To all Project 5 refugees..........

[kb420]

Cakewalk has finally updated to P5 V2.5


Here is a link to the download:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1032159


And here is a list of the new features:

New Features

Microsoft Windows® Vista™ Compatibility
Dimension Pro LE (with REX support)
Multiple Audio Input/Output Support
Control Surface Support
Active Controller Technology™ (ACT)
Support for 3rd Party Audio Editors
Configurable MIDI Outputs
Integrated VST Support
MIDI Input Quantize
External MIDI Track
Independent Vertical Track Sizing
Integrated Automation Display
Pre and Post Aux Sends
Unlimited Aux Buses
Dynamic Master Buses
Busable Metronome
Assignable Master Volume Control
Save Pattern as MIDI
Track-at-once CD burning
Cakewalk Publisher


From my perspective, it's certainly nothing to get that excited about. There is nothing there that you can't already do with Live, but, it is what it is.

[tylast]

Save Pattern as MIDI

Wow...how about 4 years too late ~ the year I switched to Live. What a joke.

[freqn]

Reminds me of how I almost dropped a load of cash for project 5 before I heard about Live. Glad I didn't.

[kb420]

It's not a bad program, it just need to grow up a little.

It ain't got shit on Live. I used V2 before I really knew anything about Live, but I am definitely glad I made the switch.

Live is the truth!!!!!!!!

[Angstrom]

I really wanted to like project 5 when it appeared, because I like options and competition. But sadly it seems to take all the things I like least about other apps.
It has that unpleasant interface that haunted Acid for so long, combined with the over-fiddly wee pseudo 3d instruments which lower the rep of Fruity Studio.
EG: http://www.cakewalk.com/images/Project5 ... _II_lg.jpg
really looks amateur to me. In fact the fruity stuff is much better.

the thing is, I bet the underlying code is powerful and useful, but the way you have to interface with it made me delete the demo after about 2 days.

I'm spoilt by simplicity I guess.

[kb420]

Sonar is the best thing going for Cakewalk. P5 and Kinetic are very limited. I do like Dimension Pro, Rapture, and z3ta.

It would seem that they have done a lot to keep Sonar marketable, and they have severly neglected development of P5.

Even still, they do have strong loyalty from their P5 users, which is boderline psychotic, but "to each his own!".