Is digital performer any good?
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- KVRist
- 152 posts since 19 Mar, 2016
I had heard of every daw out there about except for this one, when I was researching one of my fav producers from the 90s they listed digital performer as their daw. I currently use Cubase, how does it compare? I never see it mentioned anywhere tbh
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- Banned
- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
From my experience - which is trying the v10 demo 3 times - it's even more convoluted and clunky than Cubase, which is saying a lot.HREQ wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 8:01 am I had heard of every daw out there about except for this one, when I was researching one of my fav producers from the 90s they listed digital performer as their daw. I currently use Cubase, how does it compare? I never see it mentioned anywhere tbh
But some people here swear by it and apparently it's still very popular for movie scoring, so it has to have things going for it. It's just that *I* don't see it.
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- KVRAF
- 3220 posts since 23 Dec, 2002
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- KVRAF
- 3409 posts since 6 Nov, 2006
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- KVRAF
- 3030 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Central NY
MOTU hardware very nice.....MOTU software not so much. I got a MOTU 8-Pre recently so I thought I'd give it a go...MEH. I used various flavors of Cubendo for years and now mostly use Studio One. It WAS clunky and cluttered, (to me anyway ymmv), didn't suit my workflow at all. But, then again, I feel the same way about other DAWS that some users praise. I guess it just depends on your workflow and/or style of music but it wasn't for me.
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- KVRAF
- 5383 posts since 25 Jan, 2014 from The End of The World as We Knowit
This guy liked it up to v10.1:
https://www.admiralbumblebee.com/music/ ... -10-1.html
https://www.admiralbumblebee.com/music/ ... -10-1.html
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- KVRAF
- 2473 posts since 25 Sep, 2014 from Specific Northwest
It's very old school, based on a paradigm of an actual studio with multitrack tape machine and routing. It's a very old-fashioned and clunky way of doing things and I never really got along with it in that respect, but it has some fantastic features that may be killer for you.
It has VRacks, which allow you to instantiate a multi-channel plugin once and point MIDI tracks to it, or whole processing chains that you often use.
It has Chunks, which can be one bar or whole songs. They pretty much work like sequences on an MPC, in that respect. If you're composing to ever-changing cues on video, they are invaluable.
It's had brilliant, fully-integrated pitch correction built in since v7, IIRC. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but it was superior to Auto-tune and Melodyne.
The effects plugins are to notch, while the instrument plugins are easy-to-use and, uh.... serviceable.
They've gone PC and added Live-style clips in an effort to remain relevant, but I fear it's a dying DAW unless they do some major work under the hood to streamline the tape-style tracks and patch bay routing. Hardcore DP users are retiring out of it and I don't know of any young whippersnappers who are picking it up. It's not as agile as FLS/Live/etc. and for "serious" DAWs, Cubendo, Logic and Studio One seem to be attracting the younger crowd more readily.
Anyway, depending on your use case, the demo is definitely worth a spin, although unless you've used other similar DAWs, a month long trial may not be long enough to "get it."
TL/DR: it's very powerful, but not really "fun"to work in.
It has VRacks, which allow you to instantiate a multi-channel plugin once and point MIDI tracks to it, or whole processing chains that you often use.
It has Chunks, which can be one bar or whole songs. They pretty much work like sequences on an MPC, in that respect. If you're composing to ever-changing cues on video, they are invaluable.
It's had brilliant, fully-integrated pitch correction built in since v7, IIRC. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but it was superior to Auto-tune and Melodyne.
The effects plugins are to notch, while the instrument plugins are easy-to-use and, uh.... serviceable.
They've gone PC and added Live-style clips in an effort to remain relevant, but I fear it's a dying DAW unless they do some major work under the hood to streamline the tape-style tracks and patch bay routing. Hardcore DP users are retiring out of it and I don't know of any young whippersnappers who are picking it up. It's not as agile as FLS/Live/etc. and for "serious" DAWs, Cubendo, Logic and Studio One seem to be attracting the younger crowd more readily.
Anyway, depending on your use case, the demo is definitely worth a spin, although unless you've used other similar DAWs, a month long trial may not be long enough to "get it."
TL/DR: it's very powerful, but not really "fun"to work in.
I started on Logic 5 with a PowerBook G4 550Mhz. I now have a MacBook Air M1 and it's ~165x faster! So, why is my music not proportionally better? 
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- KVRian
- 679 posts since 29 Dec, 2019
Yes. It's good.
If you find Cubase convoluted the issue is computer literacy, not the program.
DP has a workflow specific to it that works well. Like any software, either you acclimate to it or you go elsewhere.
No less esoteric than something like FL Studio AFAIC.
v11 makes it a good option for Windows users. Previous versions had some residual issues.
If you find Cubase convoluted the issue is computer literacy, not the program.
DP has a workflow specific to it that works well. Like any software, either you acclimate to it or you go elsewhere.
No less esoteric than something like FL Studio AFAIC.
v11 makes it a good option for Windows users. Previous versions had some residual issues.
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