what about a media player with vst effects?
 
They you can listen to the mixes in a row and have the mastering effects you wants without having them on the wav/mp3 file. And it could be massive popular because there are not any media player that does that, as i can se.

Talking of old products.... I dug this one up out of storage the other day along with the manual & songbook:
 

 
I remember was a PITA to get it working properly, but when it did work it was great. Basically you give it a MIDI file, decide which part you want to play, and it plays all the other parts to the same tempo as you are playing.
 
In practice however, it relied on you playing enough notes for it to reliably detect your tempo. For one song I ended up writing a silent part that involved playing constant 1/8 notes for it to keep regular time.
 
I seriously doubt if BandLab would consider resurrecting this one (and I'm not suggest it either), but it was a cool bit of Cakewalk history.
 
M.
 

msmcleod
Talking of old products.... I dug this one up out of storage the other day along with the manual & songbook:
 

 
I remember was a PITA to get it working properly, but when it did work it was great. Basically you give it a MIDI file, decide which part you want to play, and it plays all the other parts to the same tempo as you are playing.
 
In practice however, it relied on you playing enough notes for it to reliably detect your tempo. For one song I ended up writing a silent part that involved playing constant 1/8 notes for it to keep regular time.
 
I seriously doubt if BandLab would consider resurrecting this one (and I'm not suggest it either), but it was a cool bit of Cakewalk history.
 
M.
 

Wow!  This must've been gone before Sonar 2 which was the first Cakewalk product I bought.  I would have loved to have tried it!  Hmm, windows 95 and MacOS!  What year was that?

Sometime in the mid 90's if I remember rightly... it's definitely pre Sonar. I'm pretty sure I got this before I bought Cakewalk Pro-Audio 7, as I was still using Cakewalk Express (which was Windows 3.1!) at the time.

Project 5 is deader than that shuffling silhouette figure in the title sequence of The Walking Dead. That's never coming back. A new REX player would be nice though. Perhaps a bit too niche to be a good business proposition.

I have to agree on Project5 has passed its time. But, take Project5 and incorporate it with the Matrix.
Would make the Matrix worth while IMO.
 
 

Project 5 would be much more popular if it was released as an app for your phone where you could transfer files to Cakewalk rather than as a windows program.

John T
Project 5 is deader than that shuffling silhouette figure in the title sequence of The Walking Dead. That's never coming back. A new REX player would be nice though. Perhaps a bit too niche to be a good business proposition.

Of course Project 5 is dead, it's been killed. When was last time it was in shop ? 15 years ago ? I still think it is has a market potential as is. Without further development, and under the current business model, it could be released free as Project 5 by BandLab ... with contemporary revisions as Project 18 by BandLab. The latter I don't see happening anytime soon either, as I think there is more than enough work to be done on CbB in terms of core robustness. Outsourcing might be an option. 

pwalpwal
beatscape was ****! the prime example of half-baked

If you'd only seen it before it was emasculated ...
 

kitekrazy1
1. Beatscape - still the best REX player out there but only 32 bit.
2. Project 5 - never really used it but it was cool looking.

1.. beatscrap.. was / is awful compared to other things i use.. I actually prefer RXP more / by miles.. was a "look like an over engineered mpc" .
 
2.. project 5 is good in the sense of it's footprint, but the elements of it were in later sonars ? it was a handy VST host if you had used it with recycle I guess