PC and Music News

DiscoDSP has released Discovery Pro, a brand new virtual analogue synthesizer featuring 12 oscillators (8 Virtual Analog + 4 Wave) with extensive sound design capabilities.

Features :

- 128 Patch Memories per bank
- Parameter Morphing using Modulation Wheel or MIDI velocity
- 2x oversampling
- 2x oversampled distortions
- Bank browser (by clicking arrows in display led and bank name)
- More than 300 presets in 3 banks (including a percussion one)
- Nord Lead 2 and 2X patch import
- 4 Layers per Patch, each with :

* 2 Oscillators (Sine, Saw, Triangle, PWM, Square, Parabolic, White and Pink Noise) with Ring modulation, Sync and Frequency Modulation
* 1 Wave Oscillator. Can load WAV files using high quality interpolation. User banks are easily added
* Resonant Filters ...

Numark announces immediate shipment of the Numark TTXUSB turntable; an improved, USB-capable version of the industry standard, Numark TTX professional turntable. TTXUSB is a unique industrial-grade performance turntable that also makes digitizing your vinyl record collection a breeze by harnessing USB plug and play compatibility for both PC and Macintosh personal computers.

Features :

- interchangeable use of S-Shaped or straight tone arms
- variable torque
- battle or club style configuration
- adjustable anti-skating control for increased stereo balance
- support for both 33, 45 and 78 RPM playback speeds
- adjustable pitch control (± 8%, 10%, 25%, and 50%)
- switched Line/Phono output connectors for connection to a receiver or amplifier
- keylock feature included to allow D ...

MusicLab has just announced RealStrat, a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulating on a standard MIDI keyboard.

RealStrat provides playability based on the unique performance modes and easy-to-use keyboard layout as well as the advanced key/pedal/velocity switch system allowing a keyboardist to perform guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expression. It covers practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on his Strat, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, slap, unison bend, strumming, picking, chord chopping, scrapes, etc.
High quality dry samples recorded directly from Stratocaster pick-ups let you easily create any desired guitar sou ...

MXL Microphones is pleased to announce the introduction of the MXL USB Mic Mate, a compact low-noise analog preamp that converts 48 volt phantom powered studio mics and analog line level signals to USB for hi quality recording on any PC or Mac. Its input features a fully balanced low noise, low distortion preamp, gain plus a 3–position analog gain control; a special circuit that converts the 5 volts from the USB port to a regulated 48 volts required by professional condenser microphones. The digital section features a 16 bit Delta Sigma A/D converter with a sampling of 44.1 and 48.1. The input side has a 3 pin XLR female and on the output a USB connector.

The MXL USB Mic Mate is available now at a retail price of $79.99. For more information, please visit their web site.

VirSyn has just updated Poseidon to version 1.4. This update introduces the PoleZero filter technology for modelling very complex resonant characteristics with up to 8 bandpass/notch filters.

Features :

- PoleZero Filter with up to 8 bandpass and 8 notch filter with morph function between two filter parameter sets. As a result the PoleZero filter can model very complex resonant characteristics, for example acoustic instrument bodies, the human vocal tract or something that does not exist in nature. Even more you can use two parameter sets named "Filter A" and "Filter B" to interpolate between two resonant structures in realtime with the "Morph" parameter. There is also a "Cutoff" parameter which let you move the complete filter structure up and down in the frequency range in realtime ...

Focusrite has announced that version 2.0 software for the multi-channel DSP-based EQ and Compression tool, Liquid Mix, is now available as a free download from its website. First of all, this version includes an EQ side-chain on the compressor, providing an additional one-band EQ to be fed into the side-chain of any classic compressor emulation, this side-chain band can be monitored separately. The software also provides some extremely useful improvements and several solutions to popular requests from Liquid Mix users, including enhanced interaction between software and hardware, as well as expanded latency options.

For more information, please visit their web site.