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Waves Audio (booth 2839) now offers SoundGrid® Studio, a suite of software applications for managing SoundGrid network components, enabling network configuration, device management, plugin chaining, routing and more.

SoundGrid Studio includes:

- SoundGrid ASIO/Core Audio Driver, which offers dynamic I/O mapping for the configuration of SoundGrid devices.
- StudioRack application, which lets you run plugin chains of up to eight plugins within your Native DAW or Pro Tools, and lets you choose whether to process on your host computer or offload processing to a SoundGrid DSP server.
- eMotion ST, a low latency monitoring mixer which lets you send an audio signal from a SoundGrid device, through StudioRack inside your DAW, and out to your monitors, with super-low latency of only 0.8 milliseconds.

eMotion ST specs:

- 8 multi-purpose mono/stereo input channels
- 2 stereo FX Aux Bus/ Return and 6 Stereo Aux Bus/Return
- 64 Mono Channel feeds from StudioRack plugins
- 8 insert slots per channel for each SoundGrid plugin
- Connect up to eight IOs and eight DAWs.

The 1237A and 1238A are three-way SAM monitors featuring on-board intelligence that allows them to automatically adapt to their environment (by tuning the frequency response to compensate for acoustical room influences), as well as achieve perfect alignment of levels and distance compensation at the listening position. Both models can be either freestanding or flush-mounted. The flush versions benefit from a powerful new RAM L rack-mount amplifier that can also be attached to the loudspeaker cabinet when the monitor is free-standing.

The new models are based on the highly successful and much respected 1037A and 1038A. They share the same DCW™ (Directivity Control Waveguide™) technology and cabinet design, with the addition of Genelec DSP to allow compatibility with all standard AES/EBU digital audio formats as well as traditional analog signals.

Zotope Inc. has released Nectar® 2 Production Suite.

Designed specifically for voice, Nectar 2 harnesses the power of iZotope’s award-winning vocal technologies to quickly and easily treat your voice to sweet results.
Whether you're tracking or mixing, Nectar 2 is designed to deliver professional vocals fast.

Key Features
Explore eleven powerful tools within Nectar 2: Harmony, Plate Reverb, FX, Pitch, Delay, De-Esser, Saturation, Compressors, Gate, EQ, and Limiter.
- Add impact and space to a vocal track with a new EMT 140-modeled Plate Reverb
- Transform a vocal take into a dynamic, harmonized ensemble of up to twelve voices with a few mouse clicks or by playing your MIDI with the Harmony module.
- Get smooth, pitch-perfect takes quickly with new dedicated Pitch Editor and Breath Control
plug-ins.
- Expand your palette of vocal sound with seven new creative effects in the new FX module.
- Tweak each module's powerful settings and controls in the Advanced View, or make quick adjustments in the streamlined Overview panel.
- Switch easily between Tracking and Mixing modes to improve vocals at all stages of production.
- Hear instant results with over 150+ new presets inspired by current and classic vocal styles. Regular price: 299$

Ueberschall serves free food for your loop hungry DAWs.
This demo package is spiced up with 435 MB of free sound material and is cooked with the best ingredients only: 232 loops and samples taken from 17 different Ueberschall libraries.

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Solid State Logic will feature the new 'LMS-16' multi-channel Loudness and True Peak metering system for use with the company's Digital Broadcast Consoles, or as a stand-alone product, at the 135th International AES Convention (Booth 2821).

Created through a strategic partnership with NUGEN Audio, a creator of award winning professional audio plugins and metering software for the creative music producer, sound designer or broadcast engineer, the LMS-16 offers NUGEN Audio's new 'MultiMonitor' software as part of a turnkey system that can augment any production situation where loudness compliance for broadcast is essential. The software is pre-installed and configured on a dedicated industrial strength 1RU PC, fitted with SSL's 'MadiXtreme 128' audio interface with metering information displayed on virtually any connected flat screen video monitor. An optional monitor arm will also be available to facilitate convenient side mounting of a screen on C100 HDS or C10 HD consoles.

Focusrite's brand new Red 1 500 series 'lunchbox' format mic preamp is now shipping. Featuring the same circuitry topology and components as Focusrite's original Red Range of transformer-based mic preamps, the Red 1 500 offers the same legendary sound performance in a new, popular format - ideal for mobile/location recording or saving space in the studio.