1) if your internet ever cuts out, It just dies in a fire, can't do a thing, even if you have your complete set of downloads.
2) "Install All" does not install all. It installs all of some small subsection, meaning you still have to baby sit installations for hours!
3) Even when "verbose install" is turned off, it'll not only throw little dialogs up in the center of the screen, where YOU are trying to do something else, like some work... it'll also every so often have a box where you must click "OK" for it to even continue. And of all the little boxes, those are the ones that don't force focus, but sit behind whatever software you're using. So "Commander" just sits there silently, while you think its taking care of business.
4) given this needlessly lengthy process, Its really bad, that it again waits for you to click proceed, before it goes through checking again and again and again if there's been any new updates after every single component installation.
Guys, you're not coming up with new updates on an hourly basis, so can we stop this nonsense?
5) I don't know if there's going to be a single Cakewalk Customer that is going to watch this entire process without trying to do something productive with their time. So we move the Cakewalk Commander window to one side of the screen, where we can see it but where it doesn't disturb our work. And what happens every time Commander finishes checking for updates? It automatically and annoyingly centers itself in the screen, so we have to move it out of the way again every time.
6) It doesn't think I own ZT3A 2, possibly because I bought that on Steam. Can you make it recognize our software no matter where it was bought, please?
How can the same company who makes the greatly streamlined Sonar UI produce an installer like this?
It doesn't even deserve the name "assistant", calling it "commander" is preposterous. It commands nothing, its just primitive and the opposite of practical too many details. Even the launcher/patcher of Star Citizen's early alpha beats it.
A one star Chinese hand-vacuum from Amazon with 2 minute battery life would be less annoying.
Calling any program like this "commander" is like a misleading mission statement. If it was called "Cakewalk Butler" then the programmers would have the right idea about how it should work in their minds from the start: an obsequious servant program aiming to please by doing its thing unobtrusively.
I'm sorry to pan your installer, but can you please just fix and streamline it before I pull all my hair out? How about this for an incentive: If you fix it, I'll renew my subscription :P
I had to install all my Cakewalk stuff 3 times recently, because first my SSD died from one year of disuse while I was traveling. After I installed everything, I foolhardily accepted Microsoft's offer to upgrade my system to Windows 10. Aside from annoyingly hiding many settings in the bowels of Windows, Windows 10 also broke my Sonar installation, so I installed it again. Then I started to notice severe issues with Firefox and its extensions, that quit working under Windows 10. After spending about a week trying to clear up the issues, I found it to be impossible, and since I need both browser and add-ons in order to do my work, I had had little choice but to revert back to Windows 8.1. Surprise, this move required yet another new install of Sonar and all its adjuncts, not to mention all those huge XLN drumkits and keyboard things...