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I want to add an update: I downgraded to 1.1.1 and I can confirm that for my system re-importing the same partials does not cause a crash. 1.0 also works fine.

Importing a single partial folder works, a folder with more than one partial crashes the DAW

Environment:

  • Ableton Live 12.2.6, Ableton Live Beta 12.3b13
  • Sumu 1.1.3, Vutu 0.9.9
  • VST3
  • Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC

Steps to reproduce:
1. import a folder directory that has more than one .utu file in it

Reproducibility:
Every time. It doesn't matter if I'm trying to overwrite an existing import directory, or if I've deleted all imports and try to import fresh

Expected result:
The utu files would be imported and converted correctly

Actual result:
Two different version of ableton crash

Evidence:
Would have to capture video to show the crash

Attempted Solutions:

  • multiple folder configurations and different directory depths
  • eliminated all non-letter characters from file names
  • create additional .utu's in case of corruption

Additional Comments:
The pain of renavigating directories made this very frustrating to test. The entire import process is frankly bad. I'm not excited to do future testing or imports.

Doing more testing I can't even add a single .utu file now, after clearing the folder. Nothing in the environment has changed but something that worked before is now not working. I'm at a loss, but sumu crashes the DAW every time it tries to import now.

Edit: After a complete uninstall of Sumu and deletion of its app data, I was able to import a folder with two .utu files in it. I then tried to reimport the same folder after adding a third file, and it crashed the DAW again. So something is permanently breaking with the importer until a fresh install, or something like that

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