Mix Magazine says DP is still mac-only, yet ranks it #4

[mhschmieder]

The latest Mix Magazine has an overview of DAW's where only five make the grade (the fifth being a tablet-only app that is new) and DP is #4 behind StudioOne, Nueno, and ProTools then at the top.

There's lots of praise for DP, but the author makes the bold statement, which is reinforced in several follow-on paragraphs, that DP is still a Mac-only app "after all these years" but "this helps MOTU to stay focused and do a good job".

Those aren't direct quotes; they're from memory. But anyway, I'm shocked that such a reputable magazine could be so many YEARS behind the times! yet at the same time, I guess we should be happy because we "made the cut" instead of being deprecated in favour of Live, Logic, or ******.

[Robert Randolph]

I'm amazed that you consider "Mix" as a reputable publication.

High circulation sure... but I've never heard anyone consider it 'reputable'.

[mikehalloran]

My issue with MIX is that articles are always taken at face value and no one does fact checking.

Too many articles prove the point including the OP but my favorite was a few years ago when some idiot went on how the new 2013 Mini was the ideal AV machine ignoring the fact that a 27' iMac had much, much better specs in every single category—generally by 50% or more. The nMP wasn't announced till a few months later.

[James Steele]

I remember years ago, Electronic Musician ran a comparison of doing pitch shifting in different DAWs. DP had recently incorporated the "Pitch" layer in the Sequence Editor, thus being the first DAW to have Melodyne-style pitch correction built into the app. The reviewer apparently didn't even KNOW this feature existed and represented the ancient Spectral Effects dialog as the only method of doing pitch correction. Someone wrote a letter to EM pointing this out and they author offered a very weak defense and would not admit his ignorance. You have to take these reviews with a HUGE grain of salt sometimes.

[mhschmieder]

Good points. If it had been "the web" I would have been less shocked, but it was the print edition, so theoretically had already gone through a few rounds of editing/review.

Well, I imagine it won't have any effect on sales, as most people use the internet to do their information shopping these days vs. depending on the details found in magazine articles.

[Gravity Jim]

I used to write for EQ and Keyboard, and I've got a pretty good guess at how something like this happened.

Print is dying, staffs are shrinking, as are budgets for fresh content. There's hardly anybody around a place like MIX to double check facts... proofreading often gets left to whomever is setting type. (Frankly, I'm amazed they're still publishing, since I've been receiving it free for 20 years.)

So they probably dug an old "round up" piece out of the files and handed it to an intern to check over and freshen up.

As for repute... well, if MIX isn't reputable, then nobody is. And please don't tell me about Tape Op: they're just as biased and beholden to their advertisers as anybody else. Don't let the unreadable 'zine typography, bad photos and ongoing self-hug fool you.