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, 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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Levon River Digital Performer 4--in Da House Sun 13 Apr 2003, 02:11
lepetitmartien Go on Levon, you can make it long this time (... Sun 13 Apr 2003, 03:34
Levon River QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Apr 12 2003, 20:34)Go... Sun 13 Apr 2003, 15:50
fugu yo, great news about dp4, i'm eagerly awai... Tue 15 Apr 2003, 03:49
gdoubleyou That's good news, I just got back from Paris w... Tue 15 Apr 2003, 22:36
PlasTree Thanks, Levon, for keeping us updated. I'm not... Wed 16 Apr 2003, 01:04
Levon River QUOTE (fugu @ Apr 14 2003, 20:49)hope this he... Wed 16 Apr 2003, 15:38
BusError Whats your problems? Given enough demand, I could... Thu 17 Apr 2003, 18:20
fugu Bus, Have you hit the unofficial EZBus User... Thu 17 Apr 2003, 18:28
Ron Cozadd Hi, I'm new to the list and just got a new mac... Fri 18 Apr 2003, 03:26
formatj QUOTE just got a new mac with OSX. I can't ins... Fri 18 Apr 2003, 03:46
gdoubleyou Ron, what Mac do you have? Can you boot to OS9? I... Wed 30 Apr 2003, 02:00
OptikSynth So i've decited, due to daily kernal crashes, ... Mon 5 May 2003, 20:13
Ron Cozadd Thanks, I did find out from MOTU that there's ... Tue 6 May 2003, 14:52
lepetitmartien Go on Levon, you can make it long this time (... Sun 13 Apr 2003, 03:34
Levon River QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Apr 12 2003, 20:34)Go... Sun 13 Apr 2003, 15:50
fugu yo, great news about dp4, i'm eagerly awai... Tue 15 Apr 2003, 03:49
gdoubleyou That's good news, I just got back from Paris w... Tue 15 Apr 2003, 22:36
PlasTree Thanks, Levon, for keeping us updated. I'm not... Wed 16 Apr 2003, 01:04
Levon River QUOTE (fugu @ Apr 14 2003, 20:49)hope this he... Wed 16 Apr 2003, 15:38
BusError Whats your problems? Given enough demand, I could... Thu 17 Apr 2003, 18:20
fugu Bus, Have you hit the unofficial EZBus User... Thu 17 Apr 2003, 18:28
Ron Cozadd Hi, I'm new to the list and just got a new mac... Fri 18 Apr 2003, 03:26
formatj QUOTE just got a new mac with OSX. I can't ins... Fri 18 Apr 2003, 03:46
gdoubleyou Ron, what Mac do you have? Can you boot to OS9? I... Wed 30 Apr 2003, 02:00
OptikSynth So i've decited, due to daily kernal crashes, ... Mon 5 May 2003, 20:13
Ron Cozadd Thanks, I did find out from MOTU that there's ... Tue 6 May 2003, 14:52
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