PC and Music News

The Gen16 Digital Vault is literally the next generation of innovative products from the world's leading cymbal maker, The Avedis Zildjian Co. The Digital Vault offers a top of the line virtual cymbal environment for your computer featuring extreme flexibility and power for any digital audio workstation or the perfect addition to any e-drum set up.
Gen16's AE Cymbals are real acoustic cymbals that sound and respond just like a traditional cymbal, but play at less than a quarter of the volume. A patented dual microphone system and sophisticated digital signal processing enables the AE Cymbal to create a range of natural cymbal sounds without the use of sampling or MIDI.

Finally. After more than two years of development the OP-1 is now ready for production.
Due to initial limited supply we now accept reservations.
Manufacturing, assembly and shipping will be eight weeks.

Feature
Synthesizers
- Multiple Synthesizer Engines with exchangable Architecture.
- 8 dedicated instant sound select keys
- Dr Wave – Raw 8-bit yupe sound engine, FM, Pulse, Square, String, Digital, Phase, Cluster
- Tape Feature
- 4 individual tracks with instant Solo
- Instant variable Tape Speed
- 12 minutes recording time in Normal tape speed.
- Up to 48 minutes recording time in Low tape speed
- Loop function with movable region
I/O
- USB 2.0 high speed (OTG)
- 3.5 mm Line Input, Output
- Built-in microphone
- High output mini speaker 8 Ohm 1 Watt
- 3-axis accelerometer (G-force) sensor
- Worldwide FM band support (64-108 MHz)?!!!!

The Accelerator, Radikal Technologies' new flagship instrument, is a full featured polyphonic synth with eight powerful subtractive voices (expandable up to 32).

Feature summary:
- 3 oscillators with sweepable waveforms, time linearity modulation, phase modulation, ring modulation between Oszillator 2+3, oscillator synchronisation and linear detuning
- 6 envelope generators, 4 LFOs (3 voice, 1part LFO)
- noise with noise filter (multimode filter - LP, HP, BP and Notch 12 / 24 dB) and independent amp & envelope
- 2 multimodefilter per voice - LP, HP, BP and Notch with 12/24 dB per filter switchable independent oscillator to
filter feeds, flexible serial and parallel filter routing
- additional 3 band full parametric EQ per voice
- powerful modulationmatrix
- 2 powerful FX with Delay, Chorus, Flanger, Phasing and Rotary Ensemble FXʻs warm sounding tube distortion
and saturation stages
- arpeggiator
- up to 8 step sequencers with chord memories, 32 steps and three lines for parameter control. Realtime features like mute, skip, gate, transpose, direction and line length manipulation
- split, dual, single and performance mode with performance memories and selection chain programming
- acceleration sensor for parameter control
- 61 lightweighted keys with channel aftertouch
- 512 sound memories, 200 performance memories, 100 performance chain memories.

Nord Keyboards announces the Nord Stage 2 Series featuring our latest sound generation technology in the Piano, Organ and Synthesizer sections.

The Piano section includes String Resonance, Dynamic Pedal Noise, and a completely user-replaceable piano memory, twice the size of Nord Stage EX, compatible with the free of charge Nord v5 Piano library.
The Organ section features the tonewheel and transistor organ modeling of the C2 Organ together with a newly developed rotary speaker model.
The Synthesizer section includes an arpeggiator and the Nord sample playback functionality with a memory size storing 120 sounds from the Nord Sample Library including Mellotron and Chamberlin samples. In addition, Nord Stage 2 users can also create their own samples by mapping sound files in .wav format with the Nord sample editor. The genes of the Nord Wave brings analog-style and digital waveforms as well as FM synthesis.
Additional new features include MIDI over USB, monitor input, midi sync for the global master clock, and master clock sync for LFO, arpeggiator, and delay.

Midas has launched (again because it was launched first at Plasa 2010) the VeniceF, a brand new 'digi-log' ultra-compact mixing console designed by Alex Cooper, complete with FireWire© multi-channel digital audio interface, XL3 EQ and Propellerhead recording and processing trial software bundle.

The VeniceF is the first all-new Midas product to be unveiled following the Music Group's acquisition of Midas Klark Teknik. It features the full functionality and sound quality of the much-loved Midas XL3 EQ and filter section, Midas mic preamps, 100mm faders, increased channel and input count, a dual 7x2 matrix and a reorganised master section layout.
The VeniceF's 32x32 FireWire capability adds 32 channels of multitrack recording and playback (VeniceF 320) using any suitable FireWire-equipped computer, without the need for additional costly interfaces. This also offers the possibility of virtual soundchecking, and allows third-party plug-ins to be run as channel inserts and third-party effects routed via aux sends and returns. Inputs, groups, auxes, matrixes and masters can be routed to the FireWire interface.

The new Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec plug-in makes it possible for the first time to precisely audition codecs in real time. This breaks away from the current time-consuming cycle of having to encode the mix to mp3/AAC, preview it, tweak it and then go back and re-render. The entire process is accomplished 'on the fly,' and frees the engineer to focus on producing a compensated, optimized mix.

The Pro-Codec plug-in is compatible with all popular DAWs - Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, Sonar, Sequoia and Wavelab. Both Mac and Windows are supported.