To the Tune of 'Someday My Prince Will Come':

Someday... my fix will come.
 
Just once, I'd like to click a download link on the Cakewalk site, and have a download start without issues.

Tried four different times today. The first time, I walked away and came back to a failure message after getting about 350kb. Since then nada - never even starts.
 
I just downloaded a 7MB file from another site to make sure I'm not having network issues... 13 seconds flat.
 
Dunno what the deal is between me and Cakewalk.
 
 
 
 

I think my desktop must be latched on to a bad server. Just got the file with my company laptop in like 19 seconds.

Oh, you got it. OK, Cool!! :) Was typing when you posted the last post, so I didn't see it.

Thanks for your concern, all. Got it transferred over to the DAW, and it installed without a hitch.

chuckebaby

brundlefly


Tried four different times today. The first time, I walked away and came back to a failure message after getting about 350kb. Since then nada - never even starts.
 
I just downloaded a 7MB file from another site to make sure I'm not having network issues... 13 seconds flat.
 
Dunno what the deal is between me and Cakewalk.
 
 
 
 

not for nothing bundlefly but how do you have over 5000 posts and you cant even download a hot fix??..wow.
sorry bundle i had to say it..and you know why..because when i was having that problem with my interface you posted the exact same thing to me...or i believe you worded it..."chuckebaby how do you getover 500 posts and not know how to set the input level"...remember that?...ahhh..that was pretty funny hu?

Touche, Chuck!  People are starting to get wound-up a bit too tight, and maybe need to step away from their DAWs - or these forums - for awhile if a little download issue causes them to jump on the forum just to let others know how displeased they are...  
 
I didn't have any problems dl'ing the 10MB patch, but even if I did, I would chalk it up to the predictably-heavy server traffic once could expect with such an announcement -- and I would simply try again later.
 
We just got some good news today, folks (of course, I'm talking about the Quickfix).  A lot of posts afterwards have expressed being happy or grateful.  If you're one of the others who can't manage being positive for more than five minutes, then wait until one of these quickfixes breaks something on your system -- then at least you'll have something real to complain about!
 
 
   

JonD

chuckebaby

brundlefly


Tried four different times today. The first time, I walked away and came back to a failure message after getting about 350kb. Since then nada - never even starts.
 
I just downloaded a 7MB file from another site to make sure I'm not having network issues... 13 seconds flat.
 
Dunno what the deal is between me and Cakewalk.
 
 
 
 

not for nothing bundlefly but how do you have over 5000 posts and you cant even download a hot fix??..wow.
sorry bundle i had to say it..and you know why..because when i was having that problem with my interface you posted the exact same thing to me...or i believe you worded it..."chuckebaby how do you getover 500 posts and not know how to set the input level"...remember that?...ahhh..that was pretty funny hu?

Touche, Chuck!  People are starting to get wound-up a bit too tight, and maybe need to step away from their DAWs - or these forums - for awhile if a little download issue causes them to jump on the forum just to let others know how displeased they are...  
 
I didn't have any problems dl'ing the 10MB patch, but even if I did, I would chalk it up to the predictably-heavy server traffic once could expect with such an announcement -- and I would simply try again later.
 
We just got some good news today, folks (of course, I'm talking about the Quickfix).  A lot of posts afterwards have expressed being happy or grateful.  If you're one of the others who can't manage being positive for more than five minutes, then wait until one of these quickfixes breaks something on your system -- then at least you'll have something real to complain about!
 
 
    yes jon d..i totaly agree..

brundlefly has helped many a user here for a long time, he's a SONAR POWER USER, and he's very knowledgeable about music production matters.

+1+++... brundlefly has always been especially generous taking time on his own system to try things out for helping other people reproduce and diagnose problems.

I think there is something a little "different" about the download system Cakewalk is using these days. It's fast once it gets started, and seems to have a lot of capacity but it has done something weird on my browser (seamonkey) the last few times. It appears to start very slowly or not making any progress. Then, I click the "pause" control and then the "play" control on the download progress dialog, then it takes off at a very nice pace. What does that "pause" and "play" do to make it work better???

Bill B

Tom and Bill, thanks for the support. I was just going to let this go, as I usually do, 'cause I'm not here to have personal arguments with people.

Chuck, sorry we got off on the wrong foot. The question I asked you in that other thread may have had an edge of rudeness to it (fairly rare for me, I think, but I have my moments), but I was serious. And, and the serious answer seems to have been that it was a new interface with which you were unfamiliar. Simple enough.

That was not at all clear from anything I saw before posting, although - as I admitted in my edit - it appeared I had not seen everything that went before (also fairly rare for me) due to the thread not refreshing as expected. Based on what I had read, I honestly couldn't understand how you could have been making music without having that basic issue with input levels worked out - that's all.

In any case, I'm willing to start over if you are. But I have to say that I'm not a fan of text-message-style posting, and will probably ignore a lot of what you post as a result. 

OK brundlefly, so what's your accessment of X1 after installing the QuickFix? :) You know, inquiring minds want to know, and all that. :)

Actually, there wasn't anything in the hotfix that I was dying for, which is why I wasn't knocking myself out to resolve the download problem earlier in the day. Plus I was busy at work, and with other things in the evening, so I haven't really done anything since installing it.


I'm happy with all the X1b fixes, though, and pretty much ready to park 8.5.3 for good, especially now that Set Measure/Beat At Now is working properly again!


My overall feeling is that X1b is now where it should have been at release with only a handful of significant defects remaining, most of which don't really affect me or that I can easily work around. And I'm warming up to the interface with a lot of help from Panup's mods. 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
]

I think there is something a little "different" about the download system Cakewalk is using these days.

 
The download system is simply a client of Amazon S3. All the downloads are hosted and managed by amazons services used by thousands of companies. Amazon's service isn't perfect but its way more reliable and scalable than most companies IT departments could ever hope to achieve with a homegrown solution.

Yes, I noticed the "amazonews" (or similar) in the URL. I don't know what the problem is, but I've trouble with almost every download since Cakewalk started using that service, which is why I posted this. No big deal; just a little irritating to go through it every time.


Slow downloads in the hours after a new release is posted would not surprise me, but chronic failure to start the file transfer or timeouts after 30+ minutes when a session started on another machine, (or sometimes even just a different session on the same browser) can get the file in seconds is disconcerting.

I've noticed that this (and other downloads, too, from different companies) will hang.  It will churn and churn w/o downloading.  I simply reload the download page.  Bam, a few seconds for the X1b patch the second try.

Hope this helps.

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 the 1st try it wouldnt download, closed the box re tryd ...it was here in seconds..jon

I'm sure everyone is tired of seeing this thread pop up every time a QuickFix is released... I am too.
 
Just wanted to mention that I am installing the newly released IE9, and will see if that fixes it. If not, I'll install Chrome on my DAW.