Project 5 Users from the 'good ol days'

If you were a member on this forum during the hayday of project5 then please post! I remember a lot of you guys and you helped change the way that I wrote music and it was thanks to this community that I signed up for the university course I did (Music and Sound Recording) and am now working for Dolby!

I really hope that some of the old users will stumble upon this page like I just have and say hi! Let me know what you're doing!

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hey tclark.  Freeky right?

Glad to hear you're doing something you enjoy for a living.  I'm still in touch with a couple of old timers and I put the word out.  Hopefully others will stop by.

I'm always pokin' around from day-to-day to see if there is any action on the forum.  On a side note, the old Project5 Wiki that was hacked and taken offline has been re-incarnated in a new anti-hack static web site form at http://project5.technetos.com/ for anyone interested.

I think most of us are still here, but there just ain't that much action anymore.  I guess we are all so expert we don't have any more questions ;-) 

On a side note, I was dumping CDs to my android phone to use in the jeep and came across the P5 users CD for the Dallas Video Festival I did years ago.  Almost brought tears to my eyes ...  But the songs from you guys were really, really good.  Keep posting news of your work here, even if it ain't all P5.

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I'm so glad that you guys have responded! Genuinely just brought a smile to my face! :-D

Ecamburn, that's the one - Freeky I am :-) Or was... I tend to do more recording these days but I still enjoy composing the odd bit here and there! The problem has been for me that I'm pretty much all mac now (whenever I try to use my PC it just angers me :-p) and I couldn't get P5 to work properly either on my Windows 7 laptop or running XP on my mac. I have to say I miss it! I guess that's why I came back to the P5 forum - because I miss you guys! :-)

I'm glad to hear that you've all been keeping busy! I still have the 'Dallas Video Fest 06 - When P5 Ruled The World' album! :-D Listening to it now lol... I really don't know what I was thinking about my entry... so weird! With clips from the late Steve Irwin too... But I'm really enjoying the originality in this album. Something I always wondered was why there seemed to be very few people with vocals on their tracks... now I realise it's because that's not what P5 is about! It's about proper, intuitive sequencing and about enhancing synthesized sound and creating huge soundscapes in little time!

I've moved away from Sonar (I have 7 PE) simply because my course uses Pro Tools and Logic and that's what I had/have to mix on... I think it's a shame because when compared to Sonar, PT and Logic are such rigid interfaces! I love the way that you can route anything anywhere! You don't have to mess around with specific track-types and ensure that you have all of your track-typing etiquette in order before you can mix. You just DO it. And I found that was the case with P5 - an attitude of not faffing around with formalities but just getting down to it, get your idea down and flesh it out; worry about mixing and fine details later!

if anyone was interested I do have a soundcloud page (to which I occasionally upload things) with some recordings on. Feel free to check it out - I'm going to check out all of yours! :-) http://soundcloud.com/timclark0000

Still pop by from time to time, P5 will always be my 'first love' as a DAW, and still use it now and again, although as I now have an iMac Logic is now my main DAW. Cake missed a beat when they dropped P5, but when P5's main man left,,,
Also this was the best forum bar none, you always got help when asked for, try that on most other forums.
Still, I for one will always keep the P5 faith and pop by here as long as the forum lasts.
Love to all
Rosco

Not sure if I count as a user from the good ol days but ill show p5 some love since its done so much for my odd little music. 

I'm SOOOO there! LOL   Reunion tour indeed! LOL


<<  just like the location tag says!  ORIGINAL baby!

oh... wait...

Now it's original! HAHAH!

Blip was around on the song forums a while back cranking out music.  I havent been there for months, but give it a try.

Nothing about Phil in years.  Is the P5 alt site still around?  I've lost the address when my old computer died.

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And yea, it is nice to hear from everybody.  Gives on a good feeling like a high-school reunion.

No, Tom pops up when there's a difficult question on the synths.  Not often, but he still counts when it matters.

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i miss using p5 as a scratch pad, as Sonar X1 x64 isn't as "easy" for this.  but i grew to dislike having 32 bit programs and 32 bit plugins cluttering up my system (only exception is Kore).  however, now that Maschine has Vst support, that is more like Project 5 than anything i've come across

Seth Perlstein [Cakewalk
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I know there's some different workflows in SONAR when it comes to MIDI editing and the way clips are handled, but I for one will be harassing our devs to integrate that sort of workflow into SONAR. I can't promise it will actually happen, but I'll be prodding them every chance I get.

I would suggest that 'whacking with a big stick' will probably be more successful than 'prodding'.

My biggest issue with X1 (other than the still omitted 'replace synth' option!) is the size of the GUI, it just seems much larger than in the previous version...I have a dual monitor setup but it still seems that there is a lack of screen space for the tracks, in particular.

As for P5: I did install it on W7, but I can't say that I will use it anymore...Studio One and Reason/Record are my apps of choice these days and unfortunately, P5 just seems lacking in comparison now.

I think P5 version 2 is sill the best DAW ever. Even on my new laptop Asus with i7 processor, it won't crash wheres my X1 I finally figured out why it crashes you have to start by scratch again after updating. X1 is a learning curve and a learning experiance but now im getting use to it more this time.

Hey you guys!

Coming from Sonar, I was never an avid P5 user, but a few days ago I was working on a project and had a track that was too bright and upfront, and thought the P5 Tempo Delay would be perfect for it since it always tends to make stuff a bit duller. I was also missing the grainy character of the StudioVerb (for some reason, Sonar's DSP-FX  plugs don't run anymore in my PC). So I decided to install P5 v2.5 in my DAW just for the damn plugins.

I'm still running Sonar 7PE - I haven't upgraded my DAW since 2007, neither the PC nor the software. These days I use Sonar mostly as a multitrack recorder, with the bundled plugins plus a few more old ones. I don't use softsynths, I just jam on my hardware synths, overdub tracks, add a few effects, and that's it. When I look at Kev's PC specs, I feel quite outdated.

I'm also seriously addicted to modular synths - so much that I've sold most non-modular stuff. My music has definitely changed because of it (and probably not for the better). 

The reason I stopped by was because I read somewhere that Z3ta+ 2 had been released (not that I plan to buy it), but these days I hang around MuffWiggler's forum mostly - a very nice community of modular users.

Keep on doin' it.

Hi, all! Good to see the old faces (uh, nicknames). I am not composing much, after spending 2K last year on recording 3 songs and making (so far, hehe) a total of 5 cents thru spins on Internet sites. Got 200+ fans on jango.com but not one iTunes download. Welcome to the music biz, son!

Anyway, P5 is awesome, and will probably remain my one and only DAW for years to come. Why bother with something else, when for me P5 does it all short of cooking a dinner :)