 Digital Performer 4--in Da House, Yeah, I broke down and got it... |
 Sun 13 Apr 2003, 02:11
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 Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 296 Joined: 10-Aug 02 From: Rimghobb - UA Member No.: 6,734  |
How long can you stay mad at a unicorn?
 This ain't yer granny's Digital Performer. Just got it installed and launched once, opened an old, creaky DP 3x project, and it fired right up (after coughing a few times about missing--read: obsolete--OS 9 effects plugz that had been in the session). It played back like a champ. I need to do some audio optimization (buffer, latency optimizations, etc.) because I have different hardware than I was running DP3 with, but overall it's a thing of beauty and grace. Several very nice GUI enhancements have made it even better than it was. It does, by the way, have track "freezing": a sort of virtual (and revertable) "bounce" of a track or tracks, freeing up effects and other resources. Then you can "unfreeze" it to do further adjustments, etc. This is really just a first-impression pre-review. The manual is about the size and mass of a concrete block. (Just kidding--sorta'.) I'm getting cozy with the Quick Start guide at the moment to see what is new and different, and will be gettin' serious with it here over the next day or two. I'll make this a sort of journal thread, with segmented reviews, and will answer whatever questions get thrown at me as I can. Nobody will ever hear this boy sayin' "It was worth the wait," because I've already made my disgust with MOTU manifest over them dragging their horseshoes into OS X-land. But I will say that it seems, on first blush, that they did a thorough job of it. Now I'll see what happens when I crank 'er up to speed...   
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Fri 18 Apr 2003, 03:46
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 Moderator  Group: Team Posts: 508 Joined: 09-Jul 02 From: Sydney - AU Member No.: 5,658 |
QUOTE just got a new mac with OSX. I can't install DP3 at all. It says it can't find the CD. Any suggestions? DP3 isn't supported by OS X. You will need to upgrade to DP4. https://secure.motu.com/store/global/dp4.html This post has been edited by formatj: Fri 18 Apr 2003, 04:02 |
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Fri 18 Apr 2003, 17:52
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 296 Joined: 10-Aug 02 From: Rimghobb - UA Member No.: 6,734 |
QUOTE (BusError @ Apr 17 2003, 11:20) Whats your problems? Given enough demand, I could possibly reverse engineer EZbus's Profile Editor and make one for OSX. Hey, buserror. I just started a new thread in this forum giving details about the problems. It's USB audio and DP4: "It's dead, Jim."    Well, with the EZBus and Griffin's iMic at least. One person has reported success with the Tascam US-224, but only under OS 10.2 so far. The new topic is "DP4 and USB audio failures." All the data is there. Man, a DP4 profile for X would be great!  I'll post more on the audio problems in the other thread as more info arises. |
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 Wed 30 Apr 2003, 02:00
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 Maniac Member Group: Members Posts: 899 Joined: 12-Oct 01 From: Kirkland Member No.: 2,002 |
Ron, what Mac do you have? Can you boot to OS9? If you can boot to OS9, you can install and learn/use DP3. More info.
-------------------- G-Dub
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Mon 5 May 2003, 20:13
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 04-Aug 02 From: Austin - US Member No.: 6,560 |
So i've decited, due to daily kernal crashes, to update to 10.2, and since i'm already doing that, going for the DP4 upgrade instead of Deck LE
So... is it true that DP4 does (or will) support OS 9 plug-ins? This was an early rumor, but I haven't heard about it since. I'd LOVE to not even install OS 9.. but I'm not about to go re-buy an auto-tune plug-in 
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Tue 6 May 2003, 14:52
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 18-Apr 03 From: Oxford - US Member No.: 16,324 |
Thanks, I did find out from MOTU that there's no wat to run DP3 on my new MAC. I ordered DP4 and am on the backorder list.
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