Splat
Well over here we tend to tolerate these sort of comments.

Anderton
 Admit it though, Splat...weren't all the "CCC is great," "smoothest installation ever," "incredibly stable," "smooth as silk" comments getting a little boring?

Yup anybody who posts these sorts of comments should be banned in future!!!! 

This Roo character doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer. No offence, but how smart do you have to be to figure out that if you're having problems with any aspect of Sonar, you come to the forum, read and ask questions? How is posting a rant about Sonar being a piece of **** and the bakers being stupid, going to solve anything?  ....... well, maybe make the poster feel important or some such thing ......
 
Seriously, I understand the frustration, but if the majority of installs are working fine, chances are there is something amiss with your installation or your computer. Seems that would be the place to start looking. This forum community will bend over backwards to help those in need. But you have to ask.
 
BTW Craig, my installation was one of those "boring" installs. 

The install went very smoothly for me but what do I know, if I have an issue, I seek assistance, not try to alienate and blame someone else...
OMG what a boring life I lead!!!
 

Just an FYI - there have been a few annoying people on the forum who claim to be "EDM" artists. The only links they've posted to their music are apparently to cover versions of John Cage's "4:33."
 
However, please don't let these people give you the wrong idea. I've been working in that genre for several decades, and overall, people who do dance music, as well as DJs, tend to be very open-minded and technically savvy. DJs welcomed my jamming with on them with guitar (and not just because I could sustain notes over a transition LOL), and real EDM musicians are always probing for new sources of inspiration. They are hip to the ways of computers and work within their limitations instead of complain about them - they're not part of the "poor craftsman blames his tools" syndrome.
 
Fortunately clouds do have silver linings and one of the comments in one of these posts gave me an idea for how to create the ultimate kick drum generator. It's really quite cool and will be given to members, but I wouldn't have come up with it if someone hadn't complained about something that "didn't exist" in SONAR. Well maybe he didn't see it was "hiding in plain sight," but it was, and we all will benefit. Well, maybe not all, but at least I don't need to look for kicks any more.
 
 
 
 

When it's released, as long as I can install it where I'd like to place a "kick".  I don't want CCC telling me where to place my "kick".  Ya know what I mean???  ;-/

Up the arse of the IDM forums administrator I hope. It might actually generate a brain cell.

You should never have given up being a Host, but I guess if you are happier now or less stressed or whatever. The main thing is it hasn't dampened your enthusiasm, or the way you help out answering a gazillion questions a day, so I guess you could say it's business as usual. More power to you . . .

Thanks I appreciate it :)

Roo Stercogburn

Anderton
The main issue seems to be that you do not want to install using the default paths, and CCC does not accommodate this at present. However, many people have suggested ways to do custom installs, with the main suggestion being to download all the files, then install them manually as has been in with previous versions of SONAR. Your experience is not the norm, so hopefully the approaches others have used will get you up and running.

I've already worked out how to eventually install it where its supposed to go, and the large amount of time cleaning up after this. Details of the tests, methods, fixes and occasional ranting at  http://www.idmforums.com/showthread.php?t=136904
 
Command Center is an ill-conceived launch platform and SP a bug-ridden upgrade. Even installing manually does not fix issues with SP and Melodyne.
 
Many people use SSDs for their system drive for performance, putting applications and data on other, larger drives. Cakewalk seem to have blithely ignored that common configuration and published Command Center regardless. I saw no way to 'just download' in Command Center. The only option was to install. This product should not have been published in its current state.
 

I would strongly suggest that you contact our support department. The last contact we had (that I can see) is from Oct '14.
 
Support is built into the price of the software and they are here to help users with these types of configuration issues.
 
FWIW, personally I use a 250GB SSD and 1TB HDD. I install the core application and the majority of the smaller audio plugins through C3 on the SSD. Otherwise you won't get the performance benefits of the SSD.
 
I then set my project drive as the 1TB. If I choose to install Synths (Dim Pro), I'll set them to the 1TB via the manual installer. 
 
This setup grants me quick core app updates via C3 (I'm updating daily due to dev releases) while placing large sample libraries on the cheaper platter drive.
 

Seth!

Just to reinforce the previous....support is INCLUDED In your purchase price. I have never had a bad experience with Cakewalk support. Drop them a line.