Jan 23, 2012 6:06 PM

MOTU has unveiled Digital Performer Version 8 (price TBA), a major upgrade to the company's flagship audio workstation software. Digital Performer 8 will now be available for both Mac OS X and Windows 7. During in-booth demos, MOTU debuted other significant new features, including a new video playback engine, Punch Guard confidence recording, 14 new user interface themes, and 15 new plug-ins, which are all included.

MOTU Digital Performer V. 8 running on the Windows 7 OS

DP8 will operate in 32-bit or 64-bit mode on Mac OS X and Windows 7. Running on Windows, it will support VST plug-ins and ReWire. MOTU demonstrated DP8 running on HP Z Workstations and HP EliteBook Mobile Workstations provided by Hewlett-Packard.

Punch Guard records an extra four seconds of audio before and after record passes, allowing users to edge-edit in/out points to "uncover" audio material accidentally cut off during recording. DP8's new video engine allows full-screen viewing of full 720 or 1,080 HD video clips on a primary or secondary computer monitor, or on a conventional HDMI or SDI video monitor connected to a MOTU video interface such as the HD Express or HDX-SDI.

Digital Performer's Themes allow users to change the entire look of the software with one click. DP8 adds 14 new themes, including "Hi-Fi", "Arctic," and "None More Black".

MOTU demonstrated 15 new plug-ins to be included with DP8, including two new classic guitar amp models, a bass cabinet model, several classic guitar pedals, modeled analog delay, a multi-band dynamic equalizer, a de-esser, the Subkick kick drum enhancer, and Springamabob, a modeled vintage spring reverb processor.

MOTU states that it will ship Digital Performer 8 beginning spring 2012.

MOTU also demonstrated iPad support for CueMix FX, the mixing and effects processing engine in MOTU's current line of audio interfaces. With a simple software update, MOTU audio interface users will be able to control the mixing and processing features in a MOTU interface from OSC-compatible iPad software, which offers graphic, multi-touch control over the hardware's mixer, EQ, compression and reverb.

iPad support for CueMix will ship as a free software update in spring 2012.

Visit MOTU at www.motu.com.

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