I got this problem today too. I usually have update paused but I had let it update yesterday and now today Cakewalk stalls on opening. I did a restore and it opened but no sound, did the repair and that didn't fix it. Then I came here and saw Noel's download fix and that seems to have done it. Hope it lasts.
@Wookiee, @treesha, @jack c. , @Kevin Walsh Thanks so much for the nice comments.
Kevin, the Fishman midi guitar system is a must for a complete non piano player like me. It takes me forever to figure out the piano chords from my guitar chords.
Thanks for the listen and comments @whoisp, @DeeringAmps and @equality, appreciate it! Weather Report and Return to Forever were big early influences, those guys were geniuses.
The transients work great on bass, most of the time on guitar but can change the sound if you stretch or shrink too much. For sax corrections I just split the notes and move them to align with transients from the drum track ( I always record Ezdrummer to a track, turn on the transients and then I have a reference to align everything to. I always thought I had great time but recording doesn't lie.