MC5 Crashes While Exporting Audio

So I've worked for days on a song and finally have it mixed, etc. Whenever I try to export audio to a wav file, MC crashes and I receive a message telling me a fatal error has occurred. Does anyone have insight into this problem or experienced it before? I'm running alot of tracks with the maximum number of effects inserted but my computer is more than capable of handling the load on it during playback (quad core processor, 8 GB of RAM, etc). It's barely taxing the system, peaking at about 27% and usually in about the 17% range. I don't understand why MC crashes when I export. Am I missing something?

all that and I like to select What You Hear as the preset. 

You should not have crashes exporting. First time I've heard of it.....


 what sound card are you using? 

I can't say why but try this: bounce all your tracks to one track in the same project. If that works, try to export that one track.

I'm running Windows 7. My settings are at 44100Hz and 16 bit and I am exporting as a Wave file.

I finally got it to work last night but not because of something I did to fix things. Came back today to try a new mix and it crashed again. It turns out that it's an unhandled exception in one of my plug-ins (melodyne) that's causing it.

Ahhhh... 

I've had similar issues with melodyne. I assume that there is so much processing going on in Melodyne that the system chokes and that causes the crash.... so I have learned a few things to do to try to prevent the "melodyne syndrome" in my computer. 

The solution is to BOUNCE the melodyne track to another audio track. When you bounce the melodyne  track the computer only has to handle ONE TRACK properly as opposed to ALL the tracks and all the FX and all the other things in the project. It can easily do this without choking and crashing.

 Look at the track after the bounce and listen to it carefully. Be sure it rendered the bounce correctly. SAVE the project ...Then DELETE melodyne and the track it was in from the project. If the track was bounced correctly you do not need the old track anymore anyway....save again. Be sure the new track has the proper FX, routing to busses, and envelopes as you need.....

Then do the export. It should work properly now. 

you don't loose the original when you bounce. you can leave the original and simply archive it it you feel the need to keep it. 

I personally see no reason to keep the old vocal track once I have the melodyned version right, so I bounce it to a new track and delete the old one. It keeps the project uncluttered.