dlesaux
There's another cumulative Windows update. Has anyone installed this yet? Is it safe?

there used to be a time when updates were save and skydiving was dangerous

Rob[atSound-Rehab]

dlesaux
There's another cumulative Windows update. Has anyone installed this yet? Is it safe?

there used to be a time when updates were save and skydiving was dangerous

Very true and philosophical!

I really love Sonar and I hope the issues get cleared up, the crashes get disappointing.

What's going on with W10 and pro audio?  First (and still, unless I want to disable driver signature verification each boot or "permanently" through some CMD prompt) it blocked my UAD plugs, now this...  I guess technology may get "better," but it gets equally complex, so the "buginess" level seems to stay the same.  I love all my shiny new stuff, but I do miss the stability of, say, XP and/or Sonar 8.5.  I just don't remember spending as much time troubleshooting as mixing in the old days...
 
Yes, a (mostly) rhetorical question...

This is nice that Rapture Pro & Session Update 5 is now available but the issue I experiencing is not specific plugin related. The VST scan working slightly better now, however, it stops playback or recording graphics about every other scanning plugin for few seconds. Imaging I have sessional musician recording in the studio and as he starts recording tract, about every 5 seconds playback and recording graphics HANG. This continues happening for at least 15 minutes until the scan is completed. I don't think it affects Audio playback and it does not make a glitch in recording but it looks awful and I can not stop recording when it hangs- everything becomes unresponsive. When will this be fixed? Thank you.

What is the updated on this issue?
Spire now crashes Sonar Platinum - latest version. Had to KILL the DLL to open a file.
Clearly Cakewalk can do a better job by updating this thread DAILY so we know WTF is going on.
 
Thank you
 
 
 

1/23/2017
 
Cakewalk, Lance, what's the update on this? 
Thank you

It's fixed on my end.

I updated to the latest build a few days ago and things are better but I still get crashes just a lot less now.
Ran last two days with only one crash but today about 10 crashes removing and adding plug-ins. 
 
 
 

Sonar continues to crash. It happens with all sorts of plugins, whether VST2 or VST 3. I have had 18 separate crashes since January 13 that sent those dmp files to Cakewalk, and probably at least another 10 or so where it just hangs up and I have to shut it down. There is no rhyme or reason to the plugins, I have seen EZ Drummer appear to be a the culprit, then Addictive Drums 2, then an IK plug. There is only one constant; Sonar. I am running Platinum on a Windows 10 machine with the latest generation I7 chip and 16 gbs of RAM. Sonar was 100% stable for me until this point, using the exact same plugins that are on this machine now. 
 
I was wondering if it was a Windows update that caused the source issue. Any sort of feedback from Cakewalk would be greatly appreciated. I have been with Cakewalk since the GTR Tracks days with no problems. But I can't keep working like this. I have deadlines to meet, and a constantly crashing DAW is a problem, loyalty notwithstanding.