VIPSoundCircle
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Cakewalk needs to concentrate on STABILITY instead of a bunch of new features.
Cakewalk crashed on my NINE TIMES during our session tonight. Our session took MUCH longer than expected.
However, this is nothing new for Cakewalk. That's the reason why it's sometimes given the dubious moniker, CakeCrash.
This is the reason why people use Protools. Because it's STABLE and RELIABLE and WORKS.
Cakewalk is a dog of a program and a nightmare to use simply because you end up losing work and progress if you're not hitting the save button every 10 seconds. Cakewalk leads to frusteration because it just can't walk in a straight line!
This is partly because the Windows platform is *NOT* condusive to doing ANYTHING creative. Windows is only good for checking email and chatting with friends. NOT for professional audio production.
These are the reason that Cakewalk, as powerful as it is, will NEVER see the light of day in a serious studio situation where DEADLINES and DEMANDS have to be met. It just can't cut the mustard in the realm of stability. Windows is cheap and trite and does nothing for serious audio professionals....yet Cakewalk continues to market for the platform. But to be honest....Cakewalk crashes far more than Protools on Windows....so maybe it isn't as much windows as it is Cakewalk.
Developers, listen. Get your heads out of the clouds and LISTEN: You have every feature you will ever need. STOP with the feature creep and just MAKE SOMETHING STABLE.
I'm sick of seeing my screen suddenly fade to white (Windows 7) and then asks me if I want to wait for the program to respond or crash. I'm sick of seeing Unhandled Exceptions, driver mishaps and sudden shutdowns when I'm using this program.
I'm using SONAR 8.3.2 - but I will NOT buy SONAR X1 until I am shown that it can be used in a session without shutting down every 15 minutes.
And it isn't my plugins. I use WAVES plugins almost exclusively and I've NEVER had ANY problems with them in ProTools.
I've been using Cakewalk for 10 years (since Pro Audio 9) and have just been fed up with all the bugginess. It's ease of use and power is what keeps me using it since it makes up for all the bugs. However, with other DAWS that are MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more stable than Cakewalk....it's hard not to get jealous....I just don't have the time to sit down and learn another DAW, and ProTools's MIDI isn't very good.
And why haven't you guys made a Mac version to this? No one in the professional audio world uses buggy, unstable crash-prone Windows. Wake up!
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THambrecht
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Re:Cakewalk needs to concentrate on STABILITY instead of a bunch of new features.
2011/08/10 05:47:18
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We digitize tapes and vinyl records with sonar. We do this professional for thousends of customers. Sonar and Windows 7 are absolut stable. We are working with plugins from Waves, iZotope and many other. I think Sonar is one of the best and fastest audio-editor. I have 20 to 40 hours of audio in ONE project. No crash - no problem. Working with pure audio is absolutely OK.
Problems occur only, when you load virtual synthesizers. Then you will have crashs all 15 to 60 minutes. Yesterday it crashed 2 minutes after loading Vienna. Changing a screenset crashes SONAR, but only when there ist a vst-synth loaded. Therefor making music with SONAR is stressful.
But I earn my money with audio restoration, therefor SONAR is powerful.
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Bristol_Jonesey
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Re:Cakewalk needs to concentrate on STABILITY instead of a bunch of new features.
2011/08/10 06:03:30
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If you're experiencing crashes & lockups in 8.3.2 then the recommended solution is to upgrade to 8.5.3
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Beagle
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Re:Cakewalk needs to concentrate on STABILITY instead of a bunch of new features.
2011/08/10 06:27:13
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Actually, you didn't say what soundcard you're using. MOST of sonar crashes are due to soundcard drivers or due to plugins.
Digital Performer is a good mac program. but they're not PC. it goes both ways. pick the one you like.
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stratman70
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Re:Cakewalk needs to concentrate on STABILITY instead of a bunch of new features.
2011/08/10 08:06:55
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Another stupid, uneducated remark about Macs are the best and windows sucks-Bull-. What a moronic statement.
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BlixYZ
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Re:Cakewalk needs to concentrate on STABILITY instead of a bunch of new features.
2011/08/10 08:07:38
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it's a little hard to take this post seriously because its so trollish, but
if i had been having crashes with sonar since proaudio 9, i would have left years ago.
i personally run a studio that DOEs have deadlines and demands. i have protools 8 and sonar X1. i HATE using protools because of how unstable it is on my system. for me, sonar crashes are rare- and I use all Sonars tools, not just audio.
i will concede this: it occured to me that vst instruments run mre stably when u dont use the synth rack, but instead just load them in an audio track. therefore i have stopped using synth rack.
as far as mac and protools not crashing, you need to visit other studios more often. I have been present for crashes on all platforms, even in big studios.
if u are having more than one crash per week (and on 8.5 for that matter) something is wrong on ur system/hardware.
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FastBikerBoy
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Re:Cakewalk needs to concentrate on STABILITY instead of a bunch of new features.
2011/08/10 08:39:42
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I know what I'd have done by now if I'd have had 10 years of nothing but bugs and crashes...... and it wouldn't involve being on the Cakewalk forums........... 
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