DP Control App User Guide

OVERVIEW SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

DP Control is a mobile device control surface application DP Control will run on any iPhone, iPad or third-generation
that allows you to control MOTU’s Digital Performer audio iPod Touch. DP Control requires Digital Performer version
workstation software over a WiFi network using your 7.2 or higher.
iPhone, iPad or third-generation iPod Touch.
SETUP
DP Control can be downloaded for free from the Apple app In order to establish communication with DP Control, you
store. must configure Digital Performer to use an Open Sound
Control control surface by following the procedure below.
Built specifically for use with Digital Performer, DP Control You only need to do this procedure once to get things going.
gives you easy access to the most important transport and
mixer functions for tracking, simple mixing, and live 1 In DP, Choose Setup menu > Control Surface Setup.
performance.
2 Click the “+” button next to Driver.
Digital Performer runs on a Mac computer and DP Control
runs on an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. While DP Control is 3 From the Driver popup menu, choose Open Sound
communicating with Digital Performer, Digital Performer Control.
will react to controls from both the mobile device and from
4 Click OK.
Digital Performer’s user interface on the Mac. If changes are
made in Digital Performer on the Mac, they will quickly be Once you click OK, Digital Performer will begin to broadcast
reflected on the mobile device, and vice versa. itself as available to Open Sound Control devices, including
DP Control.
DP Control works in both portrait and landscape
orientations. Designed with comfortably large buttons and
5 Leave Digital Performer running.
controls, DP Control can easily be used with only one hand
by pressing buttons and swiping to new pages with your 6 On your mobile device, make sure that the Settings app
thumb. shows that Wi-Fi is working and that the mobile device is on
the same Wi-Fi network as the Mac that is running Digital
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Performer.
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Transport View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 7 Launch DP Control on the mobile device. After a few
Tracks View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 seconds, a table of available DP hosts will appear. Press the
Mixer View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 name of the Mac computer that is running the copy of Digital
Settings View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Performer that you wish to control.
Info View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Troubleshooting
If you don’t see any references to DP on your mobile device,
make sure that DP is currently running on your Mac and
check to make sure an Open Sound Control device is present
in the Control Surface Setup window. Also make sure that the
Mac and your mobile device are on the same Wi-Fi network.

Re-establishing communication
In the future, when you launch DP Control, it will
automatically re-connect to the same computer if it finds the
same machine running a copy of DP with an Open Sound
Control control surface enabled. To change which computer
you want to connect to, see “Settings View” on page 4.
Figure 1: DP Control running on an iPod Touch.

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TRANSPORT VIEW Transport View, page 1
The Transport View (Figure 2) shows the time counter at the Rewind Stop Play Pause Record Click
top in blue, and an array of buttons below.

Fast Fast Previous Next Add Undo/

rewind forward marker marker marker Redo

Fast forward/rewind: Press Fast forward or Fast rewind

multiple times to toggle between two cueing speeds.

Previous Marker: Sets time to the time of the previous

Transport Tracks Mixer Settings
marker.
View View View View
Figure 2: Transport View. Next Marker: Sets time to the time of the next marker.

Setting the counter Add Marker: Brings up a text entry alert and the on-screen
You can set the current time in the sequence by tapping the keyboard. You can OK the Add Marker alert without entering
time counter. This will bring up either an alert or a picker, in a marker name to create a marker with a default name, or you
which you can set the time in the current time format. can type in a name. Note that the marker will be created at
the time that you pressed the Add Marker button, so if the
sequence is playing, you don’t have to worry about time
passing while you name your marker.

Time formats
The time counter can be displayed in one of five different
formats, by pressing the time format button to the right of
the counter: Undo/Redo: Brings up a View that displays the name of the
last and next tasks in DP’s undo history, with buttons to
Icon Format Description Example Undo and Redo. The numbers in front of the task names
Measures and beats Measures, beats, and 29 | 3 | 000
indicate how far you are from the beginning of the undo
subdivisions
history. Pressing Undo or Redo will move you backwards or
Real time Hours, minutes, seconds, and 0:01:20.66 forwards one step in the undo history, and then reset the
hundredths of seconds
names of the tasks in case you want to undo or redo again.
Frame time Hours, minutes, seconds, and 0:01:20:19
frame number

Sample time The counter displays the num- 3557184

ber of digital audio samples
from the beginning of the
sequence.

Marker time The counter displays the name Second

of the last marker encountered Verse
during playback.

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Transport View, page 2 ☛ These three Take function buttons operate on the
There are two pages of buttons in the Transport View. To get record-enabled tracks. If no track is record-enabled, then
to the second page of buttons, swipe the screen to the left. they operate on whatever tracks are selected in the DP host
application.

Save: Saves the current document in the DP host application,

on the hard drive of the DP host computer.

TRACKS VIEW
The Tracks View (Figure 3) shows a list of tracks and
collapsible track folders. Each line depicting a track contains
a record-enable button, a play-enable button, the track
name, and a detail disclosure button at the end of the line.
Countoff: Causes a number of measures to countoff before
playback or recording.

Overdub: Toggles overdub record mode, in which newly

recorded MIDI data merges with existing data instead of
Detail disclosure button
replacing it, and newly recorded auto data is layered on top of
existing data (without replacing it).

Wait: Causes DP to wait for a keystroke (or any other MIDI

event) from a MIDI or Mac keyboard as a signal to start
playing back or recording.

Memory Cycle: Causes the region between the Memory Start

and Stop points to seamlessly repeat.

Auto Record: Causes automatic punch in and punch out

during recording at the start and end times specified in DP.
(You can set those commands from DP Control using the Set
button.)

Auto Rewind: Causes automatic rewinding to the Memory Figure 3: Tracks View.
Start location any time playback is stopped. (You can set that
time from DP Control using the Set button.) Track Takes Detail View
Pressing the detail disclosure button for a track in the Tracks
Solo: Engages and disengages solo mode, according to the View (Figure 3) brings up a view where you can choose the
solo setup options in DP. current (actively playing) take for the track.

Set: When you press this button, DP Control presents an

action sheet which allows you to set either the Memory Start,
Memory End, Punch In time, or Punch Out time. The
current sequence time is used at the moment you press one of
these buttons.

< Take: Selects the previous take for all record-enabled

tracks.
This view also contains buttons to delete the current take,
> Take: Selects the next take for all record-enabled tracks.
rename the current take, or create a new take. These take
+/- Take: Brings up an action sheet which allows you to functions operate only on this track. If you want to perform a
delete the current take, erase the current take, or create a new take operation on all of the record-enabled tracks at once,
take — for all the record-enabled tracks. you must use the Take buttons on page two of the Transport
View instead.

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MIXER VIEW
The Mixer View (Figure 4) shows one vertical mixer strip for
each track in the sequence. The View is separated into pages.
Swipe left or right to see different groups of tracks in your
sequence.

Figure 5: Mixer Track Detail View.

This view contains switches that allow you to Solo, Mute,

Record enable, Play automation, or Record automation for
this track. It also has an Automation Mode list where you can
select which automation mode you want to use when
recording on this track (such as Overwrite or Latch).

SETTINGS VIEW
Figure 4: Mixer View. The Settings View (Figure 6) shows the name of the host
computer that DP Control is currently connected to, and has
Channel strips
a Change Connection button. Pressing this button will bring
Each Mixer strip has a pan knob, a volume slider, a track
up a list of computers that are currently running Digital
name abbreviation, a level meter, a level clip indicator, and a
Performer and are configured to use an Open Sound Control
detail disclosure button.
control surface. (See “Setup” on page 1.) Pressing the name
Automation of any of these computers will connect DP Control to the
If automation playback is enabled, the pan knobs and copy of Digital Performer running on that host computer.
volume sliders will animate during playback. If automation
recording is enabled, you can record your movements of the
pan knobs and volume faders in real time as you record.

If automation playback is not enabled, you can simply set the

volume and pan for each track at any time by dragging the
controls.

Level meters
The level meters will animate during playback. If a track has
more than one channel, the level meter shows the highest
level in any channel.

Clip indicators
The little square above each level meter is the clipping Figure 6: Settings View.
indicator: it will glow red if clipping occurs. Press any The Settings View also contains a small info icon in the lower
clipping indicator to turn all clipping indicators off. right corner (Figure 6) that brings up the Info View.
Mixer Track Detail View INFO VIEW
Pressing the detail disclosure button for a track in the Mixer Pressing the small info icon in the lower right corner of the
View brings up a table view (Figure 5), where you can control Settings View (Figure 6) brings up the Info View. The Info
various track settings. View displays the version number of DP Control and a link to
the MOTU web site. Pressing www.motu.com will quit DP
Control and launch Safari in order to show you the MOTU
web site.

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The bottom of the Info View contains two buttons: How To
Use and Send Suggestions.

Pressing How To Use brings you to a local copy of this

documentation. Doing so will not quit the DP Control app.

Pressing Send Suggestions brings up an email message view.

Use this view to compose an email to MOTU describing what
you would like this app to do in the future. Note that if you
type something in this view and press Cancel, you’ll get an
action sheet that allows you to Save. If you press Save, it saves
your message in the Mail app’s Drafts folder.

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