MPC 1.9.6 crashes attempting to scan VST's

I recently decided to use my Ren with my Surface Pro 3.

Having just reinstalled my OS (Windows 10) and bringing it fully up to date Anniversary Update and the accumulatives, I installed the MPC software, my DAW (Sonar Platinum with its plugin's), FL Studio, Addictive Drums 2, Massive 1.5.1, Rapture Pro and the UVI Workstation.

I also installed two of my Waves plugins (the NX, and TrueVerb). Attempting to scan instantly crashes the MPC and its scanner.

Even removing all VST's from the targeted folder, down the MPC's vst alone, fails to resolve this. I can empty the folder completely and the MPC still crashes! It seems the scanner is just crashing, even before it starts scanning... What's wrong here?

Change the text size in the control panel to 100% and then rescan. After the rescan you can change the text size back to 125% or where ever you had it.

This happens on all Windows tablets.

Event Viewer shows... a generic 1000 event code.

Faulting application name: MPC.exe, version: 1.9.6.1, time stamp: 0x57479b1e
Faulting module name: MPC.exe, version: 1.9.6.1, time stamp: 0x57479b1e
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00363dd3
Faulting process id: 0x540
Faulting application start time: 0x01d228b0312ac643
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Akai Pro\MPC\MPC.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Akai Pro\MPC\MPC.exe
Report Id: 57679925-9db7-4b63-b06b-fdca1b831e43
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

kaydigi wrote:Change the text size in the control panel to 100% and then rescan. After the rescan you can change the text size back to 125% or where ever you had it.

This happens on all Windows tablets.

I'll try that, thanks

Don't know if it's a mac only issue but there is also an issue with waves where you have to authorise them on v1. 6 then install the latest version of mpc.

LabDog wrote:

kaydigi wrote:Change the text size in the control panel to 100% and then rescan. After the rescan you can change the text size back to 125% or where ever you had it.

This happens on all Windows tablets.

I'll try that, thanks

kaydigi Thank You, that was it!!! freakin scaling!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!

greavous420 wrote:Don't know if it's a mac only issue but there is also an issue with waves where you have to authorise them on v1. 6 then install the latest version of mpc.

kaydigi's suggestion did get me past the instant crashing, but the Waves stuff is crashing every time I scan the shell, maybe this is an issue with Windows too... I'll try it

LabDog wrote:

greavous420 wrote:Don't know if it's a mac only issue but there is also an issue with waves where you have to authorise them on v1. 6 then install the latest version of mpc.

kaydigi's suggestion did get me past the instant crashing, but the Waves stuff is crashing every time I scan the shell, maybe this is an issue with Windows too... I'll try it

I never could fix the Waves issue, I just stopped using them completely.

kaydigi wrote:

LabDog wrote:

greavous420 wrote:Don't know if it's a mac only issue but there is also an issue with waves where you have to authorise them on v1. 6 then install the latest version of mpc.

kaydigi's suggestion did get me past the instant crashing, but the Waves stuff is crashing every time I scan the shell, maybe this is an issue with Windows too... I'll try it

I never could fix the Waves issue, I just stopped using them completely.

That's kinda messed up though... and what's worst is now, the MPC is the only software I've used that can't run Waves plugins and it also is the only one I can't get to load my KORG plugins in 64bit. Granted, KORG's stuff is old, but all my other hosts can run them without issue, particularly the LegacyCell.

I was gonna try the 1.6 idea, but AKAI's site has just stopped logging me in now, for some reason...

kaydigi, there's only one issue with the fix you showed me, the scaling on the plugin windows are now off, like they are stuck to the 100% setting and there's all this space around them...

You have to change the text back to whatever the default setting was. On my tablet it was 125%

kaydigi wrote:You have to change the text back to whatever the default setting was. On my tablet it was 125%

I actually did change the text back, that's when I noticed it causing the plugins to display with extra black borders on the right-hand sides... the Surface Pro 3 defaults to 150%, I changed the text to 100 as you said, and the scan worked. But after changing it back to 150, I get big black borders around the plugins, and it only happens with the MPC.

kaydigi wrote:

LabDog wrote:

greavous420 wrote:Don't know if it's a mac only issue but there is also an issue with waves where you have to authorise them on v1. 6 then install the latest version of mpc.

kaydigi's suggestion did get me past the instant crashing, but the Waves stuff is crashing every time I scan the shell, maybe this is an issue with Windows too... I'll try it

I never could fix the Waves issue, I just stopped using them completely.

Damn. Yeah I delete mpc.app and then install 1.6.
scan plugins.
Test them to make sure they are there and work.
Install latest version of mpc.
Next time you get a new plugin(unless it is another waves) press 'scan new' and it skips out anything already there so you don't have to repeat the whole process.

So I tried scanning the Waves plugs with 1.6, then moving up to 1.9.6 and that mess worked... Good Stuff greavous420!!! Akai seriously needs to get this problem dealt with properly though!

Did you get the black border situation fixed?