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Originally Posted by andsonic  Isn't Hans Zimmer a user? I think most of the "high end" users are in the soundtrack world. |
Absolutely not. Cubase and Nuendo (with ProTools as his mixer.) At his facility, there's been only 1 pair of guys who've ever used DP there that I can think of. Everyone uses either Cubase/Nuendo or Logic as the sequencer (close to 50/50 split but now more 70/30 in favour of Steinberg)
Howard Shore doesn't really use a sequencer but his assistants do (who transfer his cues to computer) which is why DP claims him as a user (much like John Williams working method.) Both have their scores tracked and mixed to ProTools.
DP isn't really used in the pro film/score market other than finding it in trailer houses. Motu paid out Berklee to become the default system they teach which is why it has any foothold in the market (though most Berklee grads find out pretty quickly in the real world they need to learn another sequencer/mixer when interning at studios/composers) That's how Shore/Williams have any involvement with DP; their assistants were taught it and the composers themselves aren't sequencer users so they don't care how it is put into a computer for delivery to scoring stages/music editors/temp demos.
In the non film/score market I've found in the US (for the pro song/music groups) it leans heavily Logic and in Europe it leans heavily Steinberg (Cubase/Nuendo.)