Thanks to everyone in development team for the continued feature additions and progress with Cakewalk.
The Playlist however has been sorely neglected IMHO. There are reported issues that have been ignored for many years.
It was great to see the 150+ bug fixes in the last release, but very disappointing to once again find the Playlist not on the list of items getting attention.
Here is the Oldest "Bug" I know of AGAIN!
With Playlist "Enabled":
Begin playback of a Set List of at least 4 projects.
During playback "Mute" and "Unmute" any track. The purpose here is to create one of many scenarios that could cause the (*) asterisk to appear after the project title. This of course indicates that the project has been edited in some way.
After the project has completed playing and the "Next" project is under way: Select the "Window" drop down menu.
You will now see the the 1st project is still open. This behavior will continue until many projects are left open and the computer runs out of resources and CRASHES!
Projects should close after playing regardless of changes to the project without saving any changes to the project.
The last time that I know of ( this is a long time ago-memory?) that this behavior did not exist is Sonar 1. The playlist was then removed in Sonar 2 and inserted again with Sonar 3 and the bug described.
IN the current release 2019.07 this behavior persists as well as:
Lyrics window placed on extended screen does not display as "Full Screen" when Playlist is "Enabled"
These behaviors leave me only able to use the Playlist as a way to "select projects" and to load and play one at a time. Better than searching directories for projects for sure but not the way the Playlist used to function. I have been a user since the DOS versions and Cakewalk Live were all the rage. and worked well I might add.
Cakewalk has been my choice forever because it was and remains the only DAW with the Playlist feature that IMHO is (when working properly) is the best concept for this feature for the "live' preforming musician. Sorry to say that I know many "live" performers who have abandoned Cakewalk because of the endless problems with thsi feature and the complete lack of attention to the issues.
I have reported these problems by forum, by phone, chat, demonstrated them with remote desktop sessions and still nothing has been corrected.
On a personal level, I started with Cakewalk in my late 30's. At age 67, I am still using it exclusively. I would really appreciate a version with the Playlist behaving correctly before I am either too old to perform or no longer drawing breath!
Can anyone there please give this some attention! A great product needs to be better than the Playlist feature is at this point!
I am here and willing to help in any way that serves this goal.
Best to All on the Programming Team,
Sincerely,
Roger Cousins