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dp5 user thinking of upgrading to 7

Post by mbmusic »

Happily using DP 5 which is working well, thinking of upgrading to DP 7, Anyone have any opinions?
Mac Pro 2.66, 3gig ram, HD192, 2408 mkII, DP 5.12, MTP AV, UAD-1 Studio Pak, Avalon 737, TLM 103, AEA R84, Great River MP2, Presonus M80, Roland xv5080, Pod Pro, EZdrummer, Ozone 3,
Many Lacie 160 gig external drives,
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Re: dp5 user thinking of upgrading to 7

Post by Timeline »

DP 7 has many nice features. A few are B-wave or aiff record files but 6 had this too, new guitar plugs that sound great, compatibility with SL etc.

You loose the pull out window select, positioning of buttons is completely different, still can't bounce to disk live DI's. I'm having issues with truncated notes on large multi VI projects when updating a volume on the same VI return but I hop to solve this. Sonically good but latency issues are still hanging around and some SL incompatibility is there with Kontakt and a few others.

If you are unfamiliar with 6 I would say such a leap may at first be frustrating but it does get better after you learn the changes but I'm speaking as an old school user.

Good luck.
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Re: dp5 user thinking of upgrading to 7

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thanks for your input! Happy new year to you!
Mac Pro 2.66, 3gig ram, HD192, 2408 mkII, DP 5.12, MTP AV, UAD-1 Studio Pak, Avalon 737, TLM 103, AEA R84, Great River MP2, Presonus M80, Roland xv5080, Pod Pro, EZdrummer, Ozone 3,
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Re: dp5 user thinking of upgrading to 7

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I did the switch from DP5 to DP7 two months ago.
Att first I felt helpless with the GUI but after I installed Amplidoods GUI Gold Complete 3.1 I´m in DP heaven.
http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =1&t=38581

I all forgot about DP5, never wanna go back!
DP7.02 is very stable and great new features. I love the new marker view feature.
The changes in DP7 are not that hard to get used to. :D
MAC PRO 6 Core 3.33 GHz, 16 GB RAM, OSX 10.8.5, DP 9 MAC and WIN (64bit/Jbridge) AMPGUI Mellow, Logic 10, Wavelab 8 MOTU 24I/O (x2), MOTU 2408 MK3 (2x), WAVES Mercury 9, SSL, UAD2Quad, McDSP, Sound Toys, Sonnox, Sonalksis, NomadFactory, T-Racks, P&M, LexPCM, AbbeyRoad, DSM, VCC, VTM, FGX, Melda, EWQL SymphOrch/Piano Gold. Mixingdesk: AMEK Big 44, TK BC-1MK2, SSLcomp clones, GAPPre73, PCM91, TC, FMR. Monitors: Genelec 1031, ADAM A7, >40 mics http://www.ragdollproduction.com
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Re: dp5 user thinking of upgrading to 7

Post by amergin »

I also switched from 5 to 7 a couple of months ago and have a modified version of one of amplidood's schemes which makes it all look nice. No problems so far and only took a couple of days to adjust to the new layout and features.
27" iMac, MOTU 828mk2, 10.6, DP7, Melodyne etc, etc.
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Re: dp5 user thinking of upgrading to 7

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Glancing at your setup, I'd say you're cleared for take off. No reason not to, and perhaps many advantages.
|l| OS X 10.12.6 |l| DP 10.0 |l| 2.4 GHz 12-Core MacPro Mid-2012 |l| 40GB RAM |l| Mach5.3 |l| Waves 9.x |l| Altiverb |l| Ivory 2 New York Steinway |l| Wallander WIVI 2.30 Winds, Brass, Saxes |l| Garritan Aria |l| VSL 5.3.1 and VSL Pro 2.3.1 |l| Yamaha WX-5 MIDI Wind Controller |l| Roland FC-300 |l|
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