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Arelated new feature of 4.1 is virtual instrument tracks. For those ofyou who, like me, have come to rely heavily on certainвЂњvintageвЂќ plug-ins, a VST-to-Audio-Unit-Adapter plug-infrom FXpansion allows you to load carbonized plug-ins in DP 4. ItвЂ™s worthwhile because AU is much moreefficient and enables cross-application use of plug-ins. Love it or hate it, AU is the wave of thefuture, and you will use it. The second major feature in 4.1 is Audio Units support for both DSPand virtual instruments.

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This is quite significant, because it enables the marriage of DP4вЂ™s high-powered MIDI with the high-powered audio of Pro Tools.

First and foremost isDAE support, enabling DP 4.1 to serve as a front end for Pro Toolssystems, including Mix, HD and HD Accel systems at up to 192kHz samplerate. Thisrevision added some pretty stupendous features.

Digital performer drums update#

Last July, MOTU announced an online update from DP 4 to 4.1. The divisionof commands between these two new menus does indeed make more sense.DPвЂ™s QuickScribe notation system has some very nice enhancements andcreates very readable notation.

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This menu containscommands for opening windows, specifically, the ones that pertain tothe layout of DPвЂ™s вЂњvirtual studio,вЂќ including audio andMIDI monitoring, the eminently important Audio Bundles window, and MIDIrecording-oriented items like Click and MIDI Patch Thru. In the Studio menu, I foundmost of the stuff I used to find in the Basics menu. New to Version 3, butworth mentioning here, are that the establishment and modification oftrack groups come under a major menu item. TheProject window contains commands that pertain to the way the project ishandled, including the ability to add tracks to the project and arrangeDPвЂ™s traditional Clippings and Consoles windows. As a seasoned DP user, I wasthrown a bit at first, but ultimately became very comfortable. I simply use Reason like arack of physical hardware in my studio, driven by DP 4.Дigital Performer 4 features a revamped menu structure, includingnew Project and Studio menu headings. As much as I love the вЂњvirtual synth rackвЂќ ofReason, IвЂ™m not that keen on its sequencer. The setup of MIDI and audio I/Obetween DP 4 and Reason is truly effortless now, thanks to ReWire 2.0support.

Interapplication MIDI is also asnap with DP 4вЂ™s ability to publish an unlimited number of MIDIconnections with other applications. Your original FreeMIDI setup is veryeasily remapped to CoreMIDI, as well. All of the patch namelists that were represented in FreeMIDI are still here, along withquite a number of new devices. DP 4 takes advantage ofCoreMIDIвЂ™s new XML patchlist format by installing hundreds of factorydefault patch lists and drum note name lists. If youвЂ™re like me and youвЂ™ve spent countless hours configuringFreeMIDI to reflect all of the subtle nuances in your MIDI rig, thenyou donвЂ™t want to have to start all over. The bottom line is, OS X simply makeseverything compatible and DP 4 grants you access to all of thispower.ДP 4 also adds track freezing, which allows you to render any giventrack on a temporary basis to save CPU overhead and easilyвЂњthawвЂќ the track to make changes as you see fit -another clever convention to help the application use the computerefficiently. Similarly, it takesfull advantage of CoreMIDI, which unifies MIDI for all applications andinterfaces on your Mac. DP 4 fully capitalizes onCoreAudio and is optimized for multiprocessor Macs. The totalrevamp of AppleвЂ™s operating system, not to mention its hardware,required developers to drastically alter, if not completely rewrite,programs to port them over to the platform. The big news with DP 4 is Macintosh OS X compatibility. The newestupgrade, Digital Performer 4, was introduced last January. Mark of the UnicornвЂ™s Digital Performer is based on a very robustand full-featured MIDI sequencer that has become much moresophisticated during the years, letting users record, play andmanipulate MIDI data in numerous and tremendously creative ways.Digital PerformerвЂ™s audio component allows for recording, editing andmixing as many audio tracks as your CPU bandwidth allows.