I guess I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the Project 5 2.5 update has been bequeathed upon us.

I’m reserving judgment until I’ve lived with it for a while, but early reactions seem fairly positive. Save of course the usual “Why didn’t they include this?” some of which are valid points. And VST naming is just outright broken – I mean, it’s great they integrated the plugin integration tool but to put in the Plugin Manager and then not turn it fully on is huge pain in the fuckin’ ass. I have a lot of plugins, and device chains only go so far into allowing you to load up what you need. There’s a 3rd party solution in the works but frankly I’m up to my neck in 3rd party solutions and updates right now, and if this works in Sonar it should work here. (I suspect the culprit is the custom synth and fx menus and they probably need to be rewritten in order to work.)

Also, the Project5.com website is still fallow. I mean, it doesn’t even have anything about the update. It doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. But I’m hoping that with this update, beyond the benefits of the improvements, shows that Cakewalk has plans for Project 5 and will bring it to at least one more version.