One of the troubleshooting methods I used was to temporarily run through a USB soundcard, an RME babyface. That device is able to automatically change it's sample rate settings, and able to run at 44.1.

When using the DAW plugin there are certain times when the crashes happen, for instance when trying to select a style. At those times, when using the babyface, immediately after going to the styles page, the studio one project had then changed its sample rate from 96 to 44.1.

When using my production devices which can't do 44.1, at those same times, the system crashes.

The reason my production devices won't do 44.1 is that I am using doubled ADAT SMUX to run at 96K. Once that goes into effect, you can't get back down to 44.1.