MOTU DIGITAL-PERFORMER7.0
Audio/Sequencing Software, Mac OSX Only

DIGITAL-PERFORMER7.0

MOTU's Digital Performer 7 is a Mac OSX only audio workstation software with MIDI sequencing, notation and much more.   Digital Performer has been a preferred DAW title for years, and the newest iteration has an abundance of new features.  Below is a synopsis of new features.

Custom '59™

Three of the most famous guitar amps of all time, meticulously and faithfully modeled in one Digital Performer plug-in.

Fender® Bassman® - Originally designed for the Fender Precision Bass®, the Fender Bassman amp was quickly adopted by guitarists and eventually became perhaps the most famous and sought after guitar amp of all time. With its classic 4x10 design (four ten-inch speakers) and vintage lacquered tweed cover, the Bassman sound is a bona fide icon among guitar tones and a must-have for any tone aficionado.

Marshall® JTM45® - Introduced in the early 1960's, the Marshall JTM45 was essentially a clone of the Fender Bassman. Made popular by Eric Clapton, the so-called "Bluesbreaker" amp is named after Clapton's band at the time, in which he popularized the now signature sound of playing a Les Paul through the heavily distorted JTM45. Ever since, the JTM45 has been ensconced in the pantheon of world-famous guitar amplifiers.

Marshall® JCM800® - As guitar tones evolved during the '60s and '70s, the hunger among guitarists for more power became insatiable. By the early '80s, Marshall had developed the JCM800 to satisfy this craving, with higher power tubes and a power boost from 50 to 100 watts. The result? Perhaps the most widely recognized guitar tones of all time.

Create your own amp

Custom '59™, Digital Performer's modeled recreation of these three legendary amps, lets you play the sound of each amp with perhaps the most faithful reproduction ever devised. Even better, you can can mix and match the preamp tube, preamp circuit and tone stack from each model to create your own custom amp. The possibilities for tone are virtually limitless, all born from the iconic pedigree of three authentic originals.

Classic guitar pedal effects

Digital Performer's suite of stunningly accurate classic guitar pedal emulations are modeled after all-time favorites from Boss®, MXR®, Electro-Harmonix®, Ibanez® and others. You get hundreds of dollars worth of classic stomp boxes, meticulously modeled after the originals. Dial in your favorite pedal settings, and the resulting sound is identical to — and indistinguishable from — the real thing. Experiment with hundreds of tones and thousands of combinations.

Live Room | G™

A superb physical modeling speaker cabinet emulator with four mics, mixable mic positions (close, near and far) and three-band EQ per channel. Live Room | G adds unprecedented realism to guitar and bass parts — or any amped instrument.

It's a real speaker cabinet, in an actual room, at your fingertips

What convolution did for reverb, Live Room | G does for speaker cabinet emulation, thanks to the next-generation physical modeling technology at its core. Engineered for the unprecedented power of today's personal computers, the modeling technology in Live Room | G captures every nuance and detail of the hundreds of factors that interact to recreate the rich, detailed sound of a speaker cabinet in a real room recorded by four separate mics.

Live Room | G provides five cabs:

• 4 x 12 Modern — intended for ultra-distorted chunks and sludge, yet versatile enough to handle smooth Santana-style leads (...Mesa Boogie® with Vintage '30s).
• 4 x 12 Vintage — based upon an aging, road-worn British monster held together with gaffer's tape and AquaNet. Perfect for those '80's hair-band tributes and '70's proto-metal (...Marshall 1960B with greenbacks).
•  2 x 12 Combo — for Muscle Shoals-style southern-rock and country guitar tones  (...Fender Twin with Eminence).
•  4 x 10 Combo — tuned for blues, jazz, rock and country (...reissue Bassman with Jensen reissue drivers).
• 1 x 8 Junior — this one was set up to record distorted rhythm guitar tones for rock and pop. If you like Eddie Money then this is your cabinet. You can hear the tube shields rattling in the rear mic when you drive it really hard (...Valve Jr. cabinet, heavily modded chassis, stock speaker that looks like a Weber/Mojo)

Inline multi-band EQ and dynamics processing
Control EQ and dynamics processing directly in each Mixing Board channel with multi-band graphic EQ display and vintage-style compression meter, using any included EQ or dynamics processor, such as Digital Performer's award-winning MasterWorks Series modeled British console EQ and leveling amplifier faithfully modeled after the legendary LA-2A.

Complete mix automation

In Digital Performer, your mix is completely automatable, with an automation feature set that rivals, if not surpasses, even the most sophisticated large format mixing consoles. Automation spans both audio and MIDI tracks, and includes automation of effects plug-in parameters, track muting/unmuting, send levels, send mutes/unmutes and even pitch automation.

Automation data can be drawn by hand using a variety of tools with various shapes, and it can also be recorded in real-time with mouse gestures or a hardware control surface.

Nine automation modes are provided: Overwrite, Latch, Trim Latch, Touch, Trim Touch, Range Latch, Range Touch, Range Trim Latch, and Range Trim Touch. These last four Range modes are new in DP Version 7 and let you raise, lower or write automation moves within any selected range, preserving everything before and after. All four range automation modes are useful when mixing groups of tracks, such as background vocals or horn sections, within a specific time range, where you want to jump in and change the mix just for that range without changing it before or after.

Info Bar mixing controls
Every edit window in Digital Performer provides a configurable information bar across the top of the window to display critical information such as cursor location, edit grid settings and more. The Info Bar includes a "miniature" mixer channel for quick access to mix settings for the track you are working on. The Info Bar mix settings always follow the track you are editing.

Channel Strip
In sidebar cells, you can display info panels of your choice, such as the Channel Strip. The Channel Strip displays all mixer channel settings for the track you are working on, and it follows you as you move from track to track while editing in the main area of the Consolidated window, giving you instant access to mix settings at all times. It can also be popped out as a separate floating palette.

It can be displayed as one long channel strip (just like it appears in the mixing board) or collapsed into two, three or more columns.

Lead sheets

Digital Performer makes it easy to create and print lead sheets, complete with multi-stanza lyrics, transposable chord symbols and score arrangement features (endings, codas, etc.)

Lyrics
Click with the Lyric tool to enter lyrics directly on the page. Or type text into the Lyric window. You can even paste in lyrics from an email or text editor and then automatically flow the text into one or more parts (tracks) with one click. Add multiple stanzas. Lyrics even follow the QuickScribe window's advanced score arrangement features (repeats, multiple endings, codas, etc.), flowing through repeats and ending as required. Choose any font and format the type as you wish.

Transposable chord symbols
Click with the Chord tool to add chord symbols directly on the page. Digital Performer can easily handle complex chord spellings and extensions. Best of all, you can select and transpose chord symbols at any time, together with or independently from notes.

Recent additional QuickScribe Enhancements
Numerous recent enhancements give you even more control over the look of your score and help speed your notation workflow, including improved editing of page text objects, the ability to associate page text objects with more than one track (so it can appear on multiple tracks, such as individual parts, for example), and improvements to the way that dynamics symbols are displayed.

Additional DP7 New Features include:

• Support for Pro Tools 8 - Industry-leading support for operation as a complete software front-end for Pro Tools | HD systems.
• Freely Resizable Counter - Resize the Counter window to any size you wish, even the entire width of your screen.
• Marker Counter - Display markers in large type in the resizable Counter window. Use markers as a teleprompter for lyrics during live performance or recording sessions.
• Consolidated V-Racks - Display V-Rack virtual instruments and effects side by side with disk tracks in the Mixing Board.
• Transposable Chord Symbols - Add complex chord symbols directly on the page and transpose them at any time, together with or independently from notes.
• Next-Generation sample rate conversion - A new ultra-fast, CPU-efficient sample rate conversion algorithm delivers increased precision, efficiency, and transparency, with an astonishing 138 dB signal-to-noise ratio.
• Real-time crossfades - All crossfades are now computed in real time for lightning fast edits.
• Wave 64 Support - Support for the industry standard Wave64 extension to the Broadcast WAVE file format lets you record and import audio files larger than 4GB.
• Range Automation Modes - Raise, lower or write automation moves within any selected range, preserving everything before and after.
• Audio Units Instrument Side Chains - Route side chain inputs to all your favorite third-party Audio Units plug-ins.

System Requirements for Digital Performer 7

The minimum system requirements for Digital Performer 7 are as follows:

• Mac OS X v10.4.7 or later (including Mac OS X v10.6)
• PowerPC G4 1 GHz or faster CPU (including PPC G5 CPUs and all Intel processor Macs)
• 1 GB RAM
• 1024 x 768 display resolution
• CD-ROM drive for installation and authorization

Recommended System Requirements:

• Multi-processor or multi-core PowerMac G5 or Intel processor Mac
• 2 GB RAM or more
• 1280 x 1024 or larger display resolution

To use Digital Performer 7 under DAE mode, Pro Tools 7.2 or later is required. Pro Tools 7.4 or later is recommended. As new versions of Pro Tools are released, please check www.motu.com for DP DAE mode compatibility information.

Our Part #  DIGITAL-PERFORMER7.0