Digital Performer 8 - Digital Performer Quit Unexpectedly

[Shooshie]

One more thing; when you read about all the issues with DP from the countless people who write about their crashes on the internet, remember that nobody writes in to tell how perfectly it's been running. If you search for DP crashes, that's what you'll get. Not "DP never crashes." Such posts are cumulative and world-wide. Once posted, they never go away. I've even posted a few. But once you have a stable system and DP installation, it is probably the most reliable DAW out there. That's why many of the biggest shows on earth use it to run their concerts.

Shooshie

[James Steele]

Ok. I have one last update. I changed the Startup Option from "Welcome to Digital Performer" to "None" and now it launches without issue. I had a feeling it was related to that hub/welcome page loader as it always felt like it would try to bring it up and then crash. Maybe related to the Demo mode. Not sure. Anyhow, I hope this experience proves helpful to someone and thanks to everyone who took the time to respond and share a thought/suggestion.

That's interesting. I think MOTU pushes news items over the internet to that screen if your computer is online. Maybe there's something wonky going on with it?

[arthurputy]

Hey thanks for all of the responses and support everyone. Shoosie that was a great writeup and I really appreciate your taking the time. Everything you've said about a clean system to run it on is valid and admittedly I am running on my general purpose laptop which has a lot of unrelated stuff on it.

As it stands now everything is rock solid and I am loving DP8 as I dig deeper into it. Some really amazing things that I am thinking how did I ever go without this?

[James Steele]

As it stands now everything is rock solid and I am loving DP8 as I dig deeper into it. Some really amazing things that I am thinking how did I ever go without this?

DP is a pretty great DAW. I'm so glad you are having no problems now. The deeper you get into DP you'll understand why it has such a hardcore following and wondering why it seems not to get the sort of attention it really deserves.