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- #Motu digital performer 9 cg mac#
#Motu digital performer 9 cg upgrade#
Do I rush to upgrade now per MOTU, or wait for 9.1 or later?
#Motu digital performer 9 cg mac#
I’m currently producing music with the solid DP v7.24, a quad-core Mac Mini, and some of the latest third party plugins. It shows how much we are all so deeply invested in this technology that has exploded since the days I ran Performer v2.4 with a Mac 56k computer. I am moved by so much passion among MOTU DP users. My DP-committed friend was happy when they rebuilt the GUI earlier, making it much more easily navigated. It depends on how focused you are and in what areas. You would basically not send a MiniMoog to do a Nord Stage piano’s job and vice-versa.
#Motu digital performer 9 cg mac os#
IMO, DP is the only DAW so well-meshed with the Mac OS that if you are ready to get super-serious, its the only real competition for Logic.
Its also fully integrated in DP and DP is a killer choice due to a Mac’s system integration, so they go hand-in-glove-in-glove. You don’t get the great bundled synths of Logic, but with MachFive, you don’t really need them, as it has abundant goods, lacking only a physical modeling synth. It also has a filter array like that of an Xpander. The only real “problem” I see is that DP is $500 and so is their MachFive sampler, but hell, its close to being like Omnisphere and will convert a zillion formats old and new. Y’gotta weight it all for its pluses and minuses. Ableton Live is SO not for me, but it grows like a champ at every iteration. I have high praise for their service and rock-steady hardware. I used one of their MIDI interfaces for years and it STILL works, even though I finally went all-USB within Logic. I have a committed DP user pal who swears by it, partly because he gets typically superior service in a pinch. As with a synth, you have to carefully weigh it all in a cost/benefit analysis.
#Motu digital performer 9 cg software#
Here’s a playlist of the overview videos for DP9:Įvery DAW and in fact, every piece of software is missing a thing or three that you or I want. More searching - Find Markers, Chunks and plug-in preferences faster with newly added search fields. Log production info, keep a To Do list, build up liner notes. Project Notes - Save text notes in your DP project, rather than a separate text document. Mute MIDI Notes - Use the Mute Tool to temporarily silence both audio regions and MIDI notes, including multiple selected notes. Use Digital Performer’s powerful Custom Consoles feature to access advanced programming for the connection. MIDI Learn for audio plug-ins - Map knobs, faders and switches on your MIDI controller to audio plug-in parameters. Set the floating preference globally or choose to float on a per-window basis. QuickScribe’s renowned notation transcription, along with dynamics and many other musical symbols, are preserved during the file transfer.Ĭreate Tracks command - Add many tracks to your project in one step, even different types of tracks (MIDI, audio, aux, master faders, etc.) all at once.įloating plug-in windows - Keep plug-in windows in front of all other DP windows. MusicXML export - Export your DP QuickScribe notation scores as a MusicXML file, which can then be imported into popular music notation applications like Finale™ and Sibelius™.
Retina display support - View DP’s carefully crafted UI themes like Carbon Fiber, Producer and the all-new DP9 theme in stunning detail on the exceptionally high image resolution of your Mac’s Retina display. Spectrogram display in the Sequence Editor - View the spectral content of each audio track, side by side with their waveforms, directly in the Sequence Editor timeline with a colorful, informative visual representation of the frequency content of your audio material.
#Motu digital performer 9 cg generator#
MegaSynth combines polyphonic octave generation with flexible signal routing, envelopes, LFOS, a pattern generator and macros.Īutomation lanes in the Sequence Editor - Display audio and MIDI automation data (volume, pan, plug-in settings, etc.) in separate lanes below each track for easier viewing and editing. New version 9 plug-ins include the meticulously crafted MasterWorks™ FET-76™ emulation of the classic 1176 limiting amplifier (revisions D/E), MultiFuzz™ model of Craig Anderton’s seminal QuadraFuzz™ distortion kit from the 70’s, MicroG™ and MicroB™ polyphonic octave generators for guitar and bass, and the mind-blowing MegaSynth™ subtractive synth processor, which lets users turn their guitar into a synthesizer. Included is a new EDM-inspired soundbank with 120 new presets programmed by synth guru Erik Norlander. Now included with DP, MX4 is a powerful 64-bit virtual instrument plug-in featuring a hybrid engine that combines several forms of synthesis, including subtractive, wavetable, frequency modulation (FM), amplitude modulation (AM) and analog emulation. Here’s what’s new in Digital Performer 9: