my issue ended up being that Digital Performer 5.11 running on Snow Leopard makes it so that the Arturia stuff wasn't working well. So anyone using DP 5.11 and running on regular Leopard on a old powermac... if you upgrade your computer to an Intel and get snow leopard or higher, your Arturia stuff may not work right. Thank you Arturia for doing the work to ensure me that upgrading to DP7 or 8 would in fact solve my problem.