Digital Performer 9.5
Changes and new features
For a comprehensive list of new features, please refer to New Features in DP, available in Digital Performer's Help menu.
New features introduced in version 9.5
Version 9.5 introduces the following new features. For further information about these features, go to Digital Performer's Help menu > New Features in Digital Performer 9.
Effect Performance window — The new Effect Performance window (Studio menu) monitors the processing load of all currently instantiated virtual instruments and effects plug-ins. It can help you identify and manage plug- ins that impose high processing demands on your computer.
ZTXTM time-stretching and pitch-shifting technology — Digital Performer 9.5 introduces ZTX time-stretching and pitch-shifting technology developed by (and licensed from) Zynaptiq GmbH (zynaptiq.com). ZTX represents cutting edge, state-of-the-art audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting DSP technology developed and refined through years of advanced research and development by the renowned audio DSP engineering team at Zynaptiq.
Relative pitch editing — Relative pitch editing allows pitch to be offset by an interval, rather than an absolute pitch. This mode allows for pitch editing of any audio material, including polyphonic material.
In addition to the new features outlined above, version 9.5 also introduces the following enhancements:
• The scissors tool now snaps to grid (if enabled) when editing pitch layer bars.
• Fixed a problem where waveform overviews could endlessly recalculate (and never fill in).
• Fixed some issues with the Windows Audio driver.
• Fix a fade rendering bug that could cause a click on fade ins on soundbites with pitch processing.
• Made improvements to the appearance of certain themes.
• Added a preference for setting the default pitch shift (transpose) mode.
• Added ability to set pitch shift and time stretch mode with right-click. In any voice track and any layer, right clicking on a sound bite allows setting the attributes of that bite. If you hold down option all selected bites (on visible tracks) are set.
• Fixed a crash bug when editing pitch data.
• Fixed long standing issue with Sequence Editor contextual menus.
• Fixed a problem where soundbite volume could be incorrectly rendered after a fade.
• Fixed a problem where DP could freeze after a soundbite edge edit.