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Loading drum kits in EZDrummer 2 (as an AU plugin) is painfully slow within DP 9 on my system (Mac Pro early 2008, OS X 10.10, 8-core Xeon, 16 GB). In contrast, it is fast as lightning in both standalone EZDrummer mode and as a plugin in Ableton Live ! Anyone else having this issue? I recently purch...

I stand by all the statements I made about the poor performance of DP 9 versus DP 8, with one important caveat: those differences disappear after a variable amount of time (typically 3-5 minutes on my system)! It appears DP 9 engages in an extraordinary amount of internal processing and disk writing...

Unfortunately, your (BaysWater) simplistic, reflexive answer is totally incorrect. NOTHING has gone wrong with my particular setup. You should have read my post more carefully--I A/B'ed DP 8 and DP 9 using the same template/setup. I suspect those with no drastic slowdowns are using relatively simple...

Quite the opposite--DP is now slow as molasses in my hands. Straightforward projects easily run with a 128 buffer in DP 8 can no longer be run with a 512 buffer in DP 9. Constant snaps, crackles and pops as the "Processing" bar redlines consistently (on my 8-core, 16GB RAM Mac Pro). Indeed...

You are correct--indeed, I believe you and I were two of those who reported the technique for DP 7 (while Amplidood took it to a whole new level)--but I wanted to make it clear for new DP 9 users that it can still be easily done. I'm also hoping that MOTU might come across the post and realize that ...

https://www.evernote.com/l/Aj85yiyqoedGT6asT6KXvPPrqfwvSBblgpYB/image.png https://www.evernote.com/l/Aj9hTx2Z32xGWZwOStsVcJoRuSznI0smj8sB/image.png I find that most of the factory themes for DP are too bright (and low contrast) for my subdued-lighting studio (I suspect the DP folks are crafting thos...

For a number of reasons, algorithmic reverbs are lately gaining in popularity over convolution reverbs. I second Valhalla--one of the best and most flexible algorithmic reverbs going. Absolutely superb! You also can't go wrong with PSP's inexpensive EasyVerb algorithmic reverb.

Thanks, Amplidood--I am a great fan of your work (which clearly goes WAY beyond what I have done here). Here are the links to 3 straightforward customizations of DP 7.2 themes: Yellow: https://img.skitch.com/20110119-8spjy38293fpg4idpy5n36t5pi.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return fa...

Superb points, Shooshie. I didn't realize Andy had compiled a list of XML parameters--you are absolutely correct in that obtaining that list would be a terrific time saver. In last month's issue of Sound On Sound, an article on customizing DP 7.2 referred to editing themes' PNG files, but made no me...

I have been editing the XML Resource file found in each Theme bundle with remarkable (and remarkably easy) results. Using a standard text editor, I am able to change the color of text and background in the various windows (e.g., Tracks, MIDI Note list, Mixer, etc.), as well as the counter's font/col...