DP 8.04 is AMAZING on my system

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DP 8.04 is AMAZING on my system

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Only glitch so far was an older movie wasn't playing. I re-exported from QuickTime Pro and it works fine. That was a 12 year old QuickTime, btw. The 12 year old project opened right up. I had to inform it of the VI updates (MachFive to MachFive 3, for example) but audio located exactly to the movie - even in the newly exported .mov).

All my plugs are updated to 64 bit except MX-4 (hardly use it) and no crashes.

Full screen is awesome with the consolidated window and I can pop out any window to the second monitor, including the movie window, to full screen and pop it back in or dismiss it. If I call it back, it remembers where it was.

By far, this is the best release of DP ever. I can't wait to see what MOTU comes up with next.

Add Track 16 to that and it's DAW nirvana.

Ohmmmmmmmm!
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Re: DP 8.04 is AMAZING on my system

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I second that MLC... I think this is the best version of DP EVER, and I have been using it since version 3 (and Performer before that).

Session after successful session and I haven't had to worry about DP8. I am very happy with my DAW.
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So far a huge success story for me as well.

ML, DP8.04, and 7.24 all running well even with Waves V9 installed.

I find I can open a project in DP8.04 64 bit, discover that I hadn't bounced my 32 bit Miroslav to audio, open the SAME project in 7.24, bounce, open project again in DP8 64 bit with the new audio present and not a hiccup.

Opening 7.24 is quicker than changing DP8 back to 32 bit. So: same drive, back and forth, no problems yet at all. Amazed that they can access the same file and just load whatever is possible.

Really, really, happy.
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Ah, traction. :)
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Same here. DP 8.04 is a dream. I've never crashed, period. I can't say that about any other version, DP7.24 included.

I'll go ahead and call it:
8.04 is the new 7.24

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Actually, I see DP 8.04 as the new DP 5.24. Now THAT was a solid release.

OMG! Reading that I feel so old.


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MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Actually, I see DP 8.04 as the new DP 5.24. Now THAT was a solid release.

OMG! Reading that I feel so old.


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Do you mean 7.24 or 5.13? I don't recall a 5.24. :)
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Agreed. I've had zero trouble since the first version if DP8, really, but 8.04 running in 64-bit under OSX 10.8 (also in 64-bit) is my favorite DP ever. Smokin' in every way, and running on an old Mac, too.
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Whatever the last 5 was. Yeah, I think 5.13 now that you mention it. :)
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Gravity Jim wrote:Agreed. I've had zero trouble since the first version if DP8, really, but 8.04 running in 64-bit under OSX 10.8 (also in 64-bit) is my favorite DP ever. Smokin' in every way, and running on an old Mac, too.
Same here, very stable in 64-bit mode on a 2008 iMac. Out of interest, I checked DP's CPU usage against Logic 9's (using the OS X Activity Monitor) for some of the projects I'd transferred across. DP was consistently better, using the same plugins and with the same buffer size (though I never have understood how Logic's buffer settings affect playback)
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Ditto here. DP8.04 is definitely the new champion in stability, unseating prior champs 5.13 and 7.24.

And of course DP8.04 is much faster and mo better!

:D

Great times for DP users.

Another winner is the new MOTU. They could be a bit, uh, enigmatic in the past. Now, between the one month demo and the daily videos and the quick tech support and the (gulp) PDF manual (!?!? who'da thunk we'd ever be typing THAT in these parts without the knives coming out?) they are just all customer service. Incredibly helpful, all of it.

And all of it in the end just helps me make music, better than ever before. If my music ends up sucking I definitely cannot blame it on the tools...

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The PDF manual in and of itself has freed up hours of time for me, both in looking up stuff and hunting pirates... Seriously, what was I thinking?

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Even better is having both. I like the search function of PDFs and the non LCD clear type of a printed manual! :headbang:
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Michael Canavan wrote:Even better is having both. I like the search function of PDFs and the non LCD clear type of a printed manual! :headbang:
I second that.
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Although, a lot of people could learn a thing or two from MOTUs cross referencing. With some programs with manuals I really wished for a PDF search, but I never really found myself wishing for it with DP because there cross referencing is just so damned good. I still mostly just reach for the manual.

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