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Dynaudio Acoustics unveils a new version of their famous BM5A monitors.

The new BM5A MKII imparts all of the quality and power that you've come to expect from Dynaudio Acoustics but they have been re-engineered to take nearfield monitoring to new levels of performance. New features include handmade drivers that offer the best in quality and accuracy. The woofer offers longer excursions so stays linear for longer, resulting in a cleaner, tighter bass response.

This louder and more accurate bass is matched at the top end with a high-resolution soft dome tweeter. The added waveguide ensures less acoustical reflections and a more accurate sweet spot for the listener, resulting in a much better monitoring experience. These drivers are matched perfectly to the BM5A MKII's custom designed ...

Focusrite has announced the ISA One Digital, a version of the ISA One mic preamp/DI that ships as standard with on-board analogue-to-digital conversion. Thanks to its independent mic pre and DI signal paths and, with its 192kHz digital outputs, it can transform any audio interface with a digital input into a truly professional DAW front end.



The ADC board — which was previously an optional extra for the analogue-only ISA One — provides AES/EBU, S/PDIF and SMUX-compliant ADAT outputs for the unit, with the preamp and DI signals streamed separately over the two channels of the digital connection. With studio-grade A-D conversion and jitter-elimination technology, and a 118dB dynamic range, this direct digital link bypasses the analogue circuitry and converters in your existi ...

Korg presents its new microSTATION. At a size and price usually reserved for performance synthesizers, the microSTATION also includes the additional benefits of a quick and intuitive onboard sequencer. Compact and portable, the microSTATION features Korg's 61-key Natural Touch mini keyboard, numerous effects, dual arpeggiators, and 16 tracks of MIDI recording power to transform musical ideas into polished productions.

The microSTATION is an ideal first keyboard, plus a welcome addition to any studio or keyboard rig. To benefit novice sequencer users, new features such as easily accessible Loop Recording and Visual Grid Sequencing have been added to jump-start any type of music production.

Features :

• Lightweight, compact, and equipped with 61 mini-keys, the microSTATION trav ...

Steinberg is proud to present a new VST instrument product created to offer the ideal all-round composition and production workstation. HALion Sonic combines a world-class 12GB sample library produced by Steinberg and Yamaha with a fully featured synthesis engine to offer synths, hybrid and acoustic instruments for composers, producers, musicians and sound designers in almost any conceivable production setting. The much-anticipated successor to Steinberg's Hypersonic, HALion Sonic retains its ease-of-use while offering vastly expanded sound generation possibilities.

The underlying sound engine features four different modes that offer a huge array of sound production tools. The high-performance disk streaming engine recreates acoustic instruments, while a dedicated sliced-loop mode offe ...

Roland invites you to meet the GAIA SH-01, a 37-key compact synthesizer which combines a classic panel layout reminiscent of vintage Roland synthesizers with the latest in Roland's analog-modeling technology.

Weighing less than 10 pounds, the GAIA SH-01 is lightweight, compact, and great for musicians on the go. The 37-note keyboard is full-size for natural playing, and can be powered via AC or batteries. The GAIA SH-01 is able to create rich, massive sound with three virtual-analog sound engines, each with a dedicated oscillator, filter, amplifier, envelope, and LFO. With 64 polyphonic voices onboard, GAIA makes it possible to play massive sounds without experiencing note drop-out.

The instantly selectable multi-effects of the GAIA SH-01 allow for the layering of up to five simultan ...

Flux in collaboration with IRCAM have announced the forthcoming IRCAM Tools product range.

The IRCAM Tools products express the result of over twenty years of fundamental research within the realms of music related digital signal processing. First out, they present a series of products evolved from two major fields of technology, Acoustic & Cognitive Spaces, and Sound Analysis & Synthesis.

Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces
The research and development activity carried out by the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces Team (formerly Room Acoustics Team) concentrates on the analysis, reproduction and synthesis of spatially considered sound environments. In other words, the localization of sound in space, and the specific acoustical characteristics of a room or of an environment.