
MOTU have, of course, been a driving force in that transition, with their popular, well-regarded and ever-expanding range of audio interfaces. As such, DP has some claim to be amongst the most mature DAWs out there, one that’s ridden out tumultuous changes in computer architecture and operating systems and overseen the gradual march from a hardware/analogue to digital/virtual world. We’re talking about a time when MIDI was still quite new, Junos got traded in for DX7s, and tent-size T-shirts were all the rage. The roots of MOTU’s Digital Performer go back a staggering 30 years. Do the improvements in the latest version keep it bang up to date? MOTU’s sequencing software has been around longer than some SOS readers. The on-trend dark grey look is the default appearance for DP9.

A typical view of DP in action, with a well-stocked Consolidated Window.
