Thanks for your reply Overloud.
Just an update: I tried loading TH3 on just an empty audio track, with nothing else loaded in the project.
And I still get the same results: I close the file, reopen it. Sonar reports audio engine has stopped, I will restart the audio engine. Press play, then stop. Then Sonar freezes.
Thanks again, looking forward to the fix, as I really like the new version (except for the bug, of course) :)