I enter a search bit and press enter:  no results.
 
So, I enter a different bit and press enter: PLEASE WAIT A BIT BEFORE SEARCHING AGAIN
 
WHAT THE FRACK IS THAT ABOUT???????????????????????????????????

The forum just got updated, so it most likely needs time for it to scan/read and update everything. This is normal, do not panic and please put down the knife. 
 
CJ

This is not about indexing,....
 
This is a default setting in the configuration to not allow quick successive searches. 
 
Dumb.

Awwwhh, i know what your talking about. I just tried it and it makes you wait. Weird. 
 
Alright, you can pick the knife back up then....

might be a Denial Of Service attack prevention setting?

A lot of bots love plain and obvious text boxes with big submit buttons right next to them. The easier you make it to fill out a form, the more it is going to get hit by bots. If you've ever worked on the opposite end of a submission form, you've probably seen how quickly it happens and have felt irritated at how they can ruin a good thing (like our Documentation Feedback Form for example).
 
We didn't design that element of the Search field, but if I were to guess it's probably like that because Guests can search, and it's probably preferable to not have thousands of search queries bogging down the forum server nonstop 24/7 because spam bots are trying to tell you about their new kitchen deals and lovely fake passports. This is my assumption at least. I could be wrong.

A couple of forums I visit require guests to enter a captcha.
 
Log in and, walla, no captcha.

I'd argue that's even more of an inconvenience, though I'd love to see Google throw that into their home page some April 1st just to see how many folks go bananas.

I always search by going to Google (actually typed into the address bar, with Google as my default search engine in Chrome) and typing: site:cakewalk.com forum (and here would go any search terms)
 
So, for example: site:cakewalk.com forum presonus 1818VSL audiobox sample rate
 
Or, site:cakewalk.com forum bapu post count
 
:)
 
Bob Bone
 

+1 to the Boneman's method... I, too, use that a lot.