V Vocal is such a powerful tool and such a disappointment at the same time. It has, and continues to be, one of the MAJOR design flaws of Sonar. For those of us who use it in a production environment every day, this has been a PITA since its inception.
Even with all the workarounds ( delete old versions from VST list and registry before installing sonar updates, yada yada..) it still causes system instability from an app that should well past these kinds of oversights by now.
Its the premeir DAW on PC and there are still some pretty major glitches that are several versions old now. Just my .02 cents but I think if Sonar wants to secure its foothold in an app saturated market, its going to have to do some tweaking to stay current.
Regardless if there are convoluted work arounds or not, most engineers have come to expect basic tools from their DAW tools, dependable automation, automatable/mutable busses, audio stretching that actually works while the client is sitting there, pitch correction that dosnt crash the app, buss templates that can be applied AFTER the recording process, more descriptive error reporting so we can troubleshoot problems without tying up app support.
Im hoping the increasing involvement with Roland with add some much needed code cleaning and development. Seriously, in a world where a fifty dollar app like Reaper is legitimately competing against the big guns, times they are a changing.