![]() MOTU Aquafied Digital Performer while it was still an OS 9 app, and its interface hasn’t changed much. This preserves your original mix and can save you a lot of money you’d otherwise spend on studio time. (The 24 Mix systems may not be supported on Power Mac G5s, however.) While we weren’t able to test this, MOTU claims that you can use the OMF Interchange format to export your Digital Performer song files, including audio, volume, and most of your automation data, to Pro Tools systems. Robert Martin’s CherryPicker (designed to help convert MOTU’s OS 9 FreeMIDI-format patch lists to OS X–ready documents, may get you up and running otherwise, you’ll need to spend a lot of time editing XML documents.Īnd Digital Performer, like Logic, can now utilize Digidesign Audio Engine (DAE) to act as a software interface for Digidesign’s high-end Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools|24 Mix hardware systems and associated TDM plug-ins. Setup is simple: after you install version 4, you just go to Apple’s Audio MIDI Setup and respecify any synth names and models you’ve entered.īut Digital Performer’s lists work only with an instrument’s stock sounds, so those old custom patches you’ve lovingly crafted aren’t immediately usable. With the lists, hardware-synth and sound-module users can quickly build a setup that lets them choose the Reverb Piano sound on their ancient Roland D-10, for example, rather than testing the 128 “Patch XX’s” to find the right voice. Hot Namesįurther on the useful side, Digital Performer ships with more device- and patch-name lists (more than 330) than other major sequencers. The documentation is otherwise stellar, with more than a thousand clearly written, well-indexed pages. (If Freeze sounds familiar to digital musicians, that’s because Logic 6 introduced a similar feature with the same name in February 2003.)įreeze works great, but note that you need to enable the Multi Record option in the Studio menu in order to freeze multiple tracks - a bit of information MOTU really should have shared. And your original tracks are just a click away - if you want to go back and tweak them, just unfreeze the tracks and make your edits then freeze them again at will. ![]() We froze six tracks and were able to add four more before we again encountered redraw problems. To conclude, Digital Performer is an advanced application which is meant to provide users with professional tools in creating, mixing and editing music, all from within a complex-looking interface with numerous visible and hidden components.The original tracks are automatically deactivated, reducing the load on system resources, so you’re able to add or record new tracks. Additionally, users can perform key, meter and tempo changes, as well as insert markers, click changes, streamers, punches or flutters. Moreover, with the 'Mixing' instruments, users can add various audio effects, insert sections, input tracks, faders and other elements. Also, they can use the 'QuickScribe' tool to write down the music notes for the songs, which they can preserve for later. Users can insert, reshape, edit, loop and scrub data in their songs with the 'MIDI Editor', 'Drum Editor', 'Notation Editor', 'Sequence Editor' or 'Waveform Editor'. ![]() Moreover, users can work with 'Virtual Instruments' to create original sounds and mixes, while the 'Editing' functions of Digital Performer allows them to generate new music or customize existing sounds, with minimal effort. Similarly, they can load MIDI or Audio tracks and further manipulate them until they fulfill users' needs. The program features the ability to both play and record music, using the appropriate capture devices. ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, users who lack experience with similar utilities may have a relatively difficult time figuring out what everything is supposed to do.Īs such, they should take their time and patiently browse through the various components of Digital Performer, testing out its numerous functions and try to get the hang of it, which will not take too long. The main window of the application is fairly complex yet user-friendly. Digital Performer is a comprehensive and reliable piece of software aimed at musical artists who wish to further enhance the way in which they create songs, by offering them a wide range of options and tools to work with. ![]()
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