Description
DP Control from MOTU Inc. allows you to control MOTU's Digital Performer audio workstation software over a WiFi network using your iPhone, iPad or third-generation iPod Touch.
Built specifically for use with Digital Performer, DP Control gives you easy access to the most important transport and mixer functions for tracking, simple mixing, and live performance.
DP Control works in both portrait and landscape orientations. Designed with comfortably large buttons and controls, DP Control can easily be used with only one hand by pressing buttons and swiping to new pages with your thumb.
Feature highlights:
* Real two-way communication — everything that you update in DP updates in DP Control, and vice versa.
* Editable time counter with selectable format (including real-time, SMPTE time, samples, and marker names).
* Main transport control and many other transport-related Control Panel functions (click, countoff, memory-cycle, etc.)
* Page-controlled, scrollable mixer with animated, recordable pan knobs and volume sliders, plus level meters and peak indicators.
* Solo, Mute, Record-enable, Play automation, Record automation and automation mode settings for each track.
* Track list for your DP project, complete with collapsable nested track folders and dynamically linked track organization that matches your currently open DP project on your Mac.
* Infinite undo, with a view that shows you the names of the next and previous tasks in your DP document undo history.
* Marker creation and naming.
* New Take, Previous Take, and Next Take functions that operate on all of the record-enabled tracks at once (essential for tracking drums).
* Take selection, by name, for individual tracks. Also New Take, Delete Take, and Rename Take for the current take on any individual track.
* Save function for saving changes made to the DP document.
Requirements:
- Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and third-generation iPod Touch
- Not compatible with first or second generation iPod Touch
- Requires Digital Performer 7.2 or later running on a Mac on the same WiFi network as DP Control
- Must disable your Mac's firewall, or enable communication to Digital Performer through the firewall
- Must turn off BlueTooth on your mobile device before running DP Control
What's New in Version 1.0.2
Now contains English and Japanese versions.
Added a warning alert that appears if the user attempts to run the app on an unsupported device.
Minor bug fixes.
Remember to turn off BlueTooth on your mobile device before running DP Control !
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Please make iPad version
This app is really great. For my use, it takes the place of having a physical control surface. My only wish is this: Please make a version with upgraded graphics for the iPad. Enlarging it makes the graphics look bad. It would be so greatly appreciated! Thank you MOTU!
must-have for Digital Performer users
It's always been a chore to record alone, even on my laptop; you have to keep the headphones, microphone, and music stand away from the computer (lest the sensitive microphone pick up computer noise), but then jumping back and forth between changing settings on the computer and performing is quite the chore.
I'd tried the AC7-Control app, configured as a control surface, but found it difficult and tedious. In order to work correctly, you have to muddle all the network settings on your computer; and as I don't routinely use a Mackie control surface, the controls were difficult for me. You also had to install a few other components on the computer, which added considerable complexity.
I'd tried VNC, which allowed me to actually manipulate the computer directly. It was usable.. but the lag time between VNC updates often had me wondering whether I'd actually pushed a button or not, and it was hard to manipulate small controls that were designed with a mouse in mind with a much larger finger.
DP Control is a dream come true. It makes all the things I need to do easier, with little perceptible lag, and without anything but stock software on the computer. Recording is a joy using DP Control. I only wish it had come out sooner, before i'd invested in those other (somewhat pricey) solutions. Other recording solutions should beware - without this functionality, Digital Performer has the edge...
I don't often give 5 stars to an app if I still have suggestions for it... but in this case it's quite justified. Still, I'd love to see a universal app, with an iPad-optimized layout. I'd like to see a second line of transport information, so that I can see my current marker and still be able to navigate by measures. I'd like to see the view-by-marker mode be more informative, e.g. "Refrain 1 + 4 measures" instead of just "Refrain 1". I'd like to see transport buttons to quickly advance or reverse by one measure - if you need to back up two measures, it's more natural and more accurate to do so with a couple of taps of a button. I'd like to be able to manipulate more than the record, play, and take settings on tracks; a way to change the output assignment would be most appreciated.
Amazing!
Opened up the app and tapped "settings" and app directed me to the DP7 menu item "Setup". Easy.
Hit play triangle on my iPhone And BOOM! Music. Started laughing.
Sooo easy and soooo cool. This thing drops markers with a tap as you're listening to playback. A producer's dream.
Perfect for tracking yourself when you're short-handed. Love it. And it's free. Thanks MOTU
- Free
- Category: Music
- Updated: Sep 24, 2010
- Version: 1.0.2
- Size: 3.0 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Seller: MOTU
- © 2010 MOTU Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later
