Could somebody confirm please? Enter any song name in the Find Titles option of the Style Picker, then double-click on any of the items listed. Do you get a _CRYSTAL.STY popup message in the lower right corner of the screen? It does this for me in the 2025 version also.
BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.
Agreed. It is a perplexing message. It doesn't make any sense to me. I wonder if it is 'hard-coded' somehow? From further testing I do know it's been around for two major releases so far.
BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.
I just did a search in my BB directory for FlashMessageLog.txt and found 2 of them. One was dated 1/14/2026, which is today but the other one was dated 3/18/2025 and the file name was FlashMessageLog (Crystal Style).txt
I do remember looking at this problem back at that time so there might be an older post by me dated around that time period either because I ran into the same problem or someone back then posted about the same problem. I went and looked at all my posts but could not find anything that mentioned the problem around that time.
Here is the saved log message from 3/18/2025 and it looks the same as what AudioTrack is seeing now:
Running Windows Notepad.exe to display file C:\bb\Data\Logs\FlashMessageLog.txt [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:21:16 PM] _CRYSTAL.STY [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:20:48 PM] Running Windows Notepad.exe to display file C:\bb\Data\Logs\FlashMessageLog.txt [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:20:12 PM] Bootup was optimal, set to fast [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM] Bootup time in milliseconds =6,640 [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM] Time to scan unknown VST plugins = 1 ms [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM] Time to scan known VST plugins = 21 ms [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM] Time to scan AU plugins = 0 ms [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM] Time to scan ALL plugins = 22 ms [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM] Time to Count Plugins in ms =161. Plugins counted=58 [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM] Scanning for plugins... [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:54 PM] **** New Session started at : 3/18/2025 7:19:54 PM
Very Strange!
I too get the mysterious popup each time also.
This needs to be referred to the Developers.
Last edited by Joseph Land; 01/14/2603:00 PM.
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