Using 2008.5 has proven to be painful in that I can be entering a song only to have it completely disappear in an irreversable manner. I noticed that this happens usually when the song extends beyond an initial screenful of bars: changing a part marker near the bottom of the song suddenly causes the entire chord-entry screen to squash into nothingness (less than one line per character, so that the chords cannot be read); then paging up to refresh leaves me with nothing that I have entered from the last save onward. There is no undo that will work.

Unfolding a song into one big chorus also is very quirky. Definitely all bar modifications have to be reset before doing so, or the realtracks will not appear to be assigned, nor will they match the song (totally out of sequence).

Raising and lowering track volumes don't increment by fives, but by one then five.

Rendering to single audio tracks without using intro bars on the MIDI tracks still creates a mess with the RealTracks off by two measures. The workaround is to render to separate tracks and import into PowerTracks to fix.

There are a few other outstanding issues such as copy-and-paste into/out of tag endings and so forth that are still hanging around.

I have become extremely reluctant to upgrade at the expensive prices required when the basic engine is becoming more broken with each subsequent release.

Joel