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The faders are still too short. Interesting though. Wonder if the pan is ahead or behind the meters. That was a horrible mistake to change without a choice in my opinion way back when. Again prefs are our friends!
I was kinda hoping for optional broadcast Wave support, But maybe that will come in the future. SDII is getting kinda long in the tooth, but it's still workable. Especially since you can now bounce directly to CD.
It's coming... and yes Broadcast Wave File (.wav or .bwf) is now the world-wide cross-platform standard audio file. I'm just relieved that MOTU have finally acknowledged that.
Unless I just had too much wax in my ears at the time I heard (and saw) the demonstration - DP6 definitely supports broadcast Wave.
lwilliam wrote:I can't believe no one has posted any pics....Here ya go, hot off the NAMM floor today!
Thanks for posting those. I've been dying to see what the new interface looks like. Overall, I'd say it's an improvement, though it's hard to tell without looking at it up close on a monitor. It still looks like DP, yet refreshed. It looks like they took a cue from other, more currently designed software without going the garish route. It seems a bit more spacious and easier to read, less cluttered. Glad it's still mostly grey.
I hope the transport is scalable, or at least customizable. Those buttons look HUGE. Also, I wonder why they decided to put In/Out assignments at the top of the mixer rather than at the bottom where the track names are. Now you'll have to follow the fader up from the name and try not to get lost on the way up to see what the assignments are.
I was kinda hoping for optional broadcast Wave support, But maybe that will come in the future. SDII is getting kinda long in the tooth, but it's still workable. Especially since you can now bounce directly to CD.
It's coming... and yes Broadcast Wave File (.wav or .bwf) is now the world-wide cross-platform standard audio file. I'm just relieved that MOTU have finally acknowledged that.
Unless I just had too much wax in my ears at the time I heard (and saw) the demonstration - DP6 definitely supports broadcast Wave.
Yep - that's what I mean when I say "it's coming" i.e. BWF support.
Looks nice. The transport window seems to be one of the windows that got changed the most.
I'm sooooo looking forward for this version.
Thanks for the picks and satiating our curiosity!
Mac Mini Server i7 2.66 GHs/16 GB RAM / OSX 10.14 / DP 9.52
Tascam DM-24, MOTU Track 16, all Spectrasonics' stuff,
Vienna Instruments SUPER PACKAGE, Waves Mercury, slaved iMac and Mac Minis running VEP 7, etc.
--------------------------- "In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth." ― Richard Feynman
Thank you so much for posting those, lwilliam!! The new interface looks fantastic. It is basically just a slicker version of the look and feel that we have already. I'm thrilled!
blue wrote:Also, I wonder why they decided to put In/Out assignments at the top of the mixer rather than at the bottom where the track names are. Now you'll have to follow the fader up from the name and try not to get lost on the way up to see what the assignments are.
Yeah that's a bit strange. Hopefully, there will be the option to move them up or down, just like we can with tracks and chunks.
FMiguelez wrote:Hmmmm. I think I prefer Zed's GUI.