Odd behviour in Arena 4 & 5 after installing 5

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knappy
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Odd behviour in Arena 4 & 5 after installing 5

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I installed the new version. Let arena 5 copy over my 4 compositions. Opened my coposition and seemed to work fine. If I change to a tab(page) in my composition, everything continues to load fine but switching back arena 5 completely freezes loading my first layer which happens to be a bunch of syphon cells. I have to force quit.

For giggles I rebooted and went back to arena 4 opening the original composition. Same exact behaviour.
Syphon content is coming from Mix Emergency which is running no problem even when arena freezes.
Never had the issue until installing Arena 5.
Mid 2015 MBP 16GB Ram i7 2.8
Yosemite.

Anyone else experience the same issue?

knappy
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Re: Odd behviour in Arena 4 & 5 after installing 5

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Just want to add...
When using the syphon input seems to be when I am experiencing the issue. If I use the old Mix Emergency Quartz Composer, it works fine. Is there a way to check the version of Syphon?

knappy
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Re: Odd behviour in Arena 4 & 5 after installing 5

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Sharing my findings.

I had an entire layer of the same syphon input with each cell having different effects. I've never had a problem before with it and didn't have a problem until I clicked away to another tab and then back to the tab with the all the syphon layers.

Not saying this was the best layout...

So I added a layer blow and had only 1 syphon input. Then replaced all the syphon cells with layer router (specifying the layer with the clean syphon input). Ran for ~ 60 minutes with various pages etc and seems like the problem went away. Opened the old project and same issue was happening.
Again, never had an issue before with that composition. Going to guess something else besides Arena5 is the culprit. :-)

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