Serious problem with Tonex in Fender Studio Pro

An important session in Studio Pro would not open, it stalled at loading a plugin. If I deleted that plugin, it just stalled at another plugin … Even if I opened an older version of the session, as soon as I had saved it, the older session too would not open. I spent a full day trying to recover that session. Finally I asked ChatGPT, and we found out that Tonex 2.02 was the problem. As soon as it was removed my session would load normally. Here is the message from ChatGPT:

Studio Pro 8.1.2 / macOS 26.5.2: session containing TONEX 2.0.2 can become unloadable after saving. During loading, Studio Pro appears to stall on apparently unrelated third-party plug-ins. Activity Monitor Sample Process shows the main thread blocked inside TONEX. Removing TONEX makes the session load normally and the subsequently saved session remains loadable.

Same here on v7.2.3,the final Presonus build,on Win 10.Hopefully as it’s still at Beta stage,the devs will address the problem before the full version is released.

Correct TONEX 2.0.x is beta software. Please note that you may likely experience bugs in beta software and it is not recommended to run in your production environment if you are actively using TONEX for projects, etc.

Please use the official beta thread for feedback and issues with the beta. Thank you.