or should we PM Shooshie?
btw, this new board rocks!
FM
FM, all his pearls fade astride a Volta.
Digital Performer Tips, Edited
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This forum is for seeking solutions to technical problems involving Digital Performer and/or plug-ins on MacOS, as well as feature requests, criticisms, comparison to other DAWs.
This forum is for seeking solutions to technical problems involving Digital Performer and/or plug-ins on MacOS, as well as feature requests, criticisms, comparison to other DAWs.
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dix
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Not really a tip, but I just noticed you can use the scroll-wheel on active windows and anything else that's scrollable during processes that lock you out normally such as BTD, Freeze etc.
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Re: Digital Performer Tips, Edited
dix wrote:Shooshie simply keeps editing the first post in this thread. All the updates are there.
...what happened to the pdf idea?
In case this has not been mentioned somewhere. You can download the tipsheet and then print it, when the print window comes up, choose "save as pdf". This option is available with my HP, I'm assuming it's the OS.
As someone mentioned earlier, the tipsheet is way more comprehensive to me than the manual. My workflow has increased 50% because of the tipsheet. The shortcuts are presented in a way I can get my hands around.
Thanks to everyone again. I find myself referring to this board with MOTU tech all the time. Kinda funny!
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Spikey Horse
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Rather esoteric one this...
Especially useful if you just recorded a new musical idea and you want to start recording different parts alongside it while you are still in the mood but the piece has lots of irregular changes and dynamics, perhaps it was done without a click as well, so you will need to add some visual cues first.
Well, I find markers are all very useful for dividing sequence into sections for editing tasks but when standing some distance from the monitor playing guitar, keyboard, vocals etc they all look the same and you can't see their names (and naming them takes ages anyway).
My solution?
Use a combination of:
1 - the waveform of your original track
2 - markers
AND
3 - modulation (or any continuous) data in a redundant MIDI track just for a visual reference.
All you need to do is run though your original piece of music quickly adding markers for the exact locations of abrupt changes and draw your continuous data to show the dynamics or playing styles and to give more info on what the markers refer to.
a rather simple example: a classic stadium R'n'R ending might look like continous data getting larger then going zig zaggy then dropping to zero - with a marker added for the exact end crash/chord moment- you see?
It sounds longwinded but it is actually very quick to set up. Using this method I find I can play along to passages of music without having to get to know it first and so keep an element of spontanaety and freshness. Great for guitar based music, orchestral (via keyboard obviously!), and multi vocal ideas.
Especially useful if you just recorded a new musical idea and you want to start recording different parts alongside it while you are still in the mood but the piece has lots of irregular changes and dynamics, perhaps it was done without a click as well, so you will need to add some visual cues first.
Well, I find markers are all very useful for dividing sequence into sections for editing tasks but when standing some distance from the monitor playing guitar, keyboard, vocals etc they all look the same and you can't see their names (and naming them takes ages anyway).
My solution?
Use a combination of:
1 - the waveform of your original track
2 - markers
AND
3 - modulation (or any continuous) data in a redundant MIDI track just for a visual reference.
All you need to do is run though your original piece of music quickly adding markers for the exact locations of abrupt changes and draw your continuous data to show the dynamics or playing styles and to give more info on what the markers refer to.
a rather simple example: a classic stadium R'n'R ending might look like continous data getting larger then going zig zaggy then dropping to zero - with a marker added for the exact end crash/chord moment- you see?
It sounds longwinded but it is actually very quick to set up. Using this method I find I can play along to passages of music without having to get to know it first and so keep an element of spontanaety and freshness. Great for guitar based music, orchestral (via keyboard obviously!), and multi vocal ideas.