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Blue Sky introduces two components to its full line of monitoring solutions : SUB 212 400W Push-Pull Active Sub & SAT 8 300W Compact Mid-Field Monitor.

Blue Sky's SAT 8 is a three way, tri-amplified, 300-Watt, compact mid-field monitor which features an 8" high excursion hemispherical woofer, an ultra low distortion 4" hemispherical midrange driver, and a 1" dual ring radiator tweeter with integral waveguide, for superior off-axis response. To reduce destructive cabinet diffraction reflections, Blue Sky has developed

Event Electronics is proud to announce the re-launch of its website, focusing on the revolutionary new Opal and led by a challenge to other speaker manufacturers from Event President Peter Freedman.

President of Event Electronics, Peter Freedman, is so confident that the Opal is the most accurate, lowest distortion monitor available on the market at any price, that he has thrown down a challenge to any other speaker manufacturer to prove him wrong.

"The Event Opal is the most accurate, lowest distortion monitor on the planet, and I challenge every other manufacturer in the world to prove me wrong".

Visit this web page and watch Peter put his professional reputation on the line as he personally guarantees that the Opal is the most superior studio monitor available today, regardless of configuration or cost.

The 'Prove Me Wrong' challenge is reinforced by a series of videos on the new eventelectronics.com that explain the innovative technology that enables the Opal to offer levels of clarity and performance previously unimaginable in a two-way nearfield monitor.

After watching the videos and investigating Peter's claims, any attempt to prove him wrong can be submitted to provemewrong@eventelectronics.com.

Additionally, Opal owners can register their speakers for warranty and to receive their StudioEQ precision calibration software and microphone.

The Event Opal is now available at selected dealers worldwide.

MFB unveils the MFB-522, a drumcomputer with a fully analogue sound engine that offers plenty of editing capabilities. It includes a step-sequencer with popular TR-style running-light-programming.

Features :

- 9 analogue instruments
- step-sequencer with 16 steps
- 25 controls for attack, decay, tone etc.
- Bass drum programmable in two lengths
- Tom/Conga programmable in three pitches
- memory locations for 72 patterns and 8 songs


The MFB-522 is available now with an MSRP of €280 (plus €10 shipping/COD costs).

Rusty Trombone has released Erectifier, a free plug-ins that works as a doubler, demented phaser or exciter. It is designed to widen and phatten your sound, although it is capable of being a very demented beast as well.

You have an LFO that controls how long back an echo is. You can set the length and speed of this LFO. Then there is a filter that can be LowPass, HighPass or Allpass, and a cut Hz so that you can control where the cut is. The distortion is to "gritt" up the sound a little, or a lot, it's not the world's best distortion. Then you can amplify the signal, if you want to. The filter can cut away a lot of the volume, that's why we have it. Then finally there is a on/off. There are two to the left side and two on the right side. And finally one dry through parameter. So if you'd like to test one of your settings, turn the other three off (via on/off parameter) and then tweak away. There are a few presets (plus a random-function).

Erectifier was programmed for Rusty Trombone by Shuriken.se.

Erectifier is available for Windows and Mac OS X as a VST effect plug-in and it is free.

Audio Damage has just announced the release of BigSeq2, the new version of its effect and gate sequencer.

BigSeq2 is a massive extension to the feature set of the BigSeq gate effect. With twelve sequencers controlling ten effects in six blocks, BigSeq2 is capable of everything from short staccato gate sequences to long, evolving filter sweeps and frequency shifts, and everything in between.

The six effect "Blocks" contain ten effects in total, and these Blocks can be re-arranged simply by dragging them, giving you full control over the routing of the effects. Each effect Block has a gate sequencer and a modulation sequencer. The gate sequencer turns that effect on and off (or in the case of the delay Block, activates the "send" control), while the modulation sequencer can affect any and all parameters in that block.

Features :

- Ten effects in six blocks, each with its own step sequencer, modulation sequencer, and time base.
- The gate and modulation sequencers for each effect block run on their own time-base, allowing different time signatures and step times for each effect.
- Each block has several parameters which can be altered via the modulation sequencer for that block.
- The effects blocks can be re-arranged in any order.
- Each sequencer has three independent modes of operation: forward, reverse, and random step. In addition, each of the twelve sequencers can be completely randomized at regular selectable intervals, for interesting modulation and gating possibilities.
- The included effects are VCA, pan, multi-mode filter, fuzz, sine warp, delay (with chorus and flanger modes), frequency shifter (also providing ring mod and phasing), sample rate reduction, bit depth, and our own "Error" effect.
- MIDI Learn on all published parameters for external hardware control. (VST only.)

BigSeq2 is available now for both Mac and PC in VST and AU formats at a price of $49 (upgrade : $10). For more information and audio examples, please follow the link below :

Analogue Drums is a new company offering drum sample library. Analogue Drums Libraries are mapped, multi-velocity drum samples, recorded in an incredible studio with a 74 Neve desk onto a sweet roll of 2 inch tape then bumped into the computer via high quality digital converters.

Take a look at their brand new website and give it a shot with the free Big Mono Library available at :