MOTU Digital Performer 7 adds guitar amps/effects

Other new features also included

Press Release, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 9:58 am BST

Like Logic Studio, DP is now more guitarist-friendly.

PRESS RELEASE: Digital Performer 7 is now shipping with many feature additions and productivity enhancements, including a new suite of modeled guitar effects plug-ins that deliver world-class guitar tones.

Classic guitar pedal effects

DP7's suite of stunningly accurate classic guitar pedal emulations are modeled after all-time favorites from Boss®, MXR®, Electro-Harmonix®, Ibanez® and others. These stomp box plug-ins produce authentic tones made famous by the signature guitar sounds of artists such as Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh, Carlos Santana, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, and many other rock/pop legends.

When users dial in settings for their favorite guitar tones, the resulting sound is identical to — and indistinguishable from — the real thing. The suite includes nine pedals, including the Tube Wailer™, Über Tube™, Diamond Drive™, RXT™, Delta Fuzz™, Wah Pedal™ and others. Users can experiment with hundreds of tones and thousands of combinations.

Guitar pedal audio examples:

http://www.motu.com/products/software/dp/plug-ins/effects-pedals.html/

Custom '59™

Custom '59™ meticulously models three all-time classic guitar amplifiers: the Fender® Bassman®, the Marshall® JTM45® and the Marshall JCM800®. Users can adjust tone settings, drive and tube combinations to produce rich, luscious guitar tones that faithfully reproduce the sound of each amp. But Custom '59 goes further: users can mix and match the preamp tube, preamp circuit and tone stack from each model to create their own custom amps. The possibilities for tone are virtually limitless, all born from the iconic pedigree of three legendary originals.

Custom '59 video examples and demo songs:

http://www.motu.com/products/software/dp/plug-ins/guitar-demos.html

Live Room | G™

DP7's Live Room | G is a superb physical modeling speaker cabinet emulator plug-in with four mic channels (two mono and one stereo), mixable mic positions (close, near and far) and 3-band EQ per channel. What convolution did for reverb, Live Room | G does for speaker cabinet emulation, thanks to the next-generation physical modeling technology at its core. Engineered for the unprecedented power of today's personal computers, the modeling technology in Live Room | G captures every nuance and detail of the hundreds of factors that interact to recreate the rich, detailed sound of a speaker cabinet in a real room recorded by four separate mics.

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