HISE plugins crasshing DAWs

[d.healey]

@HISEnberg Does PluginVal offer any insight?

[HISEnberg]

@d-healey I have never used it but this seems like a good occasion to set it up. I don't see anything in the Terminal when compiling which can indicate any issues.

In the meantime I am going to go back to an older version of HISE (I need these projects ready in the next few weeks).

This may be a useful warning to any Mac users. I will test this out on Windows later to see if I experience the same issues.

[HISEnberg]

@d-healey PluginVal results, I don't see anything useful just yet:

pluginval v0.2.7 - JUCE v5.4.7
Started validating: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/HiseDebug.component
Random seed: 0x721da5
Validation started: 22 Nov 2024 10:38:36am

Strictness level: 5
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Starting test: pluginval / Scan for known types: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/HiseDebug.component...

*** FAILED: VALIDATION CRASHED

0   pluginval                           0x0000000100c6a610 _ZN4juce11SystemStats17getStackBacktraceEv + 64
1   pluginval                           0x0000000100be9836 _ZN12_GLOBAL__N_119getCrashLogContentsEv + 38
2   pluginval                           0x0000000100be9624 _ZN12_GLOBAL__N_111handleCrashEPv + 20
3   pluginval                           0x0000000100c6a84d _ZN4juceL11handleCrashEi + 13
4   libsystem_platform.dylib            0x00007ff8014b3e9d _sigtramp + 29
5   ???                                 0x0000000109919380 0x0 + 4455502720
6   HiseDebug                           0x000000011365fcfc DemoProjectAUFactory + 7485244
7   HiseDebug                           0x000000011373eb39 DemoProjectAUFactory + 8398201
8   HiseDebug                           0x00000001134f44d6 DemoProjectAUFactory + 5996310
9   HiseDebug                           0x0000000113605017 DemoProjectAUFactory + 7113303
10  HiseDebug                           0x000000011300b46c DemoProjectAUFactory + 847532
11  HiseDebug                           0x000000011300b46c DemoProjectAUFactory + 847532
12  HiseDebug                           0x00000001130433ad DemoProjectAUFactory + 1076717
13  HiseDebug                           0x0000000113076f7a DemoProjectAUFactory + 1288634
14  HiseDebug                           0x00000001132867d0 DemoProjectAUFactory + 3449360
15  HiseDebug                           0x0000000112f2a8fb DemoProjectAUEntry + 8971
16  HiseDebug                           0x0000000112f3c64e DemoProjectAUFactory + 142
17  HiseDebug                           0x0000000112f464ab DemoProjectAUFactory + 40683
18  AudioToolboxCore                    0x00007ff8036a0f56 _ZN11APComponent11newInstanceEjbU13block_pointerFvP28OpaqueAudioComponentInstanceiE + 2270
19  AudioToolboxCore                    0x00007ff8037effb3 _ZL11instantiateP20OpaqueAudioComponentjbU13block_pointerFvP28OpaqueAudioComponentInstanceiE + 335
20  AudioToolboxCore                    0x00007ff8037f05c8 __AudioComponentInstanceNew_block_invoke + 88
21  AudioToolboxCore                    0x00007ff803617a5d Synchronously + 87
22  AudioToolboxCore                    0x00007ff8037f039e AudioComponentInstanceNew + 207
23  pluginval                           0x0000000100c1cbbc _ZN4juce21AudioUnitPluginFormat20createPluginInstanceERKNS_17PluginDescriptionEdiNSt3__18functionIFvNS4_10unique_ptrINS_19AudioPluginInstanceENS4_14default_deleteIS7_EEEERKNS_6StringEEEE + 1180
24  pluginval                           0x0000000100c0fae9 _ZN4juce17AudioPluginFormat29createInstanceFromDescriptionERKNS_17PluginDescriptionEdiRNS_6StringE + 297
25  pluginval                           0x0000000100c1c555 _ZN4juce21AudioUnitPluginFormat19findAllTypesForFileERNS_10OwnedArrayINS_17PluginDescriptionENS_20DummyCriticalSectionEEERKNS_6StringE + 261
26  pluginval                           0x0000000100c1e501 _ZN4juce15KnownPluginList14scanAndAddFileERKNS_6StringEbRNS_10OwnedArrayINS_17PluginDescriptionENS_20DummyCriticalSectionEEERNS_17AudioPluginFormatE + 849
27  pluginval                           0x0000000100c1ea6d _ZN4juce15KnownPluginList29scanAndAddDragAndDroppedFilesERNS_24AudioPluginFormatManagerERKNS_11StringArrayERNS_10OwnedArrayINS_17PluginDescriptionENS_20DummyCriticalSectionEEE + 765
28  pluginval                           0x0000000100bf4986 _ZNSt3__110__function6__funcIZN11PluginTests7runTestEvE3$_0NS_9allocatorIS3_EEFvvEEclEv + 70
29  pluginval                           0x0000000100ca9bc9 _ZN4juce12MessageQueue21runLoopSourceCallbackEPv + 57
30  CoreFoundation                      0x00007ff8015638a0 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 17
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32  CoreFoundation                      0x00007ff801563619 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 203
33  CoreFoundation                      0x00007ff80156223c __CFRunLoopRun + 960
34  CoreFoundation                      0x00007ff80156184c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 550
35  HIToolbox                           0x00007ff80d071ec3 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 292
36  HIToolbox                           0x00007ff80d0778a4 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 646
37  HIToolbox                           0x00007ff80d077a42 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 66
38  AppKit                              0x00007ff804de5b7f _DPSNextEvent + 902
39  AppKit                              0x00007ff80581a6b4 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 1290
40  AppKit                              0x00007ff804dd6c59 -[NSApplication run] + 610
41  pluginval                           0x0000000100ca43b0 _ZN4juce19JUCEApplicationBase4mainEv + 144
42  pluginval                           0x0000000100ca4303 _ZN4juce19JUCEApplicationBase4mainEiPPKc + 83
43  dyld                                0x00000002011e22cd start + 1805

Binary Images:
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0x112f26000 HiseDebug
0x7ff803599000 AudioToolboxCore
0x7ff8014e8000 CoreFoundation
0x7ff80cf82000 HIToolbox
0x7ff804da6000 AppKit

[d.healey]

@HISEnberg So the next thing is to recompile your project (and networks) as debug builds. Build the standalone version and run it in xcode and use xcode's debugging tools to try and find the source of the issue.

[HISEnberg]

Hmm the build succeeded at first, with a warning flag to update the mac deployment target from 10.13 to 15.

So i updated this in XCode and I started receiving this error:

/Users/ernest/HISE/JUCE/modules/juce_gui_basics/native/juce_mac_Windowing.mm:688:33 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.

So I checked the projucer and the macOS deployment target setting is defaulted to 10.13, however apparently the minimum supported version is 10.7

I will try to rebuild HISE from 10.7 to see what happens and will reply here with any updates. Thanks for the debugging tips @d-healey .

[d.healey]

@HISEnberg said in HISE plugins crasshing DAWs:

with a warning flag to update the mac deployment target from 10.13 to 15.

Ignore warnings.

[HISEnberg]

@d-healey thanks. Usually I do, but in this scenario the project builds, but the application still crashes when I open it. XCode isnt giving me any errors during the build process

[d.healey]

@HISEnberg said in HISE plugins crasshing DAWs:

but the application still crashes when I open it

Are you opening it within xcode's debugger?

[Morphoice]

@HISEnberg All plugins crash for me if scriptnode is involved. Everything I ever did only ever worked when the scriptfx is compiled into a DLL and then removed from the project and used as HardcodedFX.

[HISEnberg]

@Morphoice interesting! It shouldn't matter if it's scriptfx or hardcoded but I am going to try it.

@d-healey no I haven't done this before so I will try again

[Morphoice]

@HISEnberg I too thought it shouldn't matter, but it was only ever when I kicked the scriptfx node that anything started working at all after compilation... I'm not sure if this is how it's supposed to be but that's the workflow I adapted to get anything done for weeks now

[orange]

@HISEnberg Are you sure that it is macOS specific? What about Windows?

Might be related:

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/2826/debugging-with-reaper/23?_=1732328738621

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/3677/multi-instance-daw-crash-issue-guide?_=1732328397399

[ulrik]

@HISEnberg said in HISE plugins crasshing DAWs:

So something is buggy, I will start going back a few commits but this very simple delay plugin is causing my DAWs to crash.

If someone is kind enough to take the time to compile this project and let me know their results I will appreciate it!

I compiled this project and I had no problems to load it in to Logic, Ableton Live or Reaper, on Mac OS

[HISEnberg]

@ulrik wonderful thank you very much @ulrik

[HISEnberg]

@d-healey Okay now I am running debug standalone builds in XCode and using the debugger. This is based off of the master branch of HISE. Here is what I am seeing:

/Users/.../HISE/JUCE/modules/juce_core/containers/juce_ArrayBase.h

[d.healey]

@HISEnberg Try going back a bit through the stack trace and see if you can find out the function that is calling that function, keep working your way back until you get to something meaningful and then step through the code bit by bit and see if any variables have unexpected values.

[HISEnberg]

@d-healey unfortunately for me I wasn't able to discover much of value. As far as I can tell, numUsed might be pointing to an invalid memory address or uninitialized memory. The ArrayBase object is either improperly constructed or has been corrupted. This is as far as I could get.

[HISEnberg]

@Morphoice I am thinking it could be what you mentioned here, something fishy about using the Script Fx node. I experienced the same issues on Windows.

I just recompiled my wonderful delay example I posted her, moved it into a hardcoded fx node and it actually opened for me and works inside of Ableton.

[Straticah]

@HISEnberg i had this issue aswell when saving scriptnodes.

I think i fixed it by deleting the saved scriptnode and recompiling without the saved node again.

I guess you tried that already but there is definitely some error potential when saving scriptnodes instead of them being saved by HISE project.

[HISEnberg]

@Straticah Right, interesting. Is this causing the plugins to crash, or the HISE project to fail? Everything works fine for me inside of HISE, it's just compiled plugins that won't work

This is a pretty serious issue for me at the moment, I was surprised to find the issue has only come up for a few developers so far.

@Christoph-Hart I hate to bug you without having more information for you, but I thought you should be aware that I am experiencing consistent crashes across platforms/DAWs with scriptnode based projects. The hardcoded slot seems to be somewhat more stable but I haven't looked into this too much.

This is true on both the develop and master branch, I've rebuilt hise quite a number of times today.

David was kind enough to lead me in debugging in XCode but I couldn't find much useful information past what I have posted above. I'll post more if I can find anything.