Product Overview
With exciting features like the Clips window and Stretch Audio, plus hundreds of included virtual instruments and dozens of workflow enhancements requested by DP users, MOTU's Digital Performer 10 allows you to refine your mix — all in a singular workflow. This audio workstation software with MIDI sequencing delivers inspirational features devised to ignite your creative muse, combined with state-of-the-art studio production technologies engineered for the most demanding, world-class recording and production environments.
DP10 is an upgrade to MOTU's flagship Digital Performer audio workstation software, with a host of new features including the Clips window for live triggering and looping of audio and MIDI clips, Stretch Audio powered by industry-leading ZTX PRO™ technology, VCA faders, a new convenient Content Browser, VST3 plug-in support, scalable UI and a 5 GB soundbank containing hundreds of virtual instruments.
Details on these augmentations include:
- Clips window: Users can now drag and drop audio and MIDI clips from DP’s new Content Browser into Clips window cells and trigger them in real time, interactively, for live performance or on-the-fly inspiration while creating new material. Users can also trigger multi-track clip groups (a partial row of cells) or the entire row (clips across all tracks).
- Stretch Audio and Beat Detection 2.0: The Stretch edit layer for audio tracks lets users drag individual beats and their anchor points to make precision adjustments to achieve exactly the feel they want. For global tempo control, users can simply enable Stretch mode on a per-track basis and the entire audio track instantly conforms to the project tempo and time line, even with gradual tempo changes over time.
- VCA Faders: As with classic analog consoles of years past, DP10’s VCA faders can control any number of tracks, precisely maintaining their relative volume. Users can create as many VCA groups as they wish and even control VCAs with other VCAs to create multiple nested sub-groups.
- MOTU Instruments soundbank: DP10 includes a 5GB library of multi-sample acoustic instruments, synths, loops and phrases with over 300 different instruments, 1100 instrument presets and 500 loops. Included are acoustic and electronic drum kits, pianos, guitars and basses, along with church organs, electric organs, strings, brass, woodwinds, synths, ethnic instruments, choirs, voices, percussion, sound effects and more.
- Scalable UI, streamlined Waveform Editor and Run command:
- Today’s high-resolution computer displays have very small pixels, making things tiny and hard to see. In DP10, users can now simply press command-plus and command-minus to scale DP’s entire UI larger or smaller to achieve the perfect degree of clarity for their eye.
- DP10’s Waveform Editor has been completely redesigned to provide a streamlined, all-in-one environment for down-to-the-sample waveform editing, precision beat editing, elastic audio stretching, pitch correction, embedded tempo map editing and more.
- With the new Run command, users gain instant access to any feature in Digital Performer by simply typing shift-spacebar to open the Run Command text bar. When they start typing, all features matching what they type instantly appear.
Features
- Complete desktop studio production
- MIDI, audio and virtual instruments
- Consolidated Window for streamlined workspace
- Themes for customizing your workspace
- Control panel for quick access to essential features and info
- Work with multiple sequences within a single project
- Unlimited tracks accommodates an open-ended workflow
- POLAR™ a one-of-a-kind loop recorder
- Comprehensive MIDI and audio editors
- ZTX PRO™ technology for audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting
- Spectral display of each audio track, side by side with their waveforms
- Inline multi-band EQ and dynamics processing
- And many more...
Specifications
- General:
- Unlimited sequences
- Unlimited songs
- Unlimited V-racks
- Unlimited tracks
- Unlimited audio voices
- Unlimited undo history
- Maximum mono busses: 2048
- Maximum stereo busses: 1024
- Maximum sends per channel: 20
- Maximum physical ins/outs: none (hardware dependent)
- Audio engine resolution: 32-bit float
- File import:
- AudioDesk files
- Standard MIDI files
- Final Cut Pro 7 XML
- File export:
- Standard MIDI files (type 0 and 1)
- Digital Performer (Version 7-9, 6.0, 5.12, 5.1, 4.6, 4.5, 4.1, 3.1)
- AudioDesk (Version 2.0 and 1.0)
- Final Cut Pro XML
- MusicXML
- Supported audio file formats:
- AIFF
- WAV
- Broadcast WAV (non-MPEG)
- Sound Designer II
- MP3
- ACID
- Apple Loops (AIFF and CAF)
- REX (and RCY)
- Core Audio Format (CAF)
- QuickTime movies
- AVI movies
- Audio CD files
- MuLaw files
- 3G2
- 3GP
- AIFC
- AAC
- M4A
- MP4
- Time formats:
- Measure time (measure | beat | tick)
- Real time (hrs:min:sec:hundredths)
- Frame time (hrs:min:sec:frames)
- Samples
- SMPTE time code formats:
- 30 non-drop
- 30 drop
- 29.97 non-drop
- 29.97 drop
- 25
- 24
- 23.976
- Audio bit depths:
- 16 bit integer
- 24 bit integer
- 32 bit float
- Audio sample rates (kHz):
- 44.1
- 48
- 88.2
- 96
- 176.4
- 192
- Channel formats:
- Mono
- Stereo
- Quad
- LCRS
- 5.1
- 6.1
- 7.1
- 10.2
- Plug-in formats:
- Audio Units (Mac only)
- VST2 and VST3
- MAS
- System Requirements:
- Operating systems:
- macOS version 10.11 or later
- Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit)
- Windows 8 (32- and 64-bit)
- Windows 10
- Processor:
- Mac or PC with Intel Core Duo CPU 1.83 GHz or faster
- Multiple processors or a multi-core processor is required
- RAM:
- 4GB required
- 8GB or more recommended
- Computer display resolution:
- 1024 x 768 required
- 1280 x 1024 or higher recommended
- 64-bit operation:
- 64-bit only on macOS
- Available for 64-bit versions of Windows 10, 8 and 7
- Supported audio hardware:
- Mac: built-in audio, any Core Audio compatible hardware, any Core MIDI compatible hardware
- Windows: any Windows 10, 8 or 7 Audio or ASIO compatible hardware, any Windows 10, 8 or 7 compatible MIDI hardware
