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bobbo 4 October 2009

I've been using dp5.13 for a couple years now. they just recently came out with dp7.

which got me thinking about upgrading either to the newer dp, or another software.

i like what i have, but i'm looking get something with a better mix bus, better audio quanitzing.

i record multitrack audio, primarily. using a fireface800, on a mac. so the software would need to be mac compatible.

whats everyone using out there, what do you think sounds good and is worth getting. its a pretty broad statement, but i've noticed that some of the new software out there are coming with lots of new features, yet, its all stuff that is making music sound more fake, and more for song writing instead of for multitrack recording. though these are just things i've seemed to have have noticed on some of the forums for different daws.

thanks
bobby

(and i have ptle 8 with a mbox mini, which i don't use due to the plugin latency, and poor interface quality)

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bobbo Mon, 10/05/2009 - 19:32

awesome, i can't wait to check it out. though, can someone tell me (i can't seem to find it on apple's page) if the master out is a 24b, 32b, or (up to, depending on os obviously) 64b mix bus?

is there anything i should watch out for with logic? from being a dp user? i'm hoping its nothing toooo crazy, since they're both mac only softwares?

thanks
bobby

sheet Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:42

Maybe they will get the Mac version to do everything the PC version does and then get all of the bugs out of both.

Their SRC is horrid. PT8 and Weiss still have the best SRC of all other DAWs. I think Samplitude comes in third. Logic, Sonar, Cubase are all down the list and equally as bad.

anonymous Sat, 12/19/2009 - 13:12

In my opinion, you're only option is Logic 9. I don't know why everyone on this forum seems to prefer, what I would consider to be very "amateur" software.. I suppose they just want to be different, but I just don't get it. I have been having very good results with logic 9 since its release and would vote for that. I don't have any experience with your hardware unfortunately, so that's the only area I couldn't comment on. Logic may not be the best looking or simplest to use, but it is by far the most powerful, especially if you consider purchasing a few pro-level plugins to utilize in addition to the built in ones.

Better mix bus --> logic's are very good, however some additional plugins can help take this to a whole new level (at least to simplify the process, as the built in logic inserts sound good -- you just need to know what you are doing).

Audio Quantizing --> Flex time in logic has a lot of people bitching on forums, but is largely due to people not using it properly, and expecting it to do every bit of the work for them (which it will not). If done properly it sounds better than the audio quantize/stretching engine in any other program I've used.

I also recommend having ableton live available as well, but since you are mostly into multi-track recording and not digital music creation (which is where ableton shines) then it may not be 'necessary' but it couldn't hurt.

Hope this helps!

anonymous Sat, 12/19/2009 - 16:23

I find reaper to be amateur.

I'm not going to engage in a full fledged battle over my opinion -- you just have to take it with a grain of salt. As you should for everyone's opinion. That said: It's about design, nothing technical as I'm sure it can TECHNICALLY do anything logic can -- I just have used logic for a while, and number 9 is the best one yet. I regret calling the others "amateur" -- English is my second language, so I didn't realize the brevity of the word.

Bueno? (No, spanish isn't my first.) :wink:

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