OMG Please help! VST Instruments stop outputting sound!

[drakem]

First thing calm down . Computers and software are machines not ghosts. Where there is a problem there is a solution.
Common troubleshooting:.
1. Did you change something. New hardware? New software?. New gadget connected to you DAW?. Any changes in you OS?
2. If not. Everything legal there?(sorry, it is a common problem).
3. Now you can go deeper. Is MIDI working properly?. I dont know OSX but there must be MIDI monitoring soft like MidiOX. Just check if it works.
4. VST might be triggered but maybe the your controller/keyboard freaks out. Check again with any MIDI tool.
5. Next would be hardware. MAC users will help.
Hope this helps. Good Luck

[Azamat Bagatov]

Yes, everything is legal but I have some plugins that were left on the computer by the person I purchased it from. I didn't have any issues before. I said in another post which nobody answered that I took out every plugin and out them in one by one... twice. First time everything seemed to work but after a while, it went back to the same problem. It's not a MIDI issue as I have multiple MIDI controllers and the sound gets cut out completely and there is no transient as would be the case if the MIDI stopped working. And, like I said, if I change the patch, the sound comes back but disappears again after a few seconds.

Thanks for your help, and yeah its not a ghost but if I have to reinstall everything and the operating system, I'd rather see a ghost.

[Azamat Bagatov]

Bump...

[Azamat Bagatov]

Ok new revelation.

Today, or right now I should say, the plugins are working fine but I noticed the same thing happen in Reason!

I made an entire song and at the end, I added an NN19 sampler and loaded up a sample. While I started playing around the sound suddenly dropped again, but this time I saw what happend! It's like the volume fader was automated and suddenly, out of the blue, the fader was turned down.

I then turned it up, still while the song was playing... the fader stayed up for 3 seconds, and turned itself back down. So, there is a GHOST in my computer....

Man, this issue is really beating me up right now. I don't know what's going on really, but at least I'm noticing it in all these audio applications. It's very very strange.

Wonder if my computer got a virus? It's a Mac, but who knows.