Welcome to the Cakewalk Project5 notes on the Technetos website. Here I have collected some interesting information regarding this great music software package. Much help and information is available from Cakewalk's excellent user forums, especially the Project5 forum. A big thank you to Cakewalk for the great software and to all the forum members for a great support community!
Cakewalk has dedicated a website to Project5 community www.Project5.com where we can contribute patches, sounds, patterns, songs, etc. There is a lot of really great music and components available there as well as nice tutorials and tips.
In addition to the fine Cakewalk websites and forums, a lot of Project5 users have started an alternative forum at http://p5refugee.s1.bizhat.com for additional discussions that may not necessary be appropriate for the official Cakewalk-sponsared Project5 forums (ie off-topic discussions or discussions including non-Cakewalk software products).
Sometime during June/July of 2005 Cakewalk has modified their security for their firewall/FTP server so that we are now required to use ACTIVE FTP to download files. This has caused a lot of problems for some users who have firewalls (or whose ISP has firewalls) which prevent ACTIVE FTP connections from working. I grew weary of all the complaints on the forums regarding this issue so I wrote a small HTTP-to-FTP gateway on my webserver that will allow users to use my webserver to perform an HTTP download of some specific files. It works like this: user clicks the link I provide, the link actives the HTTP-to-FTP gateway on my server, the gateway initiates an ACTIVE FTP connection to Cakewalk's FTP server and begins downloading a specific file in small blocks, each block is then written back to the user's web browser where it may be saved locally. My program is merely a gateway--it does not cache any local copy of the Cakewalk files on my server. It just acts as a temporary data conduit for those who cannot use ACTIVE FTP. Hope this helps. Use these links:
Now this is awesome news. Project5 user Mike West has opened up an end-user managed Project5 Wiki at p5.sonarama.com. This wiki allows all of us Project5 users to quickly and easily edit articles and tips about Project5 and related topics. No website/HTML design knowledge is necessary. The Wiki has lots of neat help plus deep links to a variety of Project5-related information on the Internet. Be sure to go to the Wiki site and signup for an account so you can participate.
The forum member 'b rock' (Tom Brockway) has spent considerable time creating a PSYN synthesizer tutorial series which is ever expanding. A lot of forum members (myself included) have found b rock's tutorials very helpful. Thank's b rock for all the labor and sharing!
To make it easier to find b rock's tutorials within the confines of the Project5 forums I have created this link:
'PSYN-tology Tutorials by b rock'I have also published b rock's tutorials in this Adobe Acrobat .pdf document: PSYN-tology (PDF Format).
It is absolutely full of good tutorial information on the PSYN synth.
You will need Adobe's free Acrobat Reader to to view this file. Last updated 2004-10-26.
As an aid to using his tutorials, b rock has also uploaded sets of tutorial-related PSYN patches for us. You may find them at the Project5.com sounds page.
b rock scores again! This time with X-Treme SFX topics. I have created this link to make it easier to locate his SFX tutorials on the Cakewalk Project5 forums: 'X-Treme SFX Tutorials by b rock'
Additionally, here is the PDF version of the entire X-Treme SFX series: X-Treme SFX (PDF Format)
Page updated on Monday, 20-Oct-2008 08:31:36 CDT.