Digital Performer 9.1 isn't all roses. There's quite a few things that I would like improved and features that I feel are blatantly missing compared to the competition. Some of these things cause creative blocks, require tedious workarounds or simply aren't cool.

This installment of "Cool Features in Digital Performer" I'm going to wax poetic about: Snapshot Automation, Clippings, OSC Support, Midi Effects, and some more plug-ins.

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Today's installment of cool stuff in DP brings you up to snuff on these features: Mixer Scenes, Track Selector, Search Window, and some creative effects.

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In today's discussion of neato things in Digital Performer I will be covering: Chunks, Pre-Gen and guitar plug-ins.

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As part of this ongoing series showing some of the cool stuff in Digital Performer 9, today I will discuss: Offline branching undo, Dynamic Equalizer, Spatial Maximizer and Track Grouping.

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As I've been a Digital Performer user for a couple years, I thought I'd do a bit of a pseudo-review on DP. I'm going to cover some of the cool (and often unique) features in DP9, and I will also cover some of the downsides of using DP.

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Click through for some neat features!

Nah, this isn't about 55 gallon drums as my wife nearly thought it was. It's about drums used in modern metal music.

Recently I wrote a post on gearslutz replying to someone that really likes room mics, but is also editing some metal drums. Since I do this quite a lot, I wrote a bit of a post explaining some tips. I've copied the post here as well. Click through for the whole post.

I have an Evans Torque Key that I've been testing for a couple months for attempting to quickly maintain drum tuning. While the actual product itself is great, the concept that it is based on is fundamentally flawed.

I'm going to cover both the product and the issues that underlie its failure as a product.

I've long been on a quest for the perfect thumb pick. I switch frequently between tapping and strumming when I play, and I basically can not play comfortably without a thumbpick. I've tried basically everything out there. Everything is either too stiff, too long, too small, too oddly shaped or too... something.

Recently I found the Fred Kelly BUMBLEBEE Teardrop thumb pick. It's damn near perfect, almost. The problem is that even the largest size is half a size too small for me. I set out to fix that so I could maybe finally have a pick that's perfect for me.

So here's the best method that I've figured out.


I'm still using Studio One 3.3 quite a lot. Here's a quick update post on some of my opinions regarding it.

Alright, I'm setting some basic levels here. Ah, ok where's the option to setup track visibility in the mixer? I guess I have to check the menu. Nope. The mixer changes the OS Level menu. So in OS X, when you open the mixer, you can't access any of the other Reaper menu options. You have to close the mixer, use the menu, re-open the mixer.

Mixer does not respond to cmd-`. That's nice. Rather than the reflexive cmd-`, I have to remember to hit cmd-m, which is not even remotely a comfortable shortcut to use.

Keep forgetting what I am doing when having to think of how to change away from the mixer. Hit cmd-` and nothing happens. Look for menu, nothing there. By time I switch my thought process back to troubleshooting mode, whatever I was doing before is totally gone. Back to the mixer again so maybe I can remember what I was doing! (and forget again)

Right. I'm sure this is just as simple as getting used to things...