Blown away with DP
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Blown away with DP
Hello!
I've been a DP user since 2018 as I had to learn it when I got my first job as a music editor, but I'm still pretty new to this community. Not enough community support in Reddit for MOTU/DP. Heh. I now work independently and have also ventured into doing audio post for film/TV.
I used to do all my audio post work in Pro Tools, with RX Connect as the main reason, followed by its very intuitive and efficient editing environment. However, that also meant I had to go back and forth whenever there would be revisions, which can get confusing especially when working on multiple projects at a time, and when revisions have to be made on my actual MIDI-sequenced scores. Dreadful load/unload cycle.
Today, I've just discovered that if you have an audio already imported in DP, you can load that very same file to RX standalone, and when you make changes in RX, hit save and go back to DP, the audio file actually updates almost in real-time, similar to how Logic Pro X handles RX.
I've been reading through posts about this workflow and I am aware that it is a known practice among users who do audio post with DP... I just had to get this out of my chest. I knew I was gonna stick with DP when I started learning how to use it especially for film/tv scoring (mainly because of v-racks and chunks.
But now, I'm just so happy to know that I can do ALL the things I need to do (music AND audio post) all in one DAW. I don't even need to go through loading/reloading projects with heavy VIs. I also have my AUX tracks on my V-Rack so all the mastering plugins I use are always ready. I just load a different chunk and BOOM everything's there.
I'm also really thankful for this community 'cause I wouldn't have discovered this amazing feature by DP if it weren't for the plethora of useful information in this community.
All the best!
I've been a DP user since 2018 as I had to learn it when I got my first job as a music editor, but I'm still pretty new to this community. Not enough community support in Reddit for MOTU/DP. Heh. I now work independently and have also ventured into doing audio post for film/TV.
I used to do all my audio post work in Pro Tools, with RX Connect as the main reason, followed by its very intuitive and efficient editing environment. However, that also meant I had to go back and forth whenever there would be revisions, which can get confusing especially when working on multiple projects at a time, and when revisions have to be made on my actual MIDI-sequenced scores. Dreadful load/unload cycle.
Today, I've just discovered that if you have an audio already imported in DP, you can load that very same file to RX standalone, and when you make changes in RX, hit save and go back to DP, the audio file actually updates almost in real-time, similar to how Logic Pro X handles RX.
I've been reading through posts about this workflow and I am aware that it is a known practice among users who do audio post with DP... I just had to get this out of my chest. I knew I was gonna stick with DP when I started learning how to use it especially for film/tv scoring (mainly because of v-racks and chunks.
But now, I'm just so happy to know that I can do ALL the things I need to do (music AND audio post) all in one DAW. I don't even need to go through loading/reloading projects with heavy VIs. I also have my AUX tracks on my V-Rack so all the mastering plugins I use are always ready. I just load a different chunk and BOOM everything's there.
I'm also really thankful for this community 'cause I wouldn't have discovered this amazing feature by DP if it weren't for the plethora of useful information in this community.
All the best!
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- HCMarkus
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Re: Blown away with DP
Thanks for the interesting information and kind remarks!
HC Markus
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- monkey man
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Re: Blown away with DP
Yeah, good stuff, mate.
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Oh, I don't know. As good as DP is I long for the days of Master Tracks Pro... not!
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Mac 2012 12C Cheese Grater, OSX 10.13.6
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I'm still hoping for Dr T KCS Omega 3. DP will do until appears.
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Edit Track saw me through for a while before I got CueBalls 2.0 for the ST.
Most-productive period ever for me, CueBalls on the ATARI. Oh how I miss the simplicity of that time.
Most-productive period ever for me, CueBalls on the ATARI. Oh how I miss the simplicity of that time.
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Edit Track and SMPTE Track were great. I thought Cueballs was a venereal disease...
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I began calling it CueBalls back around '92 'cause it crashed so often, Magilla.
Wasn't a problem 'though 'cause I'd eject the floppy, switch the ATARI off and on and push the disk back in. I'd be up-and-running within a minute.
Wasn't a problem 'though 'cause I'd eject the floppy, switch the ATARI off and on and push the disk back in. I'd be up-and-running within a minute.
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I used Cubase on the Atari when they added audio. It was simple to use as you say, but the problem was you could hear the SCSI drive heads moving in the recordings it made. I went to the Mac version but it never worked well.
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- monkey man
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Interesting, Stoivo. You'd have needed a "Mega ST" or whatever they called it for that, no?
I only did MIDI on the ST, of course, but later on I got an ADAT and JL Cooper DataSync, which was a clunky-but-workable solution.
I only did MIDI on the ST, of course, but later on I got an ADAT and JL Cooper DataSync, which was a clunky-but-workable solution.
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Cubase can suck it! lol Damn dilettante software.
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It were a Falcon. Great at the time, but fatally flawed.monkey man wrote:Interesting, Stoivo. You'd have needed a "Mega ST" or whatever they called it for that, no?
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Ahh... of course. Forgot about the Falcon. It never took off the way the ST and Ste did, and from what I could tell it marked the "gradual" demise of ATARI on the product-release timeline at least.
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Yes, the writing was on the wall, but there was someone with an Atari store nearby who was a fanatic about it and he would go to the great lengths to keep things working properly.monkey man wrote:Ahh... of course. Forgot about the Falcon. It never took off the way the ST and Ste did, and from what I could tell it marked the "gradual" demise of ATARI on the product-release timeline at least.
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