Enhanced multiple mixdowns

Digital Performer’s Mix Mode menu in the Mixing Board lets you create, save, edit and switch between multiple mixdowns of your project. For example, you could create several completely different mixes of the same sequence. A mix consists of all the volume, pan, plug-in and other mix automation data in all the tracks of the sequence, as well as all of the current plug-ins inserted on tracks. This feature has been enhanced to include the following initial track settings (regardless of whether there is currently any automation data in the track):

Track volume
Pan
Send levels
Send mute states
Track automation mode
Track play-enable/disable state

By adding these track attributes to each saved mixdown, the Mix Mode menu now provides complete independence among separate mixes, even if they don’t have any automation data in them. For example, you could simply set initial volume and pan settings for each track, create a mix, duplicate it, adjust the faders and then switch back and forth between the two mixes. You can then freely switch between them, comparing the fader settings, without the need to insert or print any automation data. In general, you will find it much easier to create and use multiple mixdowns with this feature.

Saving and loading user presets for plug-ins

User plug-in presets are now saved independently from Digital Performer documents or the Digital Performer application itself. Instead, they are now stored as preset files on disk. This makes it easier to access them across projects and share them with colleagues and clients.

Support for AU presets

Some Audio Unit plug-ins have the ability to save presets as a standard AU preset file on disk. Digital Performer now supports these AU preset files. You can save them and load them, including the ability to drag and drop them to inserts in the Mixing Board.

Enhanced OMF interchange

Digital Performer's ability to import and export OMF interchange documents has been improved, especially to and from older versions of Pro Tools and Avid Media Composer.

Saving audio export settings

Digital Performer 4.6 lets you save your customized, frequently used audio export settings. You can then conveniently recall them as a user preset when bouncing to disk or exporting audio.

Improved response after recording

Initiating playback after a record pass is now much more responsive, even if beat, tempo, and pitch analysis are running. Additionally, entering play or record with tracks record-enabled is much faster, particularly on slow hard drives.

External MIDI control for sends

You can now use the Attach MIDI Controller mini-menu item in the Mixing Board to assign external MIDI control to send level knobs, send pan, and send mute buttons in the Mixing Board.

Control surface support for send pan

It is now possible to control send panning from control surface devices like the SAC-2.2 and Mackie Control Universal.

Instrument track support for RTAS

Instrument tracks now support RTAS instruments. So you can now open an RTAS instrument via an instrument track, instead of a voice track when running under DAE.

Support for the VST-RTAS wrapper from FXpansion™

You can now use the VST-RTAS wrapper from FXpansion™ when running Digital Performer under DAE.