Okay, after several submissions of a minidump created when crashing upon exiting Sonar Platinum I know that I will get no response from the "support" people at Cakewalk. So, is there a way to read the file myself? I use dumpchk, but the Command Prompt Windows closes right after reading the file. When I try to ope the .dmp file from within the Command Prompt window, I always age a "can't open the file" message. 
Is there a program that can read this file?
Thanks!

scottfa
Okay, after several submissions of a minidump created when crashing upon exiting Sonar Platinum I know that I will get no response from the "support" people at Cakewalk. So, is there a way to read the file myself? I use dumpchk, but the Command Prompt Windows closes right after reading the file. When I try to ope the .dmp file from within the Command Prompt window, I always age a "can't open the file" message. 
Is there a program that can read this file?
Thanks!

Edit: For app crashes, try AppCrashView  (free)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_crash_view.html
 
AppCrashView is a small utility for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that displays the details of all application crashes occurred in your system. The crashes information is extracted from the .wer files created by the Windows Error Reporting (WER) component of the operating system every time that a crash is occurred. AppCrashView also allows you to easily save the crashes list to text/csv/html/xml file.
 
 
For blue screen crash dumps try this: BlueScreenView (free)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
 
BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version).
For each crash displayed in the upper pane, you can view the details of the device drivers loaded during the crash in the lower pane. BlueScreenView also mark the drivers that their addresses found in the crash stack, so you can easily locate the suspected drivers that possibly caused the crash.
 
And you could always try posting here:
BSOD - Posting Instructions
This will show you how to help provide needed information about your system and dump files. It will not contain any personal or sensitive information about you or your data.

To get better help with your Windows 10 BSOD issue, please follow these steps below.
https://www.tenforums.com...ting-instructions.html

Then there is always the very geeky WinDbg for Microsoft developers.  Does a more in-depth bugcheck analysis.
http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-lockup-debug-how/310617-windbg-very-basics.html
 

Thanks for the suggestions. I figured out how to keep the command window open, use cmd  /k and then your command.
Example : cmd /k c:\dumpchk <filename with path>
Unfortunately, it could give anything of consequence except some generic  "unable load library" errors which night be referring to the dump check utility and not the file itself.
This problem has reared up periodically and then disappears. Never seems to affect the project so far.

Install Visual Studio 2013 or higher (even the newer free community versions should work for this).  You can then open any crash dump with just File->Open->File... Then choose Debug With Native Only.  It will let you inspect the call stack and explore the crash dump.  WinDbg is nice and all, but not really very friendly.  Even if you can use it, you will try very hard to avoid it.
 
When the exception dialog comes up press break and open/look at the call stack window (and the threads window).  Here's a crash in SONAR inside the EastWest Play VST  SONAR saves all it's crash dumps in a folder in %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\SONAR Platinum\MiniDumps  (which is something like C:\Users\XXXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\SONAR Platinum\MiniDumps  with your user account in place of the XXXXXX)
 

Okay, downloaded Visual Studio 15 and ran. Gives an unhandled exception when reading Amplitude4.vpa. Has access reading violation. This had also happened in the past with Amplitube 3. No idea on fixing it. Maybe try ikmultimedia support?
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. 

msorrels
Install Visual Studio

not recommended on a production machine (sorry)

I guess now you at least know which plugin to disable until you get it sorted out ...

pwalpwal

msorrels
Install Visual Studio

not recommended on a production machine (sorry)

BlueScreenView is light and doesn't load a lot of extra stuff.  I would start with that to try to locate some clues.  Might be enough to identify the troublemaker.
 
The folks over at TenForums have a few gurus that will examine your minidump file with developer tools, so no need to load your system down.

I'll leave it on until I can resolve the issue then remove. I have opened a ticket with IK. Waiting now......