ORIGINAL: Rosco

the least they can do is update it with multi core support. I know I would be willing to pay up for this one thing.

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Rosco

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Paul

ORIGINAL: Trusty

ORIGINAL: agincourtdb

I'm certainly not optimistic. But neither am I pessimistic. I'm not making any assumptions. Assumptions are the problem.

Cakewalk's disengagement from this forum is an even bigger one.

Their disengagement is a direct result of having no firm plans, which means no plans at all.

But it's not in CW's interest to come here & say as much. Rest assured if they did have plans, hints would be dropped and teasers released.

It's the same in the GT forum. The current version was last updated in 2003. There's been no Cakewalk engagement in that forum since the Johnson administration

This is seriously sad. I have tried pretty much every other host out there and this is the only one I really like. I am kind if stuck using it even though no multi core support. I guess I will have to hope for an update one day or hope to find something similar that has it. It isn't a deal breaker yet but like others said, the new instruments are using a lt of cpu power, look at omnisphere, that thing takes a lot of resources.

But isn't the old saying something like "There's allways a silence before the storm"?

Who knows.. maybe the storm is coming

It appears the storm has been downgraded to a depression.

ORIGINAL: maxthecat
Oh well, doesn't appear that anything is set in stone on this one. But whatever, P5 is still my swiss army knife of sequencers. I'm still finding new ways to use it in conjunction with Sonar 7 PE and Sony Sound Forge 9 and as a standalone program. Even if they make zero changes it's still a great program!

I generally agree, with one caveat that's starting to matter (actually, one caveat with an 'a' and 'b'):
a) it's getting out of sync with current plugins, and will continue to do so... with an app that's SO very useful for running virtual instruments, being only single-core capable means that as the world rapidly advances toward being 100% multicore, all the virtual instruments will too, and they'll get heavier, and P5's capabilities will diminish. Over time, without further core-usage work, it will fade out of the picture of usability for one of its core strengths.
b) the operating system world will keep marching on... meaning: you won't be on XP or Vista forever, and even Vista might get a service pack at some point that hinders functionality. Without continual development where operating system compatibility is concerned, it might not simply fade... it might not even work.

During my recent studio cleanup (which I started at the beginning of this year and very recently completed), I weighed my software as to what to keep, and what to not, and what to redefine.
Sonar I kept.
Live I kept.
Logic Pro I kept.
I got rid of a bunch of other stuff.
P5 was the most difficult one to deal with, though, for the reasons listed above. I want to keep using it, since I like it, but I don't want full-on projects invested in it, knowing that I might have to go through a "conversion" period later on to a host that still works (at that future time). Earlier this year, I converted a bunch of old songs (100 of them) from an old format over to Sonar, and it was NOT fun.
So, I redefined it to being a midi composition/mangling/editing tool. It works great for that, and everything I do with it now, I can keep without much or any conversion in the future. But... I don't do P5 projects for the purpose of writing songs anymore.

I don't know if it's a dead app or not.
And, using Logic Pro's recent revival as a template: it's entirely possible that even with huge gaps in development, an app can come back from supposed dead.

But it's hard to justify too much project time with it, and now quite impossible for me to recommend to anybody with plans on growing their studio over time... even @ $49, or whatever it costs now.

Sad, really, but that's software.

- zevo