Hello!

I'm the new moderator for the r/DigitalPerformer subreddit.

New features include:

• Nanosampler 2.0

• Articulation Maps

• Articulations in QuickScribe

• MPE and Per-Note CC support

• Audio Retrospective Record

• Chunk Folders, Playlists, and Split View

• Support for Novation and Akai Pad controllers

• NKS support for NI Komplete Kontrol controllers

• Optimization for MCU and HUI control surfaces

• Enhanced Avid EuCon Support

• Live Performance Mode

• Multi-channel MIDI tracks

• Quantize & Transposition Track and Clip effects

• Intelligent Audio Interface Selection for macOS

• List Font Scaling

• Dynamically resizable channels strips

• macOS Big Sur Intel and Apple Silicon compatibility

https://motu.com/en-us/products/software/dp/

I approach this with genuine curiosity, and quite a lot of respect for the developers of this great program.

It fascinates me to read and hear about Performer being one of the most prominent programs in music back in the day, because as someone who has been producing music for 15 years, in that time, I have witnessed in my experience a transition from DP having a place in the DAW hierarchy as what I’d call “industry’s secret weapon” meaning not everyone used it, but kind of a iykyk kinda thing, but in recent times, most of my production/engineering peers who are under 30 have never even heard of DP until I introduce them to it.

So how did it go from a powerhouse to relatively niche?

I’m particularly surprised that it seemed to fall out of favor by many because it was early in the adoption of many sophisticated tools, and even in recent years has stayed up to date with things like Ableton style clip launching or various other innovations from the last 20 years or so.

As someone who uses multiple DAWs including DP, it seems to me like recently, lots of plugins don’t even support DP (not saying they won’t work, they’re just not even tested in DP so who knows)

Did MOTU just pivot to focusing mostly on their hardware? Did they maybe feel like their past stature in the industry would remain? I’m curious to hear everyone’s input. I really love DP, but can’t help but wonder how much longer it’ll continue to be updated, because as much as I think of it like a trusted friend, sometimes I can’t help but wonder if it’s days are numbered. It just blows my mind how unaware of it people tend to be when deciding on a DAW. Everyone considers FL, PT, Live, Logic, etc today, without DP ever even crossing their radar. Furthermore, I actually think it would be a perfect program for so many people I know, but there seems to be a lack of promotion and advertising for people to even consider it.

So what do you guys think? Is it possible to turn this around and help DP regain its status as one of the premier DAWs? Or has that ship sailed? Do you still use it as your primary or complimentary DAW for studio or stage? How do you feel it compares both as a program itself and how it’s marketed?

Digital Performer used to be everywhere, now no one even talks about it.

MOTU built their entire brand on Digital Performer so why doesn't MOTU promote it anymore?

Bought a brand new computer, top of the line, loaded to the max on ram and storage. Os upgraded, DP upgraded… Absolutely going out of my mind with how inconsistent and unstable it is. Crashes, unresponsive spinning circle, recognizing plugins one day and not the next. I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with MOTU these days. I’ve been with MOTU since Gibson torpedoed Opcode Studio Vision, but I’m preparing to abandon them. I’m struggling to record as much of my music as possible before an aggressive neuromuscular disease renders me unable to do so, and wasting time with random and unnecessary software failures is costing me time that I just don’t have. I’m very disappointed that MOTU has allowed their software to fall behind like DP or become shamefully abandoned like their audio instruments and Mach 5 sampler. Fortunately I had Logic preinstalled on my new Mac, but I still kept using DP because of familiarity with the interface. But after a great session yesterday and being excited to continue today only to encounter problem after problem, multiple crashes, unresponsive spinning wheels and the system not recognizing plugins I was using just yesterday I feel like I just can’t take it anymore. I went all in on MOTU, buying DP, Mach 5, Track 16 with breakout box, Volta, Unisyn, six MIDI Express XTs and another audio interface that I don’t remember and is sitting in the garage somewhere. So I feel like I invested well into this company and I’m furious that the shortcomings of the software are interfering with my ability to produce. And I didn’t want to have to learn a new interface- Logic feels foreign to me - but I guess the only way I can get these legacy recordings completed is to say goodbye to MOTU. God, that pisses me off.

looking for an alternative to FL studio for at least recording/mixing and manipulating audio because FL isn’t so good at that. Also if it handles audio workflow well is it worth completely swapping over for producing as well?

I’ve been using DP on Windows/Mac for the past few years now and love its in-depth workflows. I started with DP9, am now on DP11, and with each new version I feel like MOTU has been pretty good about adding new features that others DAWs already do, or even ‘beat’ other competitors to the punch.

This is great and all, but obviously (using other DAWs heavily as well) there’s some features I’d like to see MOTU improve on or implement (Atmos support for example, more Clips window features, improved graphics speed/smoothness - Mac is smooth, but Windows isn’t even with a dedicated GPU).

What are some new features you’d like to see?

Hey folks! Any ideas of how I can route one midi signal to multiple interments as opposed to just copy and pasting them on to the separate instrument tracks?

Goodnight crazy guys! I have a problem with DP. When I create a new project my Pre Gen bar go to red and DP crashes. I don't know why. I tried to uninstall and delete all motu folders and DP files. After that I started my MacBook m1 pro with OS Monterey in safe mode to clean my pc caches.

(I tried also to full reset my Mac)

In normal mode I reinstalled DP and after that I see always that red bar and if I load a project with bunch of plugins or VIs DP always crashes. I would like to use this DAW because I think that could be fulfilling in my workflow but I need to know how to make it stable.

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "How to Learn Digital Performer" by u/NReshi

• "Reverse midi, retrograde midi...unique?" by u/SomeEntrance

• "Native Instruments Maschine" by u/steveffg

• "Considering switching to DP10" by u/JrmBlyk

• "Offline Bounce" by u/3rdspeed

• "Is there a way to switch multiple tracks, simultaneously, to a new take?" by u/music_sauce

• "Digital Performer 10.1 - DONE QUICK! [10.1 new features overview]" by u/B_Provisional

• "DP 7 install disk" by u/cosmolinesandwich

• "MOTU Instruments Soundbank & East West PLAY (Composer Cloud) not showing up! (WINDOWS)" by u/TimeForImprovements

• "How do I align an audio clip to start at measure 1?" by u/semi_automatic_oboe

Hi guys, wondering if anyone can help with this. I've already gone into input filter and for some reason the sustain pedal functions when that window is open. As soon as I press "ok" so it's just the DAW (tracking window) the sustain pedal stops working. It's as if it's being blocked somehow. Exact same thing happens in the event chasing window. The sustain pedal works, close it and it stops working. Any ideas on how this could be solved? It's super annoying 😭

Does anyone know how to bring the notes back into the midi grid? I’m trying to do pitch correction but I’m new to DP and don’t know what happened…

I used DP decades ago, so it's like I'm starting from scratch - except I have some old projects I'm trying to do some recovery on. In most basic form some of them are (audio mix to) stereo only. 24/48 - which I would like to output as 16/44.1 WAV and MP3.

All the searching I did landed me on needing to covert the soundbites (each audio file), then reassign those to tracks - in order to achieve that one simple output conversion thing. It seems strange and cumbersome - especially considering I can real time convert bounced outputs to anything I want in the bounce window in Logic.

Please someone tell me I'm a dummy and am doing it completely wrong, and show me the easy way in DP! haha

Long time DP user here, but newish to 11. What happened to "insert loop" tab next to volume/pan/sends etc, in the sequence window...? You know where you used to be able to click the soundbite with loop select on and move the loop tool to wherever on the soundbite and it would loop it for as long as you indicate. Is that gone?

How do you loop a soundbite now?

I run DP11 on my 2022 Mac Studio Ultra M1. Many cores, I forget how many!

With the activity monitor processor meter window open during DP use, I’m noticing that all of the cores are not being used, especially problematic when the current session is heavily loading up the processors.

The problem was especially evident recently when I had a single virtual instrument open, Musio, with a single woodwind sample loaded, and a fast 16th note run playing at a fast tempo. This MIDI stream brought the Mac to its knees.

Even with the buffer at the largest setting, the audio became extremely garbled and glitchy, and the tempo slowed wayyy down. Very unusual behavior for a supposed powerhouse Mac. My workaround was to turn to a hardware sound source for that particular track.

I had every other VI in the session disabled, all other MIDI tracks turned off- and all auxes and the master fader disabled. Only the single woodwind MIDI track and the Musio VI were active- and I routed the VI to a hardware output.

Why isn’t Digital Performer able to access all of the performance cores in this Mac? I’m constantly dealing with latency issues as well as a spiking processor meter- I expected more from a $3500 Mac.

I’m still on OS13 Ventura- waiting on Sonoma as many of my plugins aren’t ready for OS14.

64GB.

Would love any insight and tips from the DP braintrust. I’m a 30+ year user of DP- but this one has got me stumped!

Greg Worldwide Music Production Austin TX

I recently got a macbook pro (16 RAM, 2.9 GHz) and installed DP 11. It crashes pretty often and consistently.

For example, trying to import a video causes it to crash. Using midi keys with certain instruments causes it to crash.

I'm also having issues with audio. Instruments will cut in and out or play out of time.

Any ideas on what the cause is and how can I fix this?

Thanks!

Anyone using Performer Lite along with DP?

I just discovered Performer Lite, it’s quite convenient to sketch some ideas. I found myself working faster for some simple tasks. I did not find much infos about how much it’s different from DP though. Any ideas?

I’m using only basic functionalities though (recording audio, laying midi notes and mixing).

If anyone has experience with it, I’d love to hear from you.

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "MOTU Digital Performer 11 released." by u/B_Provisional

• "Happy Cakeday, r/DigitalPerformer! Today you're 8" by u/AutoModerator

• "Why is DP Motu appreciated when working with video?" by u/everwonderedhow

• "How do I change the duration of notes I'm entering in the MIDI tab (piano roll)?" by u/music_and_tech

• "DP 8 time ruler in 12/8 displays groups of 4" by u/quieroser

• "Is there a way for new audio tracks to default their output to a bus?" by u/jacintorecords

• "Crashes in DP 10" by u/WojciechKostrzewa

• "Is there a way to zoom in to the MIDI keyboard view (vertically)?"

• "Midi question: Is there a way to program midi is DP similar to this example in logic? It's very straightforward in logic but difficult to find in DP" by u/squeekysquash

• "Quick way to turn a continuous roll into takes?" by u/DustySonOfMike

I am just starting out in digital performer and i am curious to know how did you guys begin with it as they are not much tutorials online or any courses. And if you guys did find any please share the link

I recently bought a MOTU M4 which I really love (Thank you MOTU you rule !). As I was doing some research on MOTU, I discovered DP10. I'm currently using Logic Pro X and Protools in my Uni and personally but I would consider switching to DP10 as I am not a fan of Logic Pro's workflow (It triggers my OCD x) ) and considering all the good things I have red about DP10.
I need it to record, to compose in MIDI and scoring, and to do audio on videos (this one is important as I am a Sound Design student).
Are there people that used it for audio on videos for instance with MIDI ?
Thank you.