Every time I use it I become frustrated. It scans everything for an update status, it looks to see what you've installed and then you get a menu. If you select anything for an update, it repeats the scan it just did, but only for the product you update. Once that's complete it does the entire scan again including everything you have. If you hide a feature it scans the update status of everything AGAIN. I don't want the free loops. They're in a sub-directory and you can't hide the entire sub-directory, you have to hide each file. After you hide each file it does the entire system scan AGAIN. It is the most inefficient design I've ever had to use.
 
Bakers, could you give some love to that program and make it a bit smarter to remove the redundant scans? A little love for the Sonar Reference Guide would be nice too. It lists some old features as new features, in fact there's like 300+ pages of new features. Self help begins with a good reference manual.

What I notice is this is depending on your internet connection. 
At home it is painfully slow and CCC takes a good 15 minutes at first and then 5 or more minutes between each item I install. Very frustrating. So I just don't use it at home. 
 
I take my Laptop to work and update everything then copy the CCC download folder to my main DAW and then run CC. It's speeds things up but it's still slow. 
 
I am just now using it at work where they have a good hi speed connection and the wait times are very short,,, huge differance.
 
But it would be nice to have more control over what the scan does and why it needs to re scan the same things each time is stupid. 
 
What would be nice is a way to only scan for what your wanting that day. 
Example 
Home Studio-
                options- check for updates
                             uninstal 
                             roll back to 

I don't use it. I download the installers I want from "My Products" on the Cakewalk site. I keep backup copies of the installers in case i need to roll back. It's what I've always done.
 
Maybe CC makes things easier for some, but for me, I didn't have any need for CC.

Depending from the current light conditions, I still have to click on each item individually to see it is updatable or not (colors have similar lumi).
With scanning, I can wail... that is called "modern programming" (make it 100 times slower and 10 times bigger, people believe the thing is actual and serious, make something under 1MB and running with the speed of light and everyone complain that is from 20th century and just a toy  )

The CCC is slow and "clunky" but the current version is an improvement over the older version. 
With the older version it did a complete scan (of the Cakewalk products) every time - both when initially opened and after any app update.  Now, it does the complete scan initially but does not after any app update as it now "remembers" what has been scanned.
 
I don't see any way to improve on how it works (now).  It needs to scan what is installed and also to check what needs updating against the on-line database.  That is the bottleneck but no way that I see to get around that.

NO! I LOVE it! it's way better then say IK's activation nightmare. That's way I stopped buying IK and went to Waves!
it's great! SO, why is this thread! ? lol just kidding... maybe it can be improved but I don't see it... that's my problem :P)  

Sounds like I might not have the most current version. I thought it would auto-update if/when needed.

I also hate how the CC takes so long to scan everything. Surely there must be a faster way of doing this - I'm no programmer, but I should imagine that the version state of all of my Cakewalk products could be stored in just a few bytes of information, and that this info could be uploaded and checked against the current version statuses of the products in a fraction of a second. Instead it seems to go through each and every product in turn, putting on its glasses, lighting its pipe and saying "Let's see now..." and it takes forever. 
 
I might be wrong but I'm sure there was a time a year or so ago when the CC used to scan my products a LOT faster.

ampfixer
Sounds like I might not have the most current version. I thought it would auto-update if/when needed.

Hum? I see... you need to manually check for updates. just go change when it checks for updates :)
I always need to do that... I have mine set to what? 999 days before it will check for updates?  if that helps.
peace!

Considering it takes me over an hour to download and install it, and then still have to install the actual music software; and that I can download and install Reaper in two minutes, I would have to say yes, I do find Command Center tedious.