It's the little things in DP 8

[kgdrum]

I didn't even get an email that DP8 was out! Did you guys get emails or just check their site? Dang, I had to find from Waves of all people!! Well at lest I can hear some bug reports from you guys first.

No emails,just plain old Internet/forum lurking

[zed]

My problem is that I don't like white and gray themes. MOTU loves white and gray themes. In fact, to me, most of their themes look pretty much alike. Just a few that are really different, and only a couple that I can stand to use.

I love the white and grey themes, and find that your tastes are quite a bit more colourful than mine. It is really fascinating how people can respond so differently to colour, and tastes, and shapes, and sounds, etc.

Truthfully, in recent years I have really been surprised at how crazy so many DP users have become over Andy's colourful themes and the craving of more colour in their DAW. I've tried different themes and then wanted to go right back to white and grey. I prefer the tools to be grey (just like my Macs) and then for the material being worked with (and the plugins) to be more colourful and to stand out.

But I take off my hat to MOTU (and Andy) for making this the DAW where users can customize it to best suit their own personal tastes--to make DP feel like home for each individual. That is truly one of those great "little things" in DP.

I will go through all the themes in DP8 and will be open to finding out if any of them speak to me.

The new plug in selection window is amazingly efficient. Especially the "recent" subgroup that auto updates. It is so convenient to be able to organize plugs the way I want. And the search bar, and the preset management . . . .

That's great news. That was certainly an area that needed some attention!

[David Polich]

More "little things" - DP8 opens with your last-saved Plug-in set from 7.24.
You don't have to make an entirely new set.

Also, it's nice to finally see the Cocoa GUI for all of Apple's plug-ins, instead of the white-and-black generic GUI's.

[frankf]

When zooming vertically in the Tracks window, the font stay clean and sharp. I like the new font here and the cleaner look elsewhere.


Frank Ferrucci
DP 8
Mac Pro 3,1 OS 10.6.8, 24gb RAM
Metric Halo 2882, ULN-2