Logic Pro Vrs. Digital Performer, features? scoring capabilties? Options

[chagos]

greetings all,

I am getting ready to do a bit of a drastic change in the studio. I'm bswitching from a Pro Tools based studio to more of a MIDI enviromnet.

I'm looking into either Logic Pro or Digital Performer to be the main workhorse, and I'll keep a Pro Tools LE rig on the side for everything else.

I mainly do sound design and film scoring/music.
I am somewhat new to Logic since the last version I used was 5.5.1 and I have never used DP.

I am semi-pro, working on many indie films, games and animations.

I have been using Pro Tools, Live, and Reason together for the last few years, but the time has come to get a more sturdy midi program. Almost all of my work is done exclusively through MIDI, mostly by softsynths or plug ins(hence the reason I am moving over pro tools)

I'm mainly just wondering what everyones opinions are on the two sequencers I mentioned. Should I go for Logic or DP?

I've read about both and they both seem to get pretty good reviews, and they both would do the job I need them for. So, i guess I would just like some user feedback.

do both have timecode?
does DP support most plug ins( example: native instruments)?
do both bounce to quicktime?
do they both support 5.1 surround routing and mixing?
rewire?

Any information on either of these would be great, as I am really cautious about a change like this.

Thanks so much for the help. Its appreciated.

(oh, i'll be using os x.3.9, G5, etc.)

[ourmanflinty]

I'm going to go for Logic too. Although DP has always been an Apple only program, with Logic being part of Apple I think the intergration into your mac environment will be superior to DP as time goes by..The CPU hog issue too, this started if i remember correctly when OSX came around so it sounds like it needs a complete re-write..? This will become less of an issue as time goes by and faster systems are availiable I guess but it's pretty slow sometimes..I've never been a serious user of DP, only ever enough to install and do minor support stuff so a little biased!

I understand DP has always been a musicians favourite in the US of A, there was a lot of midi intergration back in the day with patch library management etc and it was fairly well performance orientated if you wanted to take it on stage with you...Logic has always been more of a 'european' product?