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dgrussell wrote:As a long time DP user, DP7 will be the last chance I give MOTU. I have had so many problems with DP6 that it is nearly unusable...
David. You may take your "perturbedness" and your unacceptable, no excuse, nearly unusable, last chance you give MOTU, try a different product post over to the the new Sticky topic in the Gripes forum called the The OFFICAL DP7 Bitching and Moaning Topic.
glea wrote:I'm sort of shocked. I was finally able to upgrade to DP 6 just a month ago! A big project and finances were considerations.
I've emailed MOTU to see if there is any recourse. I've only just started getting familiar with DP6 in the last couple of weeks.
It would surprise me if they didn't make any sort of accomodation for you if you call them. I can't speak for MOTU of course, but usually there's a certain date where if you recently purchased it you would qualify.
A 2018 Mac mini with 16 gb of ram
HUGE bunch o' AU instruments/fx...
A Metric Halo ULN8-3D…mmmmmmm
Remember to eat all your fruits and vegetables!
My OS is The amazingly gratuitous 10.14
Hoping to get that shipment email tomorrow morning!
If anyone gets confirmation, do post it.
On another note, if the fact is that they really are backed up with an overload of orders, I guess my original concern was foolish.
I hope that's the case, anyway. I'm going to assume this means support will be a priority on MOTU's to do list for a while, as they will have a lot of clients to keep happy!
I was going to wait for reviews and 7.01. But all the whinging about V6, the price of the upgrade, the pedal sims, etc. made me really cranky, so I ordered it Saturday.
Why are people making calls to sales? What's wrong with their on line ordering?
FWIW, I ordered on Sept 11 and the charge was posted on the 12th. I did use ground as I'm in no particular hurry. In fact, I need a couple of days to work on some stuff around here and DP7 would only distract me. No shipping notifications so far.
You know..... I have always found DP to be the most stable and efficient DAW of all.
I own most of them and can comfortably work in any audio software environment. Usually,
I only boot PT to transfer files into DP -or the other way around- ( when my client wishes to receive PT sessions once I finish my portion of the work). The only thing I am bummed about right now is the fact that the security code on my overused credit card has been rubbed off by continually pulling the darn thing out of my wallet to pay for software upgrades online-so at the moment I am unable to order DP7........ The bank is mailing a new card and I am hoping DP7 won't become a back order deal by the time I am able to place my order. I really think all you folks should wait to order until I have received, installed, tested and reported back to the nation.
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I ordered DP7 at the end of last week and I'm excited to see that MOTU it still taking the product seriously as I believe they should.
I also never weigh in on stability threads because I don't often see the point, but I have to say that 6.02 runs very stably and happily on my system so I don't really understand all of the complaining that is going on. It's seems inordinate to me.
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
That is very true and a big fear some have; that they will end up with orphaned software like Vision and Editrack (Atari).
Definitely! My first version of DP was 2.7 and I remember all of the Vision refugees that slowly made their way to DP and other DAWs at the time and how painful that was for them so it's good to see another really strong version of DP after a bit of silence from MOTU.
I use a bunch of DAWs at this point and in addition to DP, I'm a big user of Ableton Live for the writing process, however the idea of moving to Logic or (heaven forbid) Cubase for a full DAW is a tough one to swallow. I'm still just trying to get the 5 preferences set in Logic to be able to punch-in with out dropouts (!!!), so yeah... I'm all over DP7.
KEVORKIAN wrote:... I remember all of the Vision refugees that slowly made their way to DP...
That would be me. I started at 2.7 as well and updated the program on a regular basis but didn't actually use it until mid-DP3. I had a very hard time moving from the SVP mindset to the DP method of doing things. When I run Vision (every few years to retrieve an old file) I am amazed at how much more intuitive it is than DP for me. And some features are still better in SVP than DP IMO. I'd have to run the program to be more specific, but I liked ALWAYS RECORDING INTO THE MIDI BUFFER in case you did something brilliant. I also liked the way songs were chained from sequences and some of the MIDI selection options.
But clearly, DP is light years ahead of SVP in so many ways, especially since DP 5. I certainly would never want to return to the days of SVP. I have great hopes for DP7 as my end all DAW - until DP 8...
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:That would be me. I started at 2.7 as well and updated the program on a regular basis but didn't actually use it until mid-DP3. I had a very hard time moving from the SVP mindset to the DP method of doing things. When I run Vision (every few years to retrieve an old file) I am amazed at how much more intuitive it is than DP for me. And some features are still better in SVP than DP IMO. I'd have to run the program to be more specific, but I liked ALWAYS RECORDING INTO THE MIDI BUFFER in case you did something brilliant. I also liked the way songs were chained from sequences and some of the MIDI selection options.
But clearly, DP is light years ahead of SVP in so many ways, especially since DP 5. I certainly would never want to return to the days of SVP. I have great hopes for DP7 as my end all DAW - until DP 8...
Yup, you lived it! That's exactly how I recall it going... Vision was such strong program that it took a long time for many to convince themselves to move to DP/etc. full-time and so they kept using the last version of Vision for as long as they could manage!
As a side note, the first DAW that I ever used was Vision and I remember it to be an amazingly creative program especially where MIDI was concerned and even though I was not a huge user, I have also wondered for years why it's innovations were never 100% adopted by other companies but c'est la vie... there are so many good things happening with DP now that it's immaterial.
I'm just hoping that MOTU puts out a stable 7.0 and/or some quick upgrades so that the word can get out about how good this program is right now.
No shipping notifications so far.
