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Published in SOS January 2012

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Get up and running with MOTU’s MachFive 3, an ideal software sampler partner for Digital Performer.
Robin Bigwood
MachFive 3 is MOTU’s latest virtual instrument: a full-blown software sampler with capabilities to rival industry standards like Native Instruments’ Kontakt. As with all MOTU’s commercial virtual instruments (that’s to say the ones that aren’t bundled with DP), it’s developed in collaboration with French company Univers Sons, incorporates some of their UVI Soundsource libraries, and has a strong family resemblance to their UVI Workstation sample player software. Even though MachFive 3 is a genuinely cross-platform product, with Mac OS and WIndows versions, it’s still an ideal match for Digital Performer running on the Mac, so this month I’m looking at how DP users can get up to speed with this great new virtual instrument.
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Here’s a turn-up for the books: MachFive 3 doesn’t have a MAS version, only Audio Units, RTAS and VST. But since DP’s Audio Unit plug-in format hosting is so good, it’s really of no consequence. The AU version will show up in your instrument plug-in lists along with your other AU plug-ins.
Usefully, too, MachFive 3 won’t overwrite a previous MachFive 2 installation, but just co-exists with it. Then, if you open a DP project that used MachFive 2, it’ll still use MachFive 2 — and that’s great for consistency and stability. MachFive 2 and 3 will actually run simultaneously without any trouble. Oh, and if you’re wondering about how the new version gets along with MachFive 1, that’s actually a moot point. Version 1 only runs on PowerPC-based Macs, and version 3 only on Intel Macs, so never the twain shall meet…
As far as backwards compatibility goes, MachFive 3 will open version 1 and 2 presets and multis with no problem, and will open their bundled sound libraries too. So if you’ve got a DP project that uses an instance of MachFive 2, for example, and you want to ‘upgrade’ it to use your new MachFive 3, do the following:

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