
When the new dealie opens, hit “New” to create a new device template and name it something that you think is awesome and helpful (for instance, I named mine, “Joel’s Special Thing”). In the Digital Performer application itself, click on “Interapplication MIDI,” which you’ll find under “Setup” in the main DP nav simply add the number of busses you need.Īfter adding the input busses, go over to your Sibelius project file (which, I’m assuming is already configured with whatever instruments you need) and, under the ribbon’s “Play” tab, expand the “Setup” window. Open the Mac application “Audio MIDI Setup” and, in the main nav under “Windows,” pick the option “Show MIDI Window.” When the “MIDI Studio” window opens, choose “IAC Driver” which opens the “IAC Driver Properties” window, at which point you can add as many input busses as you need.Ģ.

Windows users, it seems, might have to download third-party software such as LoopBe30, which many people seem to use.*ĭigital Performer users on a Mac have two internal options:ġ.

So, in order to accomplish this task we need a utility that allows two independent programs to exchange MIDI data with each other.
Using digital performer how to#
Seeing as there isn’t a ton of information on line explaining how to do this with Digital Performer specifically, I thought I’d catalog it here. This would allow me to compose in Sibelius, but use samples and processing effects from DP. This week, I found myself wanting to link Sibelius (7.1.3) with Digital Performer (8.06) in such a way that each individual Sibelius instrument was connected to its own track in DP.
