What features do you want in P5 now?

I agree, the mixer should have the tracks volume levels marked in db. I would also like to see a mute tool and the spline/ vector automation the current way is clumsy at best.

My feature requests are support for multicore (which the developers has said is in the works), a 64bit version (which the developers has said is in the works), and dB markings on the meters.

Interesting.... the user requests' lists are way shorter this year. A good sign for Project5.

I know ACT is a general Cakewalk plugin but "ACT 2.0" with more cells?

I find it hard to request more Project5 features without implying Sonar Home Studio.

Maybe I should go into the SonarHS forum and request a Groove Matrix.....

multi project files open, so that I can cut and paste between projects. maybe be able to copy a whole effects chain without saving it, and paste it on another track.

line node automation please :)

I would also like to be able to grab a section of my midi pattern, and just seperate it where i cut it, and have it become a seperate midi pattern if so desired.

ins. support would be nice.

1) Drag and drop Rex files into the groove matrix and traditional tracks

2) Audio Snap...

1.) Multi-core support
2.) Multi-core support
3.) Multi-core support
4.) Improved preset scrolling for Arp
5.) Darker color scheme
6.) 64-bit audio engine
7.) Song/ Section markers
8.) Completed Plugin Manager a la Sonar (must have)
9.) Width controlable by control surfaces (MCU)
10.) Multi-core support

And if we could finally be compatile with the new flu-capacitor converter ... supposed to blow the socks off of PCM.

ORIGINAL: Andy C

And if we could finally be compatile with the new flu-capacitor converter

Sure you don't mean the Interocitor ?

Andy

Actually I meant to write flux-capacitor converter, but it would be cool if I could finally use my Interocitor with P5.

While you're at it, will you find out if P5V3 will work with the new, top-secret VST4 spec? Its supposed to utilize 128-bit internal audio resolution ;-)

1) a better "zoom in" feature
2) allow the "piano keys" in the pattern creator to display the sample name each key represents somehow (even if it's only a scroll-over feature)
3) a "bad idea" alert mechanism, so that i don't waste hours developing bad ideas only to realize hours later that i wasted hours developing a bad idea

ORIGINAL: Andy C

and most importantly

ONE FEATURE NO OTHER DAW or "Live" TOOL has.

I don't know what it is, but we've got to stop thinking in a "catch up way" all the time...

Andy

How 'bout Tetris or some other game in the DAW, so we can play a game right in the DAW when we're having mental blocks and the creativity just isn't flowing? Or what about the ability to click a button in P5 and suddenly pizza and my favorite beverage appear at my house within 30 minutes or its free?

Or perhaps, more realistically, some type of online collaboration tool built into the application, where users can collaborate in real-time (or close to real-time, allowing for latency in the Internet)?

Pizza and games would be nice too, though.

All the above plus allowing to use Project5 as a VSTi inside another host similar to FLStudio or energyXT

What features do you want in P5 now?

None. I already have Sonar 7 PE.

(looks for cover)

Oh yeah, markers. But I guess that falls under my "As many of Sonar's transport and navigation features as can be included".

I get the feeling based on music law #1 (musician = wiseass) that the last posts by fac and cryophonik are made tongue-in-cheek. If so, then what I'm hearing their sarcasm communicate is: "Why is anyone even mentioning Sonar? This is the Project 5 forum. If you like Sonar, then get out of our sandbox and go use Sonar." Like mentioning these Sonar features as applied to Project5 is taking some kind of unrealistic approach. Why is that? How could Project5 not benefit from the navigational and technical advancements which its older sibling seems to have, such as markers, better transport mapping, sticky now time without a key combination, dual-core support, etc... As long as Project5 retains its "style", which I don't think these enhancements would in any way jeopardize, then why not make it easier to use?

It's almost like there's this reverse elitism around the P5 forums, i.e. "We don't want Project5 improved. We like not having the more advanced features of Sonar. Some of us don't even want the program to be developed towards a v3 release." Why is that? Makes no sense.

I'm starting a project today, and I was again presented with the decision whether or not to use P5 or Sonar(7). I would love to start the basic germs (patterns) of this project in P5. But with no way to easily move the whole project over to Sonar (and no I'm not talking about rewire, or saving individual patterns and then importing them one by one), it's just not practical, and that kind of makes me sad, since I really want to use Project5 along side of Sonar.

What I want, is for Project 5's main features - the pattern editor, the arrange pane, the groove matrix, to be build right in to Sonar. Make it an option. I'll pay for it. I don't want to have 2 programs open at the same time, and I don't want to have to keep track of every pattern and softsynth setup in P5 in order to later duplicate it in Sonar when I make the more at that point in the project. That's just not a professional workflow. I'm amazed the company seems like they're going to keep these two programs so separate. They really go together nicely. It's just that they should all come off one main container, and as much as the P5 die-hards hate to hear this, that container should be Sonar, IMO.