Native Instruments Partners with MOTU to Bring Virtual Instrument Technology to Digital PerformerReaktor 2.3.2, B4, and Dynamo Support MOTU Digital Performer. Native Instruments Ships Support for MOTU FreeMIDI and MAS. August 27, 2000Mark of the Unicorn, Inc. is
pleased to announce that REAKTOR 2.3.2, the virtual instrument package from
Native Instruments GmbH (NI), and B4, Native Instruments' new virtual
Hammond organ, are now 100% compatible with Digital Performer, MOTU's
flagship audio editor and MIDI sequencing software for MacOS. Both products
(now available for download at www.native-instruments.com) support FreeMIDI,
MOTU's industry standard MIDI routing/management system extension for
Macintosh, and MAS (MOTU Audio System), the native hard disk recording
engine that drives MOTU's Digital Performer.
Using REAKTOR (and/or B4) with Digital Performer is easy. The user runs both
programs simultaneously, enables REAKTOR in the FreeMIDI Setup application
(only necessary the first time) and then REAKTOR MIDI channels automatically
appear in Digital Performer's MIDI track output menus. Similarly, REAKTOR
audio channels appear in Digital Performer's audio track input menus. This
allows users to sequence REAKTOR MIDI tracks in Digital Performer and route
REAKTOR's digital audio output directly back into Digital Performer's
virtual mixing environment, just as a real hardware synthesizer would go
into a mixer. REAKTOR can function as a 16-channel multi-timbral instrument,
with 16 audio channels (8 stereo pairs) returned to Digital Performer,
where they can be mixed live, in real time, with hard disk tracks and MIDI
tracks in Digital Performer's virtual on-screen mixer, complete
with real-time plug-in processing. The procedure is exactly the same for
using B4 with Digital Performer.
REAKTOR and B4 both support real-time parameter automation via standard MIDI
controllers, which can be recorded, programmed or inserted as points or
curves by the user in a standard fashion using Digital Performer's wide
range of MIDI controller handling features.
"REAKTOR and B4 have quickly become two of the leading virtual instrument
products currently available, so MOTU users are very pleased to see direct
support for FreeMIDI, MAS, and Digital Performer," said Jim Cooper, MOTU
marketing director. "As a company, Native Instruments moves fast, so we
expect to see Digital Performer support in DYNAMO soon as well."
Stephan Schmitt, CTO of Native Instruments said, "We're impressed with
MOTU's Digital Performer as a platform. It's very stable, and overall
performance is good. REAKTOR is very responsive when running with Digital
Performer."
REAKTOR is a modular virtual instrument environment in which users can build
sound-producing synthesizer engines from the ground up using a massive
synthesis toolkit. REAKTOR also provides a wide range of sampling and
sample-processing options and includes large libraries of pre-defined
instruments and sound-generating modules. REAKTOR is the Electronic Musician
2000 Editors Choice award winner for software synthesis.
B4 is a Hammond organ emulator that is able to faithfully reproduce the
original sound of a B3 organ and rotary speakers with access to all sound
shaping parameters. The B4 also supports MAS and FreeMIDI so that it is
possible to automate every B4 parameter from Digital Performer.
DYNAMO is a sound design package of 25 of the best REAKTOR sound generators
and effects for instant access. All parameters can be automated as well, as
in REAKTOR and the B4. Native Instruments expects to ship an update of
DYNAMO within the next few weeks that adds support for MAS and FreeMIDI.
Digital Performer is an audio sequencer that combines MIDI sequencing with
digital audio recording, editing, mixing, processing and mastering. Digital
Performer is the Electronic Musician 2000 Editors Choice award winner for
audio sequencing software. For more information, visit the Mark of the Unicorn web site at www.motu.com, and the Native Instruments web site at www.nativeinstruments.com. | 
