This started this past week with v26 out of the blue after working great for the entirety of my use. I opened Finale and when I pressed play or chose Audio Units & Banks from the menu to load the sounds for the file, Finale would "think" for a bit and then crash. I was using a combination of SmartMusic softsynth and the latest version of Kontakt. Once again, this all worked just fine last week. I thought maybe the upgrade to V27 would fix the issue, so I purchased the upgrade and right from the install, the same issue. I have followed the recommended answer to this issue with V25, by removing all plugins from the components folder except the native Finale plugins. This did not resolve the issue. I then started with just Kontakt. Which resolved the issue for a couple opens and plays. However, after a close and reopen a couple hours later with only Kontakt in the plugin folder, the crash happened again. Several restarts of the computer later and it runs until I close the file, then crashes upon next file.

This is very frustrating as I am in the middle of a time sensitive project and now have lost 2 days trying to fix this issue. I use this computer for all music production, so there are over 800 plugins installed.

I'm running 2017 iMac 5k, Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6, 64GB RAM, Finale v26 & v27.