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I appreciate your most recent response. I will try to submit every bug I encounter and hope that it will be treated seriously. I am running the latest version. Note that I already finished this mix years ago, so at some point it was loading fine. I will escalate this issue and include the dumps. Fair enough. I won't belabor the point and reasonable persons may disagree here. I'll take you at your word - thanks for taking the time.

The five cases I've reported before are just the tip of the iceberg - literally every large mix I do in Cakewalk uncovers a bug. I've had clips disappear in take lanes when performing a series of operations on a track with the lanes collapsed. I've had glitches appear at the beginning of renders when they don't appear in playback. I mean, just this minute I opened an old mix just to refresh my memory of some bugs and Cakewalk didn't disappoint - I can't even recall a mix without encountering a crash: Is FabFilter to be blamed here? This is a recurring theme with Cakewalk - but Ableton, FL Studio, Reaper, etc. seem to not have this issue. If there was a way I could report every bug I encounter, and have faith that it would be taken seriously, perhaps I would report them all. An astute reader might have noticed by now that I have a lot of DAW's - this is because I've started the painful process of weaning myself off of Cakewalk and looking for a replacement, because time has shown that I can't trust it for serious work. I write this as a hail mary attempt at, perhaps, reversing this trend. Hopefully it isn't falling on deaf ears. My comment about ripple editing and the arranger were meant to imply that a large portion of the bugs you're fixing are for recently introduced features that are at best, nice-to-haves, at worst, unnecessary.

I just tried signing into ilok manager and then reopening the project - that didn't resolve the issue. If it was just one vendor's plugins that was exhibiting the behavior, I would have alerted that vendor - since it is more than one, it made sense to me to alert Cakewalk. I beg your pardon sir - my issue *was* reported officially on December 30, 2019 through support@cakewalk.com. I attached the same video that was in my last post with steps to reproduce. Happy to forward the email thread to you. It's not wise to speak so confidently without having the facts. And my questions are left unanswered. I'm sorry, but clearly email and user forums aren't a sufficient mechanism for bug reporting and tracking. And congrats on the impressive changelogs - but what percentage of the bug fixes in Update 1 of this recent release are related to ripple editing and the arranger? Forgive me, but it feels a bit like two steps forward, two steps back. Also, don't mistake me as a user without skin in the game - I've been using Cakewalk for almost two decades and have spent hundreds of dollars on software now being given away for free. It seems like there's a real opportunity now for Cakewalk to fulfill its potential as the best DAW not named ProTools for serious mixing - I speak up because I don't want to see that opportunity squandered by feature bloat and bug infestation.

It seems this version of Cakewalk has an issue with ilok's License Support - opening old projects containing plugins that it (e.g. Oxford Native plugins, Gullfoss, Slate Digital, etc.) gives the following error: "The License Support software required to validate the license for this product is not installed. Please reinstall the product or download and run the License Support installer here: http://www.ilok.com" As you can infer, the License Support software is already installed on my machine and is up-to-date. Opening these plugins in other DAWs (for example, Ableton) doesn't cause this issue. I've tried reinstalling both the ilok and plugin software - do I need to rollback Cakewalk itself? As an aside, can we please stop adding unnecessary features when there are still so many bugs? For example, a nasty bug regarding the silent re-ordering of plugins when dragging from one track to another (that I reported in 2019!!) has still not been addressed. Every project I work on that has more than fifty or so tracks is always the opposite of robust. And every new release seems to bring new features that add to the bugs and instability. Why isn't there a formal bug reporting and tracking process? Why is the focus on new features, when the real killer feature of any serious tool is reliability and stability (which Cakewalk has seemingly always lacked)? Plugin reordering bug: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m46gskzzu6s3af5/plugin_order_bug.mp4?dl=0