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Digital Performer is a product of the Mark of the Unicorn Company, and I am in no way
associated with Mark of the Unicorn. Ok in this tutorial we're going to speak about powered
plug-ins. Powered plug-ins in all essence are a hardware dedicated software plug-in,
instead of a native plug-in is using the computers CPU to do the processes for you. Whether as
a hardware plug-in, a powered plug-in has a card or a fire wire device that is used
along with the software for the plug-in. Let's take a look at this one. This is a screen
shot of a powered plug-in, this is a Universal Audio LA two-way, it is a dynamics processor.
As you notice up here, we zoom in on the DSP performance meter, this is where your hardware
is sitting right you know with the performance of the card, this is how many resources you're
using within the hardware. When you come over here to these plug-ins, the more plug-ins
you add, the more your CP usage will go up on the card. One thing nice about these is,
they kind of keep the processing down on the actual CPU of the computer. But, you know
they're really nice they have a little bit better quality than a lot of the you know
native plugs. But, you know it's a subjective thing, so everybody you know kind of likes
what they like; I have a tendency to go a little bit more for the UAD stuff or some
of the SSL Duende stuff. The Sonox, the Oxford plug-ins are really nice. There's a lot of
really nice plug-ins out there for your DOS and you know power plug-ins are the way to
go because it takes a lot of your DSP resources off of your computer so your computer can
do more things like automation, and you know running the actual hard disk recording system
and you know, taking care of you know like virtual instrument plug-ins and what have
you. So as you can see power plug-ins with the DSP usage meter, you can tell right away
that it's going to take less DSP resources from your host application. So they really
work out well for high track counts, and where you want a lot of, where you want a very good
quality of plug-in. Powered plug-ins are the way to go.