DP 6 pour bientot...

[Dorian]

Les fanas de Digital Performer sont surement déjà au courant, mais MOTU prépare la version 6 de son célèbre séquenceur audio...

Au programme (en anglisch, désolé):

MOTU announced the upcoming release of Digital Performer 6, which promises to be a major upgrade to the company’s flagship digital audio sequencer.

DP 6 features a redesigned user interface, which includes the ability to zoom in the Track window. (Can we hope that we finally get right-click contextual menus?)

Two new signal processing plug-ins are included: Pro Verb, a convolution reverb that MOTU says is very CPU efficient, and Masterworks Leveler, a dynamics processor that models the classic LA-2A.

A new, and very flexible track comping feature is also included. It gives you plenty of control for comping takes, and it even lets you comp your comps.

DP 6 will also include support for Broadcast WAV files, which means your sequence’s audio files no longer need to be in Sound Designer II format. Also included is support for Final Cut Pro XML files, allowing you easily edit your video’s audio track in DP.

Another key addition is the ability to burn CDs directly from DP.

DP 6 is scheduled for release sometime during the first quarter of this year, and its price will remain unchanged.

Vu sur Unicronation:

1) MAJOR OVERHAUL OF UI. Apparently the UI has been overhauled significantly. A cleaner look and actually Jim said it's "lighter" in appearance... not as dark as before.

2) TRACKS OVERVIEW VERTICALLY SCALEABLE. At last for those of us tired of squinting at 9 pt Geneva, the Tracks Overview is scaleable.

3) COLORED WAVEFORMS. My prayer answered. The colored bar at the top of the soundbites that seemed like a kludge are gone. I'm assuming waveforms can also be full height of soundbite now.

4) NEW INCLUDED PLUG-IN: MW LEVELER. This apparently, according to MOTU is an outright emulation of an LA-2A and will be included with DP.

5) NEW INCLUDED PLUG-IN: CONVOLUTION REVERB. I think Jim said this was called "ProVerb" and is a convolution reverb. Apparently it comes with a lot of IRs and can import them as well. Monkey man... I know this was something you've wanted.

6) EXPLODED TAKES VIEW. I don't know exactly how this works, but apparently DP now can explode the takes in a track and easily create comp tracks from multiple takes. Very cool.

7) HD VIDEO FRAME RATE SUPPORT. New version supports the HD video frame rate now.

8 ) VIs CAPTURED DURING BOUNCE TO DISK. There's no need to print VI's to audio tracks before bouncing to disk. Very cool!!!

9) PRE-RENDERING FOR VIs. Not sure how this works, but VIs have pre-rendering making DP much more efficient when working with multiple VIs. I don't know what effect this has on making lower buffer settings when tracking VIs practical, but I have high hopes.

10) ABILITY TO BOUNCE DIRECTLY TO CD. There is an option to bounce and burn directly to CD from DP without the need for Toast or 3rd party app.

12) EUPHONIX CONTROL SURFACE SUPPORT. MOTU had the new Euphonix control surfaces on display with DP at their booth. Currently they work in some sort of Mackie emulation, but MOTU stated that drivers for direct support of Euphonix comm protocol are being developed.

13) TIGHTER INTEGRATION WITH FINAL CUT. Not sure of this one... Jim didn't hear it to well, but there's some sort of tighter ability for moving files between FCP and DP. Something about DP being able to read an XML file or something. My apologies... this should all start becoming clear when MOTU publishes this on their site and more and better information becomes available.

Quelques captures d'écran:

http://public.fotki.com/lwilliam/namm-2008/

Bye.

[Dorian]

Je suis un peu vert pour l'upgrade, que je viens de faire pour la 5 il y a à peine 4 mois... Bahhh...

De ce qui m'intéresserait, le support direct des projets Final Cut (XML), et... ben c'est tout...

Le plugin de reverb à convolution ne supportera pas les IRs d'Altiverb (normal ceci dit, c'est du crypté bien gardé). M'en fout je l'ai déjà l'Altiverb... Reste toutes les IRS libres (bonne nouvelle).

Pour le support EuCon d'Euphonix, c'est à voir, car c'est payant (en euros sonnants et trébuchants) chez les autres (Nuendo ou Pyramix), exception faite de Logic (salauds d'Apple )...

Par rapport au support du BWF (exit le vieillissant et mal foutu SD2), je demande à voir l'intéret pour l'utilisateur (metadatas dans la fenêtre Soundbite? J'en doute...).

Pour les VIs dans les bounces, et les pré-rendering, perso je n'utilise pas (Mac Pro qui aide bien).

Reste le support de la HD, là ça peut être intéressant, non?

Vous en pensez quoi vous?

Bye.

[sitting-bull]

Je trouve que figurent dans ces nouveautés quelques demandes d'utilisateurs comme le Zoom vertical dans la fenêtre pistes.
Et si de plus la gestion de la mémoire CPU était mieux gérée, ce serait déjà pas mal car l'on jongle beaucoup avec le réglage du Buffer.

Hé bien, tu vois de mon côté le Pére Nœl m'a amené une Altiverb qui a bien résonné dans la cheminée _

[marcmarc]

j'en pense que le support natif du BWF et du AIFF entrelacés sont extrêmement bien venus : de toutes façons ils n'auraient pas pu penser à du va et vient facile avec FCP si ils en étaient restés au SDII.

[guibson]

ahhh enfin un zoom dans la fenetre traks !
cette V6 ira bien avec mon futur Macpro 8 cores
:=)

[xyz]

oui y'a quelques trucs intéressants et l'interface à l'air plutôt bien fait. Après perso DP5 me va très bien et depuis quelques temps je passe par wavebruner pour le master final. L'association DP+waveburner est parfaite....

J'attend de l'avoir entre les mains la version 6 et on verra bien

[Dorian]

Quelques vidéos chopées au NAMM (attention, gros bruit de fond !):

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Bye.