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TransAudio Group has announced the immediate availability of ATC's most reasonably-priced reference monitor — the SCM11 two-way passive speaker. The newest studio monitor in the ATC lineup is the passive version of the SCM16A.

The speakers feature an innovation called Constrained Layer Damping (CLD): two lightweight driver cones sandwich a constrained damping layer. CLD is dramatically more efficient than conventional damping because of the way it shears when the cone flexes. The shearing causes unwanted vibration energy to dissipate as frictional heat, instead of as acoustic distortion. Thus, ATC's CLD design reduces harmonic distortion between 300Hz - 3kHz, creates an extended resonance-free axial frequency response, improves the off-axis frequency response, and, if all that weren't e ...

Yamaha introduces two new Arranger Workstation keyboards, the PSR-S910 and the PSR-S710.

Songwriters and arrangers will find that the PSR-S910 fulfills their needs for a great-sounding instrument with pro capabilities, but it's also perfect for so-called "one-man bands" because it puts the performer in charge of hundreds of different virtual bands that sound great due to ultra-realistic accompaniment styles. It's like having instant access to top session musicians at the touch of a key or the press of a button.

The new model adapts feature sets from Yamaha's flagship arranger Tyros3, including Super Articulation Voices, which give strings, guitars, reeds and brass sounds real-time expressiveness previously unattainable on a keyboard instrument, including the slide of a guitarist's fi ...

Audio Ease has updated its famous convolution reverb plug-in Altiverb to version 6.3.3.

Changes :

• [ALL] update reduces memory footprint by 30 to 50%.
• [TDM] fixes loading problem on HD process board (non accel) systems.
• [TDM] fixes a crashing bug on 96k on expansion chassis systems.

This update is free for all registered users.

VirSyn has updated its reverb plug-in Reflect to version 2.01. What's new :

Features

- 12 new reverb presets using the new RealIR engine.

Bugfixes

- VST3/Mac version: Keyboard focus sometimes got lost in preset name field.

This update is free for registered users.

ReFX today announces the release of Nexus v2.2 as well as two new expansions : Vintage DrumKits and Crank 2.

What's new in Nexus v2.2 :

• New insert FX: Gate.
• New insert FX: Compressor.
• New modulation destinations: Layer 1-4 cutoff and resonance.
• Clicking in the title-bar of the librarian cycles through three font-sizes.
• Under certain conditions, the ARP-shuffle would introduce clicking/noises for the shuffled notes. If an All-Note-Off MIDI-message arrived directly before a Note-On, the ARP wouldn't start. Mainly Logic was affected.
• Osc1-4 volume/panning modulations caused zipper-noise.

The Vintage DrumKits expansion features 65 complete drumkits (each containing 61 GM-mapped samples), 66 loops and 10 bonus-sequences. Virtually every cu ...

Meet the smallest addition to Sony's family of portable audio recorders. The new PCM-M10 Linear PCM Recorder adopted many of its features and style from the PCM-D50 model, including rugged construction, compact size and cool design.

The PCM-M10 is conveniently small on size, but packs in many cool features: a five-second pre-record buffer, WAV and MP3 format record and play, USB port for easy upload/downloads, Digital Pitch Control and a MicroSD/Memory Stick Micro slot. Providing 96 kHz 24-bit recording, a 4 GB built-in flash memory and user friendly operation, the PCM-M10 is the ideal choice for making live musical, nature sound and field recordings.

The PCM-M10 should be available in Octobre at a price of $399.