Desk crashing when saving show

With 48 effect playbacks, you might be running out of effect parameters. The effect playbacks are generic playback devices for effect parameters (similar to how a device is a playback for the parameters of a moving light or media server).

You only need enough effect playbacks for the maximum number of simultaneously running effects.
It sounds like you are making one effect playback for each effect that you have in your show, which might be streching the limits.

Would it be possible for you to reuse existing effect playbacks to achieve what you want? This would fit better with the concept of shared playbacks in Cobalt.

Thanks for the quick response, I thought this might be the case but it just seemed like quite a severe response from the desk. The nature of our show requires a certain amount of busking and so it has been helpful to have dedicated effects on each playback.

If that isn't posible, remeber you can make pallets of the Effects for fast recall. so if one effect only is used in the start you can change it quick by loading a new one in.