Well, I never heard from cake regarding my issues with TH3, so today I am out of the last 15 day trial, and it says I have to wait
64 weeks before I can have another trial! Are you kidding me!?!
This has been going on since the 2016.04 update, which installed TH3. I have had no help from support.
I guess my only option is going to uninstall SPLAT, and try again.
 
The following thread helped me straighten the out:  http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3436003

I never got an answer for my issue either. After reinstalling Sonar, the boutique bundle, etc, about 20 times I could finally open TH3 without Sonar crashing. 

[font="%value"]I don't have any crash issues, TH3 is blank unless I run in DEMO mode for 15 days at a time. I've rolled back the boutique effects and reinstalled, hoping that would correct the problem, but it didn't.

I have Waves' GTR 3 and NI's Guitar Rig 5, both of which also run standalone.
 
Is there any substantive reason for me to deal with TH3?
 
Side note: I find the tuner in Guitar Rig more accurate (stable) and easier to use than the one in GTR. How is the TH3 tuner?

personally I think the free Amplitube version just sounds way better (it also comes quite well equiped as a free version, pedals, amps, cabinets, mics etc etc all included).
could give that a try and perhaps that solves your TH3 probs for good.
good luck

Free Amplitube?? and where would I find this?
I'm actually right in the process of doing a clean install of Cakewalk to see if that will straighten things out.

just did a quick search it seems you can only get Amplitube 3 free version now.....but I remember I didn't notice a difference in sound comparing 3 and 4.
and I didn't think of that TH3 might be an improvement on TH2 comes to me now....I then compared TH2 to Amplitube 3 and to my ears Amplitube sounded quite a lot more realistic....but if TH3 is a big step forward from TH2 soundwise I can't say it's not as good as Amplitube 3.
Anyway, you could try for yourself....good luck.
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/freedownload/
 
 
Oh, and personally I would try to prevent reinstalling Sonar and only do that as a last option/rescue....
 

I've been going through the reinstall process for the last few hours. I didn't have much choice. I tried to get help from cake, but they never got back to me, and no one else must have had this problem.
Reinstall is no biggie, I saved all my project templates and such, so I just hope this will straighten out this issue.

Now I'm really getting aggravated with Sonar. Totally reinstalled everything, and now I don't have TH3 at all.
I just uninstalled Boutique Effects and reinstalled, scanned vsts, nothing. I know it should show up in the VST3 plugins.
It does no good to contact Cakewalk, as I've been waiting nearly a month and a half for a reply...ridiculous!

rworkman
Now I'm really getting aggravated with Sonar. Totally reinstalled everything, and now I don't have TH3 at all.
I just uninstalled Boutique Effects and reinstalled, scanned vsts, nothing. I know it should show up in the VST3 plugins.
It does no good to contact Cakewalk, as I've been waiting nearly a month and a half for a reply...ridiculous!

isn't it a little small of you to complain about a free trial ?
I mean im not trying to make you sound petty or anything but there are so many amp sims out there, free ones too.
if your that bent on getting a free trial of TH3 though, just do to overloud and get it there.
http://www.overloud.com/download/request_th3_demo.php
 
 
its also worth noting that the free trial page for cakewalk says nothing about TH3 free trial.
it says TH2
https://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Try-SONAR