Archive for category workflow

Making DP stop at the end of your sequence

Playback not stopping

I was working on a cue recently and practicing a piano part when the phone rang. I forgot to stop playback before walking out of the room, and when I returned, the Playback Wiper was still chugging right along at measure #3575! Hmmm. I had the end-time of my sequence set at measure 74 in [...]

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Control DP Transport from a midi keyboard

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DP 7 user manual reference: page 148 There are many ways to control the transport buttons [stop, play,pause, rec...] in DP. To speed up workflow, some users like to control DP from their midi keyboard–so their hands don’t need to lift off the keyboard to grab the mouse or QWERTY keyboard. The easiest way to [...]

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How to find a key command-Quickly!

[DP7 Manual reference: Page 147] A thorough understanding and use of key commands [DP7's Commands Window, Shift-L] is crucial to getting work done quickly in DP. Many commands are difficult to remember, so you will need to search for them. Let’s say you’re working in the Conductor Track, experimenting with tempo changes. You suspect that [...]

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