Hircine wrote:How's DP working for you? I've had great experiences with MOTU hardware and honestly the daw looks beautiful. How is it in comparison to the more tradicional DAWs (verba gratia cubase, logic, protools et coetera)?
from what i gather, DP is kinda "for DP kinda guys" and i am one of those
imo it's more stripped down and modular than other stuff. but i haven't tried much else, i've taken a crack at logic and pro tools. They seem more set up to be used in a certain way, so to speak. I have a hard time explaining but i'll try
for instance, if i instantiate Maschine in Logic, it automatically has a mixer channel pumping for each pad in each group on my maschine. I have no idea why or how maschine utilizes its multi-outs in such a way where they automatically sync up with Logic mixer's faders. But i see them metering while i knock away at the beat pads. I have no idea how to tell Logic to print those tracks to audio, and i don't like lumping insert effects into those mixer channels knowing the source audio is being triggered from my Maschine.
in DP, maschine launches and all the audio comes right out of its main outputs and it meters on the instrument track only. I route each of the multi-outs to their own audio channel, and record my beat. It just does exactly what you tell it to, no crypic inner-workings.
i think that Logic just has a streamlined integration with Maschine and other midi stuff which is great, but to me seems dumbed down. I only want my virtual cables to go where i plug them into, so to speak. DP is set up like a total customizable template, you just create mono, stereo, aux or instrument tracks and set ins and outs.
so more or less it isn't going to route anything automatically or without telling you
other than that, it's pretty much the same shit in comparison to anything else. they all do the same thing imo, host virtual instruments, AD/DA conversion, sequencer, editor, and their own characteristic quirks, extra tools, bonus stuff and interface. I am just really used to the environment of DP.
one thing that is a bummer is DP doesn't have a basic, good-sounding utility for fucking with the pitch of audio. Any midi with pitchbend works fine, easy to edit in the midi sequencer, but to simply screw down or chipmunk a vocal for instance, it can't fuckin do it. pisses me off because it should be so basic, even the simplest DAW's have this feature.
