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Our Partners at audioMIDI.com are giving the local Los Angeles market an exclusive look and tutorial on one of the most revolutionary keyboards/DAWs in the market today -the Neko Keyboard from Open Labs.

On October 27th from 10am-2pm, film composer, Nicholas O'Toole, will be demonstrating exactly how the Neko makes touring and film scoring easier for both the touring keyboardist and composer. "This workshop will be an excellent opportunity for touring keyboard players to see how easy it is to have a studio DAW setup on the road without sacrificing any power from the professional studio. This is an especially useful product, especially when taking film scoring into account," says Nicholas O'Toole, also a consultant with Open Labs.

Neko Keyboards are currently used by a venerable "Who ...

Royer Labs, the well-known high quality ribbon microphones manufacturer, is pleased to announce the new Live Series microphones. Starting with the SF-24 Phantom Powered Stereo Ribbon Microphone, the R-121 Ribbon Microphone, and the R-122 Active Ribbon Microphone as the source for the three new Live Series offerings, Royer Labs has created road ruggedized versions of these three models—enabling live sound/touring professionals to capture the most subtle details of a live performance with the warmth and sonic transparency Royer's studio models are known for.

For Royer's new SF-24 Live Phantom Powered Stereo Ribbon Microphone, the thickness of the two ribbons has been increased from 1.8 microns to 2.5 microns. With the R-121 Live and R-122 Live models, ribbon thickness has been increased f ...

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is proud to announce a new version of its award-winning Nuendo audio production environment. Offering a range of new features and technologies dedicated to mixers, engineers and editors in post production, studio recording and live recording, Nuendo 4 will be available from October 2007 for €1799.00.

Among the new functionality in Nuendo 4 is a state-of-the-art new automation system on par with the world's best. Preview mode, Fill commands, Punch Logs, Virgin Territories and the unique new Touch Collect Assistant are only some of the new functions which unite the best functionality found on traditional hardware mixing consoles with the flexibility inherent in Nuendo 4 as a modern DAW environment.

The new MediaBay file management system for audio, vi ...

Klein + Hummel, a 100% Sennheiser subsidiary, introduces a new monitor speaker, the O 410 midfield monitor. The O 410 has magnetically shielded drivers: 10" bass driver, 3" soft dome midrange, and 1" tweeter. The respective drivers are attached to 340, 160, and 180 Watt hybrid class A-B amplifiers. Class H techniques reduce power consumption when signal levels are low. The high-capacity vented enclosure cleanly extends the bass response down to 34 Hz, even at high output levels. The most important part of the frequency spectrum is reproduced by a separate midrange driver resulting in extremely low harmonic and intermodulation distortion and a clean sounding audio reproduction.

Various input options allow the O 410 to be used with any source equipment: electronically-balanced analog inpu ...

Chameleon Labs has announced the Model 7720 Stereo Compressor which is based on a trusted design and is electronically balanced, utilizing 'THAT Corporation' (formerly DBX) VCA circuitry. It features a low component count in order to provide the cleanest signal path possible.

Features :

- Meter switch : it allows the meter to indicate either channels input level, either channels output level or the amount of stereo audio signal compression.

- Sidechain Control Section :this section modifies the control of the compressor with a mono audio signal introduced through the sidechain XLR input. A blue LED gives the user a visual indication that the circuit is active and that the sidechain audio is in control of the compressor, not the left and right audio inputs.

- High Pass Filter : ...

Softube is now releasing the Vintage Amp Room plug-in in the RTAS format. Vintage Amp Room, that previously was available for Pro Tools|HD only, features three great-sounding vintage amp models that handle like real amps and give a raw and highly authentic sound. It has an intuitive 3D-rendered photorealistic user interface, complete with continuous click-and-drag mic positioning.

Pricing :

Native VST/AU/RTAS version : €349/$429, TDM/RTAS version : €649/$799.

Note that a free, fully functional, 10-day demo version can be downloaded.