Virtual Instruments Overview

From classic FM to vintage analog, six intriguing virtual instruments will spark your creativity and get you making music in minutes. Browse the hundreds of supplied presets, choose a sound or drum kit, and then hit the record button. The rest is up to you.

Load your own samples or program custom sounds. You get two one-oscillator subtractive synths, one two-oscillator subtractive synth, a sample player, a drum module and an FM synth. Get ready to crank out some serious sound from your Mac. All six instruments are designed for easy, streamlined operation and CPU-efficient performance. If you've never used instrument plug-ins before, get ready for some heavy-duty fun. If you're a seasoned virtual instrument user, dive in and don't forget to come up for air.

BassLine™

PolySynth™

Modulo™

NanoSampler™

Model 12™

Proton™

Add Instruments

The Add Instruments feature lets you add virtual instruments to your project even more quickly and conveniently. In one simple operation, you can add as many instances of the instrument plug-in as you need, with MIDI tracks already assigned to the instrument and both tracks placed together in a new track folder, if you wish. If the instrument is multitimbral and receives MIDI data on multiple MIDI channels (like MachFive), you can choose to create as many pre-assigned MIDI tracks you like, saving you even more time.

Enhanced softsynth operation

With greatly enhanced CPU efficiency, Digital Performer 7 lets you run more virtual instruments than ever before.

Digital Performer delivers fast, CPU-efficient performance for DP's included MAS instruments and third-party Audio Unit instruments alike. You can run many sequenced virtual instrument tracks, as Digital Performer pre-renders instrument track output before playback actually begins, allowing the computer's CPU to distribute the required processing beforehand, rather than in real time. You can run many more instruments than would be possible if they ran in real time.

Because they are pre-rendered, instrument tracks can be included in Bounce to Disk operations without the need to "freeze" the instrument track beforehand.