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Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) Digital Performer Software (Macintosh OSX)
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. New for Version 4.5 Digital Performer 4.5 is packed full of new features and enhancements that you'll take advantage of every day. From the Consolidated Window, which organizes your computer screen, to the amazing Beat Detection Engine, which performs rhythmic miracles on the feel and tempo of your audio tracks, you'll wonder how you ever got along without them. Upgrade today to take advantage of the exciting enhancements Version 4.5 has in store for you. Beat Detection Engine Digital Performer's new Beat Detection Engine and tempo analysis features give you unprecedented rhythmic and tempo control over your audio, further blurring the line between audio and MIDI data in the most cohesive audio sequencing environment ever devised. Employing sophisticated transient detection technology, the Beat Detection Engine analyzes audio loops and audio files that contain rhythmic music to determine where the beats are in the music. Importing Apple Loops, REX files, ACID WAV's and other audio material is just the beginning: as soon as you import them, or record audio tracks, the Beat Detection Engine goes to work. Audio immediately conforms to the tempo of your project and you can then begin applying a wide array of beat- and tempo- related features, such as: Align Any Audio to the Tempo of Your Project Even if the loop you just imported doesn't have embedded tempo information, Digital Performer can immediately snap it to the tempo of your project. But what about lengthy audio files? How do you get them to match your project's tempo? With the Beat Detection Engine, it's easy. Just drag and drop them into a track in your project, and Digital Performer takes care of the rest, even conforming the audio to your project's tempo automatically, if you wish. The convenient Set Sync Point At First Beat command lets you quickly align the first beat (or any beat you wish to use as a reference) to your sequence time ruler. Quantize Beats Within Soundbites Tighten up the timing of audio tracks with Digital Performer's Quantize command, applying just the right amount of strength, offset, randomization or even shuffle/swing. Use the same familiar Quantize dialog for both MIDI and audio, even together in one operation. Quantize full audio files - there's no need to split them up first. Apply Grooves to Audio and Extract Them from Audio You've been able to create and apply rhythmic feel - grooves - to MIDI data for years in Digital Performer. Now you can do the same for MIDI and audio. Apply grooves to MIDI and audio tracks in one operation, including both timing and "velocity" (the relative strength) of each beat. Extract a groove from audio and apply it to MIDI tracks, or vice versa. If your drummer lays it down, just extract his/her feel and apply it to your programmed MIDI tracks in seconds for the tightest, most natural sounding composite rhythm tracks ever. Snap Your Edits to Beats Edit grids are commonplace. But imagine making edits to a beat grid that truly match the beats of your audio, perfectly aligned with the placement and feel of each beat. Even something as simple selecting a two-bar loop can be a painstaking process when all you have is an edit grid. But in Digital Performer, you can create loops with perfectly aligned end points by just sweeping across the peaks in the waveform with beat snapping enabled. For beat-based editing, Digital Performer's beat grid snapping can save you hours. Split Audio on the Beats For extreme tempo changes and other drastic rhythmic and tempo operations, it's best to split loops and drum tracks into individual beats to minimize extreme time-stretching artifacts. Digital Performer lets you do this directly in your audio tracks: there's no need to work in a separate window. Just select one or more tracks and apply the Create Soundbites from Beats command. You can even choose a guide track to apply the same splits across all selected tracks for consistent editing. Since Digital Performer's editing environment is sample-accurate, phase coherence is maintained at each split point across all tracks - a critical factor when editing drum tracks recorded simultaneously from different mic positions, for example. Sample-Accurate Precision When it comes to rhythmic feel, timing is absolutely everything. If the beats are sloppy, timing and feel go right out the window. Thanks to Digital Performer's internal sample-accurate precision (it's actually much greater than sample-accurate), the Beat Detection Engine is capable of being accurate down to the sample in finding the true initial transient for each beat, especially with musical material for which this technology has been specifically designed (recordings of individual instruments playing rhythmic music). Beat Editing Digital Performer lets you edit both the location and velocity (relative strength) of each beat. It's like having the basic features of Recycle built right in to Digital Performer. Tweak the beats for the exact feel you're aiming for. Then apply all beat- and tempo-related features based on your fine-tuned adjustments. Plug-In Latency Compensation Running under MAS and DAE, Digital Performer's plug-in latency compensation is sample-accurate -- for any MAS, Audio Unit, TDM or RTAS plug-in (including virtual instruments). And it's fully automatic. You just load your plug-ins and go. Latency compensation is especially useful for users of hardware-accelerated plug-ins such as the TC Electronic PowerCore and the Universal Audio UAD-1. MasterWorks EQ Inspired by legendary British large console EQs, the MasterWorks EQ gives you the look, feel and sound of the most sought-after classic equalizers. Five bands of EQ filtering are provided, each with four EQ types that provide current popular EQ styles and vintage analog EQ styles alike. Two mid bands (LMF and HMF) include shelf filtering. Two additional bands of variable slope low pass and high pass filtering are provided. The filter response display provides comprehensive control and visual feedback of the EQ curve being applied. The MasterWorks EQ has been carefully crafted and meticulously engineered to produce musical results in a wide variety of applications. Enhanced Pro Tools Support Digital Performer Version 4.5 includes major enhancements for operation as a complete software front end for Pro Tools HD, Accel, and MIX systems. Running under DAE (the Digidesign Audio Engine), Digital Performer 4.5 is now the most complete third-party software front-end for Pro Tools. Plug-In Automation: Fully automate any parameter for any TDM, HTDM or RTAS plug-in. Draw filter sweeps, sync LFOs to the beat, record track mutes on the fly harness the full power of your TDM mixing environment using Digital Performer's advanced plug-in mix automation features. Plug-In Latency Compensation: Even under TDM, some plug-ins exhibit latency because of their very nature. But now you can rest easy: Digital Performer provides complete plug-in latency compensation automatically. Just load your plug-ins and go. Digital Performer takes care of the rest, with negligible effect on your TDM DSP resources. Instrument Track Support: Run all of your favorite TDM instrument plug-ins and take full advantage of Digital Performer's many virtual instrument features, such as Freeze/Unfreeze tracks. Timing is ultra-accurate, thanks to Digital Performer's native support of Digidesign's DirectMIDI protocol. RTAS and AudioSuite Plug-In Support: Use all of your favorite RTAS and AudioSuite plug-ins together with TDM and HTDM plug-ins, just like in Pro Tools. Any plug-in that you can run in Pro Tools, you can now also run in Digital Performer. Mono and Stereo Sends: Create as many busses as you need in either mono or stereo (TDM resources permitting). And you can now add up to 20 sends per track in the Mixing Board. Send Automation: Fully automate TDM send levels and panning using Digital Performer's comprehensive mix automation features. Automatic Voice Allocation: No more fiddling with DAE voice assignments. Digital Performer handles them for you. DirectMIDI Support: You gain full access to any TDM, HTDM or RTAS plug-in that receives MIDI data. QuickPunch Support: Punch in and out of record as many times as you like during a record pass (up to 200 times in a single pass). Take full advantage of Digital Performers AutoRecord features. TDM Plug-In Side Chain Support: Digital Performer provides complete support for TDM plug-in side chain inputs. System Resources Usage Window: Manage your TDM mixing resources in one compact, convenient window. Enhanced Audio Bundle Support: Configure TDM input, output and bus bundles with more flexibility than ever. Mute Automation: Record track mutes on the fly, or program them with Digital Performer's extensive mix automation programming features. Consolidated Window Many of Digital Performer's powerful features are accessed in separate windows, such as the Track List, Sequence Editor, Mixing Board and Waveform Editor. Digital Performer 4.5's new Consolidated Window is designed for users who would prefer to work in one window, with access to each feature via tabs across the top of the window. Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) Digital Performer Softw Features that opened as separate windows in previous versions of Digital Performer, such as the Soundbites window and Sequence Editor, can now appear as a section of the Consolidated Window, either in the center (main body) or in the left- or right-hand sidebars. You can customize the sections of the window to suit your exact needs, adding as many sections as you wish and resizing them as desired. And you can create and save as many customized Consolidated Window layouts as you like via Digital Performer's Window Sets feature. Factory presets are provided for tracking, editing, mixing and other portions of your workflow. Productivity Enhancements Smooth Audio Edits Audio edits that you make often produce gaps between soundbites. This is especially true when editing dialog, or splitting soundbites into small slices using Digital Performer's new beat editing features. These gaps of silence can be audible and usually sound unnatural. The new Smooth Audio Edits feature can save hours of tedious editing by automatically filling gaps with room tone to mask them, complete with automated crossfades for 100% seamless transitions. You can create your own room tone or have Digital Performer find room tone for you in the original audio files so that it exactly matches the natural silences in the audio. QuickScribe Film Cues View Digital Performer is used world-wide by film composers because of its unparalleled advanced features for scoring to picture. Version 4.5 introduces a new QuickScribe notation view that shows film cues in a manner familiar to film composers, allowing them to see cue points (markers) with respect to beats on a time line above each staff system, complete with SMPTE time code locations, beat locations and nearest beat or half-beat. Meter changes, key changes and tempo changes can be inserted directly on the staff with convenient pop-up menus. Numerous other enhancements have also been made to the QuickScribe Editor. QuickTime Movie DV Playback Offset Digital Performer 4.5 can now compensate for the slight playback offset inherent in DV video playback devices. You can now achieve frame-accurate lock-up to picture with QuickTime movies both stopped and during playback. Bounce / Export to MP3 and Other Formats Digital Performer 4.5's Bounce to Disk and Export Audio features can now output directly to a variety of interleaved stereo file formats provided by Mac OS X. In addition, Version 4.5 can now bounce and export directly to MP3's - a huge time saver. A wide variety of MP3 export options are provided, including constant bit rate and variable bit rate encoding. Preferences and Settings Window All of the preferences and general settings in Digital Performer, old and new, are now gathered in one consolidated Preferences and Settings window for quick and convenient reference. More Voices and Busses Digital Performer 4.5 supports up to 99 mono voices, 99 stereo voices and 99 stereo busses. These new maximums provide 297 audio voices (for automatic voice allocation) and 198 bus channels. Mono, Stereo and N-Channel Busses Digital Performer 4.5's bussing architecture has been enhanced. Busses can now be configured as mono, stereo or n-channel (surround) busses. The Mixing Board provides the appropriate style panner, depending on the channel format you choose. Surround panners are provided for n-channel busses. In addition, multi-channel signals can be summed to a mono send. Each send also now has a pre/post fader switch. More Sends Digital Performer 4.5 can display up to 20 sends per track in the Mixing Board. Choose as many sends as your needs require. Apple Loop Import Drag and drop Apple Loops directly into Digital Performer audio tracks, where they immediately and automatically conform to the tempo of your music. Many Other Productivity Enhancements Digital Performer 4.5 introduces many other enhancements that you'll use every day. For example, when bussing a track to an aux track, you can now assign the track's output to a bus and create the new aux track, all in one operation. The bus will then feed the tracks signal to the newly created aux track. For many additional shortcuts and enhancements like this one, upgrade today. Freeze Tracks feature -- temporarily print virtual instrument tracks - or disk tracks with a heavy real-time plug-in processing -- to relinquish your computers 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
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