But what's the best way to do this? Plug-in Perfection Third, and perhaps most importantly, with plug-ins being by far the most likely cause of system instability and crashes, it's essential to keep in touch with what's on your system to ensure a trouble-free Digital Performer experience. They might all work just fine, but could wreak havoc if you subsequently install a plug-in update in one format and not the others, or try to share your project with a collaborator who has the same plug-in but only in one format. Second, although some plug-in developers fix their Audio Unit versions so that DP bypasses them in favour of MAS equivalents, it's often possible to end up with the same plug-in installed (and even instantiated) in multiple formats. To start with, hundreds of plug-ins and instruments in so many different formats can make DP's insert pop-up menus long and confusing to read. This breadth of compatibility can bring unexpected difficulties, though. And if you use a Power PC-based Mac you can also tap into the world of VST plug-ins, courtesy of AudioEase's VST Wrapper or FXpansion's VST to AU Adapter. DP also natively supports Apple's Audio Units, which is, of course, the most widespread format for OS X and Logic. First there's MOTU's own MAS format - supremely reliable, supported by a number of major third-party developers, and generally the best choice for a trouble-free life. Pictured here are a MAS and Audio Unit Instrument with AU and VST effects processors.We DP users are entitled to have a pretty smug look on our faces when it comes to plug-in and virtual instrument support. We explain how to take the pain out of plug-in management.ĭP supports the broadest range of plug-in formats of any Mac-based DAW. It could be the best for harmonic samples – especially multisamples – if it could read and write things like root note into the file.DP supports a wide range of plug-in and virtual instrument formats, which is great for flexibility and variety but sometimes not so good when it comes to trouble-free operation. I’d say it’s currently the best for loops due to its ability to edit individual bars + beats and tap the BPM (surprisingly few sample managers have tap tempo!). Let me push a button and rename hundreds of files like loop/$TYPE/$BPM/$KEY-001.wav and I’m sending everyone in development a fruit basket.ĪudioFinder is close to being the best sample manager I have found. Nuke the original filename, I don’t care. To be able to build a folder path and filename out of metadata tags – like you’d be able to with nearly every media library/player – and then batch rename things is, like, everything I want out of life.
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