That said, I suspect MOTU have also learned from what's already out there and, even in its first iteration, it's easy to see the potential the Clips Window offers. MOTU have not reinvented too many wheels here and there are concepts that will be familiar to users of other programs, especially Ableton Live. This is a fully featured system for triggering audio and MIDI clips and is obviously designed with live performance in mind. I have to say, therefore, that one major new feature in DP10 took me a little by surprise the Clips Window. My own experience with DP over the years has always reinforced a feeling that this was a serious, heavyweight, studio-based recording, mixing and mastering tool. And, as described above, loops can easily be made to match their playback tempo to your DP project. Samples can be auditioned from within the browser and, of course, dragged and dropped into your project. This can mean audio files and bounces, but also plug-ins - you can, for example, drag and drop effects plug-ins into the mixer from the Content Browser - and any audio loops or sample content on drives attached to your system. This can be placed with the left/right sidebars or use as a floating window and provides a one-stop-shop window in which you can browse through the content of your project. The Content Browser provides easy access to all your media and plug-ins.It's also a good way to explore the possibilities offered by another new, and arguably overdue, DP10 feature the Content Browser. This is obviously designed as a taster selection, but if you need some initial content as you begin to explore DP10, it's a good place to start. Sticking with the broad topic of supplied sounds, DP10 also bundles 6GB of loops and sample packs from Loopmasters, Lucidsamples and Big Fish Audio. However, the depth of sampling for individual instruments, and the limited number of performance articulations, means this library is unlikely to be most users' first choice for more demanding applications. There is not much here by way of synth-type sounds, so presumably MOTU think this area is already covered by the virtual synths amongst the existing instrument bundle.Īll in all, if this is the starting point for your sample-based virtual instrument journey, or you are looking for a general all-in-one library that's fairly resource-light for use with a laptop/mobile rig, UVI Workstation would certainly allow you to sketch out all sorts of musical ideas. There is also a respectable selection of loops that are dominated by drums but cover a wide range of genres. The sounds themselves span a broad selection of conventional instrument types from acoustic and electric drums, acoustic and electric pianos, various organs, acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, voices and something from all of the orchestral sections. Aside from a few 'macro' level controls on the Edit page, which change based upon the nature of the preset being used, you don't get to deep-dive into the sounds themselves, although there is a good range of effects possibilities for customising the included sounds. The UVI soundbank will open within MOTU's MachFive 3 or UVI's Falcon if you have access to either of those if not, UVI Workstation presents a very straightforward user interface, and offers four-part multitimbral playback. I had no problems running a number of VST2 and VST3 virtual instruments, including popular but demanding plug-ins like Kontakt 6 and Superior Drummer 3. If MOTU themselves are not going to develop new proprietary instruments for DP, at least you can take your pick of what the rest of the market has to offer.
UVIWORKSTATION INSTRUMENT SOUNDS FULL
MOTU have partnered with UVI to bundle a collection of sample-based sounds with DP10.Support for VST3 is obviously a good thing, and ensures that DP can take advantage of the full range of third-party instruments.
However, rather than add any new virtual instruments of MOTU's own design, DP10 sees two additions of a third-party nature: support for VST3 plug-ins, and a bundled 5GB library of multisampled instruments that use UVI Workstation as their front end. The v9 virtual instruments - BassLine, PolySynth, NanoSampler, Modulo, Model 12, MX4 and Proton - remain perfectly serviceable, if perhaps not cutting-edge. DP10 does bring some progress here, but perhaps in a somewhat roundabout fashion. The other box waiting to be ticked was DP's built-in collection of virtual instruments.
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