Over the past 20 months, DP has been going through a continuous upward spiral of development. Since bringing their starlet into the native environment, MOTU's programming team have clearly been doing anything but donning sarongs and hanging out on palm‑shaded beaches. Prior to this, DP had been out on a limb as the only hard disk recording package that absolutely required third‑party hardware (which, for UK users, meant 'expensive Digidesign hardware', there being very little else around for Macintoshes apart from the then‑newly‑released Korg 1212). The major news at that time was that the program had belatedly 'gone native' - not donning a sarong and hanging out on palm‑shaded beaches, but adding support for Apple's Sound Manager and thereby enabling recording and playback of audio using nothing but the Mac's built‑in hardware.
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This matinée idol has since developed into a major star within the all‑singing, all‑dancing MIDI + Audio world, lining up with Steinberg's Cubase, Emagic's Logic and Opcode's Vision along the music software Boulevard of Fame.ĭP last graced the pages of SOS in March 1998, at which point it was in its v2.11 incarnation. When support for hard disk recording was added, a new act was born: Digital Performer. Mark Of The Unicorn's Performer first took the stage some while back as an early Macintosh‑based MIDI sequencing program, and quickly gained favourable notices from the critics both for its elegant interface and for functionality that was often ahead of the pack.
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Nicholas Rowland tracks down the latest version. Evolution is happening everywhere, and nowhere more so than MOTU's flagship recording software for the Mac.