Cannot Install Cakewalk

[Carl Herreman]

Hi Everyone!

I'm a new user. This is my firts attemps to install cakewalk on a clean WIN10.
The assistant propose me to install by choosing the apps to download.

The download start, takes some time and then ... nothing happends. The button goes back to Install (and download).

I have try to:

- Restart, and launch only the assistant

- Run the assistant on Admin mode

- Choose all or none or few of softwares from assistant

So far nothing changes...

Any idea how to solve it please?

Thank you all in advance.

Regards

[martsave martin s]

coupld it be your internet is not fonctioning corectly ?

 

welcome to the forum !!

[scook]

Try the new installer 

 

[Carl Herreman]

1 hour ago, martsave martin s said:

coupld it be your internet is not fonctioning corectly ?

 

welcome to the forum !!

Thank you
Nope, internet is working fine, and downloading.
Takes time, then nothing happend.

 

[Carl Herreman]

1 hour ago, scook said:

Try the new installer 

 

Thank you
I did this morning, was very long (after download) but finally, install initiated and worked.
I had to be patient (toke half the day)

It's all good now, thx !

 

[John Vere]

Sounds like a hard drive issue. Full? Cakewalk takes at the most 2 minutes to install. One trick is don't install the additional content at the same time you install core program. Do that afterwards. 

[Stridhur]

It's not a harddrive issue it is a dorked up installer issue. My machine is so far beyond the required specs for this simple program and it runs and updates every Avid product flawlessly, every Adobe product, every Magix and BlackMagic program, but ever since this became Bandlab it has gone to crap.

Maybe some quality control and more involved beta testing by other than fawnboiz would make a big difference.

A prime indication of how little went into the install routine is you are not able to manually set the install paths. Some of us have machines beyond the basic Dell and HP laptops most of you have and we like to very carefully determine where we put our files for enhanced thru put and efficiency. Any program installer that gives you no choice is amateurish at best.

Edited July 27, 2021 by Stridhur

[Noel Borthwick]

Two people in this thread have pointed you to an updated installer. Have you tried that?
BandLab assistant as a means of installing will soon be deprecated.

[Jonathan Sasor]

7 hours ago, Stridhur said:

A prime indication of how little went into the install routine is you are not able to manually set the install paths. Some of us have machines beyond the basic Dell and HP laptops most of you have and we like to very carefully determine where we put our files for enhanced thru put and efficiency. Any program installer that gives you no choice is amateurish at best.

The only way you wouldn't see an option to manually set the install paths would be if you already had an existing Cakewalk/SONAR install, in which case it inherits a path that you would have set previously. Not that you can't manually reconfigure paths after installation either. The OP's issue was with getting the download to run via BandLab Assistant. Other users linked them to a new installer that worked successfully for them. 

[John Vere]

I just installed Cakewalk on my daughters brand new HP laptop. Whole process from web site to opening Cakewalk might have taken less than 10 minutes. 

I was busy on the other computer so I let her do it herself. I just told her the web site name and instructions to download the assistant etc. 
I would assume this is exactly what 99% of the people experience. 
So blaming the installers seems out of line to me. The op has weird stuff happening in their computer. Can be no other explanation