PC and Music News

Voxengo Releases AnSpec Spectrum Analyzer, an analog-style third-octave spectrum analyzer plug-in for professional music production applications.

AnSpec features:

- 1/3 octave analog-style spectrum analyzer
- Peak level indication
- User interface window resizing
- Stereo and mono analysis
- All sample rates support
- Zero processing latency

AnSpec is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats (including native 64-bit support), for Mac OS X (v10.5 and later), and Windows.

The combination of eMedia's revolutionary multimedia guitar instruction software and the iPad creates the ultimate in portable and convenient guitar instruction.

Learn anytime, anywhere: at home, in the park, or when you travel. Just slip your iPad into your guitar case and go! The new touchscreen interface makes interacting with songs and learning even easier highlight a section of music by simply touching it with two fingers and pinching, then loop and repeat it to learn.

Rhizome SXE With a powerful embedded computer, new dark gray color and a new 8 I/O balanced output; the new model of Rhizome is designed for musicians and producers. Powered by an optimized Windows 7 embedded system.

Rhizome LE
Like the Rhizome, is big brother, this model has numerous controls and very large display areas, making it a perfect controller. The difference lies in the fact that the LE version does not have an embedded computer system and must therefore be connected to a -Windows or OSX - computer.

Mobile Keys premium keyboard controllers provide an exceptional playing experience on your iPad®, iPhone®, Mac® and PC. Equally powerful hooked up to a CoreMIDI music app, GarageBand® or your workhorse DAW, Mobile Keys controllers give you full-sized, velocity-sensitive keys, a solid feel and a refined look that's perfect for any desk, stage and studio. Whether you're a beginning musician or a seasoned studio professional, you can now perform, record and capture inspiration with MIDI keyboard controller solutions that work with all your music-making devices.

Taking a leap into 7 string mythology, Vigier, pioneers of carbon fibre technology, present the Excalibur Special 7.

Nothing but the finest French woods are used in the Alder body/Maple top construction and to add to the sonic sorcery, it is complete with the killswitch found on the Excalibur Bfoot and Kaos guitars.

MOTU, Inc. introduced the HDX-SDI with Thunderbolt technology, a professional video interface that turns a Thunderbolt technology enabled Mac or PC into a powerful HD/SD video production workstation equipped with all the video and audio I/O needed for professional capture and monitoring.

The HDX-SDI is housed in a rugged, one rack-space cast metal enclosure with removable brackets for convenient desktop operation.
The HDX-SDI with Thunderbolt technology will ship Spring, 2012.