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Rain Recording has announced StormDrive TERA, a high performance versatile and extremely portable RAID storage solution designed around the eSATA platform for the fast streaming and backup of up to 2 Terabytes of data.

StormDrive TERA offers a cost effective, fast and portable storage solution that gives you up to 2 Terabytes of space and lots of options for using it. Configure your drive to operate in RAID-0 mode combining the performance of both drives to make one super drive. Or, you can choose RAID-1 which makes a full copy of your data to two drives simultaneously. So if one drive fails, you already have a complete backup. And StormDrive TERA is hot-swappable so you can replace the failed drive without interrupting your data flow.

Hardware Specs :

- Storage Size: 2x500GB, 500GB (RAID-1) or 1000GB (RAID-0)
- Cache: 32MB
- Average Latency: 4.16ms
- Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
- Bus Interface: eSATA /USB2.0 Type A
- eSATA: 3,000 Mbps Data Speed
- USB 2.0: 12Mb/480Mbps Data Speed
- LED: Power on/Access/Rebuild/Error
- Acoustics: Idle=2.7bels, Seek=2.8bels (Quiet seek specification)
- Power Supply: 12V/2A, 110~240V AC/DC adapter
- Dimensions: 8.66" x 3.34" x 5.11" (L x W x H)
- Weight: 5lbs


Price from $679.95 (£249 UK).

As you can see, Winter NAMM is coming, and the whole team is ready to get down to work !
From January 17 to January 20, every name that counts in the audio world will be there, to present to you all the latest musical products from around the world, those you'll maybe use tomorrow.

Solid State Logic will showcase a new plug-in for the Duende DSP powered DAW plug-in platform at the NAMM show.

X-EQ is at first glance a 10 band parametric EQ, but each of the 10 EQ bands can be selected to provide a different type of EQ, making X-EQ a vast range of different EQ processors in one package. Bands 1 and 10 are High and Low Filters, each of which can be set to employ one of five different Filter topologies with five very different tonal characters. Bands two and nine are shelving EQ's with a Q range that extend right up to 10.3 and a degree of undershoot and overshoot at higher Q settings that give a unique tonal character. The remaining six bands are all Bell EQ's with a choice of nine different EQ types providing a comprehensive range of response curves. All Shelving & B ...

After their release of Stylus RMX Expanded, Spectrasonics has announced a new product, and they will show it at Winter NAMM.
Hope it's a final product, ready to ship, and not only a pre-release...

The long awaited update of the most user friendly score editor is finally here.
Just think that the v4.6 hasn't even pass the stage of beta testing, and you'll understand why copyists, composers and arrangers are happy !
A this time, only the Mac version is available. PC version will be shipping in February 2008.
If you want to download the full version, it will cost you $399,99, if you only need the update, it is $129,99 (add $10.00 s&h for CD version).

Prima is a virtual female vocalist modelled on the voice of a professional soprano singer, using Vocaloid 2.

Whether it's soaring leads, harmonies or backing vocals, Prima can sing any word from the English language (and other languages too with a little work).
Prima is also very well suited if you want to be adventurous and experimental, since her voice can be easily modified and shaped in many ways.

In addition to singing any words or combination of syllables or phonemes you can imagine, Prima will spread any sustained vowel (or voiced consonant) across as many notes as you like, with perfect legato. You can select from several different natural vibrato types and drag'n'drop your chosen type to any note or notes, and control the time-position and amount of the vibrato.

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