MachFive v2 & Plogue Bidule Warning (DP7)...

[MIDI Life Crisis]

... and presumably other versions of DP. Just an FYI for future reference.

Finally have a project that will put DP 7 thru its paces. Also the first time I'm using Plogue Bidule for the first time in a larger project.

All was fine until I got to instrument #7 in MachFive 2. It crashed the audio system every time.

The work around is to keep your other instruments in Bidule and run MachFive in DP as a VI. Currently running about 14 tracks of stereo audio and 14 VIs (7 in Bidule; 7 in MachFive) and it seems to be very happy. We'll see what happens when the track count grows.

Otherwise, DP 7 it working great. BTW, the crashes did not affect DP or Plogue, only my FW (M-Audio) and built-in audio.

Current system: G5 Dual 2.0 PPC; OS X.5.8; 4GB RAM

UVI WOrkstation, Kontakt 3.5, Korg WS VI.