My Experience w/ DP8 - the Negatives

[Classic]

Hi,

I recently upgraded from a Mac Pro (2006) dual 2Ghz and DP 4.6 (OS 10.4x), to a new Mac Pro 2 2.4Ghz 6 core and DP8 (OS 10.8.2). I've been using DP8 for a few weeks now and would like to list out some problems that I'm running into. Maybe someone has some suggestions or this can be used for future updates:

1. The major problem: When I bounce down a track, several times I've noticed a 1/2 second blank skip in music towards the end of the song at around the last 7 second mark. This is incredibly frustrating.

2. Editing track names - I've noticed other users have the same problem of not being able to delete backwards to edit a typo on the track name.

3. Overall performance is noticeably slower than my previous computer/DP setup - maybe it's because I'm in 32 bit mode to run UAD plugins, but I feel like I should be experiencing an increase in performance with my new system.

4. Frontier Alphatrack not working - I've got all the "latest drivers" installed, and all I've got is the blue screen on the device. Has anyone gotten it to work with DP8? I've noticed Frontier hasn't released any new drivers in a while.

Thanks for any help you might be able to give!

[James Steele]

Hi,

I recently upgraded from a Mac Pro (2006) dual 2Ghz and DP 4.6 (OS 10.4x), to a new Mac Pro 2 2.4Ghz 6 core and DP8 (OS 10.8.2). I've been using DP8 for a few weeks now and would like to list out some problems that I'm running into. Maybe someone has some suggestions or this can be used for future updates:

1. The major problem: When I bounce down a track, several times I've noticed a 1/2 second blank skip in music towards the end of the song at around the last 7 second mark. This is incredibly frustrating.

Not happening here. Seems specific to your setup.

3. Overall performance is noticeably slower than my previous computer/DP setup - maybe it's because I'm in 32 bit mode to run UAD plugins, but I feel like I should be experiencing an increase in performance with my new system.

I'm still using my 2006 MacPro 1,1 and I'm running in 32-bit and it seems to be about the same performance.

4. Frontier Alphatrack not working - I've got all the "latest drivers" installed, and all I've got is the blue screen on the device. Has anyone gotten it to work with DP8? I've noticed Frontier hasn't released any new drivers in a while.

Yes... I'm using this all the time on DP8. But it only works when you launch DP8 in 32-bit mode. Frontier would have to make a new 64-bit compatible bundle for DP8 for it to work with DP8 in 64-bit mode. You made need to go into the setup and make sure you've configured the AlphaTrack. It DOES work and is working here.

[Classic]

Thank you for the response James... just now got the Alphatrack to working again (whoo hoo!)
but still having problems with bounce down with pops/stops, seems to happen mostly when bouncing down to WAV (AIF seems OK).

[James Steele]

Are you using any VI's? You might try putting them in real-time mode and seeing if that helps. Not seeing that here. Sorry you're having problems.

[Shooshie]

When you select the data to be bounced, do you select beyond the end of the data? Many years ago that was a problem, but I haven't heard of it in a long time. Then again, I never select beyond my data range. It was a lesson that stuck!

May not be the problem, but worth a look.

Shooshie

[Classic]

James - Not using VI's...

Shooshie - It appears to bounce "over" the length of the song a bit...

Here are a couple of examples (and let me know if these links don't work for you) of:

1. Vocal fades not printing/bouncing correctly:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ymk5on4rndaa ... l_skip.wav

2. Audio dropout, 7 seconds before end of song, when bounced down:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rvyp4f7l1xdal ... o_skip.wav

Incredibly frustrating and has eaten up a lot of time here lately trying to figure out if there's a magic formula. For the vocal example, I ended up having to freeze the vocal track, then bounce down the mix, in order for it to work.