Its been nearly half a year since DP6 was announced!

J.Daniels · Post by **J.Daniels** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:32 am

The novelty of the new features has warn off already, and the product hasn't even come out yet!

It would have been acceptable if they kept it under wraps abit longer. as we would have been none the wiser. But to give us such an in depth tease all the way back in January is just 1st degree cruelty!!

zaque · Post by **zaque** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:45 am

yeah, it has been tough but i guess they must have run into some serious bugs or something. software companies don't like NOT releasing software

They really prefer to release it...but without Major "known" bugs. It'll come at some point and hopefully the wait will be worth it.

pcm · Post by **pcm** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:30 am

Maybe they're going to go straight to 6.11, which is what you really want anyway.

hammerman · Post by **hammerman** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:40 am

I'd rather have a nice stable release of DP 6. They must have run into some snags and I would rather wait until it's ready. I'm with pcm. DP 6.01 anyone?

midilance · Post by **midilance** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:04 am

Nothing wrong with being careful.

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:34 am

Some are wondering about the rumors since January leading up to current confirmations about Snow Leopard appearing sooner than later.

If Snow Leopard completely drops older (carbon) code, then this will translate into a lot of do-overs for a whole lot of developers who are now under the gun to recode everything to 100% cocoa as close to 10.6's release as possible.

The implications of Snow Leopard go way beyond DP6 and extend to all the third-party VIs and plugins we use, which could trickle to market as unevenly as they did getting to Intel and/or 10.5.

The upside is that it's going to be amazing in the long term. The downside is that the word "long" has to be used to describe the upside.

How this really impacts specifically on DP6 or whether it has anything at all to do with DP6's current delays cannot be confirmed-- mine are only guesses.

Let's hope it's only about tweaks and bug fixes at this point.

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:02 am

midilance wrote:Nothing wrong with being careful.

Ditto! I can work with 5.13 until they get 6.0 as solid as they can!

billf · Post by **billf** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:08 am

J.Daniels wrote:The novelty of the new features has warn off already, and the product hasn't even come out yet!

It would have been acceptable if they kept it under wraps abit longer. as we would have been none the wiser. But to give us such an in depth tease all the way back in January is just 1st degree cruelty!!

Some recommendations:

1. Use DP 5.13 and take your frustration out in the creative process.

2. Find some good humor and laugh a bit.

3. Have some Jack Daniels and it will all seem less important.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:30 am

And since the beta testers can't even mention the seeds... the rest of us are left in the dark...

J.Daniels · Post by **J.Daniels** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:31 pm

billf wrote:
J.Daniels wrote:The novelty of the new features has warn off already, and the product hasn't even come out yet!

It would have been acceptable if they kept it under wraps abit longer. as we would have been none the wiser. But to give us such an in depth tease all the way back in January is just 1st degree cruelty!!

Some recommendations:

1. Use DP 5.13 and take your frustration out in the creative process.

2. Find some good humor and laugh a bit.

3. Have some Jack Daniels and it will all seem less important.

hah thanks for the recommendation! its been taken on board. but i think zaque is on point when he says "companies dont like NOT releasing software". It makes the announcements seem like less of an evil tease

FMiguelez · Post by **FMiguelez** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:11 pm

.

I just don't see what good it would do if we got DP6 RIGHT NOW and find out it is buggy, unreliable and half baked.
Then we would have to erase it and use a working older copy anyway.

I'm happy they are saving us that, and just working hard at giving us a version that really will work.

And if they need to revise their programming to conform to whatever changes Apple has made or will make, then I'm all for it.

Why suffer with bugs? Let THEM worry about it and give us the equivalent of DP6.1 instead

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:27 pm

FMiguelez wrote:I just don't see what good it would do if we got DP6 RIGHT NOW and find out it is buggy, unreliable and half baked.
Then we would have to erase it and use a working older copy anyway.

This is true, but then why announce it at NAMM and have companies like Sweetwater tout it in their catalogue?

Brad?

FMiguelez · Post by **FMiguelez** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:32 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
FMiguelez wrote:I just don't see what good it would do if we got DP6 RIGHT NOW and find out it is buggy, unreliable and half baked.
Then we would have to erase it and use a working older copy anyway.
This is true, but then why announce it at NAMM and have companies like Sweetwater tout it in their catalogue?

Brad?

To create momentum and expectation... Like they have with us here at UN... how many related threads??

One thing is for sure: they BETTER live up to so much expectation from us.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:40 pm

FMiguelez wrote: To create momentum and expectation... Like they have with us here at UN... how many related threads??

One thing is for sure: they BETTER live up to so much expectation from us.

I know they will live up to it, but like the thin line between love and hate, there is an equally thin set of lines between momentum & inertia, and expectation & credibility.

kassonica · Post by **kassonica** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:10 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
FMiguelez wrote: To create momentum and expectation... Like they have with us here at UN... how many related threads??

One thing is for sure: they BETTER live up to so much expectation from us.
I know they will live up to it, but like the thin line between love and hate, there is an equally thin set of lines between momentum & inertia, and expectation & credibility.

Very thin to start with and getting thinner by the day.

It doesn't help with the confidence in the company.

If I was doing a mix for a client and said "yep it will be ready in a week here is a rough MP3" and a month later still no word from me despite being asked I don't think they would rehire me in a hurry.

But if I said "it's going to take me months but it'll be worth it" at least they would know where they stand.

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