Helloooooooooooo

You can hear the echo reverberating off the walls down this long empty forum hall.

Well, it makes no sense to hang here unless you guys keep coming.  I check P5 everyday, but SONAR X1 seems to be where the action is here at Cakewalk.  Not as fun as the old P5, which seemed to be a bunch of good folk.

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I check back about everyday, too.

It is still a good program - glad to see a new user join this rather quiet group.

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I dont really hang out on any forum anymore. I just poke my head in now and again (well..rarely) and visit www.idmforums.com

I opened a soundcloud page - http://soundcloud.com/10-music
though I am not on there very often either.

Still using P5, but plan on looking elsewhere once school is done and I can settle down and build my Art/Photography/Music studio :D

I came here to record the sound of crickets. It was working until someone posted and disrupted the silence. lol

P5 rules big time. It's very easy and intuitive. Thank you, Cake, for making P5. Here's hoping for a comeback!

No problem w/ P5 and vista here.  32 bit, tho.  I'm sure some of the others have it working on 64.

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No problem w/ P5 and vista here.  32 bit, tho.  I'm sure some of the others have it working on 64.

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I've had P5v2 running on Windows7 in both 64 and 32 bit mode. I went back to the 32 bit mode because it afforded me some options that just weren't available in the Windows 64 bit mode.

No problems at all, and I use it everyday. I still use Sonar 8.5, but P5 is so quick that I can scratch out an idea in just a couple of clicks instead of all the setup involved with Sonar.

Now that I have found a way to send program, bank and patch changes to my outboard sound module from within P5, I love using it even more than ever.

I had some little problems in the past when installing P5 (demo version I downloaded - not longer available I guess) over Sonar 8.5, so when I got my hands on the full P5 version I decided it was time to do a fresh new clean Windows install.

At first I installed Windows 7 64 bit, drivers etc. and did some performance tweaks. Then I installed all free FX and synth stuff (still love Independence free, NI Komplete 7 players, Proteus VX, Voxengo stuff etc.) And on top of that P5. I did not run the application, but installed the upgrades before doing anything. Then I launched P5 and did the usual configuration stuff.

After I was sure P5 (v2) worked like it should do, I installed X1 on top of that. This installation replaced some old versions of stuff used in P5, but it does not seem to have any bad effect on P5 itself. The full fresh version of Dimenson Pro works great in P5. And before someone asks - no I did not installed the older Sonar 8.5. I only use X1 now. The only reason I keep the 8.5 install, disk around is because it has the Lexicon Pantheon Verb on it. This one is missing on the X1 install DVD (guess it is for licence or stability reasons, although I do not have any stability problems after installing it from the 8.5 DVD).

The result is I have a perfect working P5 together with X1. Oh - and this time I did not even bother to install Ableton Intro. P5 gives me all the "scratch-pad" usability that I was using in Intro.

Well - at this moment I use P5 for simple MIDI pattern and loop editing. In most cases exporting MIDI and importing it in X1 works fine. I just use P5 as a kind of "place-holder" for a base pattern and the variations on it. After creating the variations I start "cherry-picking" the best parts and use them in X1. If I use a soft-synth and get a sound that is not easy reproducible (lot of tweaking on the synth and plug-ins), I use the audio in stead of MIDI.

As you can see I am using P5 really serious for just a short wile (before that I only played around with the demo), so I am not using it's full potential yet. I am not sure if there is a easier way to do the above, but that's fully possible.

I going to use this weekend figuring out how rewiring P5 - X1 works, and if this is of any use. I have no experience with rewiring yet, so I am not sure if this is useful, but I think it is time for some experimenting...