DP9 release event in Los Angeles 2015

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:10 am

Nice event at Westlake Pro in Universal City last evening. Matt LaPoint and Magic Dave were there with some special guests. One lucky guy walked out having won an Ultralite AVB! Even BK Shepard was there.

Dave walked us through the hardware line for a few minutes. Wow! It ain't just for tracking anymore.

Then the tag team went through DP9 in some depth, with a great primer on MX4. It goes far beyond being just a synth. I need to think of it for processing as well now. Thanks, MagicD.

A few TV cues were demo'd with moderately large templates. The composer Joey Newman shared his work flow tips and how he delivers scores, generally. He writes for The Mystery of Laura (NBC?) and while I rarely watch network TV I know that show as one of the students I worked a lot with while at UCSB is a writer and guest star. Even before last night, I was impressed with his great scoring.

The room was jam packed with some pretty heavy hitters. I spotted Charles Bernstein and my bud Gary Stockdale.

Dave demo'd a lot with bass & lead guitar. The man can play! It was well worth spending the time to trudge out there and learn from Matt & Dave what's under the hood of this beast we call DP.

Thanks, MOTU!

BobK · Post by **BobK** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:11 am

Cool. Thanks for the report.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:15 am

Oh yeah... this is still going on!

https://www.facebook.com/TheSilentSociety?ref=tn_tnmn

Tritonemusic · Post by **Tritonemusic** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:24 am

Yes, thanks for that, MLC.

David Polich · Post by **David Polich** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:23 am

Darn it, MLC, I was there and I forgot to take note that you were too.

Yes, it was a good presentation. I just had to go back home and fire up MX4 again. The newest
VI's like Output, Saurus, and Carbon Electra all claim to mix "analog and digital" in amazing ways but MX4 beats them, in terms of both sound and features. Did I say sound? Yes, it's about the sound. Without that, the features mean nothing.

No need to go buy another hybrid synth. We have one right here in DP9. And (spoken in Arnold Schwarzenegger accent) "it izz not hard on duh CPU".

Sorry I missed saying hello.

bkshepard · Post by **bkshepard** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:39 am

Yeah, it was a great example of the cool features in DP9. I've been using this app since 1992 long before "Digital" was added to the name and I still learn new things at these events. Thanks MOTU!

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:45 am

Danke, Magilla!

Basstrup · Post by **Basstrup** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:52 am

Was a great meeting and turn out. Wish I knew who was who, I would have said hi.

Great to have Mr. Miller from MOTU there as well.

Hope some of you will stop by on Thursdays...

bkshepard · Post by **bkshepard** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:55 am

One of the things I was intrigued by was mention of an iPad app called V-Control Pro by Neyrinck. Have any of you used it? With DP9? Is it worth the $50 price tag?

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:54 pm

David Polich wrote:Darn it, MLC, I was there and I forgot to take note that you were too.

Sorry I missed saying hello.

Bummer! Yeah, that would have been very nice. I was towards the back in a very flowery shirt sitting next to some guy with like green or purple gel on his toe nails. He seemed very knowledgable and friendly. I suppose we cut quite a figure together. LOL

Robert Randolph · Post by **Robert Randolph** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:55 pm

bkshepard wrote:One of the things I was intrigued by was mention of an iPad app called V-Control Pro by Neyrinck. Have any of you used it? With DP9? Is it worth the $50 price tag?

I've used it with other DAWs, it didn't play nicely with DP for me, but I also am limited to an older version of the software since I only have an iPad gen1.

When it does work, it's awesome (like with PT). I suspect the latest version likely works well.

BKK-OZ · Post by **BKK-OZ** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:31 pm

bkshepard wrote:One of the things I was intrigued by was mention of an iPad app called V-Control Pro by Neyrinck. Have any of you used it? With DP9? Is it worth the $50 price tag?

To answer your questions:
Yes. No, just DP8+. Yes (IMO).

I'm also investing (haven't yet) in TouchOSC.
And this template.

I still wish MOTU would have fixed DP Control as part of the 9 upgrade, but oh well...

Now that they have done the LA event, when is MOTU going to come to Melbourne and run an event for the 3 of us down here?

bkshepard · Post by **bkshepard** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 5:07 pm

Thanks BKK. People spoke quite highly of it, and apparently there's a DP "template" for it. However, according to the Apple store, it hasn't been updated since last year, so I wondered if there were any problems with 9.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
David Polich wrote:Darn it, MLC, I was there and I forgot to take note that you were too.

Sorry I missed saying hello.
Bummer! Yeah, that would have been very nice. I was towards the back in a very flowery shirt sitting next to some guy with like green or purple gel on his toe nails. He seemed very knowledgable and friendly. I suppose we cut quite a figure together. LOL

Damn Hippies!

MartinBaird · Post by **MartinBaird** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:05 pm

I certainly wish there was a video available of this presentation. In fact I wish there were videos of all the MOTU presentations made available even if they were rough. I always enjoy and learn something from the NAMM videos that usually get posted.
Martin

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:12 pm

Someone did make a pro video while this was login on. Whether or not MOTU will release it is another story. I think it would be a great idea to do so. there's some stuff I'd like to watch again and see WTF was going on.

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