Dp For Os X?, Is MOTU stuck on the horn of a dilemma? Options

[Levon River]

This is getting ridiculous. With only 21 more days in the year, MOTU seems to be pushing its "4th quarter 2002" release of DP for OS X to max extreme limits.

Has anybody been in touch with them to find out why they are dragging their unicorn?

It may be carrion by the time they manage to get DP on the shelves.

Sad, sad, bad show performance out of the "Performer" is all I've got to say.

[Levon River]

BagHun, I spend 99% of my time in OS X on my main computer, and boot into 9 only with a metaphorical gun to my head.

There are several computers around here equipped in different ways, one of which runs mostly in 9.2 with DP. If there's a crush-rush project that has to get done in DP, and that I have to be involved in, I'll wander over, and others use it fairly regularly. It's available. (What's funny-pathetic is that most things run *much* faster in 9 than in X. But I've got so much set up in X, and so little set up in 9, and am so comfortable with X as an operating system, and there were always so many things about 9 and before that I despised, that I really need a massive motivation to boot into 9 myself.)

As for my own projects, I've got so many going, and there is so much I'm able to do with them in other programs to move them along in various ways, that I'm not in any way hurting--just annoyed beyond comprehension with MOTU's sloth on this. I've been spending a lot of time setting up sampler patches and other things, and have done some simply fun experiments in Reason using its sequencer--which have turned out great, and will be completely usable with DP when it ever arrives, either through ReWire or just as exported audio files.

What I actually think (just my opinion) is that MOTU is making the vast bulk of its income from its cross-platform hardware, and so have had most of their company resources focused there--not on DP.

Don't ask me to explain the "thinking" behind that. While MOTU has been fiddling around with DP, naturally the great tide turned toward Logic because it was available in X. Once people make that kind of investment--not only of money but of time in a learning curve (and Logic's is steep for many people)--it practically takes an act of God to get them to pry that dongle out of their port and free themselves.

In 9, DP was cheaper, easier to use, and every ounce as powerful as Logic. There's no way to know right now how it will compare in X. But no matter what it can actually *do*, I don't see any way they will ever win over many if any of the Logic dongle-danglers at this point. I believe their only hope in the software arena right now is die-hard DP loyalists and new customers that they can woo away from the dangers of dongle dangling with an attractive price point and outstanding features.

The horse-race I'm interested in seeing is the newly-revived Metro against DP. As I've said before, I think Core Audio and MIDI services, coupled with Audio Units, is going to be a *major* playing-field leveler. I believe that once these two DAW packages actually hit the shelves, the entire dynamic is going to shift, and we're going to see actual comptetion in the marketplace like we've maybe never seen before--which I think could even go as far as a price war, with even Logic and Steinberg climbing down off their high-horses.

This is all idle and only semi-informed amateur prognostication, but if it happens--you read it here first.