8.07 is out!

[Sean Kenny]

Been using 8.07 for a couple of days now, and seems solid enough but then so did 8.06 for me.

Hasn't fixed the issue where very long audio files regenerate their overviews and they don't have to be that long either 3 minutes is long enough.

Bit of a PITA

It has fixed the export QT movie when using a higher sample rate

[James Steele]

Hasn't fixed the issue where very long audio files regenerate their overviews and they don't have to be that long either 3 minutes is long enough.

Odd as I thought that was a specific fix MOTU listed and some other people reported this was working right now.

[Sean Kenny]

Hasn't fixed the issue where very long audio files regenerate their overviews and they don't have to be that long either 3 minutes is long enough.

Odd as I thought that was a specific fix MOTU listed and some other people reported this was working right now.

yeh and it's a brand new Mac Pro and DP is the only DAW installed at the moment. Fortunately the machine is so fast that the redraws aren't that much of a hassle. Doesn't happen all the time. I'm trying to find a pattern of operations that triggers it..... no joy at the moment but if I do I'll post

Cheers

Sean

[philbrown]

Hasn't fixed the issue where very long audio files regenerate their overviews and they don't have to be that long either 3 minutes is long enough.

Odd as I thought that was a specific fix MOTU listed and some other people reported this was working right now.

yeh and it's a brand new Mac Pro and DP is the only DAW installed at the moment. Fortunately the machine is so fast that the redraws aren't that much of a hassle. Doesn't happen all the time. I'm trying to find a pattern of operations that triggers it..... no joy at the moment but if I do I'll post

Cheers

Sean

Wow, too bad, I was excited they listed that as a specific fix. That's been a dealbreaker for me in upgrading from DP7>DP8 as I work with hour+ files all the time in my daily work. Please keep us posted on this.

[funkyfreddy]

The upgrade seemed to work fine for me but.... now Ethno 2 is broken! I'm not sure what happened.... Ethno plays loops fine but as soon as I select an instrument it crashes DP. It also does this when I tried Ethno 2 as a standalone....

It's possible also that an OSX upgrade did this and not the DP upgrade because it's been a month or so since I used Ethno 2. I've tried re-installing it but no luck so far.... it's been down now for 3-4 days, sent MOTU tech support an e-mail but haven't heard back from them.

My system is:
MacBook Pro
2.9 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3

OS X 10.9.4

DP8.07

UAD Apollo Quad

[corbo-billy]

The upgrade seemed to work fine for me but.... now Ethno 2 is broken! I'm not sure what happened.... Ethno plays loops fine but as soon as I select an instrument it crashes DP. It also does this when I tried Ethno 2 as a standalone....

ETHNO 2 in 2.04 version work fine at here with the Instruments under LION 10.7.5. _

[mikehalloran]

Hasn't fixed the issue where very long audio files regenerate their overviews and they don't have to be that long either 3 minutes is long enough.

I would escalate that to MOTU support.

The first thing I did after installing yesterday was to open a 2 hour concert file that had the old issue. Working fine now.

8.07 didn't crash first time after startup for me. Nice!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Group differs on “Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS”; should be 0; group is 80.
Permissions differ on “Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are drwxrwxr-x .
Repaired “Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS”

Ready to launch now...

[James Steele]

Looks like I had one issue. It appears the 8.07 installer overwrites the folder with the .midinam and .mididev files in it. My custom patch names for my Rocktron MIDI Raider that I created in Cherry Picker appear to have been erased by the installer. I went to add some patches into a sequence a little while ago and ggggggone! I'm having to recreate it in Cherry Picker now. That'll teach me to figure out where the Devices directory is and back it up before running an installer!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

No TimeMachine backup? That would be a drag and drop procedure.

[James Steele]

No TimeMachine backup? That would be a drag and drop procedure.

Actually this was on my MacBook (for live backing tracks) and it has only one drive (and one partition) and I didn't have this file on my studio computer. Live and learn. Fortunately, it didn't take me long to recreate it in Cherry Picker. So thankful we have that app back!

[David Polich]

I've had some crashes in 8.07 while entering tempo changes in the conductor track. Not sure
if my Mac Pro was having a bad day or not. Yesterday DP crashed once while entering tempo changes, the day before I had no problems, the day before that I did have the same problem.

[HCMarkus]

Looks like I had one issue. It appears the 8.07 installer overwrites the folder with the .midinam and .mididev files in it. My custom patch names for my Rocktron MIDI Raider that I created in Cherry Picker appear to have been erased by the installer. I went to add some patches into a sequence a little while ago and ggggggone! I'm having to recreate it in Cherry Picker now. That'll teach me to figure out where the Devices directory is and back it up before running an installer!

Yes, I had to replace the Yamaha .midinam and .mididev files to get back my S90ES patch list. I had to do the same after moving from 8.03 to 8.06. Fortunately, I had the old files backed up, so it was an easy fix both times.

Other than that (knock wood), DP 8.07 has been flawless so far.

[EMRR]

Found a bug of some sort. My old sequence template that originated long ago in DP5 had a 32 bit plug-in, which I deleted from the template when I when I transitioned to DP8. When I duplicate a mix in the mixing board, it tells me that plug can't be found....it's not there in the first place....and whenever I change from one mix to another, it tells me that again, no matter how many times I tell it to clear the missing plug.

[toodamnhip]

Downloaded DP 8.07 - repaired permissions - have noticed a significantly larger performance hit using DP 8.07 on my system than when opening files that run easily in DP 8.04

Anyone else noticed that DP 8.07 has less performance headroom?

Files that play easily in DP 8.04 are totally in the red in the performance meter in DP 8.07 and won't play due to glitches, unless I close lots of tracks...
--OSX 10.6.8, Processor 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. memory 16 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

The prospect of a performance reduction leads me to "wait and see" with this update. I always run close to the edge..makes me feel like a member of the rock band YES.

As far as seeing people with various burps and crashes that go away after one or two times, my experience has been that when one changes their system and get a negative result, such as crashes, the “fix” is sometime hard to determine. After various repairs et al., “Things” just slowly get back to normal. It can be quite strange. It’s as if each individual computer is it’s own personality and has to “get used to” changes made to it. Not very scientific I know, but systems seem that way. My system has been very stable for a very long time. I’m in no hurry to “annoy” my studios finicky little Mac god...lol

I will add this, here is my deep repair routine:
1) Permissions. (usually doesn;t do much)
2) Check the disks with apple disk utility , 2x each disk, to ensure nothing is wrong. If something shows up needing a fix, fix using installer disk if the problem is the system drive.
3) Go to terminal and run this command: sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
This does various apple recommended repairs and clean ups.
4) Start the computer with the shift held down which opens comp in safe boot and runs fsk repair automatically. Then re start the regular way.
5) Run Disk warrior to check volume integrity and rebuild such.
6) Run “preferential treatment”, it’s free and checks for application preference issues.
7) Run Onyx , it’s free and there are a variety of cache cleaning and rebuilding capabilities.
Check file integrity with Tech Tool Pro. But careful with tech tool as I have noticed it can occasionally change things in the system drive resulting in a failure when checking sys drive with Apple utility disk, necessitating a repair from disk.

One doesn’t have to do all of that, but starting that list may help, especially up to step 5.