MOTU Launches Digital Performer 8.0 for Windows
The latest version of MOTU’s Digital Performer is made for the other half. Or however large the percentage of music producers that work all or in part on a PC — which may be a bigger segment than people think.
Windows users can finally get on board with DP8.
Digital Performer 8 was first released for Mac back in September of last year, and has now officially arrived for Windows, after a longer-than-expected wait. 30-day free demos are available for Mac and PC, with a purchase price of $499.
All of the attributes of DP8 are available to PC users, including Native 64-bit operation, VST/Rewire support, and much more can be seen here.
In addition, DP 8.02 has just become available for Mac users, and features the following:
• A 30-day demo period is now available.
• Digital Performer is now available for online purchase from the motu.com/store.
• DP’s new welcome window appears at launch and provides quick access to recent files, new project templates, training resources, and MOTU news.
• The ability to export MP3s is now built in to DP and no longer requires the LAME framework (or any extra setup).
Version 8.02 provides many improvements, optimizations, and refinements. Here are just a few highlights:
• If a movie is fullscreen, switching chunks now preserves fullscreen viewing.
• Improved performance when the Movie Track is visible. Improved video scrubbing.
• Waveform drawing is now smoother at certain zoom levels.
• Improved bounce to disk in projects with VST plug-ins.
• Improved stability and performance when using MIDI ports and ReWire (for Reason, Bidule, etc.).
• Improved stability with Kontakt 4 and 5 under 64-bit operation.
• Improved compatibility with VEP, EastWest Play, Spectrasonics Omnisphere, and Mac OS X 10.8’s AUSampler.
• Addressed an issue where abutting MIDI notes might not play back properly.
• Autosave now creates a sub-folder in the project folder and saves incremental versions there.
• Many improvements in waveform drawing and editing.
• Fixed entry of diminished (°) and major 7th+ chord (?) symbols in QuickScribe.
• Merging chunks in a song now takes the tempo mode from the song itself.
• Effect categories in the Effect Chooser now contain all variants of a plug-in, not just the one added.
• Restored scroll wheel sensitivity to be more like DP 7 and earlier.
• The following feature has been restored: if tracks are selected when switching to the Mixing Board or QuickScribe windows, only those tracks are shown.
• Fixed an issue with timestamps in broadcast wave files.
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