| Duende and Digital Performer
well, I was very excited when I read the first post in this thread talking about how well the Duende was playing with others: I also have a powercore firwire and two UAD-1 cards, and so I got one in my hot little hands and got to work...
Or not. Turns out, somewhere on the SSL website FAQ about Duende it says it doesn't currently support Digital Performer. A deviously hidden little factoid. And/or I'm a poor researcher.
I did talk to the extremely nice people at SSL in LA, and they attempted to be helpful... turns out there are still quite a few bugs... For instance, there is some problem w/ using LaCie firwire drives (all of my stuff is on those drives...) Also, they sent me the beta for the DP fix, but I still find (even with no firewire drives or powercore attached) that after I add more than two of the Duende channels, the playback buffer and CPU starts spiking, and the automatic delay compensation drifts in an out, so that I'm hearing unprocessed, out of time bits intermittantly while I'm working.
As far as the firewire drive problem is concerned, they recommended I use my last open PCI slot for a firewire card, and put the Duende on that... Since I have PCI-X slots, it was a pain to find an adapter card, but I just ordered one from sonnettech that claims it'll do the trick.
Has anyone else gotten this to work well with Digital Performer? I'm praying they sort this out soon because I tell you, its a tease having heard what these plug ins do to a drum kit and I'm eager to start trusting it enough to fully integrate it into the flow...
FYI:
Mac G5 dual 1.8 (w/ PCI-X slots)
Digital Performer 5.01
Motu Traveler / Apogee AD8000 / Big Ben
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