Which is of course appropriate for a free player plug-in if you want to build your own, move up to M5. As far as instrument presets, it's limited to preset playback - no preset creation. It lets you manipulate loops (Apple Loops, REX, AIFF, and WAVE) but doesn't allow for advanced capabilities like slicing up your own loops (it recognizes slices in Apple Loops and REX files, though, so you can use the same sliced playback abilities as in M5). Logic users can download the plug-in & demo sounds same as any DP user. I guess including it with DP 6 is just a mutual backscratch rather than something exclusive for DP users, so it doesn't really change the comparison of Logic vs. From what I understand, it's meant to replace the old Universal UVIPlayer, as well as the Plugsound Pro player, so it wouldn't make any sense to limit it to DP users. UVI Workstation is great for DP and all, but it's not exclusive - it's available free for anyone, Mac or PC, at. what am I talking about? I don't even USE loops! But I do use Mach Five 2, and it would be nice to know that it's there in DP now. I've got all those sets that came with Logic Studio.
if only UVI Workstation will play all those Apple Loops. A major improvement that more-or-less answers Apple's big price slash last year for Logic Studio. If I'm correct about this, then we've just seen a huge leap forward. Has anyone played with UVI Workstation yet? One question: if you CONTROL-CLICK (or right-click) on a button or knob, do you get a pop-up window for attaching MIDI controllers? If so, I'm betting that this is Mach Five Lite! I have long hoped that MOTU would roll those two together, for once you've used Mach Five 2 with DP, you get the feeling that it's not complete otherwise. It would be hard to complain about its limitations with this.
Assuming that UVI Workstation has the latest UVI advances (and hoping that it plays the new Apple Loops), this is just the thing to extend DP's reach in a major way. It makes it competitive with Logic in the area of loops and sound creation, as well as a universal sample player, sampler, and sample editor. And that's a good thing for DP, because - as I've said many times in this forum - Mach Five 2 sort of completes DP. Pictures of it and descriptions tell me that it's basically Mach Five Lite. I don't have DP6 yet, nor has it even shown up on my bank account yet, but this UVI Workstation that some are talking about interests me.