Digital Performer And Mac Intel, Troubles with DP 4.5 and Mac Intel Options

[moi180102]

I'm trying to make the DP 4.5 works on a MacBook Pro 2.0/1Ghz. I can open any session, car hear any soundbite selection. Still, I can open, see and manage any window. The problems are:
1. The program doesn't recocgnize the input and output of CoreAudio at the same time.
2. When I press the play button, the program just crashes.
I decided to buy the MacBook Pro because the called Roseta, that is defined by Apple as a kind of translator to the new Intel Chip. Ok! What can I do now. I'm working with my old PowerBook 667/512 because no of my audio programs works properly. Some of them works, but so much slowly in MacBooK then the Powerrbook. So, be warned. The Roseta is not that miracle...

[deaconblue]

But, this is exaclty like when Apple moved from 68k machines to PPC machines. At first the apps were few and far between that would run natively. For almost a year, the bleeding edge users (think current pro-app users) had to either wait or experience lagging performance at best. Once the application manufacturers 'caught up', the platform move made a huge boost in performance for everyone. The PowerPC chip made the Mac a truly competitive platform in the PC market for speed and reliability and paved the way for the G3 - G5 chipsets.

We had these same issues when OS X was released. Apps had to be revved to work with Mac OS X. MOTU was one of the first to complete the transition to OS X, but it was well worth the wait (I remember running my G4 in OS 9 for quite a while, even after installing OS X on it so I could continue to record).

Now Intel based Macs.

FYI, all maunufacturers are provided with Apple hardware before it is released in order to build their applications and other goodies to work with the new platform, regardless of what it is (new chip, faster machine, G4 -> G5,etc). It is up to the manufacturer to have their apps ready. That the Intel based Macs were ready to ship 5 months ahead of the original schedule is *the* problem. But, what would you expect Apple to do? Hold off on being able to ship the new product because they did a better job of getting the units ready?

I completely understand your frustration in this, but this is the nature of technology. And, for the majority of items, the Mac and the software for it does "just work". Much more so than a PC based system. And since Apple doesn't code for complete backwards compatibility, you have faster performance and fewer problems long term.

The point is, I don't think you can lay all of this at the Apple door. But, again, I definiltey understand where you are coming from.

paz...