- #MOTU DIGITAL PERFORMER 6.0 PRO#
- #MOTU DIGITAL PERFORMER 6.0 SOFTWARE#
- #MOTU DIGITAL PERFORMER 6.0 WINDOWS#
Even the OS X-compatible version 4.0 retained some stubbornly non-standard GUI features that sometimes seemed to owe as much to System 6 as Apple's Aqua technology. One thing that has never changed is DP's fundamental 'character', which remains extremely customisable, very musician-friendly, and unashamedly individualistic. Throughout its history, MOTU have gradually developed and refined the application rather than ever 'reinventing' it, and as such it has over time accumulated a vast range of features and working methods.
#MOTU DIGITAL PERFORMER 6.0 SOFTWARE#
The migration to OS X has caused major upheavals for both software manufacturers and musicians, but Mark of the Unicorn's long-established Digital Performer sequencer is better than ever.ĭigital Performer goes back a long way, and has its roots in Performer, one of the very first Mac sequencers. Also shown is the Tools palette and transport, otherwise known as the Control Panel.
#MOTU DIGITAL PERFORMER 6.0 WINDOWS#
This allows users to flexibly configure their workspace whilst ensuring that windows never overlap or become hidden - a very nice user-interface tweak, and a vast improvement over previous versions of DP. I used LC Xmu for a couple of years before i bought an actual MCU Pro, and unfortunately the development of LC Xmu seems to have seriously stalled.Digital Performer 4.5 shows off one of its newest features: the Consolidated Window.
#MOTU DIGITAL PERFORMER 6.0 PRO#
Well, I have annoyed MOTU about this, but they don't seem to understand that much of the world has evolved beyond physical ports and Mackie controllers.įyi, the current generation of Mackie Control devices have USB-MIDI in addition to physical MIDI ports, and unless i am hallucinating i control CueMix via the virtual CoreMIDI ports, both from my MCU Pro and other MIDI controllers that do not have physical MIDI ports. Even their documentation states that CueMix is not supported, as MOTU ".can’t address a Mackie Control via a virtual CoreMIDI port.
Curiously, this week I tried to use the excellent OpusLocus application "LC Xmu" which does deep and thorough Mackie HUI and Baby HUI control emulations and management. I'm sorry that you're sorry, but my statements are indeed correct, and thoroughly researched. This same technique should work with any MIDI controller that has Mackie Control, HUI, or Baby HUI emulation. the Mackie Control device now appears in the control surfaces setup in Cue Mix FX. I have then connected this new device to port 1 of the "MCU Pro USB v3.1" device. to make it work with Cue Mix FX, i have created a new external MIDI device, with the following settings: for example, my Mackie Control Universal Pro appears as an interface device called "MCU Pro USB v3.1" in Audio MIDI Setup, with four sets of ports along the bottom. You need to do this even if you have a real Mackie Control and it is connected via USB MIDI. To make it work (as mentioned in the previous post), you need to create a new external device (these have the connections on the top) in Audio MIDI Setup, and connect it to the appropriate virtual ports of a MIDI interface device (these are the devices with the connections on the bottom). Sorry, this is not correct, although it is true that the MOTU documentation regarding control surface setup is scanty and poor. The MOTU support group hasn't been much help, as there is not a solution other than for their software guys to get off their hands and fix it. I have spent mucho time time working with various USB-based controllers that do Mackie emulation (HUI, Baby HUI, Mackie Control, etc), and they work fine with DAWs, but NOT with CueMix. The rest of the industry has gone to virtual and USB-based MIDI interfacing (which Digital Performer supports, as well as all industry standard DAWs), but for some reason the CueMix software team has this ancient setup for using Mackie emulations to control. CueMix has an antiquated port structure, and will only recognize actual MIDI ports. Johnsbaker wrote:No, this is not the case.