Studio Pro crashing on ARA

[gabo]

I have a very large file, from a live show so it's 14 tracks of audio that's over 2 hours long. I spent 4 or 5 hours working on tracks in Melodyne, all worked ok. I finished my session, saved the file and closed Studio Pro without a problem.

Now today, I can't open the file. It gets to "loading melodyne" and goes to about 48 percent, then jumps to 96 percent, then just crashes. When I opened it again, I can choose options to disable. If I disable ARA, then it opens fine, but of course I don't have all my melodyne edits.

If I then go back and open it with ARA enabled, it crashes again.

Is there a way to start ARA after you've loaded the file? I also tried removing the cache folder (copied it to another location), but that didn't do anything.

Is there any way around this? Of course I can start over, I have a backup of the original files, or I can probably save it again with ARA off and recover it from there. But I will lose about 5 hours of work!! Very frustrating, it's a long and complex file with lots of tedious work already done on it, to start over gives me major heartburn.

 

[Stuart Welwood]

What happens if you try to edit one of the tracks with Melodyne with ARA turned off? Is that even an option?

 

[gabo]

What happens if you try to edit one of the tracks with Melodyne with ARA turned off? Is that even an option?

No, it acts like melodyne is not installed. And of course that wouldn't help anyway as I would still lose all my edits. But an interesting question..

I haven't tried, but I assume that once it's opened without ARA I can save it to another folder or even save it to the same folder, then reopen it with ARA turned on and then edit it.

That would actually be better than starting from the backup as I did do other things as well with some plugins, eq, levels, etc... So better than nothing, but the vast majority of the time was spent editing with melodyne.


UPDATE: I saved it to a new folder and was able to open it with ARA enabled. And melodyne was still installed on the tracks it was on before, but I lost all my edits and it also analyzed the tracks with the default algorithm. So just like you put melodyne on the tracks fresh. I still have the old folder if anyone has a magical way to get that to open and salvage my edits. Otherwise, I'll do all the edits again and this time I'll bounce the tracks before I save/close. Which sucks because if I have further editing to do I'll have to add melodyne again and re-analyze the track and bounce again. Not a great solution, but workable.