LOL! With some synths loaded, I sometimes idle between 20 and 30%!

How many tracks are you trying to run?

Finally, an update!!!!
Oh... wait... sorry, no just DigitalAura's new song.
Oh well.

ORIGINAL: TheOrphan

Finally, an update!!!!
Oh... wait... sorry, no just DigitalAura's new song.
Oh well.

LOL and you wouldn't believe the hassle that was!!! It wouldnt let me upload JUST the mp3..so I had to FAKE a zip file as well!!

ORIGINAL: pony_m
i think that upload must allow MP3 only uploads, since most of us use also other VST instruments, not just P5 synths, so noone will be able to open our P5 files anyway.

Oh, I like that you can download a native P5 song and play it right outta P5. You can see the structure and everything.

However, considering the size limitation, and the VST / synth complications you mention, that will be rare, except maybe for creations by DA -- sworn to use P5 exclusively -- IF he can he can keep it within the confines of his pants pockets.

In this case, size DOES matter!

And the bit about having to upload a p5p or zipped file before the MP3 option kicks in -- that's just plain NUTS. What were they thinking, or not?

Mebbe they thought that would encourage people to post native P5 songs, short beat-happy nothings like Fruity’s download de’jure.

ORIGINAL: agincourtdb

No update since March 4 on the front page, and that was announcing a contest that scheduled to end a month and a half ago??

Some new songs uploaded lately by users in content/songs, but Sounds and Patterns have been dead since Grandpa's uploads of 3/8...

Is anyone supporting Project5? Other than technical support, I mean...

I love the program, but I see all these other apps with pages bristling with content and activity, and I wonder why we poor P5 junkies are missing out.

Maybe there's other sites I don't know about?

-AgincourtDB, P5 + Sonar3P

Grandpa, thanks loads for the Velocity Kits, still sorting through, a great selection.

The Project 5 banner on the P5 forum is a start I guess. Although more could be done.Kinetic is out now so maybe things will pick up for P5.

Thanks for your comments.

Here is what we were thinking:

The web has many sites that let you upload an MP3. We wanted to do something special: Provide a place dedicated to Project5 files. Why? So that Project5 owners could learn from each other. When you listen to a song, you may wonder, "how did they do that?". When you have the actual P5P file, you can see exactly how. That's pretty cool. At least I've learned stuff, from downloading and listening to your songs.

What makes this possible is the fact that Project5 comes with a full set of instruments and effects, that every Project5 owner shares.

Admittedly, unlike some products, Project5 doesn't limit you to the instruments and effects it provides. So you can make a song using plugins that another P5 user may lack.

With version 1.5 we did set up a "plugin database". If you open a song that uses plugins you don't own, P5 can take you to our web site so you can find out more about them. Maybe a demo version is available, or maybe you've been thinking about buying that plugin anyway. The database needs to be filled in with more information, which we need to work on, but the mechanism is in place.

Project5.com was designed to be for Project5 owners, first and foremost. If it was just a marketing web site, we'd have made it "here are a bunch of neat sounding MP3s, play them and buy the product". But as I explained, we really wanted to encourage owners to share their Project5 files with each other.

Is this "encouragement" to upload the Project5 file too strong? Would you like to see this changed? Or does my explanation make you feel differently about it? Let us know, because if most of you aren't happy with the site, we can change it; the reason it exists is for you to use.

ORIGINAL: Greg Hendershott [Cakewalk]

...We wanted ... a place dedicated to Project5 files....So that Project5 owners could learn from each other.

... When you have the actual P5P file, you can see exactly how. That's pretty cool. At least I've learned stuff, from downloading and listening to your songs.

... we really wanted to encourage owners to share their Project5 files with each other.

Is this "encouragement" to upload the Project5 file too strong? Would you like to see this changed? ... Let us know, because if most of you aren't happy with the site, we can change it; the reason it exists is for you to use.

Thanks for responding to this.

Sometimes, because users have plugged in mostly all non-native synths and patches, uploading the P5 file just doesn’t make sense. In that case, I would rather just upload an MP3 so everybody can hear what it is supposed to sound like. I think it’s great that we have the option to share native P5 files, but to make a zipped file prerequisite to posting an MP3 directly is a bit strong handed. Given that choice, I’ve occasionally just uploaded the zipped MP3, as have others.

Sometimes the size limitation makes it impossible to upload a native P5 song.

Recently, you may have noticed that there’s been some pleasant interaction here in the exchange of music via links. Some of the songs are uploaded to the P5 content page, other aren’t. The problem with the content page is the lack of easy immediate feedback, and easy access; there’s no direct way to get from the forum to the content pages, and vice versa. IMHO that’s a big drawback. The content pages are isolated. Half the new users don’t even know they exist. The same is true of the tutorials. It would be very useful to have direct access to these items from within the forum. I don’t see any good reason that they should not be.

As long as I’m P&M-ing, the sign in for the user page is weird. You sign in, and then you’re signed in. But you haven't gone anywhere.

I see some sites which have new offerings every week, and I’m not talking about marketing gimmicks; I’m talking about new wav files, and new songs. Specifically, the ACID website offers a weekly 8 pack which you can download and play, and sounds you can add to your collection. I may be wrong, but it seems like those things are produced from within.

Again, I think it’s great for P5 owners to be able to share, but make it easier and more accessible (consolidate), make it more fun (feedback options), and have Cake throw us a bone occasionally (patterns, songs, loops). And follow up! Like, what ever happened to the song contest?

ORIGINAL: mike85021

I see some sites which have new offerings every week, and I’m not talking about marketing gimmicks; I’m talking about new wav files, and new songs. Specifically, the ACID website offers a weekly 8 pack which you can download and play, and sounds you can add to your collection. I may be wrong, but it seems like those things are produced from within.

Again, I think it’s great for P5 owners to be able to share, but make it easier and more accessible (consolidate), make it more fun (feedback options), and have Cake throw us a bone occasionally (patterns, songs, loops). And follow up! Like, what ever happened to the song contest?

... which is what I've been going on about, hence the thread :-) This is exactly what I'd like to see. Because this is what the site (still) says it's supposed to be.

It's great that we've kick-started the P5 *user* community a little bit, with song uploads and critiques and the like, now I'd like to see Cakewalk itself join in :-) This is a great piece of software, and I'd like to get the impression CW is as excited about it as I am.

just my $.02

-Agincourtdb