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Musicians and audio engineers in need of an advanced Audio Recording solution

About Digital Performer

Get inspired, then refine your mix — all in a singular workflow. Digital Performer 11 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. DP version 11 delivers exciting new features like Nanosampler 2.0, Retrospective Audio Record, Articulation Maps, ARA support, MPE Support and dozens of workflow enhancements requested by DP users. ARA2 is a plug-in protocol extension developed by Celemony ™ that allows Melodyne™ (and other plug-ins that support ARA2) to access and analyze audio data in sound files ahead of time, prior to playback being engaged.

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Digital Performer Product Features

Audio Editing

Audio Effects Supported
Batch Processing Supported
Export Audio (Multiple File Types) Supported
Record Live Audio Supported
Record Multiple Simultaneous Tracks Supported
Scrub, Search, Bookmark Supported
Sound Editing Tools Supported
Spectral Analysis / FFT Supported
Speech Synthesis (TTS) Supported
Swappable Patches Supported
Virtual Instruments Supported
Virtual Mixing Supported
Voice Changer Not Supported

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  • A Digital Performer User
    Composer / Songwriter/ Pianist/ Arranger/ Producer
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
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    "Film scoring god"

    Posted 2022-04-03

    Pros: The Digital Performer can utilize multiple sequences in a project. Each sequence can be assigned with its own smpte (timecode) offset, so you can use it to compose the music in different scenes, and each scene can have its own time signatures, plugin pallet, and compose for your scene with a fresh window at beat 1.1.000 (measure. beat. beatresolution). You can link all the sequences together which are called "Chunks" to daisy chain the sequences to a linear consecutive timeline while maintaining its timestamp.

    Cons: The software doesn't have a lot of synth plugins from the get-go.
    Some competitive software are packaged with a lot of plugins, and some with much lower price tag than Digital Performer.

    Overall: I began sequencing in 1988 with an ATARI 1040st and I've being using Digital Performer for about 25 years. I've used lots of DAW software, and I won't change from MOTU Digital Performer.

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