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Originally Posted by Kazrog  I was a DP die-hard since 1997 until a few months ago when I did some summing tests between it, Pro Tools 7.3, and Logic 8. I've since sold my MOTU gear, got an M-Audio Project Mix I/O and Pro Tools M-Powered, haven't looked back. I can't wait to get my band's next record out, even our rough songwriting demos are sounding better than our last album!
DP's summing is really bad, and my mixes always sounded crowded and muddy, and it took hours of fighting this and weird mixing tweaks to try to overcome. Both Pro Tools and Logic have infinitely better summing than DP based on some of my tests where I was pulling up DRY tracks with NO plugins, just some volume and panning adjustments matched between applications with the exact same audio files.
MOTU needs to get it together, they have been really evasive, defensive, and even mean to their loyal customers who have asked them about the summing issues. Everyone I know who is a professional agrees with me about DP's summing being awful, and MOTU is in denial. Their application also hogs processor resources more than any other software, for no apparent reason.  |
Oh yeah... DP 6 is out so we'll soon see!
I get great mixes out of DP and it's all how you go about it. No DAW out there can have the busses slammed so you have to watch your gain stages and know what your doing to get the imagery and definition out of the mix...