DP Control is WORKING??!!! (Except for Save)

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DP Control is WORKING??!!! (Except for Save)

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I'm absolutely stunned. I just tried and DP control running on my iPhone 6s+ running iOS 10.3.1 is working with DP 9.51 running on macOS 10.12.6!! I'm just flabbergasted. I launched it just for giggles and had never tried it on my studio Mac (MacPro 5,1 12-core), and everything functions as it should.

I have a MacBook in my rehearsal studio used for my playback system that is running Yosemite and any time I switch to the Mixer page on DP Control, the DP control app crashes. It's making me wonder if going up to a higher macOS version on the MacBook would make a difference? I'll have to investigate further. It's nice to have it working on the studio Mac... be better if the rehearsal Mac will work!
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Addendum: Only function that doesn't seem to work is "Save" (either playing or stopped). I get a weird grey blank oval appear at the top of the screen and DP Control freezes, but it seems nearly every other function is working.
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Rats, I deleted DP Control off my iPhone 5. For me, upgrading to iOS 11 caused DP Control to no longer open.
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Hey I was really excited by your post.

I've been wanting DP Control back SO much.

I've tried most of the Mackie or HUI emulators, and the Avid ProTools one that is supposed to emulate Eucon, but they are all buggy or intermittent or unusable.

I tried it today again but DP Control wouldn't work on my iPad.

I had not realized that it is running IOS 11.

I guess I should check if I can revert to IOS 10.3.1, as you suggest?

It would be more nice if MOTU would actually update it!

IOS 11 gave me an error message, and then said that DP Control was incompatible and had not been updated in 7 years!
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Re: DP Control is WORKING??!!! (Except for Save)

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The app doesn't even show up for me to download in the app store. I was gonna give it a try.
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Re: DP Control is WORKING??!!! (Except for Save)

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I pointed this out when 9.5 was released. The documents for Control were included with a current date, and although DP control itself was not updated in the App Store, it may be that DP was modified to make Control work better.
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Sporadic for me. I have no clue why the app was never updated.


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JSmith1234567 wrote:IOS 11 gave me an error message, and then said that DP Control was incompatible and had not been updated in 7 years!
All 32 bit apps were deprecated with iOS 11. So unless DP Control gets updated to 64 bit, it is history except if you're running iOS 10.3 (or lower).
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Well I guess it's good I stayed behind on 10.3.1
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How difficult can it be to update the app?

I would really like it to work, and going backwards with OS's is really not an option in the real world?
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JSmith1234567 wrote:How difficult can it be to update the app?
Probably easy, if they own the code. Maybe not so easy if it is held by a third party who can't or won't update it.
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Re: DP Control is WORKING??!!! (Except for Save)

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Add my voice to the chorus to get DP control updated. I am nursing along 2 iPod Touch 4 just for this purpose. I have them mounted just below my mc clip to select chunks when we play live.

Not only that, but I put lyric hints in the Markers and switch over to the transport when my memory is failing (more and more these days ha ha).

The 3rd party apps can't do any of that.

PLEASE!

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I thought Avid's Pro Control, with it's Eucon emulation, would be a substitute, but it doesn't really function properly with DP, and it constantly loses it's connection.

I really tried hard to make that work.

I also tried most of the third-party Mackie/Hui emulators, but they really weren't integrated with DP like DP Control was.

It's really a shame...you can obviously use the mixing-board in DP, but being able to use multi-touch to get the right blend of certain instruments (like horns or drums) is really essential to getting a great mix.

The Slate thing looks cool, but I would just like to be able to do those basic things from my iPad, which is a device (along with the iPhone) that a gazillion people already own.

I do wish Motu would fix/bring-back DP Control.
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Re: DP Control is WORKING??!!! (Except for Save)

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The person/people who wrote the code for DP Control probably don’t use DP any more. Moved in to PT or Logic or not doing music at all.


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Re: DP Control is WORKING??!!! (Except for Save)

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I only need a controller to help when I record me playing; mostly acoustic guitar, but electric and keyboard stuff. I rarely find the need to mix. So I use the V-Control Pro.


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