Digital Performer 4.5 software within a DIGI 002 hardware ..

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I am about to take a six month sabbatical from full-time work for my
studio and devote it to my band and other personal stuff. My partner
TJ will be taking on all of my sessions while I'm gone. During this
time, I want to do a lot of writing, demo-ing, recording, etc.

I have a DIGI 002 rack and a fairly recent-model Powerbook G4 for my
personal use. However, I don't love ProTools as a software
environment, I much prefer Digital Performer. This is just personal
preference, ease of use, familiarity, etc. It's not my intention to
ignite a big, boring debate comparing/contrasting the two.

On the MOTU website, they claim that you can use DP4.5 within
ProTools, but I can't tell whether this means just HD/MIX systems or
whether this includes DIGI LE. Basically, I want to keep my DIGI002
rack hardware but use DP as a software front-end. Does anyone know
whether this is possible?

Here's a link to the MOTU website:
www.motu.com/products/software/dp/ [...] tools.html

If not, I'm going to sell my DIGI002.

Thanks, in advance, for your knowledge.

--- Chad ( from the band Beauty Pill / the studio Silver Sonya )

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Chad Clark wrote:
> On the MOTU website, they claim that you can use DP4.5 within
> ProTools, but I can't tell whether this means just HD/MIX systems or
> whether this includes DIGI LE. Basically, I want to keep my DIGI002
> rack hardware but use DP as a software front-end. Does anyone know
> whether this is possible?

Digidesign offers ASIO drivers for the 002r.

http://www.digidesign.com/download/asio/

You *should* be able to use the hardware with any software that supports
ASIO.

I've never tried it, but I've been researching it (wanna get away from
the 32-track limit).

Stu

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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:05:31 -0500, Eric Frampton
<eric2004@ericframpton.com> wrote:

>DP4.x can talk to a 002 via the (buggy) Digi CoreAudio driver. On a
>Powerbook, however, be prepared for DP4 to be slow as molasses. It does
>function if you don't ask too much of it, but you'll have to be very
>patient.

How buggy? One of our proposed setups is G5->002R running DP 4.5 and
PT LE 6.whatever. Trying to avoid having to buy another interface
dedicated to DP (such as a 2408 or HD192).

If you have time, elaborate.

Thanks,
--Vas

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I had a whole long reply written out, but then re-noticed that this
thread was about DP 4.5 and the 002, which I can't properly speak about
since I'm still using 4.12. I would recommend anybody curious about this
visit the Dig. Performer forum on OSXAudio.com. There's lots of talk
about this over there and a fair amount of testing/benchmarking going on.

Eric

> Are you on the latest? I don't have any trouble running QT, iTunes,
> whathaveya through the Digi CoreAudio driver and my 002R.
>
> On a
> > Powerbook, however, be prepared for DP4 to be slow as molasses. It does
> > function if you don't ask too much of it, but you'll have to be very
> > patient.
> >
>
> As long as you do not load up on the synths, etc. it is fine. I know
> some are having issues but I put DP4.5 (controlling a MOTU 896) on a
> TiBook 667 with 1GB RAM and it runs fine for tracking and mixing. I am
> on Panther 10.3.5 on that machine.
>
> Speaking of DP, you folks recommend any books? I am interested in
> tracking and surround mixing with DP. I do my stereo mixes on PTLE6.4
> and mastering in SparkXL.

--
Eric Frampton, keyboards Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://www.ericframpton.com

(remove the year from the email address above to get my real address)