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hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:10 pm

Anyways, I'm not buying it, just interested in it.......IF it ever has any news

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:37 pm

Come on Motu!!!! you gave us the teaser in January. I have zero patience I guess.. lol

cowby · Post by **cowby** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:04 am

memyselfandus wrote:Come on Motu!!!! you gave us the teaser in January. I have zero patience I guess.. lol

I have the same feeling. But pls have the reasonable price tag. Studio one for your reference.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:40 am

Then that make 399, which is close to what it is now. I could live with that. I'm not buying it, but it's fair

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:01 pm

22nd January 2012

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/motu-annou ... ions-18074

MOTU has unveiled Digital Performer version 8, a major upgrade to their flagship audio workstation software. Recognized throughout the industry as a leading workstation application for Mac, Digital Performer 8 will now be available for both Mac OS X and Windows 7. During in-booth demos, MOTU debuted other significant new features, including a new video playback engine, Punch Guard confidence recording, 14 new user interface themes, and 15 new included plug-ins.

"With a long history of firsts, Digital Performer is widely considered to be a leader in audio software technology," said Jim Cooper, MOTU Director of Marketing. "We are thrilled to bring Digital Performer's leading role of exceptional performance and innovation to Windows-based recording artists, producers, engineers, remixers, composers and anyone looking for advanced desktop music and audio production."

DP8 will operate in 32-bit or 64-bit mode on Mac OS X and Windows 7. On Windows, it will support VST plug-ins and Rewire. MOTU demonstrated DP8 running on HP Z Workstations and HP EliteBook Mobile Workstations provided by Hewlett-Packard.

Other new DP8 features

Punch Guard records an extra four seconds of audio before and after record passes, allowing users to edge-edit in/out points to "uncover" audio material accidentally cut off during recording. DP8's new video engine allows full-screen viewing of full 720 or 1080 HD video clips on a primary or secondary computer monitor, or on a conventional HDMI or SDI video monitor connected to a MOTU video interface such as the HD Express or HDX-SDI.

Digital Performer's Themes allow users to change the entire look of the software with one click. DP8 adds 14 new themes, including "Hi-Fi", "Arctic", and "None More Black".

MOTU demonstrated 15 new plug-ins to be included with DP8, including two new classic guitar amp models, a bass cabinet model, several classic guitar pedals, modeled analog delay, a multi-band dynamic equalizer, a de-esser, the Subkick kick drum enhancer, and Springamabob, a modeled vintage spring reverb processor.

Digital Performer 8 will ship Spring, 2012. Pricing is TBA.

iPad support for CueMix FX

MOTU also demonstrated iPad support for CueMix FX, the mixing and effects processing engine in MOTU's current line of audio interfaces. With a simple software update, MOTU audio interface users will be able to control the mixing and processing features in their MOTU interface from OSC-compatible iPad software, which offers graphic, multi-touch control over the hardware's mixer, EQ, compression and reverb. iPad support for CueMix will ship as a free software update in Spring, 2012.

how are they with major bug fixes? timely?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:19 pm

haha, MMU totally jonesing. Still, it's lame that they announced spring of 2012 and it's nowhere to be seen.

LawrenceF · Post by **LawrenceF** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:43 pm

hibidy wrote:haha, MMU totally jonesing. Still, it's lame that they announced spring of 2012 and it's nowhere to be seen.

There's a conspiracy theory I heard that they only did that (made and announced for Win) to nudge Apple to do or not do something or other with the desktop macs. No clue if there's any real truth to any of it, net rumors are what they are.

The same theory also implies Apple is buying MOTU, which maybe puts it all into tin foil hat territory, dunno.

They have been rather silent about it since the announcement so I too wonder what's going on there exactly.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:11 pm

Well, to be honest, I always wondered why they bought Emagic instead of MOTU. MOTU was always very close to Apple (Audio MIDI Setup is very much a MOTU and Doug Wyatt thing), and Digital Performer was the most integrated Mac sequencer in the market back then. But perhaps Emagic was more of a bargain, and MOTU owners opened their mouth too much.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:15 pm

Motu, y u no release this??? (edited to remove worse emoticon in internet history)

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:25 am

Well being a DP7 user I bothered chatting with sales, the lady was very straightforward about it, this is what she said more or less...
Some bugs had appeared late in the game that weren't caught earlier. They don't want to release it buggy, and would rather not use the user base as beta testers. Try to be patient, but wouldn't you rather have a relatively bug free release than something on time but a crashing POS?

I think that's a great policy, but I do think MOTU should keep us informed on their website, although of course there's always that hope that the beta they are testing at the moment is the one that doesn't mess up X, Y or Z, so why announce it's going to be late just to release it the next day?

Muziksculp · Post by **Muziksculp** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:05 am

fmr wrote:Well, to be honest, I always wondered why they bought Emagic instead of MOTU. MOTU was always very close to Apple (Audio MIDI Setup is very much a MOTU and Doug Wyatt thing), and Digital Performer was the most integrated Mac sequencer in the market back then. But perhaps Emagic was more of a bargain, and MOTU owners opened their mouth too much.

Yup, that would have been the logical thing to do for Apple. Buy MOTU not EMagic.

I feel Apple made a big mistake choosing Logic instead of DP. Since DP is, and was a Mac only product.

That would have left Logic available for both PC and Mac platforms. Lots of Logic PC users were turned off by that move.

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:33 pm

machinesworking wrote:Well being a DP7 user I bothered chatting with sales, the lady was very straightforward about it, this is what she said more or less...
Some bugs had appeared late in the game that weren't caught earlier. They don't want to release it buggy, and would rather not use the user base as beta testers. Try to be patient, but wouldn't you rather have a relatively bug free release than something on time but a crashing POS?

I think that's a great policy, but I do think MOTU should keep us informed on their website, although of course there's always that hope that the beta they are testing at the moment is the one that doesn't mess up X, Y or Z, so why announce it's going to be late just to release it the next day?

oh. that makes sense then. if it's buggy.. don't release it yet!!

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 4:19 am

memyselfandus wrote:oh. that makes sense then. if it's buggy.. don't release it yet!!

Well I would guess that they really don't want the Windows version to have many bugs at all. Most of us Mac or PC tend to judge a company that starts on only one OS a lot harsher when there are bugs on the OS they port to. I know I had a special hate for Reaktor pre 4.7 because the Mac version was horrid. Absynth was apparently a huge CPU pig on PC until recently, and it's a Mac port.

memyselfandus wrote: how are they with major bug fixes? timely?

Mostly, I hear version 6 was a bit of a dog, but I skipped it. I went from 5 to 7, and 7 especially they fixed bugs in it faster than I found them <--- I didn't have any to speak of in 7, and they added a ton of new features in free updates!

I guess that's my only grief with the Windows port, I think new features will happen more on paid upgrades rather than in free updates, as they just added the never ending random hardware issue problems that PC users can have at times. I like the safety of a PC version in terms of Apple randomly deciding to ditch it's pro line of computers though.... Just got a great deal on a ridiculously fast Mac Pro so that scenario isn't a worry for at least 5 years.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 4:53 am

Sure, releasing buggy software sucks more, but I don't care how complicated something is, I think 7 months (when obviously they had a working version already) should be reasonable.

I blame the beta team

I've worked on a shitload of beta teams and it's a good ol' boys camp usually

Wouldn't surprise me if 70% of the beta team were mac users who switched and don't know how to use windows

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:08 am

hibidy wrote:Sure, releasing buggy software sucks more, but I don't care how complicated something is, I think 7 months (when obviously they had a working version already) should be reasonable.

I blame the beta team I've worked on a shitload of beta teams and it's a good ol' boys camp usually Wouldn't surprise me if 70% of the beta team were mac users who switched and don't know how to use windows

Oh god I'm certain you're at least partially right!

A lot of DP users are power users who run VE Pro on a dedicated Windows box for big orchestral libraries! So I wouldn't be surprised if some of the beta team, (who more than likely are in their 40s to 50s) are using their slave computers as beta machines.

Digital Performer 8 Goes Windows!