
DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
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- rodger1811
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DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
This could really be a game changer!!!!!!! And to add, the ability to purchase the product online at MOTU is HUGE!!!!!! Great job MOTU!!!!!! 

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Universal Audio UAD-2 Quad x 2
Universal Audio (Entire Plugin Library)
Waves Mercury+ Studio Classics
Tons of other goodies; to many to mention here
- Gravity Jim
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
Agreed. Now I can get my Logic-user pals to try DP... because, god knows, they need a better DAW.
Jim Bordner
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
Yeah, and the DEMO is only ONE CLICK away!!! Easy and Awesome!
Thumbs up for MOTU. (Thumb Icon!!!)
WOW, MOTU do have ears and eyes on the wish list topics on MOTUNATION!!
Where is the band..???
Oh, there they are!!

Thumbs up for MOTU. (Thumb Icon!!!)
WOW, MOTU do have ears and eyes on the wish list topics on MOTUNATION!!


Where is the band..???
Oh, there they are!!

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- corbo-billy
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
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- Prime Mover
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
Makes me want to rip off all my clothes and run through the streets yelling "Yip!"
...no, not really...
BTW, I love how fast the bass player is playing. Like how God meant it to be:


...no, not really...
BTW, I love how fast the bass player is playing. Like how God meant it to be:

— Eric Barker
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
Boo-yah. Chew on that, Gearslutz and KVR!
Btw, our own RadioGal and Frankymax have posted about DP 8.02 on Gearslutz. Awesome!
Btw, our own RadioGal and Frankymax have posted about DP 8.02 on Gearslutz. Awesome!
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- Michael Canavan
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
Posted a topic at KVR. 

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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
Great to see, now I can finally try it out. It includes the PDF manuals as well, so it should also put that discussion to rest (although I still don't see why they don't just have links to download them now).
Thanks to MOTU for making it available, don't know why it took so long.
Thanks to MOTU for making it available, don't know why it took so long.
- Michael Canavan
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
If you're talking about the Windows version, the number of people reporting issues even after waiting 6+ months longer than the Mac version attests to how difficult it is to port a DAW.mike connelly wrote:Great to see, now I can finally try it out. It includes the PDF manuals as well, so it should also put that discussion to rest (although I still don't see why they don't just have links to download them now).
Thanks to MOTU for making it available, don't know why it took so long.
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
Actually I was talking about the demo, mac in my case. I'm pretty impressed so far although I wish CPU performance was closer to Logic. Anyway, having a demo makes getting it more of a possibility.
Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
Just in case you're looking at the DP performance meter, don't. It doesn't tell you much, and you might find the CPU performance is closer to Logic than it first appears.mike connelly wrote:Actually I was talking about the demo, mac in my case. I'm pretty impressed so far although I wish CPU performance was closer to Logic. Anyway, having a demo makes getting it more of a possibility.
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- Michael Canavan
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
What bayswater said. Ran a few to failure performance tests between the three DAWs I own, Logic Live and DP. Logic and DP were pretty much neck and neck. DP says it's at 70% real early but twice as many plug ins and it only hits 80%. Logic is more linear that way.
Logic and DP will bog out at random times with little or no pattern here, with Logic it simply stops the sequence, with DP the GUI gets slow and it pops and crackles. Don't know which I like least that way.
Logic and DP will bog out at random times with little or no pattern here, with Logic it simply stops the sequence, with DP the GUI gets slow and it pops and crackles. Don't know which I like least that way.

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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
You're right, it doesn't tell much. I compared running the same content on both apps, and DP had pops and clicks playing back far less. Thanks for the tip.bayswater wrote:Just in case you're looking at the DP performance meter, don't. It doesn't tell you much, and you might find the CPU performance is closer to Logic than it first appears.
- Shooshie
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Re: DP 8 NOW AVAILABLE TO DEMO!!!!
DP has always made performance of the sequence the top priority. I had discussions with the developers like 20 years ago, and they made that very clear. While I didn't like my faders becoming laggy, I had to admit that it made much more sense to keep the actual music sacrosanct, and to take the lagging GUI as a warning that I needed to print some stems.Michael Canavan wrote:What bayswater said. Ran a few to failure performance tests between the three DAWs I own, Logic Live and DP. Logic and DP were pretty much neck and neck. DP says it's at 70% real early but twice as many plug ins and it only hits 80%. Logic is more linear that way.
Logic and DP will bog out at random times with little or no pattern here, with Logic it simply stops the sequence, with DP the GUI gets slow and it pops and crackles. Don't know which I like least that way.
Shoosh
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