Trouble-shooting→Software→Renoise→General
Renoise doesn’t load songs correctly or crashes during songload
There might be a few cases playing along here:
- Your song contains corrupted data
- One of your plugins became corrupted or the data it tries to load became corrupted
- Your songfile structure has been tampered with
- You currently have a song in memory consuming a large amount of memory and trying to load a new song into memory needing more than is left.
We’re going by them one by one:
- Corrupted data is never funny, it can happen though, true causes of the corruption are unlikely to be found unless you are capable of reproducing these from scratch. If you seriously desire to have the contents restored, you can always submit your songfile to any member of the Renoise team so it can be investigated. We do favor if you could remember what you did before you saved the song the last time before you loaded it up.
- Corrupted plugins are tracable by temporary create an empty VST plugin folder and configure Renoise to point to that folder. Add required plugins one by one until your songfile crashes during loading. Try to instantiate the plugin in a clean environment, if that works out, try to instantiate it with the other plugins to see if there might be a memory-conflict or other conflict that causes Renoise to crash. If it still does not crash, it might be a parameter misunderstood:submit the song-file to the Renoise team for investigation.
- Tampered songfile structure in most cases we aim for third party tools that have processed your song-file to do something with it. We highly recommend to make a backup of your songfile before letting any third party utility perform actions upon it. Macking a backup also goes for saving your song before loading a Renoise instrument that has been modified or created in a third party tool etc. As soon as a third party tool is involved, there is no best-effort support for recovery of your song-file from the Renoise team. You are allowed to modify your songfiles and instrument files manually or by means of external utilities but we make you aware of the risks. No backup means no recovery options.
- When a song is in memory, Renoise does not clear it’s songenvironment to make room for a new song, there are specific reasons for that to keep Renoise stabile. However it might be that if you load up one memory muncher across another, you run out of memory and strange problems may arise. It may not always be Renoise that causes the crash as it can be a plugin as well who throws the towel in the ring and take anything else down with it. The best advise with large songs or songs loading up VSTI’s and VST samplers that load up a lot of content, is to make sure you start with a clean song environment. (lctrl-lshift-n)