OK, new question - when would I look for the actual update to be out?  Not trying to rush Cakewalk by any stretch, just curious as I haven't paid much attention in the past.

It's out now.

SiberianKhatru59
OK, new question - when would I look for the actual update to be out?  Not trying to rush Cakewalk by any stretch, just curious as I haven't paid much attention in the past.

It seems to variety between about 3 days and 10 days, depending on whether there are any minor issues with the early release.

The release candidate I used for writing the eZine seemed really solid, and the early release is a later rev. It wouldn't surprise me if the early release ends up being the same as the final release, but we'll see what happens after the early release is out in the world for a few days.

I think the over riding principle that Cakewalk applies is that things are ready for release to a set standard, that is early access or full release.

Thanks folks, that makes sense.

Anderton
The release candidate I used for writing the eZine seemed really solid, and the early release is a later rev. It wouldn't surprise me if the early release ends up being the same as the final release, but we'll see what happens after the early release is out in the world for a few days.

Boy, I hope the final is not the same as the early access. I've got major hassles (a few, it would seem). Mainly, this edition has slowed my 4.5 gHz quad i7 machine to a complete crawl. It seems to be freezing left, right, and sideways. Sometimes it comes out of the freeze, sometimes it just stuck in unresponsive mode.
 
Where do I report the issues?

Anderton
The release candidate I used for writing the eZine seemed really solid, and the early release is a later rev. It wouldn't surprise me if the early release ends up being the same as the final release, but we'll see what happens after the early release is out in the world for a few days.

Forgive me, Craig, but I've got something really odd going on: my second thread is screaming into the red zone (I've literally never seen this) while the other threads are running at @10-15% at most (this is both with and without load balancing).
 
I've only got one instance of Ivory running (American Concert D.)

No doubt about it: this release is driving the 8 threads all crazy. They all are peaking quickly and randomly. (I'm glad that I can view this in the thread monitor).
 
Weird.
 
Now, as I just looked, they seem to have calmed down quite a bit. How odd.

Don't know what to say, but I'll grab the latest release. Have been using the RC with only one computer so far.