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For over 60 years, the AES has been the largest gathering of audio professionals and enthusiasts on the globe, attracting delegates from over 100 countries worldwide.
Workshops, tutorials, technical papers and the exhibition floor provide attendees with a wealth of learning, networking and business opportunities.

New Event Calendar:
With the culmination of fine-tuning for the eagerly awaited 131st AES Convention, comes the posting of the Preliminary Event Calendar. Chock full of descriptive abstracts, dates, times and presenter details, the PEC represents a full year of intensive activity. The volunteer Convention Committee focused on developing timely, meticulously researched and impossible to duplicate: Broadcast/Streaming, Education, Game Audio, Historical, Live Sound, Master Class, Paper, Platinum, Product Design, Special Events, Tech Tours, Tutorials and Workshops. A microcosm of the Convention itself, the AES PEC symbolizes the very best that the pro audio industry and the AES have to offer.

Line 6 Launches POD HD PRO Rackmount (2U). The front panel includes a 1/4-inch guitar input with pad and an XLR mic input with pad, high-pass filter, 48V phantom power and level control. The back panel provides stereo 1/4-inch and balanced XLR outputs with a 1/4-inch Dry Out for unprocessed guitar signal; MIDI in and out/thru; S/PDIF in and out and AES/EBU in and out for 24-bit digital connections. (The AES/EBU out doubles as the powerful L6 LINK connection.) There's also a Variax VDI input for connection to Variax modeling guitars, a USB jack and much more.

Some features:
- 22 HD amp models based on vintage, modern and boutique amps
- 100+ M-class effects including 19 delays, 23 modulations, - 17 distortions, 12 compressors and EQs, 26 filters and 12 reverbs
- 16 speaker models spanning from the late 30s to today
- 8 mic models based on* essential condensers, dynamics and ribbons
- Parallel paths for running two full and independent signal chains simultaneously
- 512 user-writable preset locations
- 8 Set Lists for preset organization
- 48-second looper
- 2RU space

Boost 309 v3 is based on the complete sample set of the vintage, lo-fi but charmingly sounding machine Rave-o-lution 309 by a company named Quasimidi. We have created 90 brand new combinator drum machines for you with these samples. It all ranges from the old original 309 thing to amazing and unique patches that could have never been created within the 309 itself. Besides cool beats and complex, crazy rhythms Boost 309 will offer you even more!

While closing this ReFill we found ourselves putting 210 brand new combinators into this product. Version 3 is a huge update which adds 10 new combinator patches, 20+ 'Bitrman' flavoured rex loops making use of the original Rave-o-lution groovebox recorded thru an Alesis Bitrman fx unit, as well as 15 awesome Kong kits making use of Kong's synthesis methods...

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH has released its new CMC controllers. Dedicated to Steinberg's Cubase advanced music production system, the six USB-powered CMC units offer an integrated control solution that provides a desirable degree of flexibility and configurability.

The CMC controllers are equipped with a combination of control elements that provide tactile control over certain Cubase functions. Each unit can be used separately or hooked up together with the included joint plate, resulting in a control desk that leaves no wishes unfulfilled.

Softube is having its biggest sale ever. We are offering all our plug-ins at up to 50% discount!

Get all the juicy details on our web store or from your local participating dealer.

Even better: the More is More bulk discount still applies in our web store and bundles are available at a discount from our dealers.

Sale starts on September 16 and ends on October 16.

Applied Acoustics Systems releases Plastic Pop – a synthpop from the Eighties sound bank for the Ultra Analog VA-1 and AAS Player plug-ins.

The 127 presets of Plastic Pop muse back at arpeggio, bass, effect, lead, and pad sounds of the 80s. Included are analog and digital favorites from the Juno, DX7, Wavestation, and D-50 as well as guitar synths, the TX81Z's LatelyBass, and of course the Honkytonk sound! A superb kit to revisit the top new wave and synthpop albums from Duran Duran, Japan, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and ABC. Shoulder pads are not included.