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MOTU Digital Performer 7
MOTU has introduced Digital Performer 7, the latest version of its digital audio workstation.
Digital Performer 7 offers new features, enhanced operation and improved performance:
- Custom ‘59 – A meticulously detailed guitar amp emulator modeled after all-time classics from Fender® and Marshall.
- Live Room | G – A superb physical modeling speaker cabinet emulator with four mixable mics (close, near and far) and 3-band EQ per mic.
- Guitar pedals – A new suite of stunningly accurate classic guitar pedals modeled after all-time favorites from Boss, Ibanez & others.
- Inline EQ & dynamics – Control DP’s multi-band graphic EQ and vintage dynamics processing directly in each Mixing Board channel.
- Channel Strip – Gain instant access to all mixer channel settings for the track you are working on in any Editor window.
- Lead sheets – Create and print lead sheets, complete with lyrics and transposable chord symbols.
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Filed under: Software Effects & Audio Processors, Software Sequencers
Digital Music Doctor has published an updated version of their Music Software Internet Popularity chart.
The chart ranks the top 10 music programs, using search engine requests as a gauge of interest.
The Top 10 Music Applications
Q2, 2009, based on search requests
- Pro Tools
- Cubase
- FL Studio
- Cakewalk Sonar
- Apple Logic
- Adobe Audition
- Ableton Live
- Apple Garageband
- Sound Forge
- Sony Acid
Obviously, there are a lot of other ways you could rank music applications – by sales dollar, by sales units or by registered users, for example. Garageband would probably top the list by those measures.
Leave a comment with your thoughts on this ranking!
TB-303 & Reason 4.0 – Using Reason to Generate DIN Sync
Using classic synth gear with music software has never been easier. This video demos synchronizing a Roland TB-303 with Propellerhead Reason by using CV/Pulse signals routed through a MOTU 896HD interface.
Clock and Control Signals are generated in Reason Devices and converted to audio signals. The audio is then passed through a converter cable that connects to any Roland DIN-Sync device like the 303, 606, 808, 909, etc.
via PeffTV
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Filed under: Electronic Instruments, Hardware Effects, MIDI Controllers, MIDI Interfaces, Software Sequencers, Synthesizers
Before we get into the meat and potatoes of this post, it’s worth noting that:
- Controlled By Reason sounds like an unauthorized biography of Leonord Nimoy; and
- Mark Of The Unicorn is a great name for a music technology company, if it’s the 1980’s and you play a lot of D&D; and
- Behind every classic Sequential Circuits synth, there’s a guy in a wizard cap.
All that being neither here nor there – this video captures Peff using the Reason/Thor MIDI to CV conversion process with a couple of bad Moogerfoogers:
The MF-107 FreqBox oscillator output is connected directly into the MF-101 Low pass filter. Thor’s key note value, mod wheel, pitch bend, aftertouch, LFO, and envelope generators all modulate the two pedals to create a functional monophonic synthesizer.
See Peff.com for details. Read more…
This is a demo of Peff using Reason 4.0 to control an Oberheim S.E.M. with CV and gate signals:
I had Reason sending Note CV and Gate CV signals out through the MOTU 896 into an old Oberheim CPS-1 / S.E.M. module. A bit of tweaking was required to get the note cv scaling set, but after finding the right settings, I had Thor acting as a MIDI to CV converter.
With this Thor patch, it’s possible to control analog synthesizer systems (in this case the Oberheim S.E.M.) from the Reason MIDI Sequencer, Thor Pattern Sequencer, Matrix Pattern Sequencer, any LFO source in Reason, and the RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator. It should also be noted that because the Reason 4.0 sequencer is sample accurate, theoretically, the synchronization should be very solid when sending CV signals through the MOTU audio interface.
