Digital Performer

What's the business DAW World? I recently received a few comments and I will answer them one post at a time, so stay tuned in to get my feedback on your comment. First off I would like to address my main man DJ KC about a workstation called Digital Performer. MOTU's Digital Performer actually has more history than I thought. Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) created "Professional Composer" for Apple Macintosh back in 1984. That was one of Apple's first application programs ever. A year later the MOTU crew dropped Performer, a music sequencer that was also Mac based. Performer was designed to arrange and perform with synthesizers that were compatible with MIDI. Since MIDI has many features complicated features, Digital Performer was introduced in 1990, and helped unlock many capabilities in MIDI. Interesting enough, DP was originally designed as an extension of Digidesign Audiomedia hard disk recording system, which became Pro Tools. As earlier stated, DP worked extremely well with MIDI, users could record their MIDI instruments and mix with live audio recorded in the studio. Since computers at that time (early 90's), weren't fast enough to handle such capabilities, DSP co processor cards were needed to maintain a functioning audio recording. DP fell off the radar as Pro Tools took over the DAW scene, but was rewritten and introduced in 2000. Digital Performer has created several versions in the last decade, all written for Mac OSx and version 10.5. DP8 was recently released in October 2012, with Mac and Windows 7 version due soon.