Cakewalk Project5 now 2026

[agapito lopez]

Hi! I'm looking for the Cakewalk Project5 v2.0 ISO to restore some old projects, but I can't find it anywhere since it's abandonware. If anyone still has a backup of the install disc in their Google Drive, could you please send me a PM? Thanks!

[D-Fusion]

Hi! I'm looking for the Cakewalk Project5 v2.0 ISO to restore some old projects, but I can't find it anywhere since it's abandonware. If anyone still has a backup of the install disc in their Google Drive, could you please send me a PM? Thanks!

I think it will be very hard to find since It was before Downloading big apps was a thing so they only came on CD's or DVD's.

So the only option is to search on the Archeological high seas for a copy where they might have a copy of the forgotten past

[eLawnMust]

Not so much forgotten as it's better than alot of modern crapola, I still use it... I pretty much have all versions... 1.1, 1.5, 2.0, 2.51... However I don't recommend 2.51 as you can't read wrapped plugs anymore & the VST scanning rather sucks so I stick with 2.0-




However mine's on discs that are packed away as if you have it installed you don't need your discs hanging around anymore only thing I can say is I will bookmark this thread & if I come across it I'll make an effort... I have many bins...

[heliacal]

It's out there:
Cakewalk.Project5.Version.2.DVDR-SPiRiT

[clivestretch]

The most criminally underrated music software of all time.

I have physical copies of both v1 and v2. Not sure of the ethics/legality of sharing the ISO though.

There's actually one for sale on eBay right now.

[jclosed]

Yep - I still have the original box and manual, including DVD's with the updates. Like the poster above me, I am not sure about sharing that ISO. It seems that this will be a legal problem, and I am not sure about that.

Anyway - When Project 5 was discontinued I reluctantly went to Ableton Live because of the "somewhat" similarities, only to drop Live at a later point and jumped to Bitwig. For me Bitwig is a good successor to Project 5. I have not used Project 5 V2 for a long time, and I do not even know it will still run. Not that it would run on my systems, because I use a mix of MacOS and Linux, so...

[eLawnMust]

When the guy who was coding Project5 & Kinetic left that was the end of those two... Now Cakewalk itself been gone along time & nobody ever mentioned Project5 again... Any license agreements are with Cakewalk, not anyone else so I don't see the issue in sharing... "If You leave your software on the Prairie then I'm gonna pick it up & put it on my head & use it"...If there's one on EBAY maybe OP will 'feel better' about getting that then>>>

[cryophonik]

Assuming the OP owns a valid P5 license (which he presumably does if he’s trying to access his old P5 projects), I don’t see a problem with sharing the installation file. The license grants the user to use the software, not the install.exe.