Any chance for a project5 v3.0?

If they are they are keeping very quiet about it. This has become such a FAQ here that I think it should be stickied ;)

Its still quite a capable piece of software. The only real show stopper for me is the multiproc limitation, however spend money on DSP cards instead of processors and things should run smoothly again.

Someone will eventually chime in that he KNOWS it won't be updated and it's OBVIOUS that it won't be updated. Please ignore that person, whomever he is. No one has any idea whether Cakewalk will revisit P5, including, probably, Cakewalk.

Given that Project 5 is the best midi/vst host in it's class, it's just so unbeleiveable that Cakewalk may drop it.....! How can that be? They have a unique product.... and no one can suggest a really good alternative, on any forum.

If Cakewalk don't develop it further hopefully they will sell it to someone who will...........

p5 v3 will be my next purchase from Cakewalk, as I already own Sonar 7PE

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ORIGINAL: pluto2
Does anyone know if project5 is being actively developed anymore?
Kristian

Maybe...
- someone knows
- it's being developed anymore

- zevo

Folks, is there a glaring omission in the current P5 v2.5 which keeps you from using this latest version?

Folks, is there a glaring omission in the current P5 v2.5 which keeps you from using this latest version?

No.

And to make matters for Cakewalk worse,

I use P5 while I save up for Sonar8. But P5 flat out smokes my SonarHS6 in workflow. So what am I saving up for?

Strange times indeed. But great for my P5 sessions!

Uh, there was a comment by the bakers in an interview recently, they pretty much said there's no active work or plans for P5 at the moment (this was about a month ago, right after S8 launched).

I think they're gonna sit on it until they figure out what tech they can port over.

I understand that P5 V2.5 is a fine little ap that could be fine for some people for the next five years AS IS. There still are many people who have a single core CPU, but the norm is two and 4 is very popular amongst power users, like those who use computers to create music. VST technology continues to improve. God knows, M$ may even come up with a better OS in the next few years that is a dream for DAW users, although there are no guarantees that P5 V2.5 will run on that OS.

Why am I a little ticked? I started with Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 in 1998/99. As I matured as a composer so did Sonar. I stopped at Sonar 6 because I bought into Live 5 and soon after P5 V2 because I prefer the non-linear approach to composing. Sonar 6 seemed to be the turning point in quality as the new features in Sonar 7 proved to be more trouble than benefit. I won't even start with Sonar 8, one just has to see the once emphatic Sonar board now to understand what's going on. P5 is in a coma for a long time now, with not even a peep from Cakewalk. Cakewalk seems to have abandoned their desire to please their clientele. It's like the reverted back to the late 90's where profits are king, not the client. Well, we all learned from the 90's that the best way to earn profits is to earn the ongoing trust of your clients. I am losing my trust in Cakewalk. My fear is that Cakewalk is developing an Enron-like approach to its business, and we all know how that story ends up.

Let's hope and pray that Justin doesn't cave in like the rest of them and destroy Reaper. It may be our last hope.

While at it: is there any known host that is similar to p5's workflow? I sure haven't seen something even remotely close to it, am I wrong?

well all this thread contains is speculation ;) but don't we just all love that, to speculate? ;) I still have hope for it, and it's still listed in a decent way on the cakewalk site so I still have some hope. Guess time will tell!

Nothing really, just the usual pattern of events after a new release.

Stage 1 - Awe and wonder at all the new sparkly things in the package
Stage 2 - Making way for annoyance after you start picking up the small (or sometimes big) bugs that occur in the program
Stage 3 - Anger at the lack of speed with bug fixes
Stage 4 - A bit of back slapping after the bug fix release comes out to say thanks for fixing it
Stage 5 - A Smaller number of users who still have bug issues become very vocal about the problems they have

Very often the problems people have are actually down to user error. However the majority jump on the bandwagon and start blaming Cakewalk for it. Sometimes its justified, the majority it isnt.

As you can imagine the more users that buy Sonar with each upgrade leads to an increase in the posts about all of the above.

EDIT - I missed out a few things, hardware incompatibility is frequently a factor as well. Although Im always bemused when you see people posting about not getting Sonar to work with a Realtek onboard sound interface. Who would buy a £300+ program without first researching what you need to use it.

ORIGINAL: pluto2
While at it: is there any known host that is similar to p5's workflow? I sure haven't seen something even remotely close to it, am I wrong?

I cannot recommend a host that has a workflow similar to P5, but since you come from a tracker background, you might be interested in Renoise.

To give a simple and truthful answer to the OP question...... no.