Native Instruments and MOTU Bring Virtual Instrument Technology To Digital Performer

 
With REAKTOR you can access the "NI Premium Library" which includes all DYNAMO instruments
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Cambridge, Mass., August 21, 2000 -- Mark of the Unicorn, Inc. announced that REAKTOR 2.3.2, the virtual instrument package from Native Instruments GmbH is now compatible with Digital Performer. Digital Performer is MOTU's flagship audio editor and MIDI sequencing software for MacOS. Native Instruments' new virtual Hammond organ - B4 - is also now compatible with Digital Performer. Both products (download) support FreeMIDI, MOTU¹s industry standard MIDI routing/management system extension for Macintosh, and MAS (MOTU Audio System), the native hard disk recording engine that drives MOTU's Digital Performer.

Using REAKTOR and/or B4 with Digital Performer is easy. The user runs both programs simultaneously, enables REAKTOR in the FreeMIDI Setup application (only necessary the first time) and then REAKTOR MIDI channels automatically appear in Digital Performer¹s MIDI track output menus. Similarly, REAKTOR audio channels appear in Digital Performer¹s audio track input menus. This allows users to sequence REAKTOR MIDI tracks in Digital Performer and route REAKTOR¹s digital audio output directly back into Digital Performer¹s virtual mixing environment, just as a real hardware synthesizer would go into a mixer. REAKTOR can function as a 16-channel multi-timbral instrument, with 16 audio channels (8 stereo pairs) returned to Digital Performer, where they can be mixed live, in real time, with hard disk tracks and MIDI tracks in Digital Performer¹s virtual on-screen mixer, complete with real-time plug-in processing. The procedure is exactly the same for using B4 with Digital Performer.

REAKTOR and B4 both support real-time parameter automation via standard MIDI controllers, which can be recorded, programmed or inserted as points or curves by the user in a standard fashion using Digital Performer's wide range of MIDI controller handling features.

REAKTOR is a modular virtual instrument environment in which users can build sound-producing synthesizer engines from the ground up using a massive synthesis tool kit. REAKTOR also provides a wide range of sampling and sample-processing options and includes large libraries of predefined instruments and sound-generating modules.

B4 is a Hammond organ emulator that is able to faithfully reproduce the original sound of a B3 organ and rotary speakers with access to all sound shaping parameters. The B4 also supports MAS and FreeMIDI so that it is possible to automate every B4 parameter from Digital Performer.

Digital Performer is an audio sequencer that combines MIDI sequencing with digital audio recording, editing, mixing, processing and mastering. Digital Performer is the Electronic Musician 2000 Editors Choice award winner for audio sequencing software.

Source: Mark of the Unicorn, Inc.
Web: www.motu.com