Pianissimo (Acoustica) crashes Reaper 3.51

-Reaper 3.51 -Windows XP SP3 Had the trial version of pianissimo running first. when it expired, projects with pianissimo involved would all crash Reaper at startup. Bought the full version. deinstalled trial, installed full version, problem not resolved. Acoustica suppott tells me, p. might be incompatible with Reaper. Since pianissimo is the only good sounding piano plug-in in that price region (tascam cv also crashes Reaper), it would be really nice the problem could be solved! Thanks and cheers, m

OK, Acoustica says, Pianissimo requires 250 megabytes of contiguous memory in order to load. Therefore it has to be loaded as the first VSTn in a new project.

Dear reaper guys, can anybody take a look at this and help me? Acoustica won't pay me back. They say, that Pianissimo usually runs fine in Reaper and tell me to buy Mixcraft in case it won't run. I located the Reaper crash log finally. It's in german, but anyway. Fehlgeschlagene Anwendung reaper.exe, Version 3.5.2.4, fehlgeschlagenes Modul pianissimo.dll, Version 1.0.0.12, Fehleradresse 0x0000aa36. Thanks a lot! m

Finally, a crash log! :) Alas that's only pointing to the plugin for now. - No other plugins in the project? - Have you tried running it "firewalled"?

here's the pianissimo log file ...

"Firewalled" means you can right-click the plugin in the FX browser and select to run it in a "separate" process (one extra-process for all FX you load this way or "dedicated" (one process per plugin). This is good for crashy plugins and even if they still crash, they won't take Reaper down that easy. The log file is probably hard to interpret for anyone but the Acoustica guys, apart from some "Hadn't failed before" (whatever that means) it looks like the whole thing is loading before crashing. I saw your thread on their support forums, is it possible that the trial version wasn't uninstalled properly and interferes now? If I understood that right, the demo ran fine, right? It would also be great to have another user of that plugin chiming in, if there are any. You could try VSTHost/MiniHost/whatever in lieu of Mixcraft and check if it runs in them.

no dedicated and no seperated process possible. Reaper keeps crashing.

I'd uninstall Pianissimo, back up my registry, then run regedit and delete all traces of Pianissimo, then reinstall. Manually deleting is easier than running a registry cleaner in this case.

Ok at least it crashes consistently. Did you also try "buggy plugin compatibility mode"? I'm not sure if the plugin uses the registry at all. If you never did something like that, it could be a bit risky to edit the registry. The general procedure is using the search function to find the "Acoustica" key (if any, could be called differently or missing completely) and other occurrences of the plugin filename and the path to it and deleting them. Since we don't know what we're looking for, it's all hit or miss. Acoustica should know what keys and files would be to delete.

Got a refund. Maybe I'll try some other software.