So there are two vsti issues I'm running into:
1. The rename/bad index (wrong vsti) gets loaded. This happens ever so often on my system, maybe it's due to some vsti's not being available due to a missing iLok because sometimes my usb craps out causing my iLok to not connect my licenses. Not sure, but I have to reset and re-scan pretty often.
2. Certain VSTi's seem to crash often during freeze or get static or other strange issues randomly (usually on large projects). I narrowed this down to a few vsti that seem to give the most issues: Omnisphere 2, iris, and kontakt 5.
- The kontakt issue was fixed by changing the offline interpolation quality setting to "like realtime".
- Izotope Iris was fixed by using the vst3 version and removing all instances of the vst2 version in my projects.
- Some other static issues were fixed by removing and readding the instruments.(usually involves, saving the patch and all the fx settings, copy and pasting the midi to a spare track, deleting the original track, then adding the vst back and all of the fx after a reset and rescan. Somewhat like rebooting an old mirage sampler... hehehe But the good news is that once this is done the track is fine from then on.
- Omnisphere 2 I was able to remove a lot of static by not ever automating any of the settings to 100%. There must be a bug in it where if it hits 100% in sonar automation it's going over the max for the setting in Omnisphere 2 (think of a filter cutoff going to 101% open, it's like nasty digital static).
Still getting Omnisphere crashes though on bounce and freeze. Something is buggy there and I can't figure it out.