The user interface is highly configurable - much more so than single-window, browser-centric, drag-and-drop-driven DAWs like Live, Studio One and Bitwig Studio. So here’s DP9 in a nutshell, which will hopefully give a bit more perspective for when I get to the new features in a little while. But as any serious user knows, there are vast differences, in capabilities, operation, design and appearance, and above all in the working approaches they facilitate. There’s a school of thought that says all DAWs are really the same, and in some limited ways that’s true. First, a whistlestop tour of what makes DP DP. For once, there isn’t an obvious central focus for this release, but many enhancements covering dozens of aspects of use. Many users perceive much more of a buzz around DP, and a feeling that it’s going places, where once all was silence and secrecy.Īnd that brings us nicely to DP9, released in June 2015 and with identical features on OS X and Windows. Nowadays you can download a demo, purchase online, enjoy electronic versions of DP’s extensive documentation, and check out full update notes for each incremental release. It has also not gone unnoticed amongst DP users that the ethos of MOTU as a company has evolved as well. All the while, too, the overall user experience has steadily improved, with thousands of smaller productivity enhancements, new bundled plug-ins, other major new features, and under-the-hood gains in general operational smoothness and processing efficiency. Then, in 2012, DP8 went 64-bit, added VST plug-in compatibility, and shortly afterwards became available for Windows for the first time. The last few whole-point releases of DP have tended to focus on developing different aspects of the application DP6, in 2008, introduced big user-interface and audio format changes, while DP7, in 2010, bundled lots of guitar effects plug-ins. MOTU have, of course, been a driving force in that transition, with their popular, well-regarded and ever-expanding range of audio interfaces. As such, DP has some claim to be amongst the most mature DAWs out there, one that’s ridden out tumultuous changes in computer architecture and operating systems and overseen the gradual march from a hardware/analogue to digital/virtual world. We’re talking about a time when MIDI was still quite new, Junos got traded in for DX7s, and tent-size T-shirts were all the rage. The roots of MOTU’s Digital Performer go back a staggering 30 years. Do the improvements in the latest version keep it bang up to date? MOTU’s sequencing software has been around longer than some SOS readers. The on-trend dark grey look is the default appearance for DP9. ** Please note, system requirements may change.A typical view of DP in action, with a well-stocked Consolidated Window. Windows: any Windows 10, 8 or 7 Audio or ASIO compatible hardware, any Windows 10, 8 or 7 compatible MIDI hardware Mac: built-in audio, any Core Audio compatible hardware, any Core MIDI compatible hardware
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