Anyone else find the Command Centre tedious?

What I notice is this is depending on your internet connection. 
At home it is painfully slow and CCC takes a good 15 minutes at first and then 5 or more minutes between each item I install. Very frustrating. So I just don't use it at home. 
 
I take my Laptop to work and update everything then copy the CCC download folder to my main DAW and then run CC. It's speeds things up but it's still slow. 
 
I am just now using it at work where they have a good hi speed connection and the wait times are very short,,, huge differance.
 
But it would be nice to have more control over what the scan does and why it needs to re scan the same things each time is stupid. 
 
What would be nice is a way to only scan for what your wanting that day. 
Example 
Home Studio-
                options- check for updates
                             uninstal 
                             roll back to 

Depending from the current light conditions, I still have to click on each item individually to see it is updatable or not (colors have similar lumi).
With scanning, I can wail... that is called "modern programming" (make it 100 times slower and 10 times bigger, people believe the thing is actual and serious, make something under 1MB and running with the speed of light and everyone complain that is from 20th century and just a toy  )

NO! I LOVE it! it's way better then say IK's activation nightmare. That's way I stopped buying IK and went to Waves!
it's great! SO, why is this thread! ? lol just kidding... maybe it can be improved but I don't see it... that's my problem :P)  

I also hate how the CC takes so long to scan everything. Surely there must be a faster way of doing this - I'm no programmer, but I should imagine that the version state of all of my Cakewalk products could be stored in just a few bytes of information, and that this info could be uploaded and checked against the current version statuses of the products in a fraction of a second. Instead it seems to go through each and every product in turn, putting on its glasses, lighting its pipe and saying "Let's see now..." and it takes forever. 
 
I might be wrong but I'm sure there was a time a year or so ago when the CC used to scan my products a LOT faster.

Considering it takes me over an hour to download and install it, and then still have to install the actual music software; and that I can download and install Reaper in two minutes, I would have to say yes, I do find Command Center tedious.

I never had this issue with CCC, works very fast for me. But my internet speed is about 120MBS.

I'm OK with it, no major problems here.  Pretty speedy Internet service so that helps.

chuckebaby

michael diemer
Considering it takes me over an hour to download and install it, and then still have to install the actual music software; and that I can download and install Reaper in two minutes, I would have to say yes, I do find Command Center tedious.

That sounds like an internet connection problem, not a command center problem.
Downloading new Sonar updates takes about 20 minutes here and im on a slow connection (700kbps).
Installation takes less than 2 minutes and its done automatically through Command Center.
 
FYI- Reaper is like 30MB. Sonar is almost 20X times that size (almost 500MB).
So kind of an redundant example.
 
My gripe is opening command center and waiting 4 minutes for it to load my products.
the same products I've used for the last 3 years (except the newest sonar updates)

700? You call that slow? Mine is about 465. Yeah, maybe that's the problem...
 
Valid point about Reaper, it is small. Still, it's really gratifying to "update" so quickly. I did it last night, took me, well, two minutes. But then Reaper is unique in a lot of ways.

michael diemer

chuckebaby

michael diemer
Considering it takes me over an hour to download and install it, and then still have to install the actual music software; and that I can download and install Reaper in two minutes, I would have to say yes, I do find Command Center tedious.

That sounds like an internet connection problem, not a command center problem.
Downloading new Sonar updates takes about 20 minutes here and im on a slow connection (700kbps).
Installation takes less than 2 minutes and its done automatically through Command Center.
 
FYI- Reaper is like 30MB. Sonar is almost 20X times that size (almost 500MB).
So kind of an redundant example.
 
My gripe is opening command center and waiting 4 minutes for it to load my products.
the same products I've used for the last 3 years (except the newest sonar updates)

700? You call that slow? Mine is about 465. Yeah, maybe that's the problem...
 
Valid point about Reaper, it is small. Still, it's really gratifying to "update" so quickly. I did it last night, took me, well, two minutes. But then Reaper is unique in a lot of ways.

Reaper is a great DAW. Just cant compare it to sonar. They are 2 different animals.

 
The program doesn't "assume" that all the products are the same as the last scan.  It may very well be (and probably is for most) but if it "assumed" you know what that means.  By doing the Scan when it starts, it has the full list of what is installed and what version. It can then check that against the database.  How it does that maybe could be improved.  The local scan time is dependent on the PC's speed, SSD or hard drive access speed, etc.  Since part of it is on line, the internet speed to the ISP, the ISP to the "cloud", traffic on the cloud and on the link to the Cakewalk server and how busy the Cakewalk server is at that time will affect how long it takes.  Many variables just to check and time to do this can vary - and be different each time.  
 
Keep in mind your ISP link speed, is just that - the speed between your ISP and your modem.  What happens between the ISP and the "cloud" can be a bottleneck depending on their link(s) to the web,  and the data link(s) that Cakewalk (their site host) have and as noted will vary with how busy the web is.
 
I'm a retired LAN/WAN Network Manager.  Network data loads, line loads etc were constantly monitored and action taken if needed on overloaded lines.   

Dave I love it " Tedious...compared to what? Having your teeth cleaned? "
 
When the CCC first came out , the very thought of it Rocked my boat and had me upset .
Thankfully my opinion has changed .
Overall I'm pretty satisfied with how well it has performed and I would not want to go back to pre CCC 
 
Kenny
 

I download the installers, much better method for me than Command Center.
 
The program itself is a waste of a download, IMO.

I'm now trying to update my Main DAW at home on the slower connection,,, It's like out to lunch slow. ANd because its so slow I'm watching the text scroll,, I saw Melodyne 5 times, I saw the Big fish 3 times I saw Sonar Professional 3 times??? this is after I waited 15 minutes , updated Sonar Splat which did so instantly because I had the files already in the download folder, I made the mistake of asking it to hide something now its been 5 minutes re scanning and re scanning the same things over and over,, I certainly did not have any experience like this at work on my laptop. I was done in 30 minutes including downloads,,, here all the downlaods are done and stored. Installs are super quick. . 
 
And where is any option to update CCC, there's nothing under the gear icon? Mine is obviously way out of date. 
 
OK it finally returned to the main screen and I see there is no way to hide Big Fish globally ( totally not interested) but you can try and hide each child folder. But that's buggy as all hell, It goes round and round and then you get a weird screen asking to download,, it's not the regular screen at all. Then I'm back to the wheel going round and round for 15 minutes.
 
It's the weekend so I won't be able to test this out on the laptop until next week.. but this really sucks on this computer. 
 
Oh great,,, as I was typing CCC crashed! 
 
I think I'll go have a drink!