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Where is the changelog?
It's in the first post that you see when you visit this forum.
I have been experiencing many crashes with third party plugins in CbB build 31.
This has not been my experience, but if you aren't getting the same crashes with SONAR Platinum, or whatever version of the software you have used in the past, it might be helpful to contact Bandlab's support with a list of the plug-ins that are crashing. Others have reported that they are very helpful.
It seems that Bandlab released a free product to evade doing things professionally.
No it doesn't. At least it doesn't seem that way to me. I am a veteran of the software industry (Adobe, Broderbund, others), and observing their release cycle and prioritization, they seem very professional, and well-prioritized. They are keeping a low profile, fixing bugs, putting in "small" features, polishing the program up. Doing the kinds of things you can do when you are not under pressure to sell licenses.
I mean; we don't now the roadmap of the company,
I am not accustomed to knowing "the roadmap" of companies with which I do business, especially not the ones whose software I download free of charge.
the web and the forum are under construcction,
Touché. I really want a forum that includes new registered Cakewalk users.
Bandlab isn't being transparent with Cakewalk and the releases are crashy even with minor changes.
BandLab is under no obligation to anyone to be "transparent" with the development of their free software. They kindly post a changelog at the top of this forum with every new release.
I was not a user of SONAR Platinum, but from what I read here, the first release of the successor program, Cakewalk by BandLab, crashed much less often, and each successive release has, on my system at least, displayed fewer bugs. BandLab's development staff seem to have been given a priority of fixing bugs, which is nice.
Can an audio professional rely on a product like this?
It's up to any audio professional to weigh the pros and cons of any tool he or she relies on.
Cakewalk by BandLab doesn't seem to work very well on your computer with your 3rd-party plug-ins, and you don't seem to trust the company that makes it, and those are some pretty big negatives.
Cakewalk by BandLab works great on my computer, the price is right, the features are amazing, it sounds fantastic, I'm getting good work done with it, the dev cycle is tight, bugs are getting fixed (since it's free, the company is not bound to adding features at the expense of bug fixing), I find BandLab's other enterprises interesting, I carry no baggage from the Gibson failure, so for me, it's a big positive. I suspect that it is and will be for others.
The history of Cakewalk and other software should, however, serve as a lesson to all audio pros not to rely on a single DAW. I am now up on two platforms and breathe easier as a result.