Dear Project5 Customer,

We regret to inform you that as of today there will be no further development on Project5. It will be officially discontinued and moving forward, support will only be offered via email. This was a difficult decision, and one which we carefully considered for a long time. Unfortunately, there was no way we could continue supporting this product at the level we felt necessary. While we were able to attract a loyal community of Project5 users, we weren’t able to garner enough commercial success to make Project5 a viable product.

To all the loyal Project5 users—we truly appreciate the support you have given us over the years. We have found that the Project5 community are among the most engaged and passionate people in our Cakewalk family. We have enjoyed the active dialog over the years—and good or bad—we have always listened to your feedback. We have learned a great deal from Project5 development and we hope to translate some of its strengths into future Cakewalk products. We hope that you will remain part of the Cakewalk family moving forward.

In that spirit, we would like to extend a special offer to all our Project5 customers. Through May 17th, registered Project5 customers can crossgrade to SONAR 8 Studio for only $99/£69/€79 or you can upgrade to SONAR 8 Producer for $249/£199/€229. In both cases, you will save $100/£80/€90 off your regular price, and this is a greater discount than the current special pricing that we are running for Cakewalk customers. With SONAR 8, you access all the included Project5 instruments and effects, and you can still continue to use Project5 inside SONAR via ReWire. With SONAR 8 and Project5 side-by-side, you will have a robust studio set-up that incorporates the best of both worlds—instant music creation tools powered by the leading digital audio workstation in the industry.

To take advantage of this upgrade offer, chose one below.

Upgrade to SONAR 8 Studio today
Upgrade to SONAR 8 Producer today

We thank you again for your support and we hope you will continue to be a part of Cakewalk family for many years to come.

Sincerely,

Cakewalk

Well,

RIP the mystery of P5. It is finally solved. Ah, all the wasted thread hours.

Good to know, anyway, and hope a lot of the functuality of P5 migrates to SONAR 9.

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Ah well, the best product in the Cakewalk line bites the dust, IMO.

The issue with functionality from P5 going to Sonar is that it is unlikely to have the same flow in Sonar that it does in P5, purely because they are different in the way they approach things - maybe S9 will see more streamlining in it's methodology, rather than new plugins. Personally, I think Sonar could do to be rewritten/re-thought in the way that Sonar was in comparison to Pro Audio, streamlining the workflow.

This doesn't surprise me. P5, as awesome as it was, just never "caught on" for whatever reason.

Any chance the remaining instruments and effects bundled with P5 will be further developed standalone or as a package? Honestly, I use P5 instruments/effects in Cakewalk more than I used P5 itself.

I really enjoy the plugz and would pay for upgrades if they came!

So..... when's V3 with multicore support coming out? I have a new hex-core I want to put to test.

No, seriously.... long live Velocity, nPulse and PSYN-II !!!

Finally.

A very big thank you for finally letting us know. :)

I love SONAR and will continue to use it.

Thank you Cakewalk, for giving us a great product and for establishing electronic music production in my life. For what it's worth, I support this decision fully, I know it wouldn't have been an easy decision.
Thanks to all of you who continue to advance me and the rest of the community here with tips, helpful advice and camaraderie. I hope this forum continues to exist, as I consider everyone here my friend.
Project5 continues to be the integral cornerstone to my productions. I appreciated participating with the staff and the other beta testers in each of the cycles.
Big props to Cakewalk and the staff for making a great product even if it is no longer commercially viable.
Here's to much success in the future, guys!

Cheers!

-DA

Say It Ain't So (***sigh***).

Goodbye Project5.

ORIGINAL: Marketing [Cakewalk]

We have learned a great deal from Project5 development and we hope to translate some of its strengths into future Cakewalk products.

Also... awwwww yeeeeeah!

we hope to translate some of its strengths into future Cakewalk products.

Donating the organs posthumously isn't going to cut it. Project5's Gestalt whole was where the real enlightenment lived. Flaws and all.
Some people just got it. Evidently, a lot more than that simply didn't.