Hey Guys,
I bought a PO16 controller to use it with VCV Rack 2 and faced a serious problem with VCV rack constantly crashing.
Configuration:
Intech PO16 via USB C connected
VCV Rack 2.5 or also 2.4.1 testet
VCV Rack default patch
Intel Mac Book Pro 16 Zoll 2019 mit Intel core i7
VCV Rack crashes immediately after connecting the PO16, independent of the patch loaded. Connecting the PO16 to the Mac when VCV Rack runs lead to the same crash. The PO16 is working on the Mac in general in other software or MIDI monitoring tools. Interestingly connecting the PO16 to another Mac and using the MIDI tools of the Mac over a network session allows to use the PO16 in VCV rack. Using it over another Mac is possible but very unusable for me.
Does anybody experience the same or even have an idea how to solve it?
It is currently a known issue that VCV crashes with Grid. We have reported it personally to VCV and they have confirmed the bug and are currently working on it. Our last contact has been more than a month ago now, I will send them a message to get and update about this fix.
Sadly they have no public platform where you could follow their progress on bug, otherwise I would link it here.
Here’s what I got after checking back with VCV support about our inquiry:
We have recently had a couple users who report that enabling ‘Input Monitoring’ security access for the VCV Rack app in macOS system settings resolves the issue for them. We have asked several other users who reported the problem in the past few months to try this and are awaiting their responses before concluding that this does indeed resolve the issue. If you could try it and let us know if it works there, it would be appreciated.
If you could try this solution and see if it helps you, it would be valuable feedback to us and them, but aside from this, I have no updates.