What would be most helpful is if a Cakewalk rep would acknowledge these things and give us some indication if their priority.
Normally I work alone with Sonar, so I may not be too put off by glitches. Yesterday I had a vocal quartet and a composer in my studio. Overall it went well, but there were 3 or 4 times when I got stuck on things that sure seemed like bugs. I was under pressure to keep the project moving so I really didn't take the time to figure out the situation and record the pathology. I just backed out and went at it from a different angle.
Overall, reliability if excellent for me, but there are a lot of little nagging things that just aren't right. Some that I remember:
- I added 4 audio tracks and the input assignment was just not right at all. I lost a good take because of that. I ended up deleting all those tracks and creating each audio track by hand. This might be too specific to a particular audio interface, but if the add multiple tracks cannot add anything useful, then it shouldn't be there.
- I continue to have lots of cases where multiple clips are selected yet when I try to adjust the beginning or ending point of that group of clips (or apply a fade-in/out), only one clip responds. I have to deselect all of them and select them again, then it works.
- Aux tracks aren't automatically selected if I am right-click selecting a whole range of clips for exporting a mix. If I don't manually Ctrl-click those aux tracks, they are left out of the mixdown. I suppose that isn't technically a "bug" as the aux tracks don't have a "clip" that I touched when selecting the whole group, but it seems that if a person is right-button sweeping through a range of tracks, all tracks in that range should be selected, even if there are no clips.
There were 3 or 4 more, but they escape me now. There are work-arounds for all of these, but I certainly agree with the sentiment of prioritizing these things that are so central to the use of the system.