The news that Waves' range of quality plug-ins is now available for DP adds to the activity in an already interesting month for Digital Performer users — despite a delay in the release of 4.1. As the enthusiastic upgraders and updaters amongst you no doubt already know, DP v4.1 was not released on August 8th as MOTU originally promised (and as mentioned in my last column) due to last-minute bug-squashing difficulties. And as I write this article it's still not out, so this is not quite the Performer Notes I thought it would be. That'll have to be next month — hopefully! One of the most powerful and useful plug-ins available for DP4 — the Renaissance Channel by Waves.However, if the delay of 4.1 is the bad news, there's also plenty of good news this month.

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First of all, rumours are rife that DP 4.1's MAS audio engine has undergone a major rewrite, significantly boosting speed and efficiency. This should make using DP on older Macs a much happier experience — and if OS 10.3's promised speed increases materialise, by Christmas we should all be able to dismiss further thoughts of owning a G5 (yeah, right).

Also this month, the world of MAS OS X plug-ins probably quadruples in size, with the release first of the Audio Ease Altiverb convolving reverb for DP4, and then the entire range of plug-ins by Waves. Finally, there's great news from Rob Martin, the DP4 patchlist guru, who's worked out a way of enabling custom banks in the new XML patchlist format.

If you're one of the many DP users who (quite wisely, some might say) have been holding off moving to OS X, the release for DP4 of the vast array of plug-ins by Israeli software company Waves might well give you cause to reconsider. In case you're unfamiliar with Waves, they make some of the most desirable plug-ins out there, at a price point that reflects the quality on offer. They were the first third-party company to offer plug-ins for Digidesign's Pro Tools, back in the early '90s, but now their entire range is available for TDM, VST, RTAS, DirectX and MAS formats. They achieve this broad compatibility by developing plug-ins that run courtesy of a 'Waveshell' for each individual format. So if you installed every single plug-in by Waves on your OS X system running DP4, only one new MAS plug-in would appear in Library / Audio / Plug-Ins / MAS — the WaveShell-MAS bundle — but this gives access to the plug-ins themselves, which are stored in a folder in Applications / Waves. In practice, you don't notice any difference in operation compared with 'normal' MAS plug-ins. The flexible C4 multiband EQ and dynamics processor, from the Waves Gold Native bundle.If the installation is unconventional, then the way Waves' product line is offered is positively barmy, and has been known to reduce grown men to whimpering wrecks.

Although it is possible to buy individual plug-ins, it's more cost-effective to go for one of the bundles on offer. For example, the most affordable, the Native Power Pack, contains seven plug-ins, including the excellent L1 Ultramaximizer limiter. Other bundles include Renaissance Maxx and Masters Native, but if you can afford it, it's better to go for either the Gold or Platinum Native bundles, as these contain some of the cheaper bundles, as well as extra individual plug-ins. Jeene laga hu atif aslam mp3 song download songs pk mp3.