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Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:44 pm
by GothamHero
When I go to make a new preset, Ableton becomes unresponsive and crashes :c

Anyone else experience this problem, or know how to deal with it?

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:46 pm
by Heartless
inb4 "PIRATE!!"

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:49 pm
by GothamHero
I actually bought Kontakt 4 too, and Massive has been working since forever. Now it's crapping up ):

I'm glad I didn't torrent it, now I'm able to complain in the NI forum.

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:59 pm
by wormcode
GothamHero wrote: I'm glad I didn't torrent it, now I'm able to complain in the NI forum.
Good luck! I know 3 different people trying to get NI to care enough to respond to them online right now. If I were you, I'd go straight for a phone call, don't bother with the forum.

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:47 pm
by matb123
Hi pal, I used to have the same problem in Ableton. Everytime i tried to apply an LFO or envelope ableton would just shut down without warning, I had a search around on the internet and found this which worked for me...

The trick is to delete the user database file @

E:\Documents and Settings\******\Local Settings\Application Data\Native Instruments\Massive\

Hope this helps mate!

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:50 pm
by Gurnumsbug
^ delete this file NIMassiveDataBase_ul
Open the standalone and have it make a new database...
Problem solved

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:13 am
by GothamHero
matb123 wrote:Hi pal, I used to have the same problem in Ableton. Everytime i tried to apply an LFO or envelope ableton would just shut down without warning, I had a search around on the internet and found this which worked for me...

The trick is to delete the user database file @

E:\Documents and Settings\******\Local Settings\Application Data\Native Instruments\Massive\

Hope this helps mate!
I don't normally want to marry people I meet on the Internet, but you sir are an exceptions. Thanks a lot, that solved the problem c:

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:51 am
by amphibian
Doesn't that generally happen after patching.etc?

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:22 am
by wub
wormcode wrote:
GothamHero wrote: I'm glad I didn't torrent it, now I'm able to complain in the NI forum.
Good luck! I know 3 different people trying to get NI to care enough to respond to them online right now. If I were you, I'd go straight for a phone call, don't bother with the forum.

Weird, when I had an issue installing Massive, NI responded to my email in less than 12hrs :?

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:55 am
by wormcode
wub wrote:
wormcode wrote:
GothamHero wrote: I'm glad I didn't torrent it, now I'm able to complain in the NI forum.
Good luck! I know 3 different people trying to get NI to care enough to respond to them online right now. If I were you, I'd go straight for a phone call, don't bother with the forum.
Weird, when I had an issue installing Massive, NI responded to my email in less than 12hrs :?
What was the response? One got a response quickly, but it was an email with a link to the FAQ :/ AFAIK he used the official support contact form on the site, the others used only the forum.
The other guy gave up and formatted and started fresh, not sure what happened with the other.

Their forums seem like a ghost town as far as actual employees are concerned, but the users that post there have said just call up their German or US headquarters instead of waiting for forum responses. There were quite a few displeased forum posts there though.

Personally it has me a bit wary about upgrading as all 3 of those issues arose from update problems, but they could just be dumb too tbh. Could be user error, I dunno.

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:22 am
by Dooomsday
Anybody know the location for the file for Windows 7 64-bit?

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:24 am
by MaZa1
Dooomsday wrote:Anybody know the location for the file for Windows 7 64-bit?
I think its C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Native Instruments\Massive
Remember to unhide your hidden folders to see that appdata folder

Re: Massive keeps crashing my Ableton

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:13 am
by Dooomsday
MaZa1 wrote:I think its C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Native Instruments\Massive
Remember to unhide your hidden folders to see that appdata folder
Found it! Thanks!