do not give me any issue. If I go back down to 48.  The issue returns.. I will consider this an adequate workaround for now. Thanks

Yeah I have this same problem.  Some of the patches in Les Paul Gold Top Expansion Pack cause Dimension to crash no matter how high I set my ASIO buffer settings. 
 
My test case wasn't very difficult.  Blank project, add Dimension(audio+midi as separate tracks), drag in a short MIDI clip (some 4-bar rhythm guitar loop, I'm not sure where I got it).  With my normal ASIO settings Sonar/Dimension would crash about half-way through playing the loop using the 12 String Bright patch.  Upping my Focusrite Saffire (first gen) ASIO buffer to 20ms (from 16ms) would let the loop play.  But adding a second copy of Dimension with the Bass 8-String and another copy of the short MIDI Loop (transposed down an octave) would take Sonar down even if I increased the ASIO Buffer Size to 40ms (the highest it will go) this is at 48khz.  I sent one of the fault reports onto Cakewalk.

I have trouble with the Neck Power Chords patch. It works fine at 44.1/16, but it hangs after a couple of chords at 24/48 and causes Platinum to shut down.

They all auditioned fine for me, but when fed some number of chords/long sequence would blow up.  The crashes occurred in Dimension itself, which makes me think it's a bug in the instrument.  Even if the ASIO buffer isn't big enough, software should never crash or lock up.

Sir William
I have trouble with the Neck Power Chords patch. It works fine at 44.1/16, but it hangs after a couple of chords at 24/48 and causes Platinum to shut down.

This is interesting ... when I first installed the GoldTop expansion, I fired up Dim Pro stand-alone to try it quickly from my MIDI keyboard.  When I select 'ASIO Control Panel' from the ASIO menu, I get this:

 
Dim Pro worked fine stand-alone with the Neck Power Chord program after dismissing this message box.  I exited DPro, fired up S-Plat and added a Dim Pro instance to the project.  The project sample rate remained at 48K.  I selected the Neck Power Chord program and it loaded fine.  The first MIDI keyboard key I pressed gave me a brief burst of the appropriate audio from DPro then went silent with the meters frozen at playback level.  I tried to select another DPro program and got the standard Windows not responding message and chose to kill S-Plat.  The good news is that the S-Plat process actually went away without further intervention.
 

Great info scook, but it was NOT a question about settings.  My post was intended to be informational about the differences between running stand-alone vs as a plugin inside S-Plat.
 
The point being that in my example, running stand-alone the program in question didn't cause any problems even though S-Plat crashed while hosting DPro as a plugin using the same program.
 
I hope the sample rate info isn't clouding things - I included it for the sake of completeness on the outside chance the rest of post is looked at closely.
 
Here is the interesting part
I just fired up DimPro stand-alone and pressed F4 to set 48K as the sample rate.  I then loaded the Neck Power Chord program and pressed a MIDI keyboard key.  I got the same brief sound followed by the same stopped responding message.
 
No need to fire up S-Plat to see this one crash!!
 
Thanks again scook for the above info.

I do run S-plat as administrator FWIW