Hi Sweck,
Can I call you Sweckl? JK, It is just what I thought of being a fan of Dave and all. So the v5 is very worth the money and it is a good value for what you get IMO. Most of the horror stories installing it are usually user error. These are images that need to be unzipped... etc and so forth, but just like v3 it is the same process. However some hardware may need to be upgraded (in the RAM department and that is easy to find) and this can be misunderstood without reading the information on the Mackie site
http://www.mackie.com/products/d8b_v5/downloads.html. Lots of good info to make it smooth and the truth is sometimes you just have to barrel through it and keep trying. Every time I have installed the OS It has been a try and try again and I always succeed but bad floppies, to not getting to the green image files, to not checking formatting, etc... etc... etc - what I am saying is that it is a process. It should be easy but it isn't.
On that link I would not download the v5.1 until you have decided to purchase the unlock code, instead I would look through the literature and see if it is something that you would spend the money on and buy. Here is a tour of the v5.1 - I bought it and I think it is worth it, but you be the judge.
http://www.mackie.com/products/d8b_v5/What else, oh the transport is a midi thing. The d8b will receive time code (MTC) and send machine control (MMC). It will not transmit time code and will not receive machine control (but that is what I just said
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So when it does not work it is usually in the way you have the midi cable routed and the way you have the setting set in Cubase. Unfortunately, I am pretty sure that no one has got the scroll wheel to work on the d8b for any DAW, but I could be wrong about this - just what I remember.
Your making progress!
Michael
... or more like it, at me!
