In this Youtube feature from Sound On Sound magazine, composer Walter Murphy shares the process he goes through to score an episode of Family Guy, the hit Fox series Walter has been scoring since the show's very first episode in 1999. Walter also details how he collaborated with the show's creator, Seth MacFarlane, to conceive, write and record the show's opening music theme before they even had a budget for the show.

MOTU took center stage in the revamped "technology neighborhood" situated in the new North Hall of the Anaheim Convention Center at this year's NAMM show. Visitors were treated to a packed lineup of special guest appearances, training sessions and deep dive presentations by top industry pros.

At the 90th Academy Awards, film composer and Digital Performer user Alexandre Desplat took home a second Oscar for Best Music (Original Score) for The Shape of Water, a film that garnered a total of four Oscars for Production Design, Original Score, Director (Guillermo del Toro), and the all-important Best Picture. Earlier in January, Desplat's warm and melodic music for the film also won him a 2018 Golden Globe award for best Best Original Score.

According to to Variety, "Disney-Marvel’s 'Black Panther' is re-writing the record books, topping 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' for the second-highest four-day domestic opening of all time, with $242 million at 4,020 North American locations." With Kendrick Lamar composing and curating the title track and associated album "Black Panther The Album", Grammy-nominated film composer Ludwig Göransson composed the film score for the movie using Digital Performer.

NAMM 2018 (#namm2018) will be held January 25-28 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The MOTU booth (#15306) holds center stage on Level 1 of the brand new, just-opened North Hall, so be sure to swing by and check out the new audio technology neighborhood established there. MOTU will be running a full schedule of presentations each day, featuring in-depth clinics and special guests you won't want to miss.

Apple has released macOS® High Sierra (version 10.13). MOTU has worked with Apple to ensure current MOTU products are compatible with macOS High Sierra, and to provide a smooth transition for your MOTU products when you upgrade to macOS High Sierra.

Digital Performer version 9.5 is now shipping and introduces ZTX PRO™ technology: cutting-edge audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting DSP developed and refined through years of advanced R&D by the renowned engineering team at Zynaptiq GmbH (zynaptiq.com).

Summer is sizzling and so is Digital Performer 9.1, now shipping as a free update for all DP9 owners. If you don't own DP yet, you can run the free download as a 30-day trial version. The 9.1 release introduces two new plug-ins, significant performance optimizations and dozens of workflow enhancements.

Greg Rule is a former Keyboard magazine editor who transitioned to a career on the road ten years ago. Over the past decade, he has toured with the Eagles, Michael Jackson (Cirque du Soleil), Van Halen and others. He’s currently on tour with Foreigner. Through it all, Greg has relied on Digital Performer and MOTU hardware, day in and day out, in a high-pressure backstage world where his backline computer rig connects intimately with the artists and band members on stage, where failure is simply not an option, and where sheer panic is never more than a split second away. …