V Vocal crashing

Hi all,
 
New here, and I did do a search on my topic to lessen any wasted time here, but ...
 
I just started trying to use V Vocal in Sonar 8.5.3 on a Quad-Core PC with WinXP 4Gb RAM and it dumps out every time.  I've confirmed that cronus.dll is active, rebooted, etc... to no avail.  Is there news about VV that I don't know?
 
I want to simply pitch-correct some vocals.  I have the Antares Auto-Tune plugin around, but wanted to see what Sonar's capabilities are and kind of expect it to work.  I've tried small clips, split clips, mono clips and everything else to no resolution.  It thinks about it and announces a fatal error with dump options.
 
Any news on this I should know about?  I just came to Sonar from a Pro Tools life and hope this kind of thing isn't prevalent.
 
Best,
 
Carissa Swenson

I have been posting in this thread   http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1686823  about the problem.

The latest from Cakewalk I have just received (but not yet had a chance to try) is: first to disable the anti-virus, then if no luck do a complete uninstall and clean up of the anti-virus software.

They also said registry cleaners could cause issues. My laptop is only a couple of months old and I have not used a registry cleaner so this cannot be my issue.

Unfortunately, what you're describing is a fairly common problem and has been brought up many many times around here. There have been almost as many "try this, try that" threads in response but to my knowledge, there has never been a confirmed one-size-fits-all solution to this "VV crashing" problem. Could be, there are a number of external factors contributing to this (hardware, drivers, OS configuration, position of the moon... pick one).
 
I've used VV enough times. Some times I can have a dozen instances of VV running in a single project and not so much as a fart. And then one day you try to run a single instance and kaboom. Never made sense to me either. If that wasn't enough, you'll also eventually get the nasty phasing problem which seems to manifest itself in some cases for no good reason. We all kinda thought it might be related to background noise in the original vocal clip but that was never substantiated either.
 
At the end of the day, do what most of us do, give up and use Auto-Tune or Melodyne. I use AT myself and while it has it's own set of built-in annoyance (ilok for one thing), at least it doesn't crash Sonar and the sound quality is much better (imo).