I have had Studio One 5 Pro freeze a couple of times, and that seemed to be related to plugins. I just downloaded 7 and have had no issues after using it ten or fifteen times.

The crashes were few and far between. Sonar used to crash once in a while.

As I remember some of these issues came shortly after a Windows update.

I have never come up with a solid reason. It has happened only perhaps three or four times in my total history with Studio One.

Only once did a crash occur when I was about thirty tracks into something. That taught me a lesson and I now save frequently.
None of my standalone music software like Toontracks or Guitar Rig Pro has ever crashed. Well, BIAB has crashed once or twice over the years.

I do not ever remember having any sort of crash soon after cleaning up my drives and getting rid of junk.

I assume doing good housekeeping helps to reduce these issues. I use third-party software to scan the register which has worked well for me.

My best guess is plugins/software. I have at least 400 gigs of NI/Toontracks/Melodyne/ AutoTune and other assorted software.

None of this may be related to your issue thumper. I don't have a rocket ship but i9-9900 3.60 32 gigs RAM good SSD water cooling ect, so I don't think any crashes I have had are due to inadequate system hardware.

I would go look at your event log and also do some housekeeping and see if that helps. I have had pretty good luck with CleanMyPC. (chkdsk c:) if I remember correctly( f switch to auto fix) Do a disk check at the command line. Take a good look at the physical USB connections. They sometimes get worn if you use them a lot and can cause a disconnect and reconnect. With the machine off/unpluged move them in and out to remove oxidation on the contacts.
The chkdsk Command should return something like this



C:\Windows\System32>chkdsk c:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is DISK 2 970 EVO.

WARNING! /F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
1005824 file records processed.
File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 5.58 seconds.
33478 large file records processed.
Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 14.88 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed.
Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.15 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
3052 reparse records processed.
1384476 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
Phase duration (Index verification): 17.39 seconds.
0 unindexed files scanned.
Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 1.28 seconds.
0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 0.18 milliseconds.
3052 reparse records processed.
Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 10.58 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 283.07 milliseconds.
189327 data files processed.
Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.95 milliseconds.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
36820408 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Phase duration (USN journal verification): 82.53 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

972383283 KB total disk space.
838133440 KB in 491202 files.
435888 KB in 189328 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
1366571 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
132447384 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
243095820 total allocation units on disk.
33111846 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 24.66 seconds (24665 ms).

C:\Windows\System32>

The event viewer is a pretty deep rabbit hole. I have a CCIE friend to get to log on to my machine if I have real problems.

Happy Holidays,

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”