Wow...I've never seen so many thank you's by supposedly devoted customers for a company's discontinuance of a newer product that most/all of them purchased.

It is indeed a disturbing universe.

"Cakewalk: A Proud Tradition of Not Finishing What we Started."

ORIGINAL: vomitgod

Wow...I've never seen so many thank you's by supposedly devoted customers for a company's discontinuance of a newer product that most/all of them purchased.

It is indeed a disturbing universe.

How so? I feel they got it right pretty much from the start. I look at value, brother.
$150 ... 5 years of music making bliss, with little to no problems.
That seem like a stretch for you? Wow... let's get real.

Right DA,

I can still use it, single core and all. Actually, that is not that big of a problem since I got use to freezing tracks before it became an easy button - back when adding a reverb could bring a sub gigahertz computer to a stop. I can understand Cake's decision (in fact wondered how they could support two different DAW engines in the forums), but I still think P5 is (was?) the best intro platform to making synth music. And I still start my electro pojects there.

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Well what a shame. Ive been using P5 2.5 for a few years now. Just recently got ACT working with legacy MIDI hardware, and boom, the whole thing goes up in smoke. I agree with many of the comments here. P5 was a real competitor to LIVE and an alternative to REASON, at least for me. Plus you could record into it. Why didn't they kill Sonar home studio?

I'm a little PO'd now because I just bought a new system, will have to reinstall P5, and they have taken down the link to the last maintenance release.

Anybody have any thoughts on this? It seems like a rash decision to pull the last maintenance release, plus all the previous ones are still available.

RIP P5

Cake - Thanks for telling us.

You should sell the code to someone.

ORIGINAL: TUS

I'm a little PO'd now because I just bought a new system, will have to reinstall P5, and they have taken down the link to the last maintenance release.

Anybody have any thoughts on this? It seems like a rash decision to pull the last maintenance release, plus all the previous ones are still available.

I think the update exe is lost because the sticky points to a file hosted on the Project5.com domain.
Try here Project5 Support

Nick, I more or less agree with what you're saying here. But I don't think CW is "putting all its eggs in one basket." I see this as part of the evolution of the CW line towards a post-Sonar product, what you called DAW 2.0 and what I called a while back a "post-DAW DAW." Here's my take on the Project5 announcement. http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1712646&mpage=1&key=#1712750

ORIGINAL: Nick P

Cowtowing to the typical geetar/bass yahoo who uses Sonar in his basement will only get you so far. How many more years will these guys pony up the $180 or so for the Sonar upgrade?

Again, I agree with much of the point you seem to be trying to make. But the problems with Sonar aren't rooted in the instruments played or the kind of music made by its user base. There's something about the regular references to "geetar" players and so on that makes it seem like you're slumming to be here among such yahoos. On the basis of what? I gather that you're a formally trained musician. But why should that impress anyone?

The reality is, you're here, using these products, and complaining about these products, and calculating whether or not to upgrade these products, and trying to figure out what it means when they kill these products off. The fact that you can apparently play suma that fayancy music reeeel purty on a pieyana doesn't change that.

We're all yahoos on this bus.

Thanks darlomrh.

That link was redundant earlier.

Its all kind of ironic really. Though I read the forum a lot, I never became a member until today - The day they stopped developing P5! However it just goes to show that I really had no issues with it, and would read up mainly for pointers, but I myself never had specific issues!

I just bought a new machine. Quad core processor and 3GB of RAM. Though P5 can only see one core, I can still send other processes to the other cores. There is a great tool for XP called PriFinitty that will allow you to set affinity and priority to your various cores on an XP system and save your settings on the fly as a template. you can also set it to run everytime a specific process (such as P5 starts).

I also just bought Stylus RMX with the SAGE expanders included. Its a total steal at $379!

I gather that you're a formally trained musician

This made me chuckle a little.

We're all yahoos on this bus.

Except me.... I dont like to ride the bus, there are some scary people on there.