Record Producer Deluxe is no longer available for purchase or download.

The reason I love DOP/RPP is that it remains the most complete and intuitive music production software I have come across - and I still have my old files to work on. Design-wise, no one has ever really improved upon this software, not Cakewalk nor even Pro Tools - except for the addition of non-destructive editing and plug-ins. Those factors, however, are enough to get to me move on to other software (currently using n-Track) for my new songs, although I would MUCH rather have an updated RPP that did this. I originally got DOP in a package with a Turtle Beach Live Platinum sound card that included a chip with GREAT Kurzweil sounds for MIDI, and I still keep this machine (with Windows 95) around thinking I'll get back to it. DOP on this machine did have a nasty habit of occasionally deleting the contents of a file, leaving behind a 0kb file. Lost my best instrumental ever by not backing up. No such problems with future versions though, and I'm keeping my last Windows XP laptop around as well, so I can work on improving my old files (though without benefit of the Kurzweil...).

Personally, I am begging Turtle Beach/Voyetra to bring back their old engineers or similarly talented ones and get back to building on what they started in the recording business. This is what really made them stand out as a company. Now their just another company that builds sound cards and music software, a business in which they are now also-rans.

Hello,

I have my DOC songs created with Digital Orchestrator. The software cannot be longer used.
I tried unsuccesfull to find some other software which support converting or import of those files.

Has anybody any idea to go arround this issue?

Thanks!

George

i was testing out record producer last night. Couple weeks ago picked up a Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI Express. When i plugged the mic in and was testing out recording in melodyne, the sound was coming out after you'd speak. An echo.. turned off all the soundcard effect bells and whistles but it was still doing it. Something seemed wrong with the card but looking around the net sounds like they got latency issues. So i'm testing out in record producer and i'd have some midi dots and was testing out recording the what you hear to wav. I play it back and was sounding like an echo. Look at the wav and its showing up later. I said enough with this soundcard, but i gotta keep soundblaster cause gotta use the soundfont bank manager and creative vienna soundfont editor.. so kinda stuck. noticed a higher end card the X-Fi Titanium HD PCIe. Says "Pristine audio recordings with ultra low latency. ASIO recording support with latency as low as one millisecond and minimal CPU load for precise audio recordings." Ordered that today. Figured maybe there was some latency setting where i could fix this snafu.

Then today.. i took the card out and fired up the asrock motherboard integrated sound. Fire up the melodyne to test and recording the mic. Then i turned the mic off and wanted to play back what i recorded and record that on another track. I look at it and was a little bit behind and had an echo. Melodyne uses this asio4all recording driver and in the system tray by the clock there's an icon and you can adjust the latency buffer settings. The default is 512 samples.. i put it as low as it could, to 64 samples and it was almost in sync. To match it up you'd have to drag the wav a little bit left. ok good.. things can get in sync.

Now i go to the 'record producer'.. lets test out recording the mic. Then play that back and record what you hear and see what it looks like.. yeah getting an echo when i play both those back. Look at it, and its 0.08 sec behind. There's not any sort of latency setting in record producer.. so strike there.

Next i try some midi dots and record that in wav.. i play it back.. big echo. The wav is showing up like 0.25 sec later. I'm there wtf.. so i look at the midi dots as its playing and not getting any noise till later on in the notes. I look at it and yeah its recording what is hearing but seems like its not playing the notes till later. Its not so much a recording latency as the midi playing later.. its not all the dots that play in bad timing seems like your whole mix would just have to be moved that much to get it in sync with other wavs later. So it could technically work and could manage and work around it.

But thru all this i kept getting the grey screen flashes, as usual.. not the whole screen, just the working area.. so the top bar stays and the vertical midi keyboard stays along the left but that whole editing window section and the wav editing section, it all just goes solid grey whenever there's a screen flash every oh its at least every minute.. and it stays grey until you minimize the program. With dop i could have a blank notepad in another window and switch back and forth to that and it clears it up. With record producer here in windows 7 that doesnt clear it up and have to minimize and maximize rpd, then it loses track of what section you're at and gotta refind it. Or you could switch from the midi window to the wav and it'll clear it up.

And then i dont like how my mouse wheel does nothing in the midi editor. Then in the wav editor i'm trying to select data and wanna select more than whats visible in the window but it stops at the far right. Should be like forge where it keeps going.

Basicly, thats too many strikes. I was willing to work around this stuff but the latency issues and this grey screen covering.. i just cant take it anymore and dop's fired. Anybody know of any other multi track recording programs that are similar? cause i've got a mess on my hands here with a couple bookmarks on the desktop with google searches starting from scratch. I got 2-4 weeks till that card gets here.. i got a hunch i'll still have some kind of latency issues going on with it but what can i do, i'm just gonna work around it. Depressing. lol.. end of the road for the dop. I hung in there and tried to keep 'er goin but buck's stopped.

wow this is a long ordeal getting to this point.. heh-heh.. ok well lets give ya a bit of background.. think i paid 200 bucks for digital orchestrator plus back in the late 90's. Think it would crash in later years so was using digital orchestrator pro i found on the net. Then this past year wanted to start playing around with the tunes again.. well not sure what was causing it but dop would have these screen flashes and screen areas would go solid grey and the only way to clear it up would be to minimize and maximize. I'd have a blank notepad window i'd just switch back and forth to and it'd clear it up. Keeps doing it every couple minutes though and maybe less maybe more depending whats going on. Not sure whats causing it.

Thought, ok.. i gotta try the windows 7. Well i buy that and try to install dop says, naw, its 16 bit and we dont do that. lol. This past year too i upgraded the whole computer.. like i got a 3ghz quad core, ssd hard drive with no moving parts, 8gb ram.. 1gb ram video card.. i had a sound blaster live 24 bit but uh, naw.. end of service life cant use that in windows 7. Hard time finding drivers to just get noise. Meanwhile there was no midi in the volume. My parents computer i put vista on there and there was no midi in the mixer either. Looked into it a bit and seemed like since vista they phased out midi. ahh.. ok.. thats nice. Meanwhile for making music i'd take samples and make soundfonts with them and place midi dots instead of wav.. plus you can take midi files and replace note dots, cant do that with wav. Well, i went and bought this pci express x1 soundblaster sb x-fi card last week and that was right on when it had a midi mixer slider.. plus downloaded the soundfont bank manager. I had a creative vienna program but ah said 16 bit cant do it for ya.. dang.. well looked around and just one later version after well that one worked in windows 7. So i was almost there.. I had bought sound forge 4 back in the late 90's.. jeez.. several hundred dollars for the disk, plus i dunno couple hundred for the noise reduction. Can't use those, 16 bit.. well screw you guys.. so luckily was able to get the 10 and that worked. Was right on.. almost there. And then i had this version of melodyne that loaded. Think months ago before the new soundcard, dont think that loaded.. or maybe it was the keygen or something that i thought didnt work, but looked around.. maybe it was for some other program but even though you're an admin, you still had to.. oh it was for forge.. yeah i thought it didnt work but you still had to right click and run as admin on the keygen. Then it went.

Anyways.. all that was missing was the multi track recording program. Have a couple search pages looking around for stuff and was like.. ugh.. testing new software.. i'm used to the dop layout like come on. Went and got the mixcraft today and started it up and took a look at the layout and went, oh my god.. and closed it.. hahaha.. i'm there, no i gotta look into this dop thing. Maybe something where i can run the 16 bit or who knows. Then as i was surfing around seen somebody mention record producer. Remember checking that out but didnt like the black background and white writing and you look away and still sorta see shapes. I dunno.. but yeah then i tested out the demo and was there, right on.. it works in windows 7! heh-heh!!.. but then i get here at the hitsquad and yeah not so good news once nobody can get past the demo expiring in 7 was looking like. Plus i was there, enough i'll just buy it.. but ya can't!!! like so stupid that even if you wanted to, its gotta get the authorization code from them first.. and they're defunct. like come on. what a runaround.. if you're gonna shut 'er down, ya schmucks at turtle beach, let it be free or something.. jeez.. what a run-around.

So i was trying out these registry cleaner programs to maybe be able to uninstall the demo and be able to reinstall it every month.. hey at least it would work. Naw.. nothing in the AppData folder either you can take out. I was starting to give up but thought of looking thru crack sites. Found one but it wasnt for record producer deluxe.. it was just record producer. Plus ya gotta get the same version. Had a hard time finding both of them.. like earlier today if nobody on here at hitsquad mentioned that 4shared to find that deluxe demo, i wouldnt have found it on the net.. thats how bad it is.

So yeah i found a crack and sounds like it works.. look for "Record_Producer_5.01.5000_patch_by_FOFF" and look for "Record Producer 5.01".

Then i fire 'er up and testing things out and getting that grey screen stuff going on again! aaaahhhh.. everything in the comp is new but its still doing that! hahaha i dont care though.. after this being faced with having to use some lame duck multi track program, i'll gladly put up with this and switch the window to the notepad to clear it up and swich back. i dunno though.. might have a peek around at what kind of other programs are out there. Anyways guys.. there ya go..

If anyone still has any problem getting RPD to work. Let me know. I can maybe help.

Robby

The trend to use the Internet to unlock software is now coming back to haunt us. This problem will get worse, not better, as the Internet registration concept will guarantee obselescene in software.

Here's what I'm going to tell the CEO/President of TB via registered mail: The EULA governing our business relationship, the one you say is binding, does not expire. Thus, you are legally obligated to provide me the means to use the software for which I purchased a license.

This really needs to go to class action. The commercial software companies are getting away with outright larceny. I can't wait until I have to register a license for my car to work. (Don't say that too loud.)

Okay for those who are looking for a solution and are on Vista/Windows 7

1. Make sure Record Producer is Closed

2. Download and unzip the working setup file - http://hotfile.com/dl/77515682/f4c48d7/RecordProducer.zip.html

3. Run RegEdit - Goto the following folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Voyetra\Setup and use the right-click menu to rename it. (This just saves the key in case a mistake is made).

4. On the main menu on the RegEdit window, select File > Import > Navigate to location where the .reg file was saved in step 1 > Click Open

5. The .reg file will be save to your drive.

6. You should now be able to launch RP.

Good luck and be prosperous