Questions about DP6

[nathanpinard]

Thinking about switching from Logic to DP6. One reason being after watching a lot of tutorials, DP6 definitely GUI wise and MIDI wise excels over Logic. This is something that has effected my workflow for quite a while.

Anyway, there is by far one giant advantage to Logic that I've seen over DP6, and I'm wondering how it all works:

In Logic, all internal instruments (within the sequencer, which is hard on bigger projects) and audio does not need to be frozen or recorded to a new track to bounce to disk. When bouncing to disk, it does everything.

In fact, most of my MIDI projects have 0 audio tracks stored. Saves quite a bit of HD space.

There also two ways of bouncing. Offline and Realtime. Offline actually helps if your CPU is being tasked and your getting pops and glitches. However, it only works internally (VE3 works too). Realtime plays it at realtime bouncing to disk as it goes.

It seems in DP, you have to do this seperately. Bounce tracks to audio tracks, then bounce to disk.

Can you bounce all your tracks to just one audio track? Or do you have to do each separately?

What process do DP users take with VI's such as EW and VSL libs in big projects?

[Frodo]

Welcome, Nathan!

I haven yet to do a big VSL or EW project in DP6, but the concept is this-- in DP6 you no longer have to freeze VI and MIDI tracks before bouncing-- ideally. Some VIs had to be updated in order to work. Even some non-bundled MAS VIs didn't work at first, but I believe MX4 (for example) has been updated. I've not heard the latest on other MAS instruments.

Be that as it may, DP6.x will bounce VIs without having to freeze first.

This is from the standard press release info floating around the net:

DP6 now pre-renders instrument track output before playback actually begins, allowing the computer's CPU to distribute the required processing beforehand, rather than in real time.

Because they are now pre-rendered, instrument tracks can now be included in Bounce to Disk operations without the need to "freeze" the instrument track beforehand.

[nathanpinard]

Excellent.

This probably doesn't apply to external stuff however. So might have to still bounce those to one track. I'll have to see.

I'm close to sold on this really. Just need to get the cash now.

[nathanpinard]

Here's another question:

How often do people get the spinning beachball in DP6?

Logic tends to throw it at me at random times, even when nothing is loaded. Or when I try to load a template.

I hate perma-beach balls.