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1. #Digital performer 6 review update
2. #Digital performer 6 review upgrade
3. #Digital performer 6 review software
4. #Digital performer 6 review plus
5. #Digital performer 6 review free

My original 2.5 version came with a hotch‑potch of documentation - namely, a Getting Started and Reference Guide to Performer v6.0 (effectively covering the MIDI side of things), an Update Guide for Digital Perfomer v2.5, and an overall Guide to Digital Audio for DP v2.0. Incidentally, to this end, MOTU are offering a competitively priced (£199) cross‑grade option, so if you like what you read, then you can do this with relatively little pain to your bank balance.Ĭlearly, the pace at which the program is being enhanced is outrunning the ability of MOTU's scribes to provide the necessary hard copy manuals. While DP has always has its loyal (mainly US‑based) devotees, it's these kind of enhancements that are going to be valuable in winning new friends and persuading users of rival packages to try DP's on‑screen charms for themselves. It can now export in both AIFF and WAV formats too. Similarly, it's only with the arrival of v2.6 that DP can import AIFFs for the first time, along with QuickTime and AVI movies, audio CD files and 8‑bit audio. For example, the latest version of FreeMIDI, MOTU's own system for handling the routing of data between the computer and the other elements of your studio, is now fully compatible with the more widely used Open Music System (OMS) from Opcode.

#Digital performer 6 review plus

These new functions include tempo‑based automation of all audio and MIDI plug‑in effects, plus a dedicated drum page editor (for more details see 'The Never‑Ending Story' box).Īlong with the big enhancements, each new version number has seen a number of revisions and fixes to make the program better able to shake hands with the rest of the world.

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Even as I write, yet more enhancements are destined to surface in v2.7, which will be available early in the New Year as a further free upgrade. The latest version also guarantees compatibility with the new G4 PowerMacs, for those fortunate enough to have acquired such beasts.

#Digital performer 6 review upgrade

And even within a couple of weeks of my shiny new v2.6 installation CD‑ROM arriving, MOTU posted news of a further upgrade in the form of v2.61‑MTS, now downloadable from the company's web site ( This introduces MIDI Time Stamping, claimed to be the most accurate MIDI timing system in existence, plus user‑adjustable PPQ (parts per quarter note) viewing resolution. And we're not talking slight tweaks, either: both versions introduced significant new features, including juicy new mastering effects plug‑ins, an inbuilt stereo waveform editor and a RAM‑based audio loop sequencing window. Indeed, as an indication of the frenzied activity back at MOTU's Massachusetts HQ, this article originally started life as a review of v2.5, but within a month became an appraisal of v2.6. Over the past 20 months, DP has been going through a continuous upward spiral of development. Since bringing their starlet into the native environment, MOTU's programming team have clearly been doing anything but donning sarongs and hanging out on palm‑shaded beaches. Prior to this, DP had been out on a limb as the only hard disk recording package that absolutely required third‑party hardware (which, for UK users, meant 'expensive Digidesign hardware', there being very little else around for Macintoshes apart from the then‑newly‑released Korg 1212). The major news at that time was that the program had belatedly 'gone native' - not donning a sarong and hanging out on palm‑shaded beaches, but adding support for Apple's Sound Manager and thereby enabling recording and playback of audio using nothing but the Mac's built‑in hardware.

#Digital performer 6 review software

This matinée idol has since developed into a major star within the all‑singing, all‑dancing MIDI + Audio world, lining up with Steinberg's Cubase, Emagic's Logic and Opcode's Vision along the music software Boulevard of Fame.ĭP last graced the pages of SOS in March 1998, at which point it was in its v2.11 incarnation. When support for hard disk recording was added, a new act was born: Digital Performer.

Mark Of The Unicorn's Performer first took the stage some while back as an early Macintosh‑based MIDI sequencing program, and quickly gained favourable notices from the critics both for its elegant interface and for functionality that was often ahead of the pack. Nicholas Rowland tracks down the latest version. Evolution is happening everywhere, and nowhere more so than MOTU's flagship recording software for the Mac.