CWBL won't launch, gets stuck on driver

[John Vere]

Heads up. A while back I was having Sonar crashes when opening projects. Windbg pointed at Sonar. Exe. 
Safe mode revealed it was a bunch of Pro Channel modules. 
Support always tells you to perform a clean install because they don’t have a solution. 
It never worked for me. And in the end I lost all my personal data from the last 5 years. 
 

So personally I’m not a big fan of the clean install. 

[OPunWide]

2 hours ago, John Vere said:

So personally I’m not a big fan of the clean install. 

I completely agree. It's just like "Reinstall Windows". It might work, but it will be really painful.
 

I guess I need to go find out what Windbg is. Yours is the 2nd mention.

Edited 14 hours ago by OPunWide
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[OPunWide]

5 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Do you really mean S3 or Sonar X3?

Sonar 3 Producer Edition. I've typed it so many times I kept abbreviating it more and more, and I guess took it too far.

Thanks for your answers. They make me less worried about the damage that might get caused. But it also sounds like I need to get CWBL running.

Your note about not uninstalling CWBL after everything is working should be a BOLD sticky post. In browsing all these threads for a solution, the "should I uninstall" it question comes up a lot.

[John Vere]

The best practices for Cakewalk products has always been installing the oldest version first and go from oldest to the newest. 

My routine after I re installed Windows 11 is 8.5, X3 then running CCC to install the goodie’s and Splat. No point in installing CbB for me I just installed Free Sonar.
I might install Free Next but don’t see much point because it doesn’t have any instruments which is why I kinda like it. 
Audacity has the best stem separation tool out of all the free software I tried.