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by vsomedia
Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:11 pm
Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
Topic: Waves&Apple Getting Cozy? Will DP be as Important to Wa
Replies: 19
Views: 1043

I Moreover, Apogee and Waves or Apple wouldn't bother with such PR if there weren't some sort of very real and mutual profitability to be had by doing so. What this says to me is Apple gets to use Eddie Kramer to promote Logic and Waves probably gets to use some of Apple's money to promote its prod...
by vsomedia
Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:21 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: Is this the best post production tool or what?!
Replies: 5
Views: 371

Is this the best post production tool or what?!

New feature that I just discovered in DP6 is the ability to have a Quicktime movie that's not DV encoded be encoded on the fly and sent out the firewire port. Here we edit in Apple ProRes codec and when I do the final audio mix we need to convert that to DV so I can use it in DP and output to a larg...
by vsomedia
Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:27 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: newbie scared to take DP jump.
Replies: 16
Views: 886

I've just spent a week seriously working with DP6 I did the following: 1. mixed 1 hour TV show inlcuded using and OMF and loading a sequence from DP5.1. Used Waves Ren plugs, MW Leveler among others. Got used to all the moved items pretty quickly. No problems and I actually finished the mix in less ...
by vsomedia
Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:19 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: DP6 : Hobbit Meets With MOTU
Replies: 270
Views: 20426

MOTU should be doing everything they can to encourage, excite, support and satisfy their customers. Customers are their lifeblood. They do, by developing products like DP6. I make a living posting TV shows using DP. I've stayed on 5.1 because it was stable for me compared to 5.13. Well DP6 had a fe...
by vsomedia
Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:21 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: For those of you who don't like the GUI colors
Replies: 20
Views: 1143

In the "k" files the "content editor background", "empty space" and "window backround color" are what I edited. I have to mix to picture and looking back and forth at the different luminences was making me see spots. As with any monkeying with the package cont...
by vsomedia
Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:18 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: For those of you who don't like the GUI colors
Replies: 20
Views: 1143

In the "k" files the "content editor background", "empty space" and "window backround color" are what I edited. I have to mix to picture and looking back and forth at the different luminences was making me see spots. As with any monkeying with the package cont...
by vsomedia
Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:19 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: For those of you who don't like the GUI colors
Replies: 20
Views: 1143

For those of you who don't like the GUI colors

Here's what I've done by editing the xml file.

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by vsomedia
Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:38 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: DP6 GUI Can Be Customized
Replies: 83
Views: 18099

I just changed the infor bar background to a nice med gray makes the info panes jump out and takes some of the curse off the whole window

<TEXT name="kWindowBackgroundColor">158</TEXT>

The original value was 244
by vsomedia
Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:23 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: Help: DP6 Stereo Bounce to disk/audio export issues?
Replies: 9
Views: 503

I just bounced a 1 hour TV show to disk, in fact I've done two different versons and no problems. I also mastered a 14 song CD and burned to CD and that went well too. I had a problem like that in 5.13 and it seemed to be more connected to Core Audio. I would have problems with all core audio format...
by vsomedia
Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:53 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: What I like about DP6
Replies: 5
Views: 522

dbl wrote:
vsomedia wrote:4. My native instruments B4 still works.
Is that B4 I or II? And what's your hardware and OS version? Thanks.
I've only tried it on my G4 powerbook 1.33 OSX 10.4.11 B4 I
by vsomedia
Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:14 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: What I like about DP6
Replies: 5
Views: 522

how do u burn a 14 song cd in dp with a project that only holds one....i take it ur using chunks for different songs???wasnt really excited about that feature...i rather still bounce and toast haha. By adding 14 mixes onto 14 tracks, add mastering plugins, drop markers at start point. The nice part...
by vsomedia
Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:52 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: What I like about DP6
Replies: 5
Views: 522

What I like about DP6

I just installed DP 6 on my secondary work computer a G5 2.7 and while some things like the colors, bug me, there are a couple of really cool improvemnts for me. 1. Fades don't mute audio when your playing and DP is rendering fade. It just renders and if your in the middle of playing the fade and th...
by vsomedia
Tue May 27, 2008 12:22 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: Mixing Film....Advice needed....
Replies: 40
Views: 1688

I just finished doing a 5.1 remix and stereo downmix for a film that was released by History Channel Films. Funny they started in Pro Tools and got an omf from Final cut that contained the stems, new elements and VO and when we did the remix the producer was amazed at how fast we were working. He ha...
by vsomedia
Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:00 pm
Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
Topic: DP & Logic 8
Replies: 14
Views: 1014

I have been mixing a sixteen track project in Logic Express 8. I'm using a lot of guitar amp pro plugins and the usual eq, comp, and reverbs with the low latency setting. During the mix I decided to add some keyboard tracks, a b4 and a sampler track and I haven't once had to think about dealing with...
by vsomedia
Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:15 pm
Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
Topic: How do they do that?
Replies: 13
Views: 959

How do they do that?

First let me say that I'm a long time DP user, I mix two TV series and a lot of music with it. For the last couple of years I've used Logic express to write music with. Tracks were usually exported and mixed in DP. Yesterday I got Logic Express 8 and thought I'd share my experience. First and most i...