control.Timer crashing plugin in DAW

trillbilly

Has anyone had trouble with the control.timer? Anytime i add it to my scrptnide network and test in Ableton Live, it hard crashes instantly.

Im on a relatively new version of hise, within the last 2 months or so.

Thanks

trillbilly

So I've made a minimal snippet that crashes the DAW (Ableton in my case) on every open instance of the plugin.

Can anyone confirm it happens to them as well?

Is there something about the way Im using the timer that is throwing the error?

Im using Develop Branch downloaded 12/12/2025.

Snippet:

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Plugin Scanner Log:

2026-02-18T09:07:44.747455: info: Vst3: scanning plugins in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3" (global)
2026-02-18T09:07:44.843369: info: Vst3: scanning plugins in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3" (custom)
2026-02-18T09:07:44.885112: info: Vst3: check plugin at path: "C:/Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Timer_Test.vst3"
2026-02-18T09:07:45.160264: info: Vst3: found: Timer_Test
   vendor: My Company
   url: http://yourcompany.com
   email: 
   device-class-id: device:vst3:audiofx:56535441-6263-6474-696d-65725f746573?n=Timer_Test
   cardinality: 2147483647
   version: 1.0.0
   sdkVersion: VST 3.7.2
   subCategories: Fx
   path: "C:/Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Timer_Test.vst3"   fp: 18a4800:6995c74e
2026-02-18T09:07:45.182662: info: Vst3: check plugin at path: "C:/Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Timer_Test.vst3"
2026-02-18T09:07:45.183532: info: Vst3: plugin already scanned.  Rescan
2026-02-18T09:07:45.309615: info: Vst3: found: Timer_Test
   vendor: My Company
   url: http://yourcompany.com
   email: 
   device-class-id: device:vst3:audiofx:56535441-6263-6474-696d-65725f746573?n=Timer_Test
   cardinality: 2147483647
   version: 1.0.0
   sdkVersion: VST 3.7.2
   subCategories: Fx
   path: "C:/Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Timer_Test.vst3"   fp: 18a4800:6995c74e
2026-02-18T09:07:45.314000: info: Vst3: finished scanning plugins

And this in another Live Log.txt:

2026-02-18T09:07:53.720767: info: Vst3: Going to create: Timer_Test
2026-02-18T09:07:54.071001: info: Exception: Windows Exception
2026-02-18T09:07:54.071029: info: Exception: Fatal Error: Unhandled exception

Here is the entire network in the snippet:

trillbilly

@trillbilly If anyone hits the same problem, I got around it by using a tempo-synced ramp and a couple compare nodes to simulate the timers engagement.

Simple and works.

control.Timer crashing plugin in DAW

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