DP7 first impressions

wurliuchi · Post by **wurliuchi** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:25 pm

Timeline wrote:
grouse wrote:
grouse wrote:Can I ask a specific question to those who have 7? It may seem quite insignificant in the grand scheme of things but I use looping all the time.
So, in 7, does the audio drop when you change the global loop points or turn it on/ off.
They may have sorted that out in 6 as I'm still on 5.
Thanks.

Any loopers on here? Do I really have to go and get a cake?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkLH56VlKT0

LOL! I'm dyin' here. But at least I have total consciousness. Man, that is a classic. Big hitter the Lama. LOL!

grouse · Post by **grouse** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:40 pm

KEVORKIAN wrote: Right now I'm on 6.02 in SL and the audio does not drop when I enable/disable looping or when I manually drag the loop points in the tracks overview or the GE. Hope that is what you are looking for. When I get back to DP 7 in a few hrs I'll let you know but I'd be surprised if it has changed for the worse there.

Thanks, Kevorkain. Looks like they sorted it out in 6. Good news!

burp182 · Post by **burp182** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:41 pm

According to live-human-being-level conversation with MOTU, DP7 is just fine on PPC/10.4.11. Everything works - you just won't see the kind of sizeable performance bounce that the Intel/10.5+ crowd will. But no performance hit either, as often happens in this type of upgrade. Maybe a little quicker or the same. Some code cleanup under the hood benefits all, evidently.

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:46 pm

burp182 wrote:According to live-human-being-level conversation with MOTU, DP7 is just fine on PPC/10.4.11. Everything works - you just won't see the kind of sizeable performance bounce that the Intel/10.5+ crowd will. But no performance hit either, as often happens in this type of upgrade. Maybe a little quicker or the same. Some code cleanup under the hood benefits all, evidently.

it is not that I doubt or trust what Motu says but I want to hear this directly from actual users who have PPC systems with different system variations.

grouse · Post by **grouse** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:52 pm

Timeline wrote:
grouse wrote:
grouse wrote:Can I ask a specific question to those who have 7? It may seem quite insignificant in the grand scheme of things but I use looping all the time.
So, in 7, does the audio drop when you change the global loop points or turn it on/ off.
They may have sorted that out in 6 as I'm still on 5.
Thanks.

Any loopers on here? Do I really have to go and get a cake?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkLH56VlKT0

Bill Murray, genius. Funny, here in Ireland a looper is slang for a nutter, a crazy person but I thought that might be lost on here.
Now a looper being a caddy I did not know!

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:02 pm

kgdrum wrote:
burp182 wrote:According to live-human-being-level conversation with MOTU, DP7 is just fine on PPC/10.4.11. Everything works - you just won't see the kind of sizeable performance bounce that the Intel/10.5+ crowd will. But no performance hit either, as often happens in this type of upgrade. Maybe a little quicker or the same. Some code cleanup under the hood benefits all, evidently.

it is not that I doubt or trust what Motu says but I want to hear this directly from actual users who have PPC systems with different system variations.

FWIW, it's working nicely on my PPC system with Leopard. Don't know about Tiger since the jury is out now about MIDI Learn with Stylus RMX. I'm having it work now... but sort of quirkily... I need to spend more time to sort it out. Plus, realistically, that's not a feature that's liable to kill me to live without.

qwerty · Post by **qwerty** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:02 pm

I've just installed DP7 and on first tryout of some DP5 projects (I'd never saved them in DP6), all have opened and played audio, the MIDI tracks worked ~ settings did not have to be reset, ultralite and MIDI stuff just played like they used to / ought to . So far , albeit not that far, this has been the quickest and most trouble free update that I have experienced with DP. It just worked without massaging or wringing of hands. Very encouraging.

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:06 pm

James Steele wrote:
kgdrum wrote:
burp182 wrote:According to live-human-being-level conversation with MOTU, DP7 is just fine on PPC/10.4.11. Everything works - you just won't see the kind of sizeable performance bounce that the Intel/10.5+ crowd will. But no performance hit either, as often happens in this type of upgrade. Maybe a little quicker or the same. Some code cleanup under the hood benefits all, evidently.

it is not that I doubt or trust what Motu says but I want to hear this directly from actual users who have PPC systems with different system variations.
FWIW, it's working nicely on my PPC system with Leopard. Don't know about Tiger since the jury is out now about MIDI Learn with Stylus RMX. I'm having it work now... but sort of quirkily... I need to spend more time to sort it out. Plus, realistically, that's not a feature that's liable to kill me to live without.

James,thanks for the info

hammerman · Post by **hammerman** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:16 pm

Workin' fine with me on my mature, 6 year old G5! I will spring for the next towers Apple makes though. Omnisphere is rather demanding. Running 10.5.8 and so far, grrrroooooooooovvvvy!

draxo · Post by **draxo** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:24 pm

Does this DP7 version allow you to use more than 2gig of RAM?

Thanks

Draxo

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:34 pm

draxo wrote:Does this DP7 version allow you to use more than 2gig of RAM?

Thanks

Draxo

that limitation is more OS based, it is not a limitation of DP,that is why people are excited about Snow Leopard 64 bit,
it gives us more available ram potentially......but you will need a newer Intel based Mac that meets Apples,64 bit SL spec.
this will get most of us PPC holdouts going for newer Intel based Macs sooner rather then later!

KG

FMiguelez · Post by **FMiguelez** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:45 pm

kgdrum wrote:
draxo wrote:Does this DP7 version allow you to use more than 2gig of RAM?

Thanks

Draxo
that limitation is more OS based, it is not a limitation of DP,that is why people are excited about Snow Leopard 64 bit,
it gives us more available ram potentially......but you will need a newer Intel based Mac that meets Apples,64 bit SL spec.
this will get most of us PPC holdouts going for newer Intel based Macs sooner rather then later!
KG

But it's never been 2 Gigas... it's been more like 4 (minus whatever DP and OSX use), right?
At least in theory...

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:01 pm

correct

Tobor · Post by **Tobor** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:03 pm

kgdrum wrote:
draxo wrote:Does this DP7 version allow you to use more than 2gig of RAM?

Thanks

Draxo
that limitation is more OS based, it is not a limitation of DP,that is why people are excited about Snow Leopard 64 bit,
it gives us more available ram potentially......but you will need a newer Intel based Mac that meets Apples,64 bit SL spec.
this will get most of us PPC holdouts going for newer Intel based Macs sooner rather then later!
KG

Are all Intel Macs 64 bit SL-able or just the most recent models? What's the differential?

Tobor

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:05 pm

from my limited understanding it is Video Card limitations of the original Intel Macs.

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