Things they did not fix in DP6

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:51 am

My guess is that it's a combination of them not being fully convinced that certain issues are as important as others (ie: getting DP6 out the door at all), that certain issues are earth-shattering enough to bother with them--- or----

... as Marsha Brady once said, "Something suddenly came up."

twistedtom · Post by **twistedtom** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:09 am

Out of all of thease " having to look up all sound files after moving a folder from one drive to another" is the one that kills me the most.

martian · Post by **martian** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:23 am

i guess MOTU concept is that you have a $#it load of disk space and you just going to copy all audio files as DP has the WORST record of all "pro" apps for pooing it's pants when it comes to file corruption....

that's working for fine me now - I back up daily as it's a requirement of working with this app - and to be honest any computer system.

I wish they would fix this situation below... most of clips have no name diplayed at all now@!!!!!!!!( actually wasn't broke in 5 eh? )

martian · Post by **martian** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:39 am

or how about these freaked out automation lines? this has been happening on and off in DP5.. sound bite or region hasn't been moved - hmmmm any one else getting these?

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:44 am

Most of the blips created during a fader ride is caused by the CPU being over taxed while updating.

Yes we could use an averaging feature that lets you smooth fader update continuos data in a way that works instead of guessing.

martian · Post by **martian** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:00 am

Timeline wrote:Most of the blips created during a fader ride is caused by the CPU being over taxed while updating.

Yes we could use an averaging feature that lets you smooth fader update continuos data in a way that works instead of guessing.

wished that was the case timeline...

whilst I feel DP 6 is a huge stability improvement over 5 - this has been missed..

I can assure you I don't get the hands on faders until mixing time - that curve was drawn in with a wacom pen... these "corruptions" are occurring whilst the automation is not visible...

maybe it's a pref thing ? but they always look fine right after I draw them - I will have to try and investigate better so I can pinpoint the issue...

in case any one think I am anti MOTU I am not - infact I like DP - it's just frustrating sometimes...

but If you compare my work with an O2R and a fairlight that could be frustrating - ( how ever both of them never crashed - the hitch was trying to surround pan on an O2R sometimes - I digress tho )

I guess perfectionist by nature are slitary and prickly persons? I feel that by pointing out the small probs it has is helping the ass of the unicorn stop being such a donkey...

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:27 am

Interesting

I'll look into that.

One thing I found out last night is that we need to add VG2 to the list of non working VI's

bOing · Post by **bOing** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:15 pm

Not sure if it was mentioned but as a quick doubling option I sometimes "duplicate" a track - killing the audio but keeping the setup.

I couldn't get command-shift-D to work.

(is that right, I'm not near my sweetie right now.)

carrythebanner · Post by **carrythebanner** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:57 pm

bOing wrote:Not sure if it was mentioned but as a quick doubling option I sometimes "duplicate" a track - killing the audio but keeping the setup.

I couldn't get command-shift-D to work.

(is that right, I'm not near my sweetie right now.)

Sounds like this:
Why isn't the key binding for Duplicate Tracks working with DP or AudioDesk under Tiger (10.4)?

bongo_x · Post by **bongo_x** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:35 pm

wurliuchi wrote:I hope someday MOTU will take care of most of these nagging, little issues that slow things down or just get in the way or feel and look unprofessional. There's getting to be a pretty long list of them, and each new version adds more it seems. I should write them down when I come across them, but I never do. I just think, "Oh, yeah, that stupid thing" and move on

Quite frankly, a lot of them should have been taken care of long ago. They don't seem like they would be that hard to correct. I understand there's no real money in fixing this stuff, but it needs to be done. Seeing these things carry over from version to version is getting old.

He said calmly.

That's the frustrating thing, so many little time savers have been introduced in the competition, and not in DP. Most of the things that bug me seem like they would be so simple to fix. It really seems like no one is looking at workflow and ergonomics, just "features".

bb

wurliuchi · Post by **wurliuchi** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:38 pm

bongo_x wrote:
wurliuchi wrote:I hope someday MOTU will take care of most of these nagging, little issues that slow things down or just get in the way or feel and look unprofessional. There's getting to be a pretty long list of them, and each new version adds more it seems. I should write them down when I come across them, but I never do. I just think, "Oh, yeah, that stupid thing" and move on

Quite frankly, a lot of them should have been taken care of long ago. They don't seem like they would be that hard to correct. I understand there's no real money in fixing this stuff, but it needs to be done. Seeing these things carry over from version to version is getting old.

He said calmly.
That's the frustrating thing, so many little time savers have been introduced in the competition, and not in DP. Most of the things that bug me seem like they would be so simple to fix. It really seems like no one is looking at workflow and ergonomics, just "features".

bb

Exactly, bb.

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:16 pm

here here!

bOing · Post by **bOing** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:18 pm

carrythebanner wrote:
bOing wrote:Not sure if it was mentioned but as a quick doubling option I sometimes "duplicate" a track - killing the audio but keeping the setup.

I couldn't get command-shift-D to work.

(is that right, I'm not near my sweetie right now.)
Sounds like this:
Why isn't the key binding for Duplicate Tracks working with DP or AudioDesk under Tiger (10.4)?

When you're talking.

martian · Post by **martian** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:46 pm

that ones simple - CHANGE the default binding..... I have no idea why it's D dinna work... but I changed it to shift option D and bingo

better moan about something you CANT change

bOing · Post by **bOing** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:17 am

martian wrote:that ones simple - CHANGE the default binding..... I have no idea why it's D dinna work... but I changed it to shift option D and bingo

better moan about something you CANT change

Had to change one of my customs yesterday because I found out that the new comping commands had used it up.

I'm just saying, it's an old key command that should work. I wasn't moaning. Moaning is like oooooohhhhhhhhhhwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaooooooo.

No, wait, it's more like ohhhhhhhwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooo.

Yeah, that's a better one.