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Digital Performer is a Digital Audio Workstation/Sequencersoftware package published by Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Ancestry[edit]

In 1984, Mark of the Unicorn released Professional Composer, one of the first application programs for the Apple Macintosh. The program used the Macintosh's high-resolution graphics and printing to allow the user to print professional quality music scores.

In 1985, the company released a music sequencer named Performer, also based on the Macintosh platform, for arranging and performing with synthesizers and other devices which recognized the then-newly developed MIDI standard. Sending a series of numerical values, such a sequencer could direct many instruments, commanding which notes to play, at what loudness, and for how long to sustain them. There are many deep features in the MIDI protocol; MOTU developed extended capabilities in Digital Performer for handling these controllers and other actions (including remote operation of the software itself) through user-customizable graphical consoles, allowing the operator direct access to deeper features of instruments, stage lighting and various types of machines, all via MIDI interfaces and custom graphic buttons and sliders.

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)[edit]

In 1990, MOTU added the ability to synchronise audio (digital audio) to Performer and released it as 'Digital Performer,' months after Opcode added this capability to Vision. Digital Performer was originally designed as a front-end to Digidesign's Audiomedia hard disk recording system, which later became Pro Tools. Digital Performer's specific appeal was its MIDI environment, which was fitted into the same transport system as the audio environment. This enabled users to record their MIDI instruments and mix the results with other live audio recorded in the studio (or vice versa). Personal computers of this time were too slow to handle high quality recording via their own CPU, so the addition of Digital signal processingco-processor cards was necessary to create a functioning audio recording studio. As the Mac's CPU became powerful enough to record the digitized audio directly to hard disk, the DSP cards were gradually rendered unnecessary. Foreseeing this, MOTU created its own Motu Audio System (MAS) which helped Digital Performer to tap the Macintosh's native power to record music directly to its own hard drive without the need for external co-processing and dedicated drives. By 2000, Digital Performer allowed users to record, mix, and master audio for commercial releases.

Version history[edit]

Version 3 of Digital Performer was the last to run on Mac OS 9, the Classic Macintosh operating system. After a complete rewrite, MOTU released Digital Performer 4.0 in May 2003, which ran exclusively on Mac OS X.

Beginning with version 4.5, MOTU introduced a number of important new features to Digital Performer. The two most important of these are built in pitch correction capability, and the professional Masterworks EQ plugin. Beginning with version 5.0, MOTU also introduced a set of virtual instruments. The software was updated to version 5.13 on 19 November 2007 to provide compatibility with Mac OS X v10.5. and available in Universal Binary.

Version 7.2 was introduced in 2010. Digital Performer remains one of the popular audio workstations on the Macintosh. Faster Apple CPUs continue to increase its capacity and performance. Chief among its competition on the Macintosh platform are Pro Tools and Apple's Logic.[3]^{[citation needed]}

In October 2012, MOTU released Digital Performer 8 for OSX. Digital Performer 8 is available on Windows as well.^[1]

Version 9 of Digital Performer was released in June 2015 for Mac OS X and Windows. This version contains workflow enhancements, some new effect plugins, including emulations of the 1176 Peak Limiter and Craig Anderton's MultiFuzz. MOTU also included a 64-bit version of its software synth (synthesizer) MX4 which used to be sold as a stand-alone product.^[2]

AudioDesk[edit]

AudioDesk is a more basic version of MOTU's Digital Performer for mac only. It is a multi-track recording, editing, and mixing application, with both offline file-based processing and realtime effects. Much of the graphical user interface (GUI) and its operation are similar to Digital Performer, although it lacks some of Digital Performer's features. Most notably, it does not include MIDI sequencing capabilities, and thus does not include some of Digital Performer's MIDI-specific editing windows. Also, AudioDesk is only available as a bundled application with MOTU audio interfaces; this also means that AudioDesk requires a MOTU audio interface to be used as its soundcard.

AudioDesk version 1 was first released in 1998, as bundled software with the MOTU 2408 PCI-based audio interface. Version 1 is compatible with the Classic Mac OS. Version 2 for Mac OS X was released in 2003, with numerous updates (many of which corresponded to updates from Digital Performer 3 for the Classic Mac OS to Digital Performer 4 for Mac OS X).

Awards and recognition[edit]

Notable users[edit]

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Some notable users include:

• Alexandre Desplat^[7]
• Greg Kosic
• John Adams^[8]
• Don Davis^[9]
• Danny Elfman^[10]
• Sparks^[11]
• Michael Giacchino^[12]
• Scott Gibbons^[13]
• Elliot Goldenthal^[14]
• Paul Hipp^[15]
• James Horner^{[citation needed]}
• Geddy Lee^[16]
• David Lawrence^[17]
• Pat Metheny^[18]
• Joe Renzetti^[19]
• Brad Gillis^[20]
• Eric Whitacre^{[citation needed]}
• David Bryan^[21]
• Yasunori Mitsuda^[22]
• Matmos^[23]
• Trey Spruance of the Secret Chiefs 3^{[citation needed]}.
• They Might Be Giants^[24]
• Rocco Tanica, keyboard player of the Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese
• Alan Menken^[25]
• Steve Steele - Used on The Expat album^[26]
• Roger O'Donnell^[27]
• Kenji Kawai^[28]
• Howard Shore^[29]
• Bob Sinclar^[30]
• Diego Infante^[31]
• Bear McCreary^[32]
• Sasakure.UK^[33]
• Hideki Naganuma^[34]
• Anders Enger Jensen^[35]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'MOTU.com - Download'. www.motu.com.
2. ^'MOTU.com - Overview'. www.motu.com.
3. ^'2001 Editors Choice Awards'. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007.
4. ^'Editor's Choice Awards 2002'. Archived from the original on 30 December 2007.
5. ^'Electronic Musician 2004 Editors Choice Awards'. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007.
6. ^samples, Electronic Musician - featuring gear reviews, audio tutorials, loops and. 'Electronic Musician - featuring gear reviews, audio tutorials, loops and samples > defaultpage'. www.emusician.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
7. ^'MOTU.com - And the Oscar goes to...Alexandre Desplat'. motu.com. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
8. ^'John Adams on his Violin Concerto'. Earbox. Archived from the original on 20 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
9. ^'Digital Performer for Film Scoring'. MOTU. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
10. ^'Danny Elfman: Building Music for the Movies'. Apple Inc. Archived from the original on 2 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
11. ^'TalkTime: Ron and Russell Mael'. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
12. ^'Digital Performer Scores the Impossible'. MOTU. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
13. ^'Scott Gibbons of Orbitronik, Lilith and Strawberry'. Last Sigh. Archived from the original on 21 May 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
14. ^'DPUser Update: Elliot Goldenthal'. Digital Performer Users. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
15. ^[1]^{[permanent dead link]}
16. ^'Geddy Lee - Off the Record'. Anthem Entertainment. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
17. ^'DPUser Update: David Lawrence'. Digital Performer Users. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
18. ^'First Look: Pat Metheny'. MOTU. Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
19. ^Renzetti.html 'DPUser Update: Joe Renzetti' Check |url= value (help). Digital Performer Users. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
20. ^''62 Strat, '86 Fernandes Brad Gillis Model, a Gibson Moderne and More'. Gearwire. Archived from the original on 16 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
21. ^'DPUser Update: David Bryan'. Digital Performer Users. Archived from the original on 10 June 2007. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
22. ^'Le journal de Mitsuda » Blog Archiv » ProTools 11'. www.kijimuna.fr.
23. ^'Matmos'. Sound on Sound. Retrieved 30 November 2007.
24. ^'Conversing With Giants'. Electronic Musician. Archived from the original on 4 November 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
25. ^Musical Talk podcast 15/01/08Archived 13 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
26. ^'Welcome'. Steve Steele Official Music Website.
27. ^'Used on demos for Disintegration (The Cure album)'. Fiction Records. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
28. ^'Profile'. www.kenjikawai.com.
29. ^Howard Shore
30. ^'Vous avez interviewé le DJ Bob Sinclar, pour son nouvel album 'Paris By Night''. www.20minutes.fr.
31. ^'Log In or Sign Up to View'. www.facebook.com.
32. ^'I Am Bear McCreary (@bearmccreary), composer for 'Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome,' 'The Walking Dead' and other cool stuff. AMA! • r/IAmA'. reddit.
33. ^[2]
34. ^英樹, HIDEKI NAGANUMA｜長沼. 'Many people asked me 'Which DAW do you use to make music.?' I answered 'I use Digital Performer'. But no one tried to use Digital Performer'.
35. ^8-Bit Keys (31 July 2017). 'Casio MT-68 keyboard review with Anders Jensen' – via YouTube.

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