PS Cakewalk, why did it take you so long to tell us about this? It must have been decided ages ago that P5 was not going to be updated.

I am starting to believe that the DAW being beta tested will be the successor to P5.

The cynical side of me says that they must have a reason to stop selling P5 altogether. Even if P5 did not sell much, the cost of having a few pages on their store site dedicated to P5 was probably less than what they might have generated in sales. If P5 sales cut into sales of the new DAW, then obviously it would have to go.

The optimistic side of me thinks that perhaps P5 is going to be replaced with something similar, but more advanced. With a catchier name.

ORIGINAL: mumpcake

I am starting to believe that the DAW being beta tested will be the successor to P5.
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The optimistic side of me thinks that perhaps P5 is going to be replaced with something similar, but more advanced. With a catchier name.

I've been kinda thinking the same thing. Call me a foolish optimist, but the posts on kvr and gearslutz looking for beta testers don't strike me as being for the next Sonar, unless CW is planning on overhauling Sonar. Time will tell, I guess.

ORIGINAL: Marketing [Cakewalk]
In that spirit, we would like to extend a special offer to all our Project5 customers. Through May 17th, registered Project5 cu249stomers 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.

$249 for SONAR 8 when SONAR 9 is around the corner?

ORIGINAL: cryophonik

unless CW is planning on overhauling Sonar

This is where I'm putting my chips, because SONAR is in desperate need for exactly that, and I believe Cakewalk knows it.

I dont own sonar and never will. Too bad eh?

ORIGINAL: mahtazz

$249 for SONAR 8 when SONAR 9 is around the corner?

Unless it's not.

By the way, I just got this in the mail.

ORIGINAL: TUS

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.

I think you kinda answered your question. It's not a real competitor to Live or Reason. No reason wasting resources in a sinking ship. From my experience P5 is a system resource hog compared to Sonar and anything else that is out there.

Besides Sonar 8 is getting great reviews and the focus is on making it even better.

Please just move the better parts of P5 over to Sonar. Particularly the arpeggiator. Nothing wrong with leveraging the good parts of one application and reusing them in another. It's a great way to cut development costs.

Sorry to see P5 end. For those of us that have Sonar 8, maybe Cakewalk can offer a discount on one of the sound libraries.

Cheers,

jayson