Hi.
I have had this problem pretty much with both VEP6 and 7 since forever, that sometimes some projects will hang while loading. And I can always boil it down to happening when initializing/loading something containing East West PLAY or Orchestral Tools SINE player. It doesn't happen every time I load that project, but maybe 30% of the time I have to force quit VEP and reload, and then it will work the 2nd or 3rd time.
Is this something you at VSL would look into, or is it something I have to take up with the developers of those plugins?
I am on Mac by the way.