DP8 or DP9

Tonio · Post by **Tonio** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:14 pm

Hi all, been a while

Still on DP7.24 and was wondering if I should skip DP 8, though there seems to be some buggies in DP 9.01- though sooner or later I'm sure MOTU will fix most of them. Would definitely like the inclusion of MX4, but a pdf manual

I've read there are some issue with the pdf manual?
I will be upgrading the computer to be in 64 bit finally. Guess I need to research what plugs/ VI's I'll loose.

appreciate any insight.

T

Robert Randolph · Post by **Robert Randolph** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:37 pm

DP9 has been fantastic for me.

I see no reason to not go to v9 personally.

bayswater · Post by **bayswater** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:11 pm

I agree that it is good to go to V9 and skip V8. As you say, there are Issues with the PDF manual. I sent samples of errors to MOTU which they acknowledged so I'd expect they will be addressed, but the manual problems were not show stoppers.

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:59 pm

When I ordered my upgrade from Sweetwater, it cost the same as MOTU except that the shipping was free.

They emailed my upgrade license the same day and, next day when I went to my user account at motu.com, it was already registered. A week or two later, I received the box with the Getting Started Guide and CD. This surprised me as I had ordered Electronic Delivery and don't remember giving my license# – they do have the email address that I have on file with MOTU.

The big manual is a thing of the past.

musicman691 · Post by **musicman691** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 4:26 am

bayswater wrote:I agree that it is good to go to V9 and skip V8. As you say, there are Issues with the PDF manual. I sent samples of errors to MOTU which they acknowledged so I'd expect they will be addressed, but the manual problems were not show stoppers.

You're talking about pages not linking, etc.? So MOTU knows and I don't have to raise a support ticket with them. Being that the manual is part of the installer I wonder if they'll hold out on updating the manual until they have some more bugs swatted? Like you say they're not big hindrances but would be nice to have them fixed.

Back to topic: for what I do DP9.01 has been very good for me - not that 8.07 was a slouch but I like the new features in 9.01 like the control lanes and built-in spectrogram (MX4 too).

bayswater · Post by **bayswater** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 7:55 am

musicman691 wrote: You're talking about pages not linking, etc.?

That was part of it, but it was mostly about missing and incorrect images.

musicman691 · Post by **musicman691** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:47 am

bayswater wrote:
musicman691 wrote: You're talking about pages not linking, etc.?
That was part of it, but it was mostly about missing and incorrect images.

Okay; I haven't really cataloged all the errors so there's things I haven't noticed.

Tonio · Post by **Tonio** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:10 am

thanks for all the replies, sounds like DP9 is the winner

I remember years ago when some people were demanding pdf manuals. Times have changed for sure.

Now to consider a MAC pro5,1 or newer iMac. It'll probably less up front costs with a MP, with all the peripherals needed for a iMac. I did get a 828x for future proofing- or so I thought, and feelings of a MP vs a appliance (iMac)that is getting difficult to even change HD's is holding me back.

cheers
T

billf · Post by **billf** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 2:56 pm

Tonio wrote:Still on DP7.24 and was wondering if I should skip DP 8, though there seems to be some buggies in DP 9.01- though sooner or later I'm sure MOTU will fix most of them.

9.01 is good, but I still have DP 8 in place in case I encounter a showstopper issue. Nevertheless, I'm primarily on DP9 now.

Tonio wrote:Would definitely like the inclusion of MX4, but a pdf manual I've read there are some issue with the pdf manual?

Are you referring to this? http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=60472

Tonio wrote:I will be upgrading the computer to be in 64 bit finally. Guess I need to research what plugs/ VI's I'll loose

The 32 Lives plugin has worked wonderfully for me, so that might be something to look at if you have 32 bit plugins you want to keep using.

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:14 pm

I upgraded from 7.24 to 9.01 last week. It was a pita. But that's because I hadn't yet gone total 64 bit with my plugins. Unfortunately I was in the midst of a mix and production for a Christmas CD. Deadline of course. I didn't mean to but I upgraded one thing NI Battery, then Kontakt and all hell broke loose. I had to upgrade DP. Then Altiverb was broke and several plugins. Not big things but enough to stop me on my tracks.

It took a few days to a week. I used jBridge to tide me over until Altiverb came. l with the new iLok key. That said all has been great.

musicman691 · Post by **musicman691** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 3:45 am

Henry Robinett wrote:I upgraded from 7.25 to 9.01 last week. It was a pita. But that's because I hadn't yet gone total 64 bit with my plugins. Unfortunately I was in the midst of a mix and production for a Christmas CD. Deadline of course. I didn't mean to but I upgraded one thing NI Battery, then Kontakt and all hell broke loose. I had to upgrade DP. Then Altiverb was broke and several plugins. Not big things but enough to stop me on my tracks.

It took a few days to a week. I used jBridge to tide me over until Altiverb came. l with the new iLok key. That said all has been great.

Glad you got things sorted.

Peripheral to the topic but seeing as how you upgraded to Battery 4 from presumably Battery 3 you may not know but all the Battery 3 kits can be imported into Battery 4 using an NI process - it's been a while since I did the deed so I don't remember the process exactly but if you do this it converts the kits so they can't be used again in Battery 3. But you can call up Battery 3 kits one at a time without importing and this leaves the original Battery 3 unharmed. You'll find that most of the acoustic kits that were in Battery 3 are not in Battery 4.

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:03 am

I didn't know that you couldn't use those kits in 3 again. Thanks for the heads up. I do know I can import them into 4 and I think I did that one time. But I'm also very disappointed that there are so few acoustic kits in 4. It's almost all electronic. So I guess I'll use both. And someone said there are much better acoustic kits in Kontakt.

Tonio · Post by **Tonio** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:55 am

Glad you got it going Henry,

Definitely will be going through growing pains too

I will be getting a new MAC pro (used 5,1)joining the 21st century in 64bit and updating OS to Mavericks and DP, and plug ins. I 'll check out 32lives for 32 bit stuff if I feel like bothering. Mostly likely do a clean install to keep a lot of garbage off the system.

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:13 am

Check out this thread Tonio:

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =4&t=58848

You may want to get a low-end 4,1 or 5,1 and upgrade.
If you're still in SD, I'd be happy to assist.

You are going to love 64 bit operation.

Tonio · Post by **Tonio** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:37 am

Thanks HC, still in SD.

Been checking out that thread.

T

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