I have not. At this point I can't afford buying it. When DP8 is released it will be a real stretch to get the money to upgrade even. Which is why I really hope that the 64bit DP will improve it just enough to make it workable for me. Until I get money for a new machine.Kubi wrote: Have you tried VE Pro5? It seems that it definitely runs on all cores that are available (though I have not verified this.) Also you may want to get more RAM - I'm running 20GB. If and when you don't run VE Pro or Bidule, be sure to activate Kontakt 5's Memeory server, it makes things a LOT smoother by putting all of Kontakts RAM outside of DP.
Lastly, how full is your main hard drive? I find that having a minimum of 30-40% free makes things a LOT smoother. And I hear miracles happen with SSDs, but have no first hand experience.
As for our machines, yours is an 3,1 or later, right?
Mine's a 1,1 upgraded to eight cores so system identifies it as a 2,1 now. Problem with these old Mac Pros are that RAM is very expensive. 4gb costs something like $250 here in Sweden. And since this machine is running on borrowed time, investing more into it seems unwise. I'm thinking of getting SSDs if/when I can swing it, because those I can move to my next machine.
One of my theories (besides DP being a bit CPU inefficient. Is that there's memory speed bottlenecks. My MacPro scores somewhere around 2100 on memory in Geekbench. Maybe the shuffling of samples from hard drive to RAM is taking alot of CPU because of that?
My system disk has 100gb out of 250gb free.
Here's a video of the difference inCPU metering in DP and Activity Monito:
http://www.futurelegends.net/studio/Fut ... io/DP.html