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Have spent the better part of the evening trying to figure this one out. Seems when DP launches it scans the plugs. When it gets to the MAS folder, it freezes on the last one in the folder. Have moved 'em to Trash but then the one above it causes a freeze. Get a message "The audio hardware did not respond. (MotuAudioSystemMas MasCoreAudioWork Thread cpp, 145 957:0j)" Asks me to click on Hardware or Studio Setup.
If I click either it's just a vicious cycle. Seems to be stuck loading MAS plugins.

Anyone seen this before? Have submitted to MOTU but need to help a DP7 buddy in the a.m. who just bought/loaded Komplete 9. (Total newbie to vi's.) I've rebuilt permissions, run Disk Warrior and re-installed DP 7.24--nothing. Suggestions?

Problem vanished.

Might have been communication between Tascam FW-1884 and DP. Only thing I didn't do while trouble shooting was turn it on/off. Doh!

There are times when, after a software, OS or hardware upgrade, DP may lose the path to plugins. When/if that happens, they need to be reestablished with a reinstall.

With DP 7, run the uninstaller from the CD before a reinstall. With DP 8, just reinstall - there is no uninstaller and none seems to be necessary.

Since I sometimes have to test software, this has happened to me a few times, most recently with the OS 10.9.1 update.