MOTU Digital Performer Software (Mac)
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Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) |
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Product Description
Digital Performer can record and play back digital audio without any additional hardware installed inside your Power Macintosh. Imagine being able to record anything: vocals, acoustic guitar, sound effects, or anything else — right alongside your MIDI tracks. Forget about buying lots of extra gear. Now you can do it all with your Power Macintosh. All you need is a microphone connected to its audio input and a set of speakers connected to its audio output. All of your mixing and effects can be done in Digital Performer in real time.
But Digital Performer gives you more than just audio tracks: it provides a complete audio recording environment, including many features previously available only on expensive hardware-based systems. Advanced features include an adjustable number of internal busses, aux tracks, master faders, and sends. Digital Performer even provides a plug-in architecture for real-time audio effects, such as reverb, compression, and parametric EQ. Digital Performer's native audio recording features may just give you the most significant boost to your creativity and productivity that you've ever experienced in making music with your Mac.
Digital Performer 4.0 Feature Summary:
Freeze Tracks feature -- temporarily “print” virtual instrument tracks - or disk tracks with a heavy real-time plug-in processing -- to relinquish your computer’s precious CPU resources. Unfreeze the original track to easily make changes at any time, and then refreeze as needed to continue adding more tracks. Freeze tracks gives you potentially unlimited bandwidth for plug-ins and virtual instruments.
Mac OS X support -- run Digital Performer on the world's most advanced computer operating system.
Support for CoreAudio - -Digital Performer 4.0 takes full advantage of Mac OS X's audio services, providing universal compatibility and interoperability with Mac OS X and all CoreAudio-compatible software and hardware. No more worries about compatibility or special drivers or wrappers. Just install your software, plug in your hardware, and go.
Support for multiple CoreAudio drivers -- operate multiple audio hardware products simultaneously with Digital Performer. For example, you can use your MOTU 828 FireWire audio interface together with your MOTU 2408mk3 PCI audio interface - or use any combination of CoreAudio-compatible interfaces.
Support for CoreMIDI -- say good-bye to OMS and FreeMIDI. Digital Performer 4.0 takes full advantage of Mac OS X's MIDI services, providing universal compatibility and interoperability with OS X and all CoreMIDI-compatible software and hardware.
Mac OS X built-in synthesizer support -- Play music right away with no MIDI instruments or third-party virtual instrument products.
Support for Mac OS X's Audio MIDI Setup utility -- Enjoy universal MIDI system management. Digital Performer 4. 0 shares a common studio setup with all of your Mac OS X MIDI applications.
Easy device remapping from FreeMIDI to CoreMIDI -- When you open a project created in an earlier version of Digital Performer, you can easily remap your old FreeMIDI devices to the new devices in your Audio MIDI Setup configuration.
Support for Mac OS X's MIDI device patch lists and drum note names -- view the sounds in your MIDI synthesizers by name in Digital Performer's patch lists. Build drum kits with instrument names like "808 kick" and "sizzling hat" rather than "C#1" and "D-0". All of FreeMIDI's hundreds of patch lists have been ported to Mac OS X, where they can by used by any CoreMIDI-compatible software.
Support for interapplication MIDI -- Digital Performer can publish an unlimited number of MIDI inputs and outputs, allowing it to transmit and receive a virtually unlimited number of MIDI data streams to and from other CoreMIDI-compatible software.
Support for Mac OS X's MIDI Time Stamping -- Achieve a 12th of a millisecond MIDI timing accuracy on input and a 3rd of a millisecond on output with Mac OS X's MIDI Time Stamping features and a MOTU rack-mount MIDI interface (or any CoreMIDI-compatible interface that supports time stamping).
Enhanced menu organization -- Enjoy greater ease of use and faster operation. For example, all project-related commands, such as adding tracks, are now consolidated into the Project menu.
ReWire 2.0 support -- Enjoy 100% compatibility and interoperability with Propellerhead Reason™ 2.0, Rebirth™ and all other Rewire applications. Includes direct MIDI I/O support, which allows you to sequence MIDI tracks in Digital Performer and use Reason (or other ReWire instruments) as virtual sound modules.
Enhanced QuickScribe notation transcription engine -- Display and print unquantized MIDI tracks as beautifully engraved music scores, instrument parts and lead sheets.
QuickScribe Arrangement palette -- Provides repeat barlines, endings, codas, del segno and many other symbols that are used to create a consolidated score or lead sheet. Use the new "Hide" command to consolidate repeated sections between repeat barlines. Watch the playback cursor as it follows repeats, jumps to endings and codas, and generally follows the flow of your condensed score.
'Display-only' and 'playback-only' notes -- Fine-tune the appearance of your score for printing, without affecting how it plays back. Or change the way your score plays back without affecting the notation transcription.
Digital Performer Version 4 Features to be Supplied as a Free Update Soon:
Support for Audio Units plug-ins -- A future free update of Digital Performer 4 will support Audio Units (AU) plug-ins. Run any AU-compatible plug-in in your Digital Performer projects. Enjoy universal plug-in and virtual instrument compatibility and interoperability.
Support for Pro Tools|HD and TDM -- A future free update of Digital Performer 4 will provide support for Pro Tools hardware running under the Digidesign Audio Engine (DAE). Use Digital Performer as the front end to drive your powerful Pro Tools TDM system.
Automated Mixing for MIDI and Audio
Digital Performer's Mixing Board window gives you a virtual mixing console on your computer screen. Ride faders and knobs during playback to record automated mixes. Create snapshots of the entire mixer — or any portion of it — anywhere in your sequence with the click of a button.
Save your fully automated mixdown for instant recall at any time, and then create an unlimited number of alternate mixdowns — all available from this menu for instant recall. And Digital Performer's on-screen mixing board is more flexible than even the most expensive hardware consoles ever made. Effortlessly create fader automation groups with any fader as the master.
Each track has its own solo, mute, and automation enable/disable buttons. Instantly create customized board layouts: drag track strips anywhere you like, and show or hide any combination of tracks — or even mixer sections (like the inserts section) — with a mouse click. Then save and recall any number of custom Mixing Board configurations.
Assign tracks to TDM plug-ins and our new MIDI effects processors for real-time output processing. Faders can respond to any MIDI controller such as a volume slider or pedal, modulation wheel, or any data slider. It's easy to perfect your mixes using the physical sliders already on your synths.
Digital Audio Editing
As an audio editor, Digital Performer rivals even the most expensive audio-only systems. View and edit all of your digital audio tracks in a single, intuitive window. You won't believe how fast it is to rearrange your audio recordings. Throw away your razor blade and splicing tape.
Graphically draw volume automation curves. Pan sounds left to right. Even loop recordings — all as your music plays. Select only the tracks you want to see or show them all. Zoom in to work on fine details or zoom out for a wide overview. Drag, copy and paste digital audio "soundbite" regions just like MIDI data. Now everything from simple dialog editing to complex restructuring of large compositions is as easy as playing with Lego blocks.
Re-size soundbites by dragging their edges. Scrub digital audio to find exact start and end points for edits. Split and trim soundbites to work with smaller regions. Strip Silence works just like a noise gate with adjustable threshold, attack, and release. The new crossfade feature eliminates unwanted clicks and pops.
Copy and paste regions to repeat verses or sound effects. "Drag and drop" audio regions from the soundbites window to any editing window for intuitive placement. All of these operations are nondestructive so you can always revert back to your original recording should you change your mind. Record and insert volume and pan effects. Even import material from your favorite sample CDROMs, then use any of Digital Performer's editing functions to customize them for your music. Digital Performer combined with a Digidesign recording system can be used as the ultimate sampler.
Pro-Quality IO Options
The MOTU Audio System supports the MOTU Audio 2408, Digidesign Audiomedia III and KORG 1212 I/O cards, which provide better input/output quality than the Macintosh itself. Other cards may also be supported in the future. When you use the MOTU Audio System with one of these cards, you get the best of both worlds: the MOTU Audio System, which provides real-time effects and the highest possible number of audio tracks your Mac allows, along with the high-fidelity analog and digital inputs and outputs supplied by the audio card.
Digital Effects
When you're using the Macintosh's built-in audio capabilities, Digital Performer provides real-time effects plug-ins, including reverb, dynamics processors and EQ. These effects can be applied to audio tracks via the five effects inserts for each audio track in the Mixing Board window.
Convenient presets are provided for reverb, chorus and others. And you can even create, save, and load your own custom presets. The number of effects you can apply at any one time depends only on the speed of your computer. There is no built-in limit in Digital Performer: the faster your Macintosh, the more effects you can use at one time. Check out all these real time effects that ship with Digital Performer.
Reverb, Dynamics, Parametric EQ, Auto Pan, Chorus, Echo, Phase Shifter, Flanger
Digital Performer's flexible internal busing allows you to conserve precious CPU bandwidth by busing multiple tracks to the same effect. The best part is: you don't need extra hardware to use these effects! Digital Performer does it all right inside your Power Macintosh, right at your fingertips!
Mark of the Unicorn also includes the jaw-dropping eVerb and PreAmp-1 plugins free with Digital Performer.
Your effects options do not stop there. You can add more real-time effects to Digital Performer from third party companies like DUY and under DAE with a Pro Tools system, you have access to the entire world of TDM plugins.
If that were not enough, Digital Performer also supports the Adobe Premier plug in format. Never have so many audio effects options been available under one program before.
Drag and Drop Samples
With its new Sample System features, Digital Performer ushers in a new era of integration in the digital audio studio. Digital Performer's new Samplers window lets you connect a sampler to your Macintosh as a SCSI device and then use drag and drop techniques to transfer audio from the sampler onto your Mac hard disk and vice versa (from the Mac into the sampler).
You can also drag and drop audio between the sampler and any window in Digital Performer that holds audio, such as the Audio Graphic Editor, the Soundbites window, audio track event lists, etc. Wherever necessary, Digital Performer automatically converts samples into Sound Designer II files and vice versa.
Once again, Digital Performer leads the way by bringing together the worlds of sampler-based audio and hard disk-based audio, allowing you to easily transfer sounds between the 2 environments so that you can take advantage of the inherent strengths offered by each one.
AKAI S3200, S3200XL, CD3000XL,S3000, S2800, S2000
E-mu Systems, Inc. ESI-32, E4, E4x, E4x turbo, E6400, E64
Kurzweil K2000, K2500
Roland S-760
Yamaha A3000
Technical Description
Requirements for DP4
Power Macintosh G3 or G4 computer running MacOS X version 10.2 or higher. A minimum of 128MB of RAM is required for MIDI sequencing, 256MB is required for audio recording. 512MB or more is recommended. Optimized for multiple processor G4s.
Keywords
MOTU,Digital,Performer,Software,(Mac),Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU),Computer Music,Software,Sequencers for Digital Audio, Loops, and MIDI
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