P5 VS Sonar advice

If you have sonar you do not need Project 5. However the question you should be asking yourself is this.

Do I want P5?

If you want to do a feature comparison of what you can do in sonar that you cannot do in project 5 then the list would be relatively large

If you want to do a feature comparison of what you can do in project 5 thant you cannot do in Sonar then the list would be relatively small.

So why do a lot of the people here who have both programs prefer to work in Project 5?

One word.

Workflow= The best description I can give for project 5 is not to describe it as a software studio but as a compositional tool. With project 5 I can minimise the time taken to get an idea from my head and onto the computer in the shortest amount of time possible. It may take me a few days to get what would take me a few hours in Project 5. The reason is multitude, programs like Sonar, Cubase, Logic Audio carry a lot of legacy baggage. In these programs the screen has the look of a mixer, because people want it to look like mixers do in real life, this is actually counter intuitive to how you can actually work it on a computer, where the main input device is a mouse and not a slider.

What Cakewalk have done is to start with a fresh perspective on how to do it while not sticking with "tradition". They have done so at some of the features , for example there is little in the sense of audio recording in P5. While it is possible it is not bristling with audio editing features. It is designed to work with, generally, smaller audio loops, or midi patterns, and to use these patterns as the building block for your tunes. It does take a little adjustment in the way of thinking, once you get past this you can start putting together tunes at a much faster rate. It is not for everybody, but most people would be able to get some benefit out of Project 5 even if it was not their main DAW.

Any more questions and Im sure that the kind people that frequent the forum would be all too pleased to answer.

Thankssss

SONAR is a great piece of enhancement-add-on software for Project5.

Sonar was first. Then came P5.

ORIGINAL: badbib

P5 is only 99 bucks from Sonar isn't it?
Think about it... you get the Dimension, the workflow, the grooveMatrix...
I use both, they complement each other really well...
IMO, it's great to own and use both...

oh I wish it was man, but it is not. It is still in 400's ... expensive ..besides maybe I should hold on specially with the word that the new version could be on the way..I would be crazy to spend that much money and then bang a new version is out

Firstly,what seb was getting at is that if you own Sonar you can crossgrade to P5, I see however from the website that that option is not there either a/ anymore or b/ at the moment.

As to holding off for a new version , you will notice they only charged the P5v1 owners $79.00 to upgrade. Personally I do not think that this is a bad price to pay. Also note that P5V3 has not even been announced yet. We do know that they are at least working on the feature list because a survey was sent out that looked like they were wanting to know what features were high on our mind for inclusion. So I would not hold any breaths yet waiting for V3. Even if it is announced soon, there will still most likely be a few months wait before release.

That is too much. They should have a regsitered Cakewalk owners price, which is less. Not over $300 retail.